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by T-hawk 6y ago
Cancer isn't one disease, though. We lump hundreds of conditions and causes under that descriptor. Counting cancer totals that way is more like counting SARS-CoV-2 and influenza and colds all together.
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by T-hawk 6y ago
In theory and for Doom this was true. In practice, many games didn't use their DOS extender well, and still required much conventional memory. I remember System Shock being one in particular like this.
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Yeah, I don't think the parent post is right. Doom always required 4 MB RAM. This seems to confirm: http://www.classicdoom.com/doominfo.htm Doom was good about not requiring conventional (under-640k) memory or any ot
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by T-hawk 6y ago
The "umemployment" part of the question can also be heard incorrectly. Unemployment properly refers to a specific benefit paid out after loss of a job. But I'd bet many respondents mentally generalized from that to many oth
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by T-hawk 6y ago
One angle on that: American programmers may not do master's degrees as much, for less need. You can usually get hired in industry without a master's, if you can speak well and demonstrate your experience and portfolio enough. I&
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by T-hawk 6y ago
> giving them work is often a form of programming... they will do exactly what you tell them to do Yup. My anecdote: There was a middleware business application. Two database fields were last-changed-timestamp and last-changed-username
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by T-hawk 6y ago
> Good engineers are pushed into becoming managers, because that's the only way they can get rewarded. And there's a second-order casualty of that: the people who are assigned to report to such an engineer-become-manager. This
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by T-hawk 6y ago
What type of video games? That matters a lot to me. I can play a turn-based game like Civilization completely fine on little sleep (measuring the quality of play objectively, like by productivity or victory within a certain number of turn
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Casinos defeat this tactic now, after the MIT team became known. A player wanting to enter a table must wait until the next reshuffle, which of course foils any count in progress. (In practice, this isn't usually enforced unless the
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by T-hawk 6y ago
The difference there was that the Dreamcast could play burned CD-R copies unmodded, while the PSX needed a hardware mod to break the protection against that, a significant barrier to entry. Later it could be done with a plug-in to the expa
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by T-hawk 6y ago
That last can be framed in the opposite direction: America has stronger company rights. American companies are more free to not pay a worker who is delivering no work on sick or parental leave, and to end employment of a worker they no lo
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by T-hawk 6y ago
The HFCS theory is pretty simply debunked. Coca-Cola had already switched to HFCS long before New Coke, starting five years prior, in 1980. Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/new-coke-fiasco/
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by T-hawk 6y ago
We need a name for this fallacy: "We are empowered to stop terrorism." (or drugs, CP, etc) "X can be used for terrorism." "Therefore we are empowered to stop X." Thus that agency gains power over all possible X
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by T-hawk 6y ago
It's not a pattern of ratio or composition, it's a pattern of the quantity of each individual component. The individual quantities then constitute the composition. For CO2, the pattern is temperature. Titan, Triton, Pluto are we
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by T-hawk 7y ago
One way to extrapolate: excess deaths. Look at the overall death rate for an area and compare it to the normal value when there isn't an epidemic going on. If there is a difference that is larger than your number of known Covid death
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by T-hawk 7y ago
Short answer: recovering from Covid-19 probably does give immunity, based on all the precedents you mention, but we can't prove it for sure yet because not enough time has elapsed and no sufficiently rigorous studies have been done. Of
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by T-hawk 7y ago
There's value in the converse of that data point, though, right? If someone made rent on April 1st (and maybe even more importantly May 1st), that might be an even stronger signal that they'll continue to do so without interr
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by T-hawk 7y ago
One answer to your last: people aren't going to leave their permanent job for one that has a risk of being temporary.
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by T-hawk 7y ago
Venus: some ancient cultures recognized its "evening star" and "morning star" appearances as the same object; some thought they were two different phenomena. The ecliptic, physically, is the plane of Earth's orbit a
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by T-hawk 7y ago
Serious question: do we have historical comparisons, can we refer to instances where nationalizing in the wake of a bailout led to positive results? The one comparable I can think of in the US is Amtrak, which is functional although not exa
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by T-hawk 7y ago
It's the whirring sound of a motor. The for loop is metaphorically spinning to loop over everything instead of doing something smarter to find what it needs. The programmer thinks the whirring sound means it's doing a lot of wor
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by T-hawk 7y ago
Losing focus is itself a stateful change on a UI element caused by another UI element. It's just that the frontend platform like the browser or OS manages that shared state for you.
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by T-hawk 7y ago
Also a hypothesis that seems plausible as a factor: Smoking. Italians have more of a history of smoking than any other affected area as of yet. Smoking could also explain why the mortality skews more to men over women.
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by T-hawk 7y ago
The non-forever outcome is a vaccine. Covid-19 becomes endemic, always around, restrained by a vaccinated herd. It becomes like measles, small outbreaks here and there when sufficiently many unvaccinated come in contact.
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by T-hawk 7y ago
I'm not sure; that 2 days number was what I thought I'd read about South Korea's test, but could be wrong. At any rate, that's an approximation. The key point is for the average testing and isolation interval to be shor
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by T-hawk 7y ago
This is correct. This is how South Korea stopped it - early testing and isolation followed by contact tracing to test them too. Think about it this way. The Ro spread factor is somewhere between 2.2 and 3.0 by most reports. People are co
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by T-hawk 7y ago
There's not always penalties. Look up what's called the Section 72(t) distribution. This is a "retire early" option, where you can start taking a monthly distribution at any age, without penalty (income tax still appli
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by T-hawk 7y ago
A mask doesn't "work" in the sense of preventing you from catching the virus, because airborne is not its transmission method. A mask does work in the sense of reducing your transmission to others if you are infected (and may
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by T-hawk 7y ago
This is a great post. "A mini program with its own internal state and API" is a great description of what goes wrong with overdesigned classes. Encapsulating state into classes originally made sense with early OOP languages, com
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by T-hawk 7y ago
There is an effect, because traveling itself creates chances for exposure. Anyone traveling on an airplane or train in close quarters, or passing through an airport or transit facility, can pick up or pass on an infection. By your last ana

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