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There have been numerous studies showing that mechanically N95 and equivalent masks can greatly reduce the emission of coronavirus and influenza, and can also greatly reduce the intake of coronavirus-sized particles.

That's why these types of articles always focus on mask mandate effectiveness instead of mask effectiveness. How many schools with mask mandates also have their lunch indoors with poor ventilation? Can you wear a mask while eating? How many have their noses sticking out all day? How many are wearing cloth masks?

It's like having a kid constantly getting pinkeye from not wiping their ass properly, and then saying toilet paper is pointless, instead of teaching the kid how to wipe and wash properly.
He's got an audience. Expressing something becomes pushing it when you're telling to a large audience that trusts you
It is far from Over the top hyperbole.

You have people with very classically liberal positions, libertarian positions, 1990's democrat positions, etc being called "alt-right", including some of the recent guests of JRE
Easy to see at a high level--phones with web, multimedia support, and app support. Near impossible to guess what exactly what would look like and when.
Are you asking if a seller would leave, or could leave? To the former the answer is obviously “yes they would”, to the latter idk.

But regardless, even if they are allowed to leave the program, that doesn’t make it any less illegal.
I agree and it's pretty incredible, but I think to enable popularization of it as personal transport you'd need to abstract the pilot away entirely. Automate the whole journey, from a system that's aware of all other journeys. That still can't account for all dangers, but at least people wouldn't be flying into each other at 100mph
OH MY!

I intended to say Gauss-Seidel and said Gauss-Jordan!

What a mess I have created. Sorry to all for the confusion.

Of course, Gauss' reduction method is key to understanding systems/linear maps. Gauss/Seidel is totally different, though.

My apologies.
Food isn't an exception— it's just the example I used because I'm most familiar with it. Restaurant purveyors are particularly strict because a restaurant with a 1% or 2% profit margin is considered pretty successful, and that's why 60% of restaurants fail in the first year, and 80% fail by the fifth. But my non-restaurant experience suggests any retailer not required to own their inventory is the exception.

I personally have been a chef and a manager in retail food businesses from movie theaters to coffee shops. I have a friend who owns an upscale boutique that sells many types of products, another that sells products through her salon, several more that own vintage stores (admittedly entirely different supply chain,) a friend who discussed his well-researched, in-depth business plans to open a gun accessories retail shop, another who sells wood crafts and other products direct to customers, a couple full-time artists who sell their art either through galleries or from the walls of businesses, and several food purveyors that only sell to businesses for resale.

In that entire pool, only the artists selling their art through galleries and coffee shop walls, and one of the vintage shops that does consignment sales, differ from the norm of retailers owning their inventory. Some wholesalers or manufacturers will afford well-behaved businesses lines of credit— but that's not the same thing as not owning your inventory. You can't just return it if you don't sell it. Once you sign that delivery sheet, it's pretty much yours.

I've heard of retailers selling new products on manufacturer consignment. I wouldn't be surprised if some specific industries operate like that as a norm. Maybe phone vendors? Maybe software/computer game stores, possibly, because the content is license-based and the material cost is relatively small compared to the price? (Amusingly, as a long-time software developer and someone with a lot of experience in the retail end of business, I have no idea how retail software sales work.) But there's no way Nordstrom is going to order a skid of this spring's collection from major brands and designers and be like "sorry, we decided to give the floor space to other items, so either mark these down to bargain rack prices or we're not paying for them." If that were the way it worked, nobody would sell them anything.

I get the sense that the original commenter just extrapolated based their understanding of business practices that weren't as common as they thought.
... and then they'll dig it up and reprocess it when they really need the energy contained in it.
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Because the Covid mortality risk for children is already with masks, compared to without masks for the flu.

Also, there are considerations other than specifically a child's death that are relevant here, like who that child can spread it to and what negative longterm effects surviving COVID-19 carry, neither of which are as pronounced or unknown as with the flu.

But you knew that already, didn't you?
What exactly is more economical on owning a car and driving to the grocery store than just ordering it?
"The Block Protocol is a global standard for building interactive blocks connected to structured data."

is this a W3C standard ? why are they claiming its a global "standard"
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We do have several vaccines for Omicron. They are the existing COVID vaccines. They aren't as effective as they were against prior variants, but they're still more effective than e.g. flu vaccines, which save many lives each year.

Note that I don't agree with the eugenics comments, but this misinformation about the effectiveness of COVID vaccines is getting out of hand.
It could be. To me it doesn't feel like there is a difference in the cadence of my breathing, after I put the mask on. I simply have less oxygen coming in. I probably should be breathing more deeply, all the time! Then perhaps the mask wouldn't make a noticeable difference. But after a lifetime of dealing with anxiety, I've learned to trust my body. My mind can lie to me when im anxious, but my body generally doesn't.
Isn't it a huge problem that a jetpack is not fail-safe?

With an airplane/paramotor you can still glide safely down if your engine dies.

What would happen if the jetpack engine fails mid air?
I noticed it last week. I finally have the time today to upgrade my macbook pro 2015 to Monterey. Hoping things go smooth.
The other side is my own pet peeve: thinking that sci-fi authors were visionaries for putting something out there before anyone else makes it real. One reason we don't have flying cars could be battery tech, taking your example. There's a ton of cool shit happening in aviation as batteries improve.
Difficult to say without having background for such situations. As a latin american myself I think it's not far fetched to say that in LA there is an ominous sensation that there is always someone taking advantage of you: your boss, your employer, your government, your politicians, the police, etc., so taking advantage yourself, although immoral, is "par for the course". Theory of broken windows and a way to carry on.
At least you can disable the subscription during the summer and save some money =)
Many workflows are proxyable using fine grained IP-level or TCP-level security. (I believe that Tailscale does more or less this.). This can’t support RBAC or per-user dynamic authentication particularly well, but it can at least avoid trusting an entire network.
"But when it gets big enough, it might be worth the government spinning up their own hardware and competing."

Not really, this is not something we want governments doing.

In Canada, we spent almost $1B on a simple gun registry - the equivalent of a few spreadsheets with a few million records with security overlay, and almost $1B on a Federal Payroll system that doesn't work.

IT, particularly products, is one of those areas where budgets can go over by infinity, it's systematic white collar corruption.

If AWS becomes less than ideal, there's maybe another service provider that can do it.

Even this initiative, while laudable, may not be perfectly operationally ideal.

Just like AWS actually has carved out a special government offering of their services, I believe a host of other providers should as well ...

A PaaS/SaaS customized for a given domain, like a country, that built out basic identity services and privacy features given the local regulatory environment, would be ideal.

Then the gov. can legislate, communicate, provide oversight while risking the fewest dollars doing the trickiest things.

It's not entirely implausible that things can be managed effectively, Sweden has done some amazing things in particular with process and communication. But they are small and special and take 'design' seriously literally as a culture.
I knew what xkcd it was just by looking at the link. Lol
I was thinking in terms of ancient Greece like the GP mentioned. That said, Romans invented and pioneered concrete, but they didn't really understand how or why it worked, it was just centuries of excellent trial and error. They also had problems replicating it out of base materials other than volcanic ash.

Now that said I have my doubts that there are that many people on earth who could build better concrete for a given application than the Romans with no store to go buy pure materials from, I'm certainly not one of them.

That's also why I didn't talk about modern steel -- In my head I vaguely understand that there's a chain from copper to wire to a rotor/stator to electrolysis to oxygen gas to the Bessemer process, but I'd be amazed if there's anyone on earth who could bootstrap it in one lifetime, even with an ancient king's resources.
> If only specific builds of software that are on a vendor-sanctioned allowlist

Yes, but for government software this is a bog-standard approach. Not even "the source code is publicly viewable to everyone" is sufficient scrutiny to pass government security muster; specific code is what gets cleared, and modifications to that code must also be cleared.
Maybe you should have read up thread to see what I was responding to then? This is a thread about the disclaimer.
Back in the dot-com era we had "portal servers" which were basically a way to build a dashboard. This seems like a related idea? Put blocks in multiple columns and you have a dashboard.

Maybe it will do better this time? But I feel like mobile phones went in the opposite direction with UI's designed for smaller screens, showing only one app at a time.

We do have lots of documents and notebooks though. Maybe Observable's notebooks would benefit from something like this?

Observable's notebooks let you define variables containing data and use them in other places, with live updates. It seems like you'd want something like that with blocks.
I believe there are several public articles what happened. Some omega features were folded back into borg, omega development pivoted to k8s development. Most of google still runs on borg/internal but more and more people are moving projects to GCP-hosted cloud. That only really applies for things that can run Outside, and for which k8s is "good enough". Borg will continue to exist, roughly in its currently for, for at least 20 more years if Google doesn't get shut down by DOJ. It would simply not be cost effective to migrate large parts of GOogle's infra off Google borg/internal.

In my experience, absolutely nothing in the world matches the experience inside of google; enormous number of enormous clusters and gobs of networking within and between them, plus a heavy set of existing workloads constantly testing it, all while people constantly deploy new versions of borg, filesystems, database and applications from a single codebase. Just as importantly, there was a massive culture of cluster nerds (SRE) that ran the clusters very efficiently, but also with care and attention to a wide range of users, including ones that weren't on Big Teams. I never, ever would have been able to build and run exacycle, an idle cycle harvester that provided at least 4 significant contributions to science.
> Amazon keeps boiling the frog with pricing

Do they?

AWS's pricing may be eye watering in a few cases - looking at you egress - but one thing they definitely get right from my PoV is rarely if ever hiking prices
Wow, that thread. Sexual identities have become very complicated.
To answer your question-- people in the past were expecting what has happened with small drones. Namely, that there'd be a metric fuckton of them, and that regulators would have to scramble to keep order before angry townsfolk began firing their rifles up at in the sky at them.
It's very phishable. Attackers will send text messages to your users saying "Hi, this is Steve with the FooCorp Security Team; we're sorry for the inconvenience, but we're verifying everyone's authentication. Can you please reply with the code on your phone?"

It's even worse with texted codes because it's inherently credible in the moment because the message knows something you feel it shouldn't --- that you just got a 2FA code. You have to deeply understand how authentication systems work to catch why the message is suspicious.

You can't fix the problem with user education, because interacting with your application is almost always less than 1% of the mental energy your users spend doing their job, and they're simply not going to pay attention.
Right, and that’s probably never going to happen because of noise issues alone.
Sounds like you are on a path to awakening so I don't want to discourage you, but it might be worth sharing additional data and context to parts of your comment.

>With vaccine intake high in most developed countries a covid infection is like a cold or a bad flu for some.

That may be more driven by the mildness of Omicron than it is by the protective effect of the vaccine. For example, the latest data show that vaccinated (but not boosted) are getting sick and dying at higher rates than unvaccinated. One source (14 per 100k vs 10 per 100k): https://publichealthscotland.scot/media/11318/22-01-26-covid...

>Another thing to note, the CDC has mentioned that cloth masks are not effective against omnicron

This is something that is in all likelihood not variant-specific. In other words, cloth masks were always ineffective, however with the increased transmissibility of Omicron, this fact of ineffectiveness has become readily apparent.
The mysterious (unpredicted/as yet unexplained) aspect is the precise physics of its emission properties. It's a refinement of known physics sure, but that doesn't make it less interesting. Not unlike how finally completing a full physics accounting for how bicycles remain upright would be fascinating even if positively pedestrian.
Yeah these are very dumb arguments against TOTP.
That 30% of the population translates to about 45% of federal elected representatives. Not quite as easy as "ignoring them," sadly.
Only that an invention isn't something you can just put on your calendar.
Because he has real wealth (Amazon stock) that isn't affected by inflation (stocks rise as money loses value).
More children dealing with Covidism (it's a cult at this point) enforced in schools are going to off themselves from the psychological abuse of being denied a social life than will be saved by enforcing cloth mask policy.
Nope, it's a thread about how dishonest these mask makers are, considering you're now in my thread.
Yeah, this matches my experience as well. The air simply feels less.. airy. Like I can't get a deep enough breath. I'd love to understand the science behind it.
Last living signer of Canadian constitutional charter sues gvt over Covid bans
Study Argentine history. They have tried everything imaginable, and managed to control inflation for a while. Look at the 1-1 peg between the peso and the dollar that lasted 9 years. It's much more complicated than you think.
If all you did with a car was get groceries, it would probably be more economical to just order delivery. Most people use their car for a lot more than that, though.
> Even if you've already had covid, the vaccine will give you more protection.

And more risk. Which is greater?
The VC-backed startups tend to get help from their investors by getting listed in portfolio sites, funding news etc.

There's also lists that aggregate top startups:
- https://topstartups.io/
- https://www.breakoutlist.com/
These are supposed to easier to breath in. Surgical masks still fog my glasses. Whether the product delivers on those claims, I have no idea.
> Marines demonstrate boarding with jet pack”, and every time it’s just the creator cosplaying as whatever service he’s trying to sell it to this time.

Didn't an actual Royal Marine do this recently, in a training exercise? https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a38748085...

This seems like exactly what we'd expect for a technology this new and dangerous, and is certainly a step farther than "the creator is the only one flying it".

EDIT: Per other comments on this thread, apparently the Royal Marine in question _is_ the creator
The general attitude among practitioners now is that "post-it notes with passwords on them" is superior to the more common practice of "shitty passwords shared across multiple services".
Why is it important for this particular site to use https or tls?
I could easily see a Sandy Bridge based laptop still being usable after 50 years, as it being able to run more modern software for the time. But with that being said C2D based hardware has no plans on slowing down anytime soon and still can be used on a daily basis, depending on what hardware graphics it has.
It's safetyism. It's to prevent snarky parents from speaking out and holding the school liable if one kid gets a head cold from Omicron.
I have, and I have followed the actual reporting on it; The wikipedia article shows a significant amount of bias. The Dossier was compiled by a British source from hearsay from a Russian Citizen who had contacts in Russian Intelligence. Some directly, but his major source only had the information as hearsay. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/18/politics/steele-dossier-recko...
> I used to smoke but I always just stayed around a bin, or made sure I had one near me when I was done. It's really not hard. I'd like to see double that fine.

The problem with that is that bins are usually where people spend a lot of time. For example bus stops or benches in a park. If you have asthma it sucks to wait for a bus when someone smokes near it.
Ultralights and hang gliders are nowhere near as dead as this article seems determined to assert, using anecdotes without data. (How do I know? Also anecdotes, unfortunately, as their deregulated nature makes data hard to come by.) But this article paints the bleakest picture of personal flight possible, and I'm not convinced they have the facts straight — except about jet packs, which are about as practical as a human cannonball.
I think this is the effect of various companies trying to capture as much of our attention as possible because it makes sense for their bottom line. We are all victims of recency bias, so it makes sense for companies to prioritize more recent content. If it wasn't the case, the various social media apps wouldn't be as addictive as they are.

I am not aware of a social media app feed that puts quality above recency (not counting the plugins that enable that, like Twemex [1]). Instead they keep us in what David Perell calls "Never-Ending Now" [2]. We endlessly consume temporary, short-lived content and we are mostly blind to the past.

Google search is not social media, but I wouldn't be surprised if Google ranked more recent content higher, given how they have changed the Youtube algorithm.

1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/twemex-sidebar-for...

2: https://perell.com/essay/never-ending-now/
I had to argue with my brother about Joe Rogan for about a year until he got vaccinated (before the pandemic it was arguing with him about not sending randos on the internet money for perpetual motion devices), so I'm used to it. A big part of spreading disinfo is badgering people until they give up, so I've already resigned myself to doing this forever.
Crypto Secrecy Makes DeFi a Wonderland to Felon Tied to Quadriga
We have shitty jet packs and we do not care.
If you have the CSR. If you move CA or use the form of recruitment common in browsers the CSR often isn't to hand.

Look I agree fundamentally, a Cert isn't a CSR. But it has the essential qualities, the critical components of the TBS which you needed to do the S part of the TB. TB | !TB is sometimes the question, in as much as policy is in the CSR, why they asked to be signed, what additional data flows including nonces and proofs of possession, what they asked for, distinct from what was signed over. But to validate the private keys use under a new CA? You don't need it. Should you? Well that's a policy question. If you were the original CA or RA you have reasonable confidence in why you need to do this and all the proofs you need regarding validity. Begs the question why you don't have the CSR, sure.

If you aren't in the original certifying roles then gaining confidence in the cert you're resigning is pretty important and the costs here might be less than rekeying assuming a CSR isn't to hand.
Somewhat unrelated, but hopefully this also means TreasuryDirect will get rid of its archaic graphical keyboard that disables the usage of password managers.

(Graphical keyboards are an old technique to try to defeat key loggers. A frequent side effect of a site using a graphical keyboard is that the developer has to make the password input field un-editable directly, which prevents password managers from working, unless you use a user script to make the field editable again.)
But it doesn't work (well enough) to matter.
> With smaller aircraft, the trends are similar. Hang-gliding has all but disappeared. Ultralight aircraft makers are barely staying afloat. (One manufacturer, Air Création, sold only one vehicle in the US last year.) With every successive year, we have more passengers and fewer pilots.

Yeah, no surprise given that

- planes are expensive to buy - even small ones are in the upper five figures range

- planes are expensive to operate: ~150-200$ in fuel per hour IIRC, plus insurance, maintenance costs, hangar and airport/landing strip fees

- getting a license is expensive: even a basic private pilot license will set you back ~7500-10000€, and on top of that come type ratings and other extras (instrument flight, radio, ...)

- maintaining that license is expensive: you need to keep up flight hours either in real flight or in (only a bit less expensive) simulators, and there are severe restrictions on passengers if you're not on a commercial license
Luckily Covidism isn't real, so it's not very harmful to children.
Generally it involves writing new code, which can itself be portable and can be reused.

I would also note that even POSIX isn't portable in some contexts (such as trying to write code which can run on windows too).
Jetpacks are a little bit like the Elon Musk tunnel digging startup: it is something you dream about when stuck in traffic during your commute.