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> On the other hand, for thin healthy kids the hospitalization rate for covid for a couple months is about the same as the anaphylaxis rate in that age group, so vax'ing healthy young people won't reduce hospitalization rates overall.

I don't think this follows. Part of the benefit of vaccination is that it prevents spread and so vaccinating young and healthy people helps insulate unwell, old and immunocompromised folks.

> Not-old, thin, healthy are more likely to end up with anaphylaxis hospitalization than covid hospitalization, so put them in observation for 15 mins to minimize the damage from vaccination.

The goal here is to speed up the rate of vaccination by eliminating the bottleneck of keeping folks around. Only 28% of folks in the UK are obese so, and taking into account other factors and comoribidities, let's say 50% of folks needed to wait and 50% were free to go.

Operationalizing a giant waiting line for thin people to hang out in as they wait on folks with a 15 minute timer, while fat people with comorbidies were free to duck in and out and get back to their lives feels pretty unworkable.
Personally I have only found cables with relatively weak magnetic power. Where does one find these strong ones, in particular for prices like you mention? It doesn't seem to be a well-advertised property, so it's difficult to tell if they are actually strong ot not :/.

The $59 price still includes worldwide shipping.

> That you have to carry such contraption around and find a place to tie it to.

I mean you are already carrying a laptop, and probably a charger with cables, so carrying a magnetic cable doesn't seem a big stretch. You would put it to the same bag with your other laptop-related accesories.

It is also quite popular to wear pants with belt loops, which would seem suitable for tying this one. Granted dresses and skirts have these less commonly; even then perhaps one could use a belt. For sportswear I don't have a good suggestion.

I notice you refer to these "better ways" yet you don't enumerate any. At least I wouldn't consider accelerometer and radio-based solutions proper alternatives to this (unless using proper latency-based distance measurement, I wonder if this truly can be implemented for less than $30). The camera solution I proposed might be realistic one, but it eats battery.
There is no free market when it comes to producing and selling medical equipment in the US. I remember reading about a business able and willing to start mask production but choosing not to because of the onerous requirements and not being allowed to raise price to the required levels.

In other, less-regulated countries, KN95 masks where missing for just a brief period of time in March then they were readily available again for the rest of the pandemic, of course at a higher price reflecting the demand.

> briliant free market optimised supply chains that have failed and gave us this inflation

Such a statement is quite funny in the context of the FED printing a fifth of all USD supply just in 2020.

Even funnier is to comply about disrupted supply chains in the context of countless heavy restrictions imposed by... you know... governments.
Some… cough… oxidized languages prevent you from doing stupid shit like that. But apparently those languages are too complicated, I'd rather not rely on compiler helping me and keep yet another rule in my head as I'm writing code.
It is. What's the postal address of the "operator of buskill.in" so I can file claims with him?
Any tips on identifying the better jobs through the interview process ?

The further get into my tech career Im finding out that alot of jobs are bad jobs.
Ruby introduces new language features all the time in minor versions while maintaining backward compatibility. I can pretty much upgrade a minor Ruby version to get access to new language features without worrying about breaking anything.
The poster is also mixing up a lot of concepts. There's a glut of cash worldwide so naturally that affects European banks as well, and they may choose to put it in USD since their rates are negative.

I like how someone can read a story about banks having too much money and not being able to lend it out fast enough, resorting to parking it in an incredibly low yield asset and the take away is "aha! see inflation is not and will not be a problem! Central banks don't actually print money"

Gold may be a shitty inflation hedge this go-around. But the stock market doesn't appear to be. Do you think its weird the stock market is up 30% from the peak prior to a global pandemic? Where do you think that money came from, or is that just optimism, because you know, we all handled this pandemic so well?
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> ... and there's resistance ( electrical).

Aren't the UHVDC losses just 1,5% per 1000 km? 16% for 10000 km, though, but that might still be economical in some cases.

Sure, shit does happen. Like with everything. Perhaps it could be mitigated with an insurance or multipath?

Political risk is another matter, of course. But we do have gas pipelines crossing such boundaries as well, so surely it's doable?
Under that definition, a self-proclaimed libertarian would be a progressive, as would someone who wants to replace public schools with religious institutions. A neocon, who wants to forcefully bring democracy to a foreign country, would be a progressive in that country. Perhaps different terms are more useful.
Don't forget that Thinkpads have a huge Linux fan base as well.

Don't get me wrong though, I am hoping that this project succeeds, I'd love to have a Mac with Linux as my daily work machine.

I guess time will tell how well this unfolds.
A big problem is that people don't agree on the root motivation.

I believe that policies against women being religious leaders is based in historical misogyny. But if you go ask people in these organizations, they'll say that women are fundamentally less capable of leading religious groups and that God made this rule for a reason.

What do you do then? I'm pretty darn sure that the stated reason is not actually true and bigots rarely say "the reason we are oppressing this group is because we hate them" but instead make up rationalizations for their policies. A bias towards keeping social systems and policies as long as there appears to be a justification for it enables oppressive systems to defend themselves more effectively.
There is a `fixes/` directory in source control, full of lots of little one-off things that have a ticket number in the filename.
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> UK government has done far better job than in delivering boosters and vaccines.

Specifically the civil service and NHS
Have you even looked at other languages' implementation of generics? Java's implementation takes up a significant part of the language spec, compiler, and VM for example.

Here's an insightful comment from some time ago, explaining why it's a technical issue, not a political one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622417
It links to this FAQ highlighting a LOT of the complexities and pitfalls of generics in Java, things that are all to easily overlooked by armchair language expert: http://www.angelikalanger.com/GenericsFAQ/FAQSections/TypePa.... Note that that's just one chapter in a very large document.

Comments like this say more about their author's arrogance than that of the Go language team.
Hey guh, I’m from Brazil too.

I took both Pfizer shots already and I had to wait 15 minutes only after getting the second dose.

I really appreciate the hard work of our health professionals, but I think most people didn’t wait after the jab because we are not following the vaccination protocol as we should.
Although investing choices matter, they are probably less important than differences in savings rates, marriage rates, and labor force participation, especially among males. https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/race-and-ethnicity/2019/hom... "Among adult men (20 years and older) in the largest race and ethnicity groups, Hispanics (77.4 percent) continued to have the highest employment–population ratio. Black men (64.0 percent) had the lowest, also continuing a longstanding pattern. The employment–population ratios for Asian adult men and White adult men were 73.1 percent and 69.6 percent, respectively."
There are 2 kinds of languages, one that people love to talk about and philosophize about and others that are used in real projects. Golang firmly fits into the 2nd category of languages that are highly opinionated and full of pragmatic choices.
It is rare for a language to capture so much mindshare within a decade of it's launch and I'm glad that Go had managed to reach this stage. I am really looking forward to what this new era of Golang brings with it.
Go with generics has definitely surpassed Python for me. Python is good for prototyping but the package management story and the "feel" of the language has ruined it for me. I used to love Python, until I used Django professionally, and the façade crumbled. I'm done with OOP and dynamic typing.

Go felt good, a bit verbose, but my issue was that map/reduce/filter are a much better abstraction over imperative loops, and with generics, the dream of Go with more functional and high-level concepts is closer.

This comment is going to be very controversial, so let me remind you this is my very own opinion.
Does that change anything? Covid is as contagious as any of them and all of them and immunity people gain against covid dimnishes in the matter of months. After few years it may drop to near zero as it is in the case of some other cold viruses.
>For example, lower demand leads to lower prices, sure. But then those lower prices lead to higher demand.

Supply curve is missing in these statements.

> Building a power plant is a commitment to buying that product, which locks in that demand regardless of price.

What? Is there some sort of law that requires buyers to buy all of the electricity a power plant can produces?

> And so continued low prices could lead to more construction of gas plants, which leads to an increase in demand.

This is backwards. An increase in demand for electricity might lead to construction of new gas plants, with a bet that even with the increased supply, electricity buyers are willing to pay at least x price for electricity for y duration sufficient to earn a z return on investment for building the new gas plant.
> You might be interested to learn...

Good to know.

However, my post may have been unclear, I don't like the three-finger drag, so I'm not used to it, I'm just trying to find a reason why some people may like it, so I may not have the best ones.

The thing is that you don't "click" anything, you just put your three fingers on the touchpad and slide them around. Exactly the way you would scroll with two fingers: no clicking involved.
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After the Moderna booster I walked right out although they required a waiting period where I am.
great is a relative term. It's much better than feudalism, and certainly better than the most prominent socialisms that've been tried (USSR, China etc). However, it does not align incentives towards the things we think are "good", like maintaining open source software, securing software, etc - so it certainly isn't ideal.
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> It's too much to do all at once, and we might get it wrong.

If only people realized this about most software projects. There's a lot of hubris and under-estimation in software engineering.
Thank you so much again. Not sure if it's my case (I'll check with sugar) but analysis of this level is way above any doctor I ever visited. One minor note though, I find these attacks happening even when inactive and relaxed, not only under heavy physical/mental activity or stress.
I value individuals and capitalism a great deal. But without civilization and a platform that shapes their energy they are just more ants in the ant farm. The platform is what gives them the ability to change the world. That is built in a symbiotic relationship but it seems like we forget the taxes/civilization part and worship individuals to often.
Bojo wasn't out there vaccinating people himself. That's the NHS that's been hauling ass. It's kind of their raison d'être.

The political arm of the UK government's job ends at procurement.
At work, we do the following:

* User reports the issue to a business analyst via a ticket.

* Business analyst confirms the issue, adds any relevant details, and opens a ticket with the technical team.

* The technical team creates a script to perform the update and runs it in the 'support' database (which is refreshed nightly from Production)

* Business analyst validates results

* User validates the results

* Technical team logs a Change Request, it is discussed at the next Change Advisory Board meeting, then the script is run during the next change window (weekly). If it's an emergency, we can run it the same day.

* The Database Administration team runs the script in Production

It sounds like a heavy weight process, but with multiple people involved and actions logged at every step of the way it's a very safe and auditable process.

TL;DR: A small number of trusted people have the required access, there is a fair amount of business process built around using this access.
That's more or less like saying dollars aren't fungible because you can check the serial number on a bill to see if it matches one that was reported stolen.
Software is not charity. I will not work hard to deliver all those things out of the goodness of my heart. The ROI on those things isn’t great.

If it’s easy to do I’ll do it, but none of those are trivial things.
I never used PostCSS, but from what I understand, not really.

It seems to be a very arcane way of dealing with javascript. And you have to know about compilers to make any use of it.

And I know a bit about compilers but so far I have no idea, how I could use it for my needs. But it seems to be some serious engeneering.
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Author here. If I were to do it again I would pick a different visualization. The intent was not to "lie" with statistics as other commenters here seem to think, it was to fit the data side by side and have it be reasonably visible.

Lots of room for improvement next time I think.
It is not practical to have hospitals to cater to extreme spikes - it takes trained doctors, nurses, infrastructure to run all which is in limited supply. Further, even if that can be managed, during normal periods, all that excess capacity wouldn't maintain itself. You need a balance of additional capacity and responsible behaviour supported by science/medicine/evidence. Ignoring that is infantile.
> You have only thought of the most obvious problems,

Enlighten me on what the critical issues beyond food, water, power, shelter, and oxygen are then. And make sure it’s not solveable with a single shipment of 100 Tons of the most obvious physical pre made solution on earth.

> and your solution to each is the least manageable that could be imagined

That’s ok if the cost to implement them is magnitudes lower than previous space efforts, e.g. the space shuttle and the ISS. I’m aware I’m lowballing the effort here. I’m sure smarter engineers can come up with smarter systems. But if we can afford to just send the stuff we need in bulk, that does work and requires little innovation. A cost effective, low risk method is fine.

I don’t know why you mentioned the sabatier process. I said the solution was ship them a fuck ton of water. Here. 100 Tons of water. Stupidly high amount. Dumbass hyperbolic example. But that’s one starship heavy in caravan of hundreds of shipments back of the enevelope says that’s drinking water for 900 humans’ entire lifetimes.

*not doing the math to check the volume capacity of starship heavy, just the mass. I don’t care if I’m off by multiple orders of magnitude. This is the lowest dumbest solution and the expectation should be that a much better job is done.
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My old job had wipe after 3 (or maybe it was 5) bad pins within N minutes as the required security setting for company phones. The thing I learnt from it is that wiping your phone actually isn't that big a deal and if you've set it up right you can pretty quickly be back up and running.
No, I understand that. I guess my question is actually around your experience with "You can argue that is sufficiently obfuscated to not count as PII" and whether your customers are actually successful with this argument.
It would be interesting if you could combine the two ideas. Physically secure the laptop to the table, but also lock / shut down / wipe the drive in the event that someone cuts through the wire.
> I think what you're pointing to is correct, Augmented Humanity, rather than Augmented Reality.

This is a much better way to put it. Also I love some good sleep, so thanks for the link!
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The exploitation is a feature of capitalism, not a bug.
I'd like to see examples of well known good apples outside of OSS that care about performance, compatibility, accessibility, security, and privacy.
Number one, static type checking is hardly a "new tech" for which the industry is in a "newlywed period". If anything, it is the middle-aged wife that the industry's crawling back to, as the passion fades from its dynamic mistress dalliance.

Secondly, the obvious counterexample here is MongoDB. Way too hyped-up during its honeymoon, and then almost immediately crapped on by the entire industry (to the point where we've PROBABLY gone too far and are unfair now). When hype waves don't work out, this industry is pretty quick about discarding them.
When you call something the Linux foundation I would expect money to go to projects involving linux. I would have no issues if they grant money to anything that remotely involves linux. The sheer amount of open source developers that are barely receiving donations trough their own sourcing is staggering. every week I can find posts on HN about marketing your projects and the struggles of advertising or improving their project.

The philosophy of building free and open source software and merit shall grant you monetisation is completely dead to me. There's no way human group dynamic would sustain this if the Linux foundation with their 177 million is enough to cause such a divergence from any semblance of this core idea.
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For sure! No platform is perfect, and our current one needs a TON of improvements.
There are any number of ways to do this, but one is a LUKS encrypted file system and "self destruct" is wiping out the LUKS header and halting. Only the backup of the LUKS header (not with you at the time!) will restore the data.
Honestly, that sounds a little too "CSI". If the lanyard is attached to a wrist, the chance that someone could be suddenly incapacitated in such a way to avoid a jerky movement that breaks the connection is pretty small. "Knock them unconscious" is a TV trope.
Capitalism is a handful of people who own the means of production and the rest of us trying to get by. The bad apples exploiting it are the people who own the means of production, and saying they're the bad part of capitalism might as well be saying "capitalism is only bad because of what makes capitalism what it is".
Err, no? Most languages will make a copy for scalar values (e.g. ints), e.g. Javascript and python do that. C++ and Rust go further and provide the user the ability to take the arguments by value or reference, even for classes/structs, which gives you control over what you want. And in this specific case, `v` should be a new instance for each iteration really, it makes very little sense to say that a reference to v of a previous iteration of the loop stays alive for the next iteration. Which is why the program as it exists would be a compile time error in rust, for instance (Maybe in C++ as well, I'm not well-versed enough in the lambda rules of C++).
Also, if we're to be pedantic about the code across the article, if they used dec (directly on memory) rather than sub, in the self modifying code, they wouldn't need a load/sub/store sequence. The zero flag would still be appropriately modified.
don't try to catch, try to cushion the fall. trying to catch can lead to both of you being injured. esp when there is a large size differential
Had my booster (Moderna) at a grocery store pharmacy in Texas and they never mentioned any need to wait. I was in and out in just a few minutes.
#10 also applies to religion.
I'm a little curious how they were able to determine this before even sending a craft there and measuring it and have a high degree of confidence in its accuracy.
>You don’t have to understand the intricacies of the finish educational system, but I bet that if you tried to emulate it, you’d get decent results.

You might choose to emulate the wrong parts and disregard parts of that contributed to the system's overall functioning and results. For example, it looks like Finland has problems successfully running the world famous Finnish educational system. Since the PISA success of the 00s, the Finnish education has gone downhill, fast. In recent national evaluation [1], the kids today have more difficulties with tests from 20 years ago.

[1] https://yle-fi.translate.goog/uutiset/3-12220417?_x_tr_sl=au...
Would be nice if it didn’t need JavaScript code.

Are there any no-code or Python tools to do the same?
Literally happened to me the other day.

Not sure though how I can make a difference when the vendor and manager seem to be buddies and any criticism of the tool falls on death ears.
I always thought that a lock screen with two passwords would be an interesting idea. Say the BusKill locks your system and sends a request to a server. If you don't enter the correct password to abort the script within a few seconds, it will run on your server, which sends a distress mail/call to emergency contacts, revoke all ssh keys/passwords etc.

If however the distress password gets entered, the script still runs, but the system unlocks into a virtual pc or another account which is not suspicious.
I had to have the conversation twice; the first time I got really mad at my mom for sending me "Call me as soon as you can". She didn't really get why I was so upset - probably because I was too upset to think clearly about why I was.

The next time it happened, I clued my folks in to the subtext of that message for people of my generation. They were horrified and apologized profusely. They've also never done it since.
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No, the specific controversy was about on-device hash scanning which used child porn as cover, when in fact it is exactly the feature that China et al. wants in order to make sure people aren’t sharing any political memes etc.
There was a spurt of this before they seriously went to work on generics, and the conclusion was "actually, it's fine the way it is". There's huge discussions on the matter as well as various proposals, but they all came with caveats that, in the end, weren't considered a significant improvement.

That said, with generics, it should be possible to change to the 'Either' style [0] of error handling. And with another compiler feature to be added, er, 'exhaustive switch/case' or whatever you want to call it, they can make it a compiler error to not handle the error case. That said, I don't see the language developers or community making it a standard anytime soon.

The current style of error handling doesn't hurt enough. It's verbose and repetitive, sure, but if the alternative is something clever or magic, it's not the way to go.

[0] https://www.scala-lang.org/api/2.13.6/scala/util/Either.html
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