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811.
by baddox 7y ago
Do you mean that no one else at your company uses any of those 4 softwares?
812.
by baddox 7y ago
My impression is that we've recent just maybe gotten to the point where someone has proven that they have a computer that actually is doing quantum computing for something that would be exponentially slower to do on a classical compu
813.
by baddox 7y ago
I’m not being clear. I mean that as your nutrition gets worse, your expected lifespan decreases and you are at greater risk of health problems. Again there is no clean dividing line between malnutrition and good nutrition. In fact, in the f
814.
by baddox 7y ago
> Because humans need an objective minimum to survive. I don’t even agree with this. Even for starvation there’s no clean dividing line. Malnutrition leads to reduced lifespans and health problems. I think that quality of life both can a
815.
by baddox 7y ago
Why would we not want the baseline to improve over time? I genuinely do not understand the attitude that we should establish some extremely low bar like “is not currently at risk of starvation” and then never move the bar, but merely congra
816.
by baddox 7y ago
Most do so now supported by the infrastructure of modern society that requires them to carry less than ten days of food with them at any given time. And most of those hikers will travel into towns and cities and take long vehicle rides or e
817.
by baddox 7y ago
Are you actually receiving conflicting data , or just conflicting reports about data? It's not clear to me how data itself can "conflict." As a made-up example, if you keep seeing alternating cases where one person had sym
818.
by baddox 7y ago
I don't know. Twitter reposts of TikTok videos seems ubiquitous, but it seems like TikTok is still thriving. I don't think the primary reason people post a story rather than a permanent post is that they want to ensure the story
819.
by baddox 7y ago
Exactly. And I think the effect can be even worse when examining our own behavior and state of mind. There are plenty of extremely well-known cognitive biases that tend to effect our own self-examination. It doesn't mean self-examinati
820.
by baddox 7y ago
As I understand it, "decision fatigue" is a particular explanation for the observation in people's own lives and the observation of other people that decision-making seems to get worse after long stretches of decision-makin
821.
by baddox 7y ago
Why would they want to police it? Surely Twitter is perfectly fine with you posting screenshots of things of interest (obviously within obscenity and legal restrictions).
822.
by baddox 7y ago
Ads and security are both extremely important to Twitter. It's hard to imagine any product concern being more important than those two, other than perhaps uptime.
823.
by baddox 7y ago
It's a little weird to say "before you even bother presenting evidence, I'm here to tell you that evidence doesn't matter because several people on this website have strong feelings." I don't know who's ri
824.
by baddox 7y ago
This sort of thing actually does happen, right? Isn’t that basically what WeWork was, but for all the VC money companies are spending on office space?
825.
by baddox 7y ago
Wouldn't rent and salaries (at least in the SF Bay Area) almost always be vastly more expensive than computation?
826.
by baddox 7y ago
> Languages like Rust that don't even know null (or nil as in Go), have finally solved the problem. I wouldn't quite phrase it that way, since it's nothing new. OCaml from the 1990s has no null value (you need to represent
827.
by baddox 7y ago
> If this does turn out to be a nothingburger (seems most here think that it wont) what's the cost of a hedge/being prepared? Umm, the cost of locking down an entire country? The cost would be absolutely immense.
828.
by baddox 7y ago
Presumably there are also many cases that are mild and will never be tested or reported.
829.
by baddox 7y ago
When is the point at which freaking out will help?
830.
by baddox 7y ago
Exactly. We’ve had long-distance telephone for a long time, and it actually works much better than the audio of most internet teleconferencing I’ve experienced. It’s not a complete substitute for face to face communication.
831.
by baddox 7y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccine-selection.htm Seems pretty straightforward. They look at which strains people have been testing positive for and how successful the previous vaccines were.
832.
by baddox 7y ago
In Springfield and St. Louis, MO we often referred to the cities by their airport codes SGF and STL. But those are both more plausible abbreviations in their own right than SFO.
833.
by baddox 7y ago
Those things do exist of course, but in 9 years of living here I don’t think I’ve ever heard the city referred to as “SFO.”
834.
by baddox 7y ago
Given that there is always some risk of infectious disease, and working from home would probably always reduce that risk, what is the risk level threshold above which it's appropriate to close an office?
835.
by baddox 7y ago
It can be true if enough taxi time is spent with 2 or more passengers.
836.
by baddox 7y ago
Isn’t cost of creation just one of many normal inputs to the marketing and pricing of every product? What’s special about copyright? It’s also true for, say, an idea about starting a company, but we don’t have laws to somehow adjust the pot
837.
by baddox 7y ago
Yes, I'm not trying to justify it. And it's not just that we say "the fifth day of May," because it's also true that we can say "the third month." My point is that the fifth day of May is actually named &q
838.
by baddox 7y ago
The reason there's an "exception" for days is that the numbers are the widely-used names for the day of the month. Months arguably don't have widely-used numeric names, although it's pretty reasonably to argue tha
839.
by baddox 7y ago
Wouldn't TCP/IP run on token ring? My understanding that token ring is at the same layer as Ethernet, and thus wouldn't exactly be a competitor for TCP/IP.
840.
by baddox 7y ago
Why would a company bother buying back the investment? Surely there’s not much reason to do that unless the terms of the investment were different than what is common today.

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