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by BryantD 3y ago
If I reversed it and said “this can’t be a lab leak because lab leaks never happen,” would that be okay? They’re certainly rarer than serious cases of flu among adults in the age range. It’s a contentious, difficult debate. I do actually th
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by BryantD 3y ago
Um, those are the numbers for hospitalization. So yes, there’s information about severity there. And yep, that’s my argument! The frequency of deadly viruses escaping from a bio lab is even lower , so if we’re going to eliminate possibilit
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by BryantD 3y ago
That point is inaccurate. I quoted the stats; they are what they are.
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by BryantD 3y ago
Just to be clear, there weren’t animal samples available for testing. It’s not that they tested a bunch of animals and didn’t find covid. I know that’s what you meant but not everyone is familiar with the paper and it’s important to be meti
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by BryantD 3y ago
What a terrible article. “Thirty-five-year-old scientists don’t get very sick with influenza.” The rate of hospitalization among 18-49 year olds with flu in the US was 54.1 per 100K in 2019-20. It’s rare, sure, but that kind of absolute sta
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by BryantD 3y ago
Sure. But it’s about the distribution platform, not the game company financials. Selling games that must be distributed on specific app stores is very different than selling games which are distributed through multiple channels; in the form
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by BryantD 3y ago
My experience is somewhat dated so I can’t say if this is still the truth, but Apple used to refuse to tell the very large company I worked at whether or not their new game would be featured before the featuring page was updated. Getting on
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by BryantD 3y ago
Most people do have those tendencies, indeed! Also, great last line.
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by BryantD 3y ago
This isn’t good sociological theory, because it’s based on one man’s observations rather than actual research. You can see this in the evolution from the threefold model —- it’s just “my experiences are different, therefore.” That said it w
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by BryantD 3y ago
Mobile gaming and PC gaming are somewhat different markets. In particular, mobile game development companies don't have any choice but to work with Apple and Google, whereas AAA PC gaming companies have another outlet already. I like A
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by BryantD 3y ago
I agree, especially if you can get multiple screens on your Mac.
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by BryantD 3y ago
Those of us who worked there thank you!
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by BryantD 3y ago
Hosted Oracle database services. Otherwise, very favorable contract terms.
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by BryantD 3y ago
Okay, that’s fair —- thanks for clarifying! My feeling is that once you start compiling this data in a formal way, you’ve taken a significant step towards the dystopian events you’re describing. I agree that the ability to do a thing is not
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by BryantD 3y ago
This may or may not qualify for you: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/new-report-shows-departm... Here’s why it counts for me. It’s not scary new tech, but it is a case that shows that police departments will b
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by BryantD 3y ago
Gizmodo loved it, but "The real elephant in the room is the fact that I just spent $600 on my iPhone and it can’t do some crucial functions that even $50 handsets can. I’m talking about MMS. Video recording. Custom ringtones. Mass stor
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by BryantD 3y ago
I love Varda so I’ll bite. Off the top of my head, her most HN-relevant movie is The Gleaners and I . In France, there’s a right to glean — to harvest food that will not otherwise be harvested. (Actual French people should help explain tha
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by BryantD 3y ago
One way or the other, yep.
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by BryantD 3y ago
Community notes existed way before Musk, FWIW.
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by BryantD 3y ago
Also: - spreading conspiracy theories about the attack on Paul Pelosi - spreading conspiracy theories about the Allen, TX shooter I could go on. I do care about his character, because he's influential and because he's decided he
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by BryantD 3y ago
The one who follows Catturd, LibsofTikTok, Ron DeSantis, Tulsi Gabbard, and Bari Weiss? Yeah, I think she will. I am not normally a fan of the term "virtue signaling" but I think her involvement with WEF might just fit.
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by BryantD 3y ago
On the one hand, I think it’s valuable to point out the tendency to frame everything as an act of warfare. On the other hand, I can’t help but notice that there’s zero space spent on organizations that are framing (say) Soros political dona
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by BryantD 3y ago
Indeed. It could also be a component in "ethical," depending on what your ethics are.
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by BryantD 3y ago
I’m not gonna claim that Datadog is cheap, but that screams “we didn’t bother to optimize our usage.” Lots of logs, long retention maybe? Really heavy RUM with the replay feature turned on?
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by BryantD 3y ago
Answering my own question: https://aeracode.org/2023/04/29/refactor-treat/ “I had taken two months off from developing Takahē in the run up to PyCon US; both due to pressures at work (and then, more rece
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by BryantD 3y ago
This wasn’t terribly hard, but I built https://seattle-movies.innocence.com/ because I really wanted an aggregate indie movie theater calendar. Then I added an RSS feed cause someone asked for it. It has vastly improved my
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by BryantD 3y ago
If I ever watch Satantango, I want it to be in a theater. I have the attention span for it but it’ll help if I can’t dig my phone out of my pocket. (Yeah, yeah, will power.)
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by BryantD 3y ago
dmattia noted the most important one. It’s a low probability situation but it does occur, and in some cases people reasonably object to installing an app because of a work requirement. I also strongly prefer multiple notification channels m
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by BryantD 3y ago
Anyone have any insight into the state of Takahe? Progress has slowed down a lot in the last two months.
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by BryantD 3y ago
This a deal breaker for me. I understand your intention here and from a pure alerting perspective you're correct, but I have use cases for other forms of notification.

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