2019-nCoV

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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
> NZ and AUS are very similar to GB culturally and politically. Maybe a century ago. Governments of neither country ever entertained the idea of herd-immunity. Elimination was always the goal. Both were early to restrict international ar
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Japan invalidates this narrative.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Plenty of islands are inundated: the UK, Singapore, Ireland, Indonesia, Philippines.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Is anti-fragile AI possible?
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Meditation – The Art of Doing Nothing(twitter.com)
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Exactly. The parent post claimed: > Once you are able to comfortably read type signatures, it is trivial to see what a function is supposed to do Typing gives minimal insight into what a function actually "does". The solution i
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
It is not at all trivial to see what a function is supposed to do from its type sig. There are an infinite number of valid type safe implementations for: transform(a: number): number
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Great to see Netflix hasn't shun meritocratic values.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Especially pertinent to understanding current events. As is the entire Incerto.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
It would make sense that imbeciles have a harder time bullshitting. You can't continually bullshit someone that is more knowledgable on a topic. Though it would seem bullshit ability is more closely tied to that knowledge gap between p
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Beaches are not essential. Your shared laundry, elevators, stairs and door handles, are. This is the reasoning behind leaving grocery stores open (people have to eat) while the remainder of the economy stays closed. So yes, logic does apply
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Most every other developed nation has greater social mobility than the US [1]. Why can't the US reach Scandinavian levels of social mobility? [1] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ranked-the-s...
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
42% of children born to parents in the bottom fifth of the income distribution ("quintile") remain in the bottom, while 39% born to parents in the top fifth remain at the top.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
American institutions should be controlling for this inherit classism, instead, the most prestigious continue to employ race-based selection criteria. Middle-class America seems to have a particular disdain for the less well off. This divid
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
It mostly comes down introversion levels. While natural extroverts have always had the upper hand, contemporary technology is reversing this trend: Dating: moving from bars to apps Social: moving from third places to apps Working: moving fr
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
That’s to be expected. These processes are insurance. You plan and buy insurance to cover the expected unexpected. Should we congratulate the uninsured who weather the storm?
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US rearms to nullify China's missile supremacy(reuters.com)
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
So they're hiring 910% more Asians than census data would dictate they should? 27% less Native Americans than expected? 40% less Whites. 56% less Blacks. 59% less Latinx.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
> London isn’t more expensive than SF. Zurich is. > And I have colleagues who make £450k+ Just as there are American devs pocketing 7 figures annually. Again, the number of European devs making >$100k is a fraction of a percent. Yo
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
The optimal application frequency and SPF of Sunscreen is going to differ drastically from person to person, place to place, all within a given year. A fresh-faced Irish tourist will be burnt to a crisp after a 20 min stroll on the beach in
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
The number of European devs making >$100k is a fraction of a percent. Your numbers tell the story — the pinnacle of the entire European continent is still only paying 25% comparable US market rate, and 60% comparable AU/CA rate. In
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Zurich and London top out at $100k, any more and we're talking managerial responsibilities. Compared to SF or SEA they are only paying ~25% market rate. The safety net argument has no legs. Australia and Canada both have social benefit
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
You'd be in the top 5% of software engineers in Europe if you pull >$55k after tax ANNUALLY. Let alone as a parting gift.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Let this be another lesson in sheltering your children too much. The real world is full of psychopaths and sycophants who can smell that naivety a mile away. The only way to fully internalise this is by being burnt. Again and again. Slowly
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Free speech is something unconditional by definition. Congratulating YouTube for thwarting this is a performative contradiction.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
> I've never seen a bad or immoral or harmful idea die out when more people learn about it and scrutinize it. Communism.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
The food truck would be the closest NA incarnation of that.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Throw in a cold Lagerbier (€2) to wash it down with and the contrast is even more sobering.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
No difference to Western food in big Asian cities. Either passable yet overpriced, or completely unpalatable yet still overpriced.
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by 2019-nCoV 6y ago
Don't let the Bayesian rhetoric deceive you — this analysis succumbs to the same pitfalls of mistakenly implying causality.

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