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by acqq 7y ago
Related: https://www.ghacks.net/2020/01/06/please-mozilla-dont-touch-...
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by acqq 7y ago
And Whatsapp. And how many people not having already their various metadata collected by Google and not having anything on the Apple servers?
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by acqq 7y ago
> Only if infected, you upload your key to the server You are more right than I was initially, thanks! Actually, to be even more precise: only if infected, you upload the set of your own derived keys , and apparently only for the days y
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by acqq 7y ago
If I understand correctly, it's up to every infected person to manually click "upload" (edit: here was "who I was close to", but it's not correct, see note 1 here) once he gets diagnosed, i.e. completely volunt
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by acqq 7y ago
The relevant privacy details: https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu... "Privacy Considerations • The key schedule is fixed and defined by operating system components, preventing applica
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by acqq 7y ago
"Now I hope you all get the nanoseconds. They're absolutely marvelous for explaining to wives and husbands and children and Admirals and Generals and people like that . An Admiral wanted to know why it took so damn long to send
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by acqq 7y ago
Captain Grace M. Hopper: the Mother of COBOL By Vicki Porter Adams When Captain Grace M. Hopper put her pack of Lucky Strikes (they still make them) on the table as she prepared for an interview, the assembled journalists felt that this wou
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by acqq 7y ago
> What the interviewer obviously wanted was an explanation of a particular physical phenomenon targeted at the level of someone without any background in physics. How do you know that ? I would claim that it's what you expected
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by acqq 7y ago
> He seems to have been in a grumpy gramps No -- he used the question to demonstrate the basic premises of physics -- that the "whys" can never end, as long as somebody is not "satisfied" with the answer, and that to
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by acqq 7y ago
Exactly, and that "why" is answered thoroughly, see the transcript. The part of "how" is also there: "If you're somebody who doesn't know anything at all about it, all I can say is the magnetic force make
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by acqq 7y ago
Just for reference re that "Siggraph 2019 presentation": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_algebra "The geometric product was first briefly mentioned by Hermann Grassmann" (1809 – 1877) "
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by acqq 7y ago
> He could just have given a physics textbook level explanation of how magnets work. But "how" was not a starting question of the interviewer. The questions were different, and I've marked them with numbers here: https:&#
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by acqq 7y ago
> all of the media around the world was united in a conspiracy to make China look bad It's like 'memes': very little journalists today do their own research. I can see that whatever Trump says today then follows the &quot
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by acqq 7y ago
> but based on prior coronaviruses not something that would significantly impact the West. If we talk about a lot of media, they simply had the priority of making Chinese look bad in any possible way, including blaming them for "mis
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by acqq 7y ago
> if I as lay person am going to be getting my information from sources like NYT and National Geographic If you'd like to have better understanding of any topic you have to learn to improve your critical thinking capabilities. The m
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by acqq 7y ago
> how you consider the title "The problem of time" being wrong. Because as far as I understand it is not commonly accepted name among the physicists for the issues that prevents them developing the "Theory of Everything&qu
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by acqq 7y ago
> The latter part is often lacking, and the amount of lacking very often appears to be proportional to the lack of knowledge of the commentator. Very good: how does your comment fare using that frame? And since you commented under my com
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by acqq 7y ago
I still believe that naming the sets in the paragraph I've quoted is completely superfluous in the sentence I've quoted. It just sounds more "mathy" but I'm quote sure that either it doesn't convey more useful
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by acqq 7y ago
> Also note that even some of those who remain at home get worse later The most recent example Boris Johnson is in hospital since only a day: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/apr/06/
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by acqq 7y ago
> I know Wikipedia isn't supposed to be a textbook, but I'd argue that having a more accessible first paragraph or summary section on every topic could help all uses I'm curious how you would rewrite that first paragraph t
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by acqq 7y ago
Exactly. And once one has something like that embedded, one can use that flexibility for many kinds of adaptations and scripting of the main program.
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by acqq 7y ago
> Mostly academics like nutritionists, psychologists and so on. So it's completely unrelated to the topics I refer to. What I refer to is: https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Ob... Claiming th
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by acqq 7y ago
I think that the article which supports its definition of the problem with the article written by an author who "obtained a bachelor's degree in physics" and then "left graduate school during the first year in order to
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by acqq 7y ago
> Journalists should report what is true, not what Tom, Dick or Harry said. Especially they should not give 33% plausibility to Tom, 33% to Dick and 33% to Harry. Which is what they typically do, and call that "professional journa
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by acqq 7y ago
Yes, in the countries that officially label cases as such, the "serious" ones are those needing hospitalization. Others are being told to remain at home and stay isolated. Also note that even some of those who remain at home get w
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by acqq 7y ago
> From 4% to 10%. Still below 20%. So, where are you getting 20%? From the graphs of all countries that publish their data. Those that publish give you statistic of the number of tested, number of tested positive, those needed hospitalis
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by acqq 7y ago
> My question is if you are making up 20%. No. There are countries which do test all that could possibly be infected (e.g. if they were in contact with the person who was tested positive). Even then, those that are positive are the small
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by acqq 7y ago
> asymptomatic carriers are the norm Asymptomatic people while they are infecting others doesn't mean these people will remain asymptomatic all the time. Just that at the moment they are spreading the virus they aren't having a
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by acqq 7y ago
> With uncontrolled pandemic, something like 5-10% of people would be out sick, 20% of those in the hospital. It doesn't look that that estimate is nearly right. It is true that there are always people reported as "tested posi
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by acqq 7y ago
> another is mercator projections. That's why for centuries the globes were both produced and used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdapfel Globes -- since 1492. Every child can understand that.

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