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I highly doubt long covid is not real. In fact I believe it can be caused by any viral infection and until now has just been blown off as chronic fatigue syndrome. Kind of a catch all for fatigue that can't be explained.

A lot of people suffer under it and a big problem is that a lot of people and doctors think it's made up or lazyness.

I hope now that there are so many cases we can get a better understanding and actually be able to properly diagnose and treat it.
Thankfully, here in the real world, nuclear power plants and similar critical infrastructure in most countries operate with a safety culture, where people are encouraged to report their mistakes, learn from them, and help others avoid making the same mistakes, rather than a punitive culture, where people are incentivised to hide mistakes in order to save their job.
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Woken by a rain storm. Facebook have denied responsibility.
I agree - all commits to release notes doesn't seem very helpful.

We have a workflow that will only add to the release notes PRs that have the "Add to changelog" label which works okay, but sometimes you do have to decide who you want to address your PR title to.
Italy, same.
post-war housing quality was pretty good in the 50s, and started going downhill (the inverse to rising inflation) in the late 60s - 70s. Again, just like inflation, the quality bottomed out in the 80s and things started getting better. Houses built after the 2000s are not terrible. The US suffers from lack of skilled labor as starting in the post-war period we decimated our trade school system -- everyone wants to go to college and be a professional, and we hate tracking. So we are cranking out lots of people with no skills. That really hurts in construction, civil engineering, electrical engineering, machinists, etc. What helps is mass produced pre-fab components that can at least provide some consistent quality and can be put together by low-skilled workers. That has helped raise quality.

Bigger buildings - condos, etc -- are a different story because modern buildings have a lot of tech that is built to spec. It often doesn't work out. Think of it like a big software project -- there are disasters and marvels.

But the idea that homes only last 50 years and are then torn down is absurd. Not sure whether the author has never been to the US or they are intentionally trolling. Half of all US houses were built before 1980 (40 years old). 40% were built before 1970.
Sounds like the industry is sustainable only due to it being an industry in the first place. Good riddance.
Thank you. I will give that a try next time.
What I always wonder about is the energy efficiency of these houses. Increasingly, government policy in European countries is that houses must be highly energy efficient, but this requires good insulation and air tightness. That seems like it’d be hard to achieve with American style construction, particularly in the long term.
> My hunch is that their owners are losing money on property investments and are desperate to get employees back in the office, who knows.

This conspiracy theory based on hunch falls with Occams Razor, as both owners and writers at newspapers likely diversify their investments like any other investor.
it's more common for people to tell me the tickrate/framerate of my server or talk about how "[I] moved away from amazon to cheaper bare metal servers for cost savings" and such.
Yes there is, talk to your bank. Consumer protection is way better in the EU. I use the same Dutch bank that the OP uses (ING) and I can revert many transactions from right inside the app.
Lots of facebook employees with nothing to do. We have this impression of HN being a huge internet property because of the importance of the news here in our lives, but in the great scheme of things, probably it has pretty modest traffic. 60.000 more people hammering it probably is a good load.
That's not a scientific answer. Physical symptoms of stress include:

Low energy

Headaches

Upset stomach, including diarrhea, constipation, and nausea

Aches, pains, and tense muscles

Chest pain and rapid heartbeat

Insomnia

Frequent colds and infections

Loss of sexual desire and/or ability

Nervousness and shaking, ringing in the ear, cold or sweaty hands and feet

Dry mouth and difficulty swallowing

Clenched jaw and grinding teeth

Sounds like all of the physical symptoms of so-called long-COVID.

On top of the stress that would undoubtedly afflict a significant fraction of COVID patients, due to the massively inflated fears surrounding COVID, is the effects of physical isolation.

One of the requirements for all COVID positive cases is two weeks of total physical isolation. Numerous studies have shown that humans being physically isolated has significant negative health effects. No in person contact. No physical touch. For two weeks. All COVID positive cases, even asymptomatic ones.

There are no randomized studies, that control for factors, like the aforementioned psychological distress emanating from fear of COVID, and physical isolation, that suggests COVID causes these long-term symptoms. There are a host of potential confounding factors that could explain these correlations better than damage from the COVID infection.

Notice how extreme rigor is demanded for the ivermectin studies but then really just mere correlations is enough to draw scare mongering conclusions about COVID.
GPS is military technology designed that for that.
That is an awesome list. I just wish they would use the word easy less. It seems nearly every bad programming decision comes from the word easy. More precisely: immature developers envisioning themselves as the primary user and center of the universe doing as little as possible on a first time write without any thought of maintenance or actual users.
I think the Linux app was TCL/TK, so it looked hideous and quite out of place, but surprisingly was available and worked well. Although I think back then the application was only for filing though - pre-filling was added later.

Now with the website it's all much easier still though.
> You had a bad experience or have a negative view of X, therefore everything associated with X is automatically bad?

That is literally how human brains are wired by default. You touched fire and burnt you hand - fire bad. Big person hit you and took your food - big person bad.
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Yep that's why Signal, Threma and Telegram are big. But how would that explain Whatsapp success?

The US gov obviously had and likely has access to the WhatsApp infrastructure
So your argument is that the no true Scotsman fallacy is not a fallacy because Scotsmen do in fact exist?

It would be nice to state in advance that you have abandoned logic and that any discussion with you is pointless.
Story 1:
And it's weird in so many movies when the villain forces a victim's face into the toilet for drowning. It's disgusting, of course, but over here, this would result in a bump in the head from the ceramic, but not in a wet face. Unless you flush, of course.

Story 2:
On my first stay in the US, I clogged up the toilet by one normal usage. I flushed twice to force it down, but instead, it overflowed. Totally different mechanism, that!

Weird cultural differences.
Open Siri and say "hey google, what's amazon's stock price?"
> In comparison when i lived in Russia we had double glazing but the gap between the panes was about 9 inches wide.

That's the older way of doing insulation. Here in Germany houses from around 60 years ago are likely to feature the same.
Thanks for the insight.

I have never written a terminal enulator, so could you maybe summarize why fast scrolling with fixed regions is so hard to implement?
It's likely that it's very specific knowledge that you lack no? If you wantee to address that it should be possible with self-study?
There are economists who argue that it dates to the Romans:

Economist Ulrike Malmendier of the University of California at Berkeley argues that a share market existed as far back as ancient Rome, that derives from Etruscan "Argentari". In the Roman Republic, which existed for centuries before the Empire was founded, there were societates publicanorum, organizations of contractors or leaseholders who performed temple-building and other services for the government. One such service was the feeding of geese on the Capitoline Hill as a reward to the birds after their honking warned of a Gallic invasion in 390 B.C. Participants in such organizations had partes or shares, a concept mentioned various times by the statesman and orator Cicero. In one speech, Cicero mentions "shares that had a very high price at the time". Such evidence, in Malmendier's view, suggests the instruments were tradable, with fluctuating values based on an organization's success. The societas declined into obscurity in the time of the emperors, as most of their services were taken over by direct agents of the state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_exchange
> The American mindset of bulldozing the old and building something new instead every few decades keeps us from having a sense of history, at least where architecture and physical structures are concerned.

A very interesting point, raising a question from a sociological perspective: when most durable structures in a country are in the hand of the government (e.g. the Congress buildings), companies (corporate campuses) and rich individuals and the lower 99% are relegated to cheap housing they either don't own or have to tear down/rebuild once a generation because it fell apart or got destroyed in a natural disaster, what effects does this have on societal stability and cohesion?
Is the line on those racist behaviors at Tesla really that blurry to you?
I feel the pain with setting an alarm... I have my phone set to 24 hour time. When I say 16:04, it's distinctly different than 04:04. Yet, I tell Siri to set an alarm for 09:40, it sets one for 21:40 like an idiot.
I saw some hilarious dubbing in Belarus a few years ago when I was there for work. I was browsing the local channels and came across an old classic feauring Jean Claude van Damme. In a particularly ridiculous scene, he clearly goes "Noooooooooooooooo!" in an overly dramatic way. This got correctly dubbed with a very brief "njet". Indifferent dubbing is common all over eastern Europe apparently. The same guy just reading out the lines. Male/female voices, it doesn't matter. Just working his way through the lines not caring about the content.

Thankfully, the Netherlands has no dubbed voices; only subtitles. As soon as I learned to read, I basically started picking up English from just passively reading what I just heard. It's a reason why English is so well understood in those parts of Europe that don't have dubbing. Even people without much education will be able to speak and understand it.
> New materials and houses in Europe are built using wood and other derived products from wood, plastics and so on.

Definite minority of those houses where I am.
Oh he's got the "authority thing sorted out" eh? Like every doctor who ever claimed females who were hysterical needed to be vibrated to orgasm to cure their disease...? Or is his authority just on the limited level of chiropractors who spread antivax disinformation on YouTube? Just wondering what level of trust one should place in a man who suddenly catapults into world headlines by claiming millions of people are mistaken on experiencing symptoms of a novel virus.
If you can say for certain beforehand that the drones are carrying grenades, then _maybe_. But if they are "just" carrying a sharpened stick to try and skewer whichever politician is holding the rally with, then killing a large amount of the audience will be really unpopular Also, not killing them but allowing the politician to be killed will be really unpopular too. Lasers on the other hand don't run out of ammo, cause much less collateral damage and are quite effective against lightweight drones.

(Of course by the time you have to guard political rallies so much that "grenade attacks by drone swarms" becomes a reasonable threat scenario, you may have to rethink things and probably just cancel the rally for now.)
I and my partner have several telephone packages that allow practically unlimited calling within Europe (which we regularly do) yet we mostly use Telegram and Signal because they are more comfortable.

Edit:// in my phone I even have a internet only SIM, without number attached.
I don't understand how "No Whatsapp = no way to communicate to relatives". Are SMS not available in some countries?
Interesting, that section in the first link is missing in the German version of the document.
If we're going to throw anecdotes around, a very close relative of mine has had a severe reaction to the Covid Vaccine (AZ, I believe), and has been off work for 6 months and counting with a variety of health issues.
A minute off from the 09:41 of Apple ads and screenshots:

https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-the-time-is-always...
I have a relative who is an ICU nurse, he had effects for up to 6 months afterwards. They have always been an active, outdoors type of person, the change was obvious to all around them. Fortunately it has got better, eventually. So yeah these articles, especially from this section of the press, are more likely to be based on political ideology than medical fact.

Remember these are the same media organisations that will deny climate change and find scientists who will push that agenda for them. Just because they have a pulpit, it doesn't make them correct.
Brick vs wood is not the issue. You can build high quality solid houses with wood just fine - look to Scandinavia for example.
In Japan it is common to get rid of the old house when the house is sold. Just 20-30 year old houses are demolished. They really buy only the plot.

I think they have slightly different cultural reasons, but their houses are not build to last either.
50 year old houses aren’t regularly torn down. Neither are wooden skyscrapers. They lost me with those statements.
> Germany appears to be 2-3000eur/sqm.

Most of this, especially in urban areas, is "thanks" to explosion in construction ground prices - up to 70% and more of the price of flats is the share of the underlying plot (https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-grundstueckspr...).
You are probably talking to Siri like you're talking to a computer. However, most people talk to Siri like they're talking to a human being.
Converting the US price to eur/sqm yields 925 eur/sqm.

Making US prices 2-3 times cheaper than EU prices.
You’ve swapped all the units in your comparison, making it a little tricky to actually do a comparison.

So make it a little easier for everyone:

$100/sqft ≈ 925€/sqm

2-3000€/sqm ≈ $216-324/sqft

Or double to tripped per unit area.
It fits their general pattern of "anything mildly complicated that involves a government doing stuff to help the average person is a conspiracy to hurt you".

Regulations for easier trade of bananas?
Regulations to encourage recycling?
Human Rights?
Health and Safety?
Climate change plans?
New school cirriculum?

You should hate and fear all these things according to them. Because if people saw government as a way to improve everyone's lives, they'd probably use it to stop powerful people doing stuff, like poisoning people, starting wars or destroying the planet for money.

So scientists saying the best way to deal with an infectious disease is to pay people to stay home, because we're all part of a society that needs to work together to reach the best outcome for all of us, is scary to them, so they attack it like they always do.
I've asked what time it is in PST once. It told me the current time in my timezone, with the PST timezone qualifier.
Yes, a lot of people outside the company have said that. I feel a degree of loyalty having been there right from the start, but I'm sure this will disappear in a year's time :)
The risk register is an interesting thought which I'll check out; thanks!
agree, there is only one stab at the vampire, and it better be the right instrument at the right place

imho its the freaking business model that is the core of the problem. everything else (monopoly, poor regulation, dark patterns etc) are things the world has seen before, again and again

but we have never (in recent times) seen such amoral political and market endorsement of what is essentially a dehumanizing societal regression: they treat their (largely unsuspecting and ignorant or captive) human users as classifiable, data minable, bidable data objects. Nothing good will ever come out of that. This is a practice that simply has to be tarnished as contravening basic (digital) human rights and incompatible with any society that has any pretense to cohesion and fairness.

NB: they are neither the first nor the only ones following this heinous business model but their are its single most effective promulgator
You can revert automatic transactions (as these are unauthorized and can be done by parties that know just your account number) but it is impossible to revert iDeal payments.
An aspect of this is also that the build quality of UK homes is worse (IMO) than mainland europe. Doubly so if you buy a period house - expect everything to be "that'll do". Door is not entirely flush with the frame? That'll do.

In the capital, even homes above 2mln pounds will have questionable quality. They seem American in this sense. You really need to shell out for proper attention to detail.
I'm yet to find a European that complains about the EU's caps on interchange fees for debit and credit cards. Is a regulation like this unfathomable for most Americans?
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"It's what the network wants, why bother to complain..."

Same with Firefox these days.
I never quite got this line of thinking.

"This product doesn't come the way I want it, so its bad"

Then change it once and thats it. I have my firefox like I want it, saved profile and now even on new machine i can have my firefox experience.

Why dont people complain that their IDE doesnt come with the font and colour scheme that they like?
last time I checked the UK was only behind India on total cases

That's easy to verify: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

Currently, India is behind the USA (#1) on total cases, UK ranks 4th, Brazil 3rd. If we look at cases/population size, UK ranks #22, but the only large country in the top 20 is the USA.

To be fair, the UK government has been fairly consistent that their target has always been to protect the NHS, not the people. As long as the hospitals aren't running beyond capacity, the UK is meeting their stated goal.
It feels like a missed opportunity of more automation, TBH. Notice that each commit mentions one or more bugs, probably enforced by commit hooks.

What about dropping the ones that don't fix bugs (assuming they are part of ongoing work), replace the ones that fixes the bug with the description of the bug (and a working link!), and categorize them based on the tags of the bug (defect, feature request, etc...) so you would automatically get a list like:

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"title of feature request 1"
"title of feature request 2"
Bugs fixed:
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"bug2"
I think this study, also out of the UK, is the standard reference on long COVID symptoms. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.18.21253633v...

I’ll have to look at the survey in more detail but incidence rates would have to be really inconsistent with that study (i.e. probably an order of magnitude lower) to indicate that long COVID is anything other than a massive and serious problem.
I like this. Thinking out loud...

Maybe this could be reduced to something like "desire for novelty". But then I think that's too broad. For example, wanting the latest iPhone is a type of "desire for novelty". Would you consider someone a curious person just because they buy the latest Apple products?

Then maybe you could, instead, only consider "intellectual curiosity", where intellectual curiosity is the desire for new knowledge - descriptive knowledge, prodcedural knowledge, experiential knowledge, etc. Then I guess getting the latest iPhone is also a type of experiential knowledge, so this fails, too...
Conversely solid wood construction is common in Scandinavia. Still sturdier than a lot of US housing.

I live in the UK now, in a brick house and I doubt it'd pass building inspection in Norway.
Never happens to me, even when suffering from major gut issues.

Three possibilities to consider...

1. You're pressing the water saving button (piss flush)

2. You're not holding it down for long enough for it to catch - it can take even a second in some poorly maintained toilets for it to flush properly.

3. Your diet could do with some _serious_ improvement...

That being said, I'd rather having to double flush than deal with clogs as when visiting the US.
Thanks for the article. Some parts are funny and not very representative... About European toilets in villages or residential areas:
"Though some modern squat toilets feature a flushing mechanism, others require you to pour water down the hole using a provided bucket."
I have more than 40 years using toilets in many European countries - France, Belgium, Albania, Germany, Italy, Netherlands... - and I have never used a bucket to flush :-)
US tourists find very exotic stuff when travelling in Europe :-)
I was doing this in the 1980s (started as an EE), but those boards were crazy simple, compared to what we have, these days.
What a garbage hit piece, this comment said it well:

>Hey bud next time talk to engineers and architects before writing on a subject. Research the subject and subject area. Or at the top just note that this article is an unresearched, uninformed opinion post. A bit of Google-fu would save some face.
It was quite a shock as i'd never seen it before growing up.

In the UK we had a bit of a double glazing boom in the late 70s, highlighted well in the TV show "White Gold"

This generic PVC stuff became so common place i'd never seen anything else and just assumed the rest of the world was the same.
I've had all those symptoms during lockdown and I know I haven't had covid. My friends who have had it describe a much, much worse experience. I suppose stress alone can cause visual hallucinations on the order of the road twisting in front of your car, but I know these people and trust their judgment that they have experienced the after effects of a brain-damaging infection.