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>I see more and more of these articles and I feel like we're being conditioned to accept an 180 degree turn by our governments on COVID response.

Is there any reason to believe the government is behind it, rather the other way around? It also seems plausible that the lockdown is pissing people off, journalists are writing about it, and the government does a 180 due to public pressure.
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Novak Djokovic Is Refused Entry into Australia over Vaccine Exemption
> nobody wants the outcome we've got

Single anecdote: we took our 3rd grader from the regular school and enrolled in an online school since at that age they were not vaccinated and we were not comfortable sending a 3rd grader to a school at all.

In fact I feel that our child has done well, the entire 3rd grade curriculum is finished and will be moving to 4th grade in the middle of the school year since the online school supports that. Something that may not have happened in the regular school at all.

So, as usual, let's not generalize - every one is different, both adults and children.

We may move our child back to regular school in the fall since they can now be vaccinated.
> Don't get me wrong, I see the appeal and fell for CF early on but not a fan anymore since they've grown into such a behemoth.

> Absolutely power corrupts absolutely.

This seems to capture the gist of the argument clearly. I hadn't realized cloudflare had grown large enough to fall into the "too big to not be evil" bucket already.
While that's certainly an aspect, "cool" people can be identified by others even in the in-group. Usually it's related to them having genuine authenticity vs a "poser" who is distinctly uncool.
Whether I have an alternative or not, I'm not going to get side-tracked by stupid questions about alternatives.
>Even with aluminum molds at a low cost focused prototyping CM, which are MUCH cheaper than steel molds, I think the pricing for just one set of tooling is going to exceed your $15k budget.

It really depends on where you go. I've got vendors in China that could easily do 2 dual cavity production tools in that budget.
[clarification: I mixed up my unit conversion. A 3/4" A325 bolt resists ~25kip shear or 31kip tension. One of the joys of working in an industry that primarily uses customary units, while codes are written in SI units]
Science does not say kids are barely affected by Covid... that would be the right wing media and politicians.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

Closely related: Floria wants to stop Covid testing so that their reported infection rates will drop.

https://cbs12.com/news/local/florida-surgeon-general-signals...
The teachers on the teachers subreddit STILL go on about how bad they have it "risking their lives". It's unbelievably dramatic over what to a vaccinated person is an endemic sniffle. I think they really just want to drag out their WFH situation as long as possible, consequences to the next generation of society be damned.
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> Too bad the shots don't prevent infection.

Except they do. However the unending plague of unvaccinated people mean that vaccinated people are still getting sick as no vaccine for any disease has ever had 100% effectiveness. Even completely irradiated diseases never had 100% effective vaccines.

Meanwhile we have a large group of unvaccinated people who are creating a breeding ground for mutations that weaken the various vaccines. Eventually new vaccines will be needed to compensate for that, but they will still not be 100% effective.

As long as there exist large groups of unvaccinated groups with no real justification for being unvaccinated, there will be a population of carriers providing a breeding ground for new variants. However unlike the traditional animal hosts any mutation that occurs in the human population is inherently more transmissible to other humans.

Let's quote twitter: Sure vaccinated and unvaccinated people can both catch covid. Similarly, both I and Serena Williams can play tennis.
I am sorry no.

You have plenty of first world countries with a fraction of the US and Canada's per capita emissions.

You need to look within. You guys are very factually just wasteful. The US and Canada are the ones that stand out like a sore thumb among the First world countries. [0]

Only countries like Qatar and Kuwait are more wasteful than the US and Canada in CO2 per capita emissions.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...

Edit: added stats, it almost looks bimodal.
Can confirm Nexus 4 and Moto X issues. Had exactly the same ones.

Nexus 6 though (it is very similar to Moto X hardware wise) only died after 4 years after taking a swim, and was perfectly functional until then.
Hey I want to be clear I was just talking about a meta trend, not specifically attacking you. Sorry it clearly read that way. My apologies.
It’s simple, get rid of qualified immunity. Set reasonable standards and hold them personably and financially responsible when they deviate. And while I’m on my internet soapbox, civil asset forfeiture laws gotta go too. That shit is plain theft and violates the 4th.
Actually right now in Europe most (maybe all?) flights can be rescheduled for free in response to the pandemic. Is that not the case elsewhere?
This article provides a good explanation of why no one will be able to avoid the virus.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646

The CDC estimated that 44% of the US population had been infected as of September 2021. Obviously that number will be higher now.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Funny you say that, because I just had to replace my Galaxy S9 at slightly under two years of age. It became unusable due to a defect called the "Samsung green screen of death", which I learned is widespread, age-related, and unfixable.
> Tension joints for wood are seen in classic Japanese construction

Japan also has several wooden buildings that purport to be 1,000+ years old—although these situations inevitably lead to Ship of Theseus debates.
Who has ever made sushi even with a full home kitchen? Cook and prep times have gone down from about 40 minutes on average to 5-10 minutes. Use that liberated time to find more interesting ingredients. With the saute mode and pressure cooking mode, about the only thing you can't do is bake stuff.
> There's nowhere to turn to.

Come move to Florida, Utah, or any of the other states getting it right.
What problems are solved by agent forwarding that aren't solved by ssh -J/-o ProxyJump?
The quality of pop science journalism is absolutely atrocious, but I'm not gonna pretend I know the answer to that problem. It just annoys me a lot.
This is a really solid idea. I'll have to think about this. It could pair well with ux-app's (sibling's) suggestion.
A bit of a counterpoint that got traction a few years ago on this site:

https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-i...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18562082

The person optimized for "interestingness" and feels they have very little to show for it. I'd bet that was also the case for quite a few "interesting" people in the first half of the 20th century.

Maybe I'd have a richer life if I'd spent 2 years as an animal tamer or whatever, but society isn't set up to reward that. Was it ever?
Lol. My favourite is that I was in an Uber and I talked to this guy about his kids and how he was dealing with not having in person school. “Oh, they go to school. They’ve been going for ages”.

“Wait, what? Aren’t the schools closed?”

“Here, maybe, but I live in a town near Sacramento. They go to school. They were not paying attention on the computer”

Then I checked and like private school kids have also been going in person for ages.

Hahaha. We have chosen a very specific demographic (poor to middle class kids in big liberal cities) and decided to just cut them off at the knees. Oh man, the demographic outcome is going to be epic. We’ll get all these fun sociology studies out of it.
but I can buy a pen in 2022 that was released in 2022... being released in the middle of 2022 doesn't make it an invalid pen...

pens aren't calendars; pens don't have a window of applicability. The article does.

not only that, it proclaims to know the best pens released in this year or before, on the 4th day of the year.

it won't be long before we see "best of" lists weeks before that year begins.

I mean just admit that the article is a commercial, already. it's an ad. and that's fine, just don't try to hide it or pretend it's something else.
Muji notebooks are amazing. Get a nice cover and enjoy them, especially if you use fountain pen like me, but other pens work just as fine because paper is awesome.
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I mean it's probably a combination of two: iPhones are generally considered better (and I concur with this sentiment) which leads to initial adoption and then everyone else has to have one too.

I mean he'll I'm an adult supposedly and am as susceptible to trends/fashions/being cool as anyone else.
Yep was also going to mention this. Obviously, Argo still helps with latency and some other things probably, but if they're paying the additional $160 just for tiered caching, they should be able to switch off Argo.
Should I Just Get Omicron over With?
The random part is six digits. I'd say pretty brute-forceable.
Is an operating system really a fair comparison? Most libraries depend on the operating system, and the usage of OS independent libraries would be limited to mostly operating systems. Not a very big market.
In my unprofessional opinion the reason is to keep kids in seats. School is daycare. In addition, school is totally disconnected from reality and so kids have a lot of trouble assigning importance to it and focusing on it. If you expect all those kids to teach themselves, we had very different experiences in school. Maybe college aged and up…maybe.
Wireguard is the only service that I bother to expose.

It's stealth and has mitigations for DOS attacks.
Try https://makoba.com/ for one. They have a decent selection of quality fountain pens. You get fountain-pen friendly stationery there as well.
And a mirror of the medium.com blog with prefers-colorscheme: dark CSS and not JavaScript: https://scribe.rip/minecraft-as-a-k8s-admin-tool-cf16f890de4...
Shared calendars are a thing with Google and sync with any device, desktops included. Shopping lists are shared on Amazon and most grocery store apps.
Because most people agree that iPhones are just simply better than Androids.
This may pale in comparison, but relatedly, some people make arguably unnecessary trips to keep their airline status.
I've been pushed to grow by various nemesis in the past. I don't enjoy it. It is often a painful process because of they are truly a nemesis, it isn't just friendly competition. You have to watch your back and not assume the best in someone. I hate that, it is against who I am and what I stand for.

That out of the way, some of the biggest personal and professional growth I've undergone with my communication skills, playing politics (a necessary evil at times), and even organization and documentation can be traced back to being burned hard and at times by a given nemesis.

I'm better at my job and a better person as a result of trying to be the opposite of them and leading by example. If you're going to have a nemesis, at least try to get some value out of it.
First of all, kudos, I’m a junkie for such optimizations myself. It’s a pleasure that your systems are optimized well, you sleep well and you’re proud :)

Two thoughts:

1) CloudFlare offers incredible service. What would need the team of netadmins/sysadmins can be handled via their UI easily. I use Argo in one project and yes, it is a very efficient tool. CloudFlare is becoming like AWS, knowing its tools is a skill. Maybe one day well see an official CloudFlare Solution Architect certification?.. :))

2) For such traffic heavy websites I don’t think there’s a better combination than Static Websites hosted over CDN, which is cached aggressively and for the dynamic part serverless as a backend. If you configure it properly (cache optimization, rate limiting to not get a huge paycheck if DDoSed, etc…) this setup is like set-up-and-forget-it, without the need to invest loads of resources into it.
I tend to think that if you want an Android, you must use it with a third party ROM (Android distribution) to mitigate this, additionally to some privacy concerns.

However this is a hit and miss affair. You need to buy your phone with this in mind (always do this, even if you don't intend to use it yet) and many are quite unstable (LineageOS and /e/ are quite good).

I'm back on Android for now (it has some apps and freedoms I prefer), but I have been at a point recently at which I have said holy shit, fuck this and bought an iPhone. And it was nice. No constant worrying whether my battery would suddenly drain to 0. Much, much, much fewer random delays, frame drops and stutters. And that's on an iPhone X.
> There is also an extreme fringe on the other side of the aisle that believes white people are demons created by Yakub, the USSR did nothing wrong and China is paradise.

Where? I've seen the right wing extreme fringe existing in real life. Never seen what you just described. If it actually exists, it's hidden well enough to not bother me.
Genuine question, how is there normal life + no COVID there? I’m Australian (but stranded abroad) and thought we’d now run out of countries without it.
I always take aspirin before flights to avoid DVT due to chronic venous insufficiency and ankle swelling.

Do you recommend aspirin to thin blood for flights where I am sitting with legs bent and pressure from the seat underneath the leg pressing into the skin contributing to clotting?
This approach throws out one of the main objectives of school in America, which is to train kids to sit still and hold their shit together for 5-6 contiguous hours a day every day.
A large study of children in Germany found zero deaths of children aged 5-11 without comorbidities.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.30.21267048v...
Japan basically rebuilds everything on a 20-30 year schedule. The temples are not an exception.
Yeah well my 7 year old hates wearing pants but I still manage to get her clothed for the classroom.

The only kids I know that have a problem with masks are kids with parents that have a problem with masks. It's not a kid problem its an adult problem. Kids are adaptable but adults are whiny little assholes that are set in their ways.
“ With Brisk we sync your development folder and massively parallelize your tests and run them on our servers in real-time, pre-commit. So you can run your tests in seconds not hours.”
This is interesting to me; my wife and I had a child recently, and our immediate response was "This is going to be a shit-show for years, let's look up how home-schooling works." If nothing else, we'll be spending a lot of time on the Star-Bellied Sneetches.
Too lazy to internet search, can you apply a restraining order to an organization?
I’m dying at how wrong this take is. One because it implies a world view where new is somehow better (with vague insinuations that “not poor” wouldn’t buy used) and because you’re ignoring how hugely successful Depop and the like along with upscale secondhand shops are to well to do young people.

I have a lot of the same motivations — I have plenty of money, could buy anything I want brand new within reason. Yet almost everything I own is secondhand — my phone, laptop, tv, clothes, car, cookware, records, guitar, furniture, picture frames, headphones, camera. I’m not even particularly environmentally conscientious or frugal compared to my peers. For me it’s bit of sustainability, a lot of being frustrated at how much waste comes from new things, a good bit of “good god why are new literally cut every corner”, and a lot of fuck capitalism and this consumerist bullshit.
I will probably do something like this. I really appreciate your suggestion(s) and feedback.
I guess the only way is to change your thinking... you can't really let them lose their fortunes but being grateful and focusing on your own game.

I get it, we all get fomo from time to time, me included. Its ok to feel this way.

I have a friend who earned a few mil, without doing much work or being super smart. Then he turned into more mil with crypto because he had capital to invest. When he speaks to me it always feels like a gambler that never has taken risk into consideration just got super lucky and its frankly annoying because he doesn't even know how blockchain works. But does it matter?

We always feel like we are destined or privileged for fortunes because we worked so hard or have an intelligence of higher species above normal humans, but world just doesn't operate this way.

Frankly I just learned to live with the fact that there is randomness, there is luck, there is best effort and things you can control.

What helps though is focusing on doing what matters to you because when you are "flowing" and just intrinsically curious about stuff in your real life it pushes you away from materialistic success.

Ambiguity also helps, once you will be near death experience, all these things fade away.

I recommend Denial of Death book.
I've heard this from multiple tinder dates as well. It's somewhat stupid and shallow but I get it.

Everytime I see a green bubble I consciously notice and for whatever reason slightly disapprove. Does this make me shallow and stupid?

Yes, probably, but it is what it s.
See also The Cruel, Ridiculous Reality of Lecture Learning.

Perhaps from all this shaking up education can break out of the least effective modes and get a little more creative.
You don't need critical mass, as long as one side is oppressive towards the other like this the percentages will shift until it becomes a critical mass.

Lets say one group had iphones and the other group had androids. The iphone group starts to talk badly about the android group due to issues like this, and slowly the other groups will switch to using iphones.

If iphones were that much better value then adults would be using them at similar rates, but they aren't.

Also the other effect is similar. The android ecosystem is affordable so poor people can get it. That creates the same problem as poor neighbourhoods, you don't pay to live in an expensive neighborhood due to the neighborhood itself, but to ensure that poor people can't afford tolive near you. Iphone creates the same effect, you can get an android for super cheap so it is worth a lot of money for kids to create a group where they can ensure that the poor kids can't easily take part of.
The one time I wanted to use an RSS feed I found I had no (acceptable) way to ensure I didn't miss data. New items could be truncated off the feed after anywhere between 10 minutes and two hours, and the solution to this was supposedly to use a third party service to sit in the middle and act as a buffer. There was no way to provide a timestamp or anything like that and I presume the reason is its meant to be generate 1 & serve M.

I'm sure the driving factor to RSS losing popularity is it just doesn't fit into the modern model of making fat stacks of cash off of content that other people create which you control the publishing of.
But it certainly doesn't help that it seems very limited as far as a protocol for retrieving a portable log of activity.
> why isn't capitalism solving them?

Because there's no money in it. We're likely going to have a surge of cases over January (judging by what happened in South Africa). If I'm a test maker/provider, I'm not going to spend a week ramping up production, have the extra tests arrive in two weeks, just do be on the downside of the surge. It's the same reason I didn't build up more capacity in October. There's a vaccine and boosters are starting. Why would I take a gamble on a new variant?

One role of government is to step in when markets fail. We saw test shortages a year ago, and a new variant was an eventual likelihood. The government needed to place the test orders so that the risk didn't get shifted to markets uninterested in that risk. This is almost entirely a failure of government leadership.

To its credit, the US government did a really good job ordering vaccines. It's just handled testing very poorly.
1. The first link contains, at minimum, a significant portion of the original email.

2. The individual in question has resigned without releasing the full email.

3. The individual's statement on the matter is nearly as bad as the portion of the email we've seen.

4. The second link shows a pattern of similar behavior.

> I'm not going to judge this guy without the actual evidence.

There appears to be a treasure trove of evidence against this individual, and no attempt has been made by anyone to dispute it. It's rare that we get this much evidence. If you really want the full email, just ask the people who received it--they sound as though they're eager to hand it to anyone who's interested.
I'm.. not even sure how to respond to this.

I'll just address the underlying sentiment that credit card debt is just fine and totally normal.

It's really a question of poverty vs convenience. If I use my credit card because it is convenient and I can pay off my bills, great. No problem. But if I am so poor that I have no choice but to put everything on a credit card, then every purchase is 10%, 20%, or even 30% more expensive - heck, it might be 3000% more expensive because there are many people who are making minimal payments just to get by every month.

So, no, you silly analogy about your grandparents is not what we are talking about here. We are talking about people right now, today, who are living paycheck to paycheck, not sure how they are going to pay for food and for the medical care they need, and making really hard choices. And your mockery is inappropriate.
Like any other story of its type, the truth is gonna be much more mundane and nuanced.
FBI Arrests Man Accused of Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts
By various social interactions I've been basically forced to create Facebook account, as one of the groups use Messenger for catching up. The first friends suggestions were all people who have my mobile number in their addressbook. I haven't leaked to these leeches any other phone number than my own. Now having nothing in common with US of A my various data are owned by and traded by an American company with American intelligence agencies having direct access to them. Americans you suck.