BillyTheKing

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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
yes, humans are traditionally bad at estimating opportunity costs of actions (or lack of actions)
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
These are incredibly general statements. Obviously we'd all love it if our infection numbers were lower, so what? If achieving low infection rates would be simple we'd all be doing it, it's just that it's not. I feel the
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
it certainly does, younger people have stronger immune systems, and therefore generally react better to vaccines than older people. The stronger the immune system reacts to a vaccine the better, since that usually ensures that there will be
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
Spotify complained that apples uses its market power as the app-gatekeeper to promote its own services over Spotify's. Afaik, Spotify needs to pay that 30% royalty fee to apple whenever someone signs up to Spotify via the app-store, wh
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
yes, you're absolutely spot on - I'm part of a remote team and we made it mission to try and just use shell-commands to communicating business-centric admin stuff, such as: add this row in the table, modify this stored parameter,
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
It's probably not a stretch to say, that if there's one good thing coming from this pandemic then that's (probably) the mainstream adoption of mRNA technology. I'm very curious to see how this will help us fight other di
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
I wonder what the statistical significance is of those findings. I seems to me that they tried out various different approaches, so the sub-group that received this first-low-second-high treatment might be considerably smaller than the othe
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
afaik, the Moderna vaccine is only going to be available outside the US in Spring (around March, April)
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
that sounds incredibly ambitious (if not unrealistic) to me, how is that supposed to work? Currently, there's only a single vaccine that's probably going to hit the market in Europe soon, and that's the Biontech/Pfizer o
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
I'd assume the Biontech/Pfizer one, and maybe the Oxford/AstraZeneca pending trial-data and approval. Though things seem to be taking a little while with that vaccine, so let's see
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
I've only very recently started programming in swift (started using it for an ios app) - having done backend development over the past years using primarily node and scala, I gotta say I really really enjoy using swift so far. Don&#x27
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
I agree with you insofar that nuclear weapons might really constitute a proper paradigm-shift that just changes the way war happens and the way those conflicts are being fought and ultimately resolved. But I'm not sure that's nece
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
I think the only other powers back then able to compete were the US (though at an early stage, and mostly an economical power at that point), France through its colonial empire (but neither economically nor militarily very strong having los
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
It's understandable that we refer to the cold-war when we look at the rivalry between China and the US. For one, it's resembles the most recent conflict between two super-powers, and, for the other, it also carries this notion of
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
I do actually, did it twice this year one week in January and then again during lockdown during the last week of March I think. I heard about it from the guy who came up with it, he wrote a book about the merits of a Mediterranean plant-bas
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
tbf, everyone went for their own custom solution initially since apple/google only really announced their plans for a joined effort some time early/mid April or so
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First Wave at Omaha Beach(theatlantic.com)
1 points by BillyTheKing 6y ago|1 comments
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
yea, the fact that most children get the flu is a counter example to herd immunity. Full scale herd immunity would protect vulnerable members of societies (who don't have immunity) of contracting the disease in the first place.
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
exactly, we've also learned that not all lockdowns are equal. Super-spreader events seem to be the driving force behind this pandemic, using effective measures we can avoid and learn to deal with super-spreader events while also allowi
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
you might want to give scala-js a shot? Unfortunately, I haven't really had the chance to use it much but it looks promising!
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by BillyTheKing 6y ago
as mentioned above, I think the headline really is a little misleading here... there was a ton of backlash against using a centralised system for this contact-tracing app from the opposition, privacy lobbies, the CCC, universities, research
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by BillyTheKing 7y ago
Both members of the public alongside government officials were encouraged to submit corona-related issues until today. People from all backgrounds (sciences, project management, programming, or anyone really who wants to help) are encourage
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German Government Organises Covid19 Hackathon(wirvsvirushackathon.org)
3 points by BillyTheKing 7y ago|2 comments
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by BillyTheKing 7y ago
The lack of response by the US government is really quite alarming. I fear this virus could hit the US really hart since there are quite a few factors coming together here: labour laws that disincentives staying at home when falling ill, ex
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by BillyTheKing 7y ago
4.8% is pretty alarming..! wouldn't there be an inherent bias, though, towards patients that display such severe symptoms that they would require medical care? Currently, to me at least, these cases in Italy seem to indicate that plent
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by BillyTheKing 7y ago
I think this really depends on what you want you're looking for. I agree with you in so far, that I don't think Udemy is particularly good for providing some solid theoretical (or semi-theoretical) basis for any given programming
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by BillyTheKing 7y ago
I've personally had different experiences on upwork (though I could've just been lucky) - I was doing backend development jobs for various clients on the platform, and got 4 decently paid jobs within 2-3 weeks of signing up or so
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A System Failure of German Journalism – Jens Soering’s Guilt(hammeltranslations.com)
2 points by BillyTheKing 7y ago|1 comments
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by BillyTheKing 7y ago
hmm, only 15% slower for a service that spins up on demand? That's not too bad at all, actually..