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by aazaa 6y ago
You can try your hand at writing in this style here: https://splasho.com/upgoer5/
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by aazaa 6y ago
What's really gonna bake your noodle is the idea that remote workers are not worth the cost of full salary.
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Bacteria and Colon Cancer(blogs.sciencemag.org)
85 points by aazaa 6y ago|29 comments
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Slightly Skew Systems of Government(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
It's odd how the article dances around the true problem: when push comes to shove, there's not enough supply to go around. On the one hand, it's a pattern that's played out over and over again this year. Toilet Paper. Pa
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by aazaa 6y ago
In time you may come to view this as a bug, not a feature.
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The significance here is that a paper with data has been published regarding the phase 1 trial[1]. Previously, Moderna had only reported some of the study results, and no study data. A later study had been delayed, raising questions about w
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Hospitals will begin sending coronavirus-related information directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), under new instructions from the Trump administration.
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by aazaa 6y ago
> If five years from now everyone in the world has become a bitcoin user, that could only be because something very very bad has happened to the regular monetary system. Perhaps hostile aliens have enslaved us and are using the payments
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by aazaa 6y ago
> ... as a piece of softwood lumber dries, it shrinks. That can change plans for how it’s used on the job site. This was quite a revelation when I first tried to build something with 2x4's. They weren't 2"x4"!
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> ... Feynman replied with an enquiry about Mano’s current job, to which Mano responded that he was “studying the Coherence theory with some applications to the propagation of electromagnetic waves through turbulent atmosphere […] a humb
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Blockchain has emerged from the once shadowy world of cryptocurrency to become the most in-demand skill in 2020, according to LinkedIn. The promise of blockchain is huge. And large companies are continuing to hire and expand their bloc
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by aazaa 6y ago
The budgets are not even close. See my sister comment.
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> While you're right that the Federal government has the CDC, every single US States has its own infectious disease/health agency[1]. Those appear to be general public heath agencies with names like: "Department of Health
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> That's not the same as "no strategy", because this level of decentralization is how nation-states work today. It's one thing to leave pandemic response to member countries like the EU does. Each country knows it&#x2
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It's a little surprising how many are banks. A few random searches showed about 80% of the companies are banks. On reflection, though, not so surprising.
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by aazaa 6y ago
The article doesn't mention refactoring, and that's where the value of tests lies. Given a complete test suite and stable interfaces, you can make substantial changes to existing code and if you break anything you'll know. It
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by aazaa 6y ago
I like the benchmark comparison between Box and Trait approaches. It's not easy to find these comparisons. Regarding overall approach, Iterators are very flexible, and I find it a little surprising that you get Iterator behavior (the S
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> Frieden, the former CDC chief, argued that the agency failed largely because it has been shackled to an inept administration. “The overarching problem has been the failure to have a clear national strategy, a national plan, and consist
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> Intuition suggests that metals are dense, and while that bears true for some (think gold or lead), it fails to hold up for others. For example, lithium—commonly used in batteries—floats on water. Some metals are hard, such as titanium,
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by aazaa 6y ago
The reason Lego works is a simple, well-defined interface. Two bricks stick together by friction because the stud pattern on one matches the hole pattern on the other precisely. Fortunately, that's a model that translates well to softw
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by aazaa 6y ago
Google's main liability is that they can never, under any circumstances, prioritize user privacy. The reason the products listed by the author have rough corners is that those products don't contribute much to the bottom line. Goo
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by aazaa 6y ago
> People trying to get in shape who buy fancy workout gear instead of exercising. Translating this idea to learning a programming language, the best way to learn a language is to apply it to something real, almost immediately. Following
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Respondents who said they'd gone to work or outside while showing coronavirus symptoms were three times more likely to get a "great deal" of their information from YouTube and Facebook. That's the important bit righ
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by aazaa 6y ago
> If you’re interested read on, if you’re not, see yourself out. Huh? Doesn't this apply to literally every piece of writing ever produced? The reader is always free to leave.
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Aunt Jemima(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aazaa 6y ago|1 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
More informative article here: https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/16/major-study-finds-common... The problem is that there is little more than a press announcement at this point. There are no data. There is no
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>... But you know what kind of public companies have zero earnings for years at a time, and where future earnings are so far away that it’s already understood by everyone to be a day-to-day game of chicken, just like this? Biotech compan
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by aazaa 6y ago
The first (of several) demands reads: > The Seattle Police Department and attached court system are beyond reform. We do not request reform, we demand abolition. We demand that the Seattle Council and the Mayor defund and abolish the Sea
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Anti-Mask League of San Francisco(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments

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