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> How do we avoid it?

Find a better solution to the issue that crypto currencies are trying to solve.

Bitcoin is seen as (among other things) a hedge against inflation, a way to quickly send money internationally, and a way to spend and receive money without needing other people's permission to do so.

Ethereum is seen as a way to create programs that runs in "the cloud" but not in a cloud that is under the control of any one group, and a way to create new organizations and consensus making systems that are designed from the group up based on internet assumptions (information is quick and essential free to transmit and the importance of geographic location is minimized).

I am saying seen to not try to keep it more neutral. You and I may disagree about whether ETH and BTC achieve or make progress on any of these goals, but I believe it's very clear that many people THINK that they do.

If you would like to get rid of ETH and BTC, you'd need to find a way to solve (or are perceived to solve) these problems better than ETH and BTC.
> if it’s really only among the unvaccinated

Where do you get that from? The article certainly doesn't say that. (And even if it were, the follow-up effects like load on the medical system do impact everyone, so unless you opt-out of that too your decision affects everyone)
Darn Tough socks. You won’t be able to go back. Great feel, super durable, different styles and thickness for any use-case.

Oh and a lifetime warranty (I have personality returned one pair 5 years later for a new pair).
Our human tendency to discourage frank discussion of real, but uncomfortable, possibilities has contributed to the 5M-and-counting COVID-related fatalities.

This is true even if you assign little-to-no likelihood to the possibility any COVID variant was made worse, or introduced to the community, via research labs.
> You do not have relevant acquaintances to confirm that anecdotally - numbers aside, as a real risk?

That seems like a weak counter-argument. If this was the case we'd be hearing, and reading, about it everywhere.
Don't disagree, and I realize this isn't the solution for most people, but home-barista.com has some excellent forums on how to make the most common repairs yourself.

For a tripped GFCI, dollars-to-donuts you had a leaky o-ring on your boiler, which was letting steam into the innards of your machine. The replacement parts can be acquired very cheaply and there are great YouTube videos on how to do the repairs.

With the BDB there are a couple of primary failures after a couple years (failed o-rings, pump or solenoid that needs replacement, new grouphead gasket), which have fortunately been well-documented in online forums and YouTube.
Well as someone who lives in a fairly regulated housing market (Berlin) I'm happy about all the regulations you've mentioned as they prevent negative externalities which would benefit real-estate developers at the cost of everyone else. Imo targeting a specific population density is within the mandate of local government, as too-high density causes all sorts of issues from traffic to health and everything in between. If you want to unchain developers on density, I invite you to take a 10km drive in Delhi or Bangkok and tell me if the cost generated on a daily basis in terms of time and stress is worth it.

I am in favor of finding ways to encourage more housing, but what you're calling for is essentially to invite favela housing in the developed world.
Receiving magic signals from outer space is cool.
Late to this thread as usual, but I might as well submit mine:

My Fender Telecaster. It’s a paradigm of simplicity, reliability, playability, and tone. From the original barrel-style string saddles to the 2-pickup/3-way switching system to the high-output single coil to the bolt-on neck construction to the straight string-pull head stock, there is no better guitar on the planet. What’s even more impressive is that it was designed by a non-guitarist and was one of Leo Fenders earliest designs (and is largely considered to be the first mass-produced electric guitar). I own far too many guitars of various styles and cost, but I nearly always perform and record with my Tele. It’s my proverbial desert island guitar.
No, it looks quite a bit like what might happen if a virus has about a billion infected people to evolve.
The title of the article says it’s mostly the unvaccinated.
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You are asking me "how are you feeling now" and suggesting movies based on it. If I am feeling melancholy you are suggesting more sad movies to me ?

Don't you mean, movie2mood.com ? Ask, "how do you want to feel" and gimme movies which makes me feel so. ?

Simple lovely website and beautiful execution. Good-luck on the launch!
Data are being fetched from IMDb. What's missing on the app that you'd like to see on IMDb?
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Fair enough, but what are you going to do? Round them up in camps and forcibly inject them at this point?

If the hospitals need to set limits to ensure balanced distribution of resources - the unvaccinated should be alerted and then the “hospital rationing” begins.
Logistic chains are being optimized and thus shortened behind the scenes as a cost saving measure.

Even then distance is a terrible measure on it’s own. Suppose a local farmer drives 100 lb of food 25 miles to a farmers market in a 25 MPG truck. They just spent 1 gallon per 100lb of food. A semi driving 2000 miles at 6.5 MPG is moving 34,000 pounds is at 1 gallon per 110 lb of food. And that’s just the surface a farmer needs to drive his truck home, where semi’s try to have useful cargo on the return trip. Granted the farmer might haul more food etc, but the semi could haul more and probably isn’t traveling that far etc.

Further distribution chains aren’t about a single good, grocery stores for example get bulk delivery of multiple goods from distributors. When you include people driving to a farmers market who also drive to a grocery store, farmer’s markets often become much worse for the environment than the giant logistics chain their trying to improve upon.

The real solution is to add taxes for the externalities you care about not simply wing it via feel good assumptions.
Stop posting nazi propaganda you fucking fascist pieces of shit.

I hope the Vax kills every last one of you.
> some kind of badge if you're one of the undesirables

I am sure that nobody in Germany would be against this idea.
(/s of course)
Overdoses…
but the browser doesn't know that the image is already done, and since there's still data coming in, the browser is obliged to continue downloading.

you could right click, and copy image, rather than save as. It achieves what you wanted - save a copy of the image.
All previous VOCs hail from a timeframe when there weren't any vaccines rolled out yet. The highly vaccinated countries made up for a small share of the world population over the entire timeframe in which mutations have arisen. In other words, there's no good control group here.

> Sure, the 'naturally immune' sick people having extra N-targeting antibodies would be in an advantage vs the virus, but the cost of that is having a real corona infection earlier on, with all the risk simply being frontloaded.

It's not a binary, when people get vaccinated and then infected (or vice versa), they do develop broader immunity. Frontloading the risk of infection versus vaccination may well be justified in the young and healthy population, but that opinion has been ostracized from the mainstream.

> the Chinese vaccines are inactivated virus vaccines. One wonders whether they fare better or worse vs this variant.

Not all of them are, but CoronaVac is. This[1] suggests that while efficacy of CoronVac against wild-type infection was modest (51%), the reduction when confronted with Gamma was very small (49.6%).

> Then again, maybe this variant will fail to transmit effectively and will just kill itself off like Beta did.

Beta didn't "kill itself off", it led to wave that rivaled Delta/Gamma in some cases. It ended up being outcompeted by Delta/Gamma.

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-sin...
Okay, but a push for more diverse authors into the classroom is not the same as what you are presenting here.

What you’ve linked is not saying “we must read these authors because their skin is black”. It is saying “their black skin has caused them to live a life different from other authors, which has caused them to write something different from other authors, and we want to know about that.”

Based on our back and forth here, it seems you have presented a conversation you claim happens “often” that you’ve neither heard personally nor can cite an instance of it. This conversation is a strong caricature of teachers calling parents “racists” for not agreeing with their book choice.

Meanwhile the evidence you’ve linked to shows nothing of the kind. TFA doesn’t support it, nor does the article you linked.

What the Harvard article says is that the topics contained in literature written by white men who are now dead are not relatable to a diverse classroom. Unsurprisingly, people write what they know, and as is true with all people, straight white male people don’t know a whole lot about the lived experience of people who are not them e.g. gay, black, and women etc. One way to get this perspective is to read books by authors in those demographics.

Again, this is not the same as saying “we must read these authors because they are black.” There are many black authors who are not being suggested, and it’s not black authors to the exclusion of everyone else. What they have to say in their books is how the books get chosen. We are talking about content, not color. Does the color of the author change the content? Yes. And that’s the point, but it’s not racist to recognize that and want to learn from it.

So again I ask: where is the conversation between parents and students that you’ve heard often happening? I really want to know the answer to this and It’s concerning you are evading that question.
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Erm, at least one of those is unusually wrong:

"The doors are not always hidden - they clearly separate these two worlds, and may also led to very nice places that are just not public."

Presumably a typo.
I was responding to "completely absent in all modern languages". Alternate return has been in the standard since '77, and Fortran 2018 seems modern enough.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339541044_Mental_il...

Here is another study for you.
Is Twitter neutral?
after all the epidemic modeling fiascos of the previous two years, i'm really surprised we still grant any value to people piling maths analysis on top of rudimentary models.

You want to know how many people an unvaccinated person can contaminate ? Well, that's easy: measure the virus load difference between vax & non vax, as well as the time it's still in one person's body.

That's biology, not rocket trajectory dynamics. You won't solve the problem just by looking at numbers and slopes.
They get assigned greek letters by the WHO when they become important enough for such honors. Heard of something called "delta"?

The name was assigned yesterday, so the website hasn't added it. They have them in parentheses on the left side menu.

Oh, and if you like data, and graphics overload: https://nextstrain.org/groups/neherlab/ncov/21K?l=radial
I must have lived on an alternative universe with those HP-UX, Solaris and Aix applications.

As for the rest I guess it has been a Linux thing since the start, given the CLI focus even to this day.

Using fvwm meant having fun with Xlib + Athena Widgets, hardly usable.

As for Tk, anything beyond providing a GUI to CLI did not escalate.

DDD is probably the only surviving Tk GUI application that matters.
"mainly driven by" and "only among" is really not the same thing.
What UPnP/PCP implementations lack is a one-time authorization workflow. There should be a list of pending requests in the router's web interface with a unique token for each request. The next time a device wants to open the same mapping it'll have to issue to pass the same token again or require reauthorization.
You forget that corona WFH is not the same as the WFH that is to come, post-lockdowns and quarantines. Having the freedom to work from your local cafe, your local university library, an expensed WeWork, in public spaces of your choosing, rather than in open offices full of endless distraction and people coughing, there is freedom to that. You will get physical interactions with greater society, you just won’t be forced to be in the office all the time from that. Work from a park.

And I say this as someone who will probably prefer the hybrid approach of seeing my teammates 1-2 times a week. The less time people are forced to waste lavish amounts of time, fuel, and their lives to commuting, so much the better.
My understanding is that variant monitoring in Africa, generally, is very low – even though it's supposedly quite good in South Africa.

And in enumerating possibilities, the hypothetical reckless experiment I described might also be simulated by other unwise medical practices.

For example, what if you had a ward of immunocompromised patients that shared poor ventilation with a next-door quarantine/COVID-treatment area? That'd also risk concentrating multiple variants into an area where co-infection, and long incubation periods for cross-hybridization & accrued mutation, could happen.

Long unmonitored transmission chains in the community, especially in populations where illness is barely noted (like young & partially-immune), would also have eventually have the same effect as those other accelerated, worst-case situations.
>Variant: 21K also known as B.1.1.529

It's a project of one person (Emma Hodcroft), she didn't update page yet, but WHO named B.1.1.529 as Omicron yesterday:

https://www.who.int/news/item/26-11-2021-classification-of-o...

Here is her thread on creating this page:

https://twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/1464223178776059919
Greek and pseudo Greek letters are used for various financial quantities related to option instruments. Vega and vanna come to mind, or my personal favourite, vomma.
Yeah, this is basically it.

If you have to agree to an End User License Agreement to use a thing then that thing isn't yours, not truly.
Yes, similar to code smells, the word “should” in these contexts is a bit of a “thought smell”.
Doing a very quick search [1] on the aws provider github repo, produces `92` open, and `306` closed issues with various bugs in the provider. I agree that most of them might not count as creating serious problems, but I as well have been using it quite extensively and can definitely remember cases where I have had to manually deal with corrupted state in various ways.

I'm not sure which part of my comment was "FUD" - I never said that you shouldn't use terraform, I was pointing out that issues exist, always. I think of it as the nature of the work we're doing (I say we, as I imagine you are also in the SWE field based on your comments). Show me any piece of software without bugs, especially as complex as a tf provider, and I'm buying you whatever you want.

[1] https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues?q...
You know fauci is not just a bio terrorist but he likes to torture puppies?
I was a bit alarmed that, when I said I was feeling gloomy, it recommended Midsommar! Don’t really think that’s going to help lift my spirits…. Perhaps the UI is confusing me and I’ve missed something.
The specific machine type is moot and just clickbait. The way I heard this one, the crux was the machine he used was not network connected. Madoff needed to be able to calculate customer account positions after he already knew the share prices. Due to the lack of network the machine needed the prices input manually, which introduces a delay. So he could select which shares customers had "purchased" after the fact. If he bought modern off the shelf software it wouldn't necessarily have this quirk where you could retrospectively decide which shares the customer owned. He may have found it hard to justify asking someone to write new software for a new machine with this feature without them getting suspicious. So he kept the old machine going.
Epidemic modeling has been quite accurate at predicting this current wave in Germany.
Because the spike has 10x more appearances in the genome. The spike is literally the thing that gets it in the door of the cells and without it, it doesn’t propagate.

It’s not useful to promote lab theories at this point, especially given the real lab (the world) is so large. Trying to make it appear the virus could only mutate in a lab, when there are literally millions of quadrillions of these thing loose in the population, only serves to spread irrational behaviors.
It means you are a brainwashed msm slave.

See you at the gulag comrade.
Zillow is passing on an infinite number of potentially profitable enterprises. The reason they attempted this one is because they thought they already had good enough models to avoid taking large losses. If you read their statements, it is clear the reason Zillow is abandoning the this effort is because of inaccuracies in their models not just because they were spooked by losing money. They were also spooked last quarter by making too much money!
Badum Ts
It is important like my nutsack in your mouth is important.
I find it difficult to focus for longer period of time on screen. Eyestrain too. Prefer physical books.
Because then there'd be ambiguity between a function ending and returning unit (nothing) or returning whatever the last line expression returns. You could change things around this, but Rust has a goal of unambiguous syntax, hence also the turbofish::<>
Is this sort of stuff applied to biped humans in sports video games like football? I have long found it notable that those games have for years achieved near photorealism for static imagery but never seem to get convincing dynamics. Pause the game and it looks amazing, but unpause and the players bounce off each other like billiard balls, defy conservation of momentum, momentarily occupy overlapping spatial volumes, and just generally make their motion-capture origins readily apparent.
They partly did. In a pull quote they selected: “Shortly after World War II…a substantial segment thought that the stock market was a place where cattle were sold.”
“We are from the government and are here to help”. These are some of the most terrifying words that I have ever heard uttered.
Hike up their medical insurance bills?
> Torrents for Netflix rips are the same great quality and great content and you can even watch them from USB on a fully offline

I end up paying for content and torrenting it anyway in order to get the full HD, no ads, no buffering, no BS experience. Torrenting feels like the 1990s for music (but faster obviously): You bought a tape or CD, you went home and played it, it played, THE END.
From a previous similar discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22066152 that takeaway is that professional astronomers have software that detect these kind of things in the long exposure photographs, and drop the frames or the parts of the frames with problems (birds, planes, satellites, ...).
Wasn't DDD a Xaw3D application?

On Tk software, Tkgate can be really useful.

Also, you forgot TKinter for prototyping. Widely used.

Well, on hardly usable... Netscape and a lot of software was statically linked and built against Motif, so most people
ran commercial software in mid-late 90's well.

A good FVWM+RXVT setup was as good as CDE, if not better because the CPU and RAM usage was far lower as I stated.

I remember software like GV, mpg123, ImageMagick... far from unusable.
McM is just a warehousing and distribution company; they don't make any of the things they sell. They define products by specs rather than manufacturer (is few brand names are used in the catalog/site), which makes it much easier to stock parts of every nearly every flavor (imperial, metric, dozens of odd pipe threading standards, thousands of ASME/ANSI/DIN/other-standards-body-standards).

McM absolutely mixes and matches.
It's much worse than that: it becomes philosophy.

Beyond some level of complexity a system isn't one, anymore, it is an emergent phenomenon that has many of the aspects we ascribe to "life." Our inputs affect the systems, surely, but not in a predictable or even repeatable way.

A cow is an "inefficient means" of turning grass into tasty beef, by some accounting. But the cow is, as far as it is concerned, fully efficient at being alive. our notion of "what is the internet" fell out of sync with the realities sometime around '94 i think.
Interesting site. 4000th forename and 800th surname for me, 400,000th and 90,000th for my wife :D
That's also a possibility!

But note that in many respects, Africa has had a mysteriously mild pandemic overall – see https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-heal...

Also that South Africa, specifically, has reported far fewer deaths per capita than the US or UK, and recently was even turning away vaccine deliveries for lack of local demand: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/exclusive-south-africa-...
Rust uses the semicolon to distinguish between statements and expressions.
This should be a legitimate category. I just want something with an easy plot to watch during a 'netflix and chill' date!
>Round them up in camps and forcibly inject them at this point?

this is already happening, and it is cheered on by the same usual suspects with blue checkmarks who denounced the people who said this is going to happen a year ago as right-wing conspiracy theorists.
yeah, I read that response to the BMJ article. I find their dismissal of the concerns to be unconvincing and an unserious attempt to respond. Just the title - "what the heck happened to the BMJ?" - conveys that message. Then they proceed to impugn the character of the reporter and the whistleblower. Using ad hominen attacks and trying to wave it off as "all handwavy stuff" should be a red flag.
Hmm. This is quite an overreaction to what I wrote. You “condemn me” for these comments I’ve posted on hacker news? Seriously?

All I am asking for is an articulation of the alternative interpretation of events that you have said is lacking in media reports.

I can only think of one reason why you would believe that my questions somehow show me to be “extremely angry” (when I am not) or that I want to “dictate others’ thoughts” (which I don’t) or that I am somehow on a “witch hunt” just because I am being persistent in responding to your comments (this is a two-way street). It is the same reason that you cannot articulate any other interpretation than the one found in media reports:

In your own heart you know that there is only one reasonable interpretation of these events and of Peng Shuai’s writings. This poor woman was abused—certainly emotionally and possibly physically—by a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party, and officials of the Chinese government have taken extraordinary steps to cover it up.

If there were any other reasonable interpretation you would say what it is!
This is why graybeards understand the difference between the [RETURN] key and the [ENTER] key.

Accountants, too.
What Is Sharding? Explaining Ethereum’s Scaling Solution
Good riddance. If large-scale house flipping took off, we might actually end up in a scenario where housing was treated as a speculative asset, with empty houses getting flipped between investors looking to make a quick buck, further lowering the supply of actual places to live (because housing units remain empty while being flipped), driving up the cost for families who just want a place to live. Oh wait...
How do these mutations happen if we're all vaccinated? I guess the answer to that is to give vaccines to those countries where the mutations can flourish. Here, Southern Africa.