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Sucks that it's so difficult for you to find a family doctor but it does depend on where you live, for sure. Personally, I don't care if they have paper files, as long as, in the case of BC, the data ends up in Health Gateway [1] somehow and is accessible by whatever doctor I'm seeing. Generally I must say though that I'm quite happy with the quality of health care here where I live which is small city-ish.

Seeing specialists can take a long time that's right. I had a torn achilles tendon and it took almost 3 months to see a specialist with couple of days notice and no communication in between. That sucked. For my elderly parents in law it seems to be going much faster to see specialists so it might depend on severity.

[1] https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/managing-your-heal...
This is just outright not true on a global level, maybe in the US, but even then it seems unlikely.

Many of the actions a union will take will do things that do not just 'enrich' its members. Here in Australia, unions will often use their organisational power to lobby government for things like increased safety standards, fair treatment for workers regarding discrimination or after an injury, maternity leave etc. I dont know if you can call keeping your salary during a a time of hardship 'enrichment'.

Further, in Australia we have something called an enterprise agreement (or an 'award' depending), which all workers whom fill the description of the task automatically fall under, this sets the minimum salaries, expected working hours, penalty rates for holiday work, etc. When the government (usually at the behest of an industry or company) wishes to alter the EA, they must negotiate with the union whom will act on behalf of the workers covered by the EA to argue for their desired changes (or things that shouldn't change).
These changes are then applied to everyone who works under that EA, union or not. So, here at least, most workers passively benefit from union activity.

Caveat: Probably not 100% correct with minutia of EA and awards, been a while since I took the class that covered this.
The difference between trivia and meaty knowledge is somewhat contextually dependent, but an understanding of how core probability and statistics concepts are integrated into the framework of machine learning by means of linear algebra and the other analytical tools is pretty damn useful to have substantive conversations about ML design decisions. Helps when everyone in the team speaks that language to keep up the momentum.
The GP explicitly says he is concerned for his child, and that's the only thing under discussion in this thread. In that context, it's worth pointing out that RSV is more dangerous to help people think about how they process this current risk.
"how much importance you place on random consumption vs capital investment as the real engine of society"

Deflationary currency competes with investment, not with consumption.
For example investing in infrastructure, is a safe, low return investment. in single percentage digits. If the deflation of the currency is faster than that rate of return, then nobody will ever invest in infrastructure. People will never install solar panels on their house, etc.
We've fattened the curve.
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The chickenpox vaccination is uncommon in Belgium- it's not on the standard list of childhood vaccinations, and fewer than 2.5% of Belgian children get it.

Chickenpox itself is certainly not uncommon- estimated at 113,000 cases per year, which is essentially the same number as the birth rate. In other words, every Belgian child can be expected to get chickenpox at some point.

Source here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/101/1/16
>investors were not happy.

Who?
i wonder if Acton figured that WhatsApp might lose to competitors and privacy-focused people would migrate to a new app anyways, and he could do more good with almost $1 billion.

And also $1 billion is quite a lot of money.
what you're describing is mostly intrinsic to omicron, not vaccines.
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Check out this comment on a Reddit thread about this announcement, apparently it's not as legit as Panasonic would like us to believe which is a shame if true: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/s0i0cx/comment/hs...
As it turns out PG&E is also one of the most hostile utilities towards rooftop solar.
Perhaps Haskell could have defined tuples inductively. There are HList libraries that essentially offer this functionality though.
One of the many reasons we had hospitals before covid? I'm not the person you asked but I don't see why it matters what their specific health concern was. There are many reasons to go to a hospital both emergency and not.
Your quote is from the end of a sentence that began with someone explaining that they were triple-vaxed. Seems like the perfect study to help them make decisions.

The unvaccinated are unvaccinated. They know what they're getting into (even if they deny it), and they don't believe studies anyway. Once they catch it a couple of times, they'll be as good as vaxed anyway.

edit: if there's anything that should be done about the unvaccinated, it's to make sure that vaccines and tests are convenient and free. There are still plenty of people who aren't vaccinated because it's too much of a hassle.
My bookmarks are roughly broken into two groups - a small set that I go to specifically on a regular basis, and a much larger set that's organized loosely into a long list of folders. I rarely go into my bookmark folders to click on one of these links specifically.

The value of that larger set of bookmarks is like a personalized search history. When I search for a topic, I really like knowing whether I've already visited a relevant site. It saves sifting through raw search results for topics that come up a few times a year, or when I work on specific kinds of projects.
>If enough people had got their shots worldwide that would have worked.

One of the theories on the origin of omicron seems to be that it evolved in animals for a while before jumping back to humans (the weirdness being that it's not evolved from Delta, and it has a number of mutations all at once). [1]

And even if it's not the origin of this variant, it could easily be the origin of a future variant (that's why they're considering it).

And it's quite unlikely we could vaccinate every animal on the planet, so this idea that if we had just gotten all our shots this variant would have never happened is pretty ridiculous.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-did-omicron-covid-varian...
The blog post touts the idea. If they didn't tout the idea, we wouldn't be here commenting.
What about new marketplaces introducing this year?
I wouldn’t be so sure. He also benefitted greatly from selling it to Facebook in the first place, and stayed on for a few years.
>I am incredibly frustrated that pfizer and the fda have been so slow to roll the vaccine out to under-5s

Why? Is there any data to suggest that children are at risk of severe illness or complications? Isn't it a fact that children do not appreciably spread covid?
Let's do the same with every other risky behaviour then. Smokers, drug addicts, overweight people, people doing lots of outdoor sport, people who don't wear the appropriate personal protection at work,...
should let users run them

like Tor exit nodes, or obfs4 bridges

turn it into a war of attrition!
Even billionaires and hedge funds participate in this bubble.
We have seen in the past that people start to invest in risky assets before a depression. I think a depression is coming.
> Fogg also sounded a note of caution. Captology research would require a strong ethical component, because persuasive techniques could easily be employed by those without the best interests of their users at heart. He was concerned, for example, by the possibility of casinos using captology to make their slot machines more seductive, or corporations deploying captology to track and manipulate employee behaviour.

And the rest, as they say, is history.
It seems like you misunderstand what people are calling for. It doesn't make sense for a triple-vaxxed, asymptomatic, positive test to be quarantined for ten days. We have rapid tests that are very good at determining whether people are actually infectious. We can use those to return asymptomatic people to work faster with minimal risk of spread.
Soviet Union was big on Women's rights and they encouraged women to work, that's true. But all the other factors were there as well - Eastern Europe had the same technological shift, went through wars full time, and kindergartens also became a lot more popular after the war.
It's not necessarily about physical disabilities. Think about 1 parent with 2 young children and 3 bags of groceries. And that roughly fits a LOT of folks. Maybe if both your house and the grocery store (or other destination) are within 1-2km of a mass-transit stop you can use that - otherwise it's pretty much personal car/bus. And if that's the case for one particular trip, you still need to have this option for the others.
Mixing investment and friendship is NEVER a good idea, and is definitely not the situation in my case, nor that of the other angel investors similarly burned in these situations. I live by Benjamin Franklin's words on never a borrower or lender be to friends.
Where am I saying to stop providing medical care? No one should go untreated, not even the dumbest, shit-spewing-est anti-vaxxer. Human life is precious.

But the idea that vaccination status is remotely comparable to weight, smoking, drug addiction – that's laughable.

It's a single goddamn shot (sorry – two shots for mRNA). You can get them fucking everywhere, for free, with a walk-in appointment.

We know they're safe. We know they keep people out of the hospital. We know that putting people in hospitals right now is a huge drain on a strained resource.

Again: people who are sick deserve care. Always. Regardless of their moronic views.

But the idea that an unvaccinated person is somehow free of the responsibility of their actions, when they could so easily fix them? I find that hard to swallow.
Coffee the plant may be good, caffeine the molecule is not. There are other things in coffee that may be helpful, but caffeine is a poison and only that, I think there is no debating that (but I'm interested if anybody has hints to the contrary).
> The only advantage to freelancing that I can see is the flexibility to work less than 40 hour weeks, or take more time off than vacation time you're allotted.

I've been doing contract work exclusively for the past 9 years now and this is exactly why I continue with contract arrangements. If I could find a "permanent" position with flexibility like this I would likely consider transitioning away from contract work.
yeah, because the number of people getting into car accidents and surviving is much, much greater with those that wear seatbelts where if you don't wear one it's a high probability it's not survivable.
Intentionally breaking functionalities of an open source software should be considered hacking and should be prosecuted as such.
Public policy and science are not the same thing. Public policy has a goal, science doesn't. If your goal were simply "stop human transmission of the virus", well science could help you come to a policy of exterminating all human life - it's scientifically provable that it's the best way to meet that goal.

"Trust the science" is a nonsense term. We're being asked to "Trust the policymakers". Why should we? Ok, so they're informed by science. But if the scientific consensus is obviously in rapid flux and can't be used to predict anything, then why should we trust the policies or their makers?
Ane yet that is what forums like these are mostly about.
Sharing stories and receive validation.

No reason to undermine a response that clearly was comparing one anecdote with another.
Considering how children have been amazingly spared the effects of sars-cov-2 it is hard to see that they seem to have held the lions share of the mandates to slow the inevitable spread. And still do as the vaccined did not provide the high immuinty they initially promised.

The vaccines do an amazing job reducing hospitalizations among the vulnerable, it is not clear they have much benefit for the toddlers, and may even be harmful. Lets move on.
Why link Twitter when it only contains the blog post? https://signal.org/blog/new-year-new-ceo/
Nope, that's just experience from daily life. I'm a doc in a public hospital in Switzerland, and also worked in the US.

Europe is still a bit behind in terms of admin, but getting there. And yes, american influence is felt all over Europe, with varying degrees of implementation among countries, as you noted.

I can understand that outsiders don't believe what we have to say when political propanganda is so strong. But for us insiders, it's really crystal clear what is happening. It used to be that problems arising in clinical management was solved by asking frontline workers what they needed. Healthcare workers had a lot of control over their working environment. Nowadays, admins are taking all decisions from above. European hospitals are now in competition with the private sector due to changes in the billing and insurance system coming from the US. As a result, european hospitals are now managed much more like your usual run-of-the-mill company than they used to. This is a terrible result for anyone but upper management.
I appreciate you writing this.

> This tendency to normalice demands of who gets medical care and who doesnt stops now. There are not many things I will violently defend, but if society will ever hint that it is going to elect who gets medical support and who doesnt based on their personal life choices I will protest. Violenty if I have to.

This is a basic human right I am willing to die for.

Perfectly expresses how I feel as well. Thank you.
This must be why after 45 years make still has no "list targets" option.
To be fair, the long term of effects of the vaccines are still very unclear. For adults and children. There are concerning reports regarding serious complications that tend to not get talked about very much in the media

I chose to vaccinate myself. I don’t have kids, but I’m not sure it would be a given that I would vaccinate them yet. I think I would want to have a better understanding of the risks. Sorry you’re in that position, I’m sure it’s stressful.

After listening to Dr. Robert Malone, I’m beginning to wonder if there aren’t a non-trivial number of physicians against vaccinating kids, who are getting censored. He is adamantly against it. Problem is we can’t even have conversations about it in social media without folks getting censored.
That's why you can get all the tokens for free I guess?
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Are home/self tests an option?

I mean if it's just about knowing it yourself so that you can get yourself PCR tested when you known you likely have it (and as such might soon need medical support).

That seems like a valid option for me, though only if available and hospitalized reasonable priced.

For be the difference between self-tests rapid tests and test station rapid tests seem to mainly be:

- if you have self-test

- if you can afford it (test station rapid tests are up to some limit payed by health care, in my case)

- if you need the digital certificate that you did a tests (some places require vaccination + test)

- self-test produce more wast through additional packaging, non-reusable plastic tubes etc.
Also, color me incredulous that we're getting reliable long term data... 2 years after a disease appeared in humans.

We'll get long term data, after a long term has passed.

And yes, there are always going to be >0 people with permanent organ damage. Because disease progression in a human host is a complex system. But what actually matters is the incidence rate at scale.

Or, to put it another way, everyone has a >0 chance of winning the lottery, but does that mean they should invest in lottery tickets?
It's not policy change that is the problem, the problem is that nobody can figure out what the current policy is because the CDC is bad at making announcements.

Furthermore, there is now widespread suspicion that the CDC's current recommendations are not based on science anymore: for example, the 5-day vs 10-day isolation period.

What's especially bad is the advice not to use tests after 5 days, followed a few days later by advice that tests are optional after 5 days -- everyone knows that advice would be different if there were not test shortages. That's not science, that's pragmatism, and that's fine and they ought to just say so, but the CDC continues to make the transparently false claim that their advice is based purely on science.

That really hurts the CDC's credibility -- now, when they make an announcement, we all have to ask ourselves whether it's truly based on science. Smart people of all political stripes now realize this. Even the liberal cable TV talking heads are attacking the CDC over this.
Why the hyperbole?
Everytime I think carriers cannot get even more scummier, they manage to do it.
I miss nbtsr (no blink terminate and stay resident). Wish there was something for modern OS's.
Did you quit caffeine too? Tea, chocolate, soda etc

If so, awesome! If not, I tried a similar thing but only really noticed the difference once I quit all types.
> So if that is the case, there is no longer a real need to vilify the unvaxxed.

This is such a bad take. Unvaxxed cause the majority of hospitalizations, deaths and complications. This is just objectively wrong that it doesn't matter that much.
Now go read up on what the word "sexuality" means, and how it relates to "sex".
One school could have tried to compete on price by using the same formula but then applied a discount to all students.

What's wacky is that we have allegations of "price fixing" based on claims that schools are unfairly charging far less than the fair market value of their product. These schools could easily double their prices and still make a profit... but they aren't trying to make a profit.
> Most people are more comfortable with imperative languages

Unscientific poll with possibly a biased sample: more people find functional easier to work with. But telling, the difference is more pronounced among bootcampers and informally educated programmers than formally educated programmers https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1459348334007787526.

Not to mention that Elixir is basically "mostly functional but you don't have to faff around with monads or anything to do imperative".
> Do we know this about omicron?

Here's the early numbers out of major cities:

https://i.imgur.com/g8tyRdQ.png

It's probably somewhere between 75% as serious and as serious as Delta, but we can't be sure yet.

The handwaving about 0.5% - 1% is ultimately not something I can address because it is opinion. A million Americans are dead from this and more deaths are coming. Reminds me of the Stalin quote.
>Tangentially, I recently moved to Canada and was surprised by the lack of quality healthcare..

This is very complex and absolutely hilarious when American democrats think of Canada as a better solution.

>Literally could not believe some walk ins have paper files and use fax, plus finding a GP apparently is a months long quest.

We have very good laws in place protecting health information. $10,000 tort damages for leaking health infos and then much larger fines for more problematic issues.

Some hospitals try to do the right thing and will have high security maturity. The other hospitals basically do the opposite. They forcefully will not secure their systems and save the money and put it in a fund to pay out the inevitable breach.

>Visiting a specialist took ages, and I wouldn’t say it was the best / most modern infrastructure there either.

Canada's healthcare system is tiered. You have the public single payer which is trash at best. Virtually all employers pay for health benefits which bring you to the 2nd tier. This gets you into a ward and such. There's a 3rd tier where you get good service, private rooms, skip lines. If you work in public sector or a big union you most likely are on this 3rd tier. The final tier is for the people whose names are on the wards. The "Such and such family ward" because they donated significant money to the hospital. These people get immediate access to everything you might expect. Nicest rooms. everything.

>(And I went in downtown Toronto, must be so much worse for more remote places I guess).

85% of Canadians live in urban areas near to the US border. If you choose to live somewhere else, you know you're living far from civilization and already accept the lack of service.

>In the end we kind of shunned the public system and decided to go private healthcare instead. But (luckily) have not really had to take advantage of it)

dont get me wrong. I dont mind our tiered system. ohip covers the basics which everyone should get coverage for. Break your arm? taxpayers/rich pay to fix it. 2nd tier is plenty for most people. 3rd tier is nice but most people dont realize it exists. Ive had a lady talking to me about how she has to wait many months to get in to a specialist, the same specialist that I waited a whole 3 days for. Also yes, the billionaire folks are going to get the best treatment, it's no surprise.
Just for context, that’s after vesting a few billions already.
I encourage everyone eligible to protect themselves by getting vaccinated but the Delta and Omicron variants are so contagious that there will be no significant herd immunity effect.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
I do not understand your question in the first sentence, sorry. And I agree with your second sentence.
"I am not rich enough to buy cheap things."
And you don't find that ridiculous? If a virus is spreading quickly among vaccinated people you might begin questioning said vaccine and you definitely wouldn't mandate it.
You should get out now -- you got some experience building a project and got paid some for it. From personal experience, it's likely your "co-founders" will continue similarly as before, causing you additional stress. Until the exact details of the 1/3 agreement are in writing there are innumerable ways you could be screwed, especially since your co-founders have shown they are untrustworthy.

I understand your point about 1/3 being better than nothing. However, 2/3 of the stock being tied up by do-nothing founders will prevent future funding. It would be better for you to use your experience here to make an even better product with new founders.
Ah, yes. Obesity, that problem that can be solved with a free, walk-in appointment at any drugstore in the country.

These two things are a perfect, 1:1 analogy.
I can’t help but think there’s been a ton of filters used in the past to figure out if someone is deeply geeky, and we’ll continue to invent more in the future.

It’s really looking like another rat race. Especially since there’s no central authority, every hiring manager has the potential to invent their own filter, and make it arbitrarily harder or easier based on supply and demand (and then the filter drifts away from the intended purposes).
I had a similar thought to this (and my kid is the same age as yours) but apparently immune response isn't based on weight - see e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/well/live/child-vaccine-d... . It's not like giving them Tylenol.

That being said, after hearing about 10- and 11-year-olds pretending to be 12 so that they could get vaccinated I did have a moment where I wondered if she could pass for 5.
Yeah, if you happen to live near hydroelectric capable rivers then it's one of the best forms of green energy possible. In fact it is so good that most places where it makes sense have already been installed.
> No, vaccination dos not reduce spread of omicron. Not even a little.

You can't really make that conclusion based on a simple case count chart, because you don't know what those numbers would look like if the vaccination rate was lower.