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by amscanne 7y ago
That’s not mutually exclusive. I don’t think a “real social security system” automatically fixes all other bad policy.
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by amscanne 7y ago
Wow, mass testing was done at Marion and Pickaway, and they’ve found both to be 75%+ positive. Many other prisons could be similar, the mass testing simply hasn’t been done yet!
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by amscanne 7y ago
The map in [4] suggests that every adult in France would have received the BCG vaccine, as they only stopped in 2017 (and receive it as an infant). There are so many confounding variables here, I don't think anyone should be deriving a
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by amscanne 7y ago
Super cool! One question: why a UEFI boot loader? QEMU and others have mechanisms that support direct loading of an ELF binary. Was the original thinking to support bare metal? (Or maybe it's still in the cards?)
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by amscanne 7y ago
% of visits to primary care provider is a _terrible_ metric. People have been actively advised to stay away from the Doctor’s office and hospitals for routine reasons (and reschedule for later). Obviously the % visiting because they think t
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by amscanne 7y ago
There are commercial conformance tests.
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by amscanne 7y ago
> I am skeptical. A test based on the sense of smell would have a very high amount of noise. There is no good, concrete measure of a person's sense of smell. Parents with young children in diapers might disagree. I can think of one
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by amscanne 7y ago
This is likely because Italy has underreporting for younger cases: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103023/coronavirus-case... There’s two reasons that I could guess at: the age of the population itself, and t
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by amscanne 7y ago
I imagine that 2-5% of people over 70 die each year from other natural causes, if not much more. I’m not justifying anything, but I feel the death rates need to be understood in this context.
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by amscanne 7y ago
The explanation that I’ve seen is that closing is not an effective mitigation anyways, as children often end up congregating elsewhere in even closer contact: e.g. backup care with groups of kids, older kids getting together while schools a
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by amscanne 7y ago
That’s what BPF is already. It’s not Turing complete. Unbounded loops and backward branching is not allowed. The problem isn’t Turing completeness. It’s that there’s are too many micro-architectural side channels and unknowns.
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by amscanne 7y ago
> Isn't that what the develop branch in Git Flow is for? Your project might need some additional steps as part of its release process, and those can take place using the corresponding release branch, but the idea is that you can sta
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by amscanne 7y ago
The VDSO isn’t really any third-party code. It’s very surprising for it to do a stack probe. Though obviously it’s possible, and falls on the runtime to handle (so it’s a legit bug). But.. nearly every “runtime” makes stack assumptions. The
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by amscanne 7y ago
Toronto and Waterloo both have offices. I said Toronto is sales and business, not Waterloo.
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by amscanne 7y ago
In year one, you’re generating $1100 of income with $1000 of capital invested (that will last 5 years). By year five, you’re generating $1100 of income with $5000 of capital invested (that will require $1000 each year to keep up). You’re _w
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by amscanne 7y ago
Another Canadian in strong agreement chiming in. I think IRAP and SRED are okay, they just led to government picking winners (IRAP) and an awful ecosystem of vendors and abuse (SRED). I’m of the opinion that Canada should take that money an
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by amscanne 7y ago
Not really Toronto (sales and business primarily) but there’s engineering in Montreal also.
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by amscanne 7y ago
> I'm laughing. These are all things companies DO in order to cut costs. The most obvious and legal being the washrooms. In most places the requirement to have washrooms depends on the kind of business, how much seating you have, et
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by amscanne 7y ago
> Generally, a cheaper car costs far more to maintain. The total annual cost of ownership of a 2-year-old Camry is far lower than a 10-year-old Camry. But to get that lower cost, you have to temporarily convert more of your money into th
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by amscanne 7y ago
UPX transforms demand-paged, reclaimable page cache memory into a blob of unreclaimable anonymous memory. It makes no sense for most use cases where I’ve seen it. It adds runtime costs both in terms of start-up and memory usage. Maybe it he
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by amscanne 7y ago
Sorry, that generalization doesn’t hold water. It makes sense for systems where libc is tightly coupled and coversioned with the kernel, e.g. BSDs, but Linux always relied on third-party C libraries and supported static binaries, etc. You
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by amscanne 7y ago
I think the comment is that even if you’re willing to confront the driver, you’re forced into an awkward social situation (the confrontation, yelling and anger, having them angrily “get the card reader worker”). Many people (myself included
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by amscanne 7y ago
> From a side-channel perspective it's likely better than SGX as I presume EC2 already uses more resilient core affinity (e.g. no hyperthreaded core sharing across instances) and other mitigations, many of which aren't even pos
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by amscanne 7y ago
I don’t think the interactions between the AWS SDK and a third-party AWS IAM plug-in is really an inherent part of k8s’s domain of control. It’s sort of like cursing Microsoft every time an application crashes... because it’s running on win
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by amscanne 7y ago
> Then they started advertising their own properties in advantageous positions (at the top) whether or not the results were all that relevant, and did not mark these as ads. Where and when did this happen? I recall the early days of Goog
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by amscanne 7y ago
Google clearly marks ads as ads. I believe the criticism was that search engines of the past would allow paid results to appear organic. Has Google started doing this and I’m unaware?
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by amscanne 7y ago
I’ve been thinking about these problems for a while. Previously, I thought that the “put a VM on it” approach was the right one. In 2015, I wrote novm [1], which I think served as inspiration for some developments that followed. My thinking
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by amscanne 7y ago
I think the watch you linked is the Glycine Airman GMT. I believe the standard hour hand actually has a 12-hour sweep (yes, even though the labels are both 24-hour) and only the GMT hand (pointing to the 10) has a 24-hour sweep. From what y
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by amscanne 7y ago
> You weren't going to deduct the donation from your taxes anyway. Unless I’m mistaken, this is only possible if you’re donating to a registered charity. Many view open source as more noble, but OSS developers don’t magically get a
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by amscanne 7y ago
Retail stores put high-margin items in key locations (next to checkout, at eye level, etc.) or companies actually pay for these spots. In a company kitchen/snack area, why not put the healthy options there? Everyone still makes their o

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