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by base698 6y ago
Social media posts for the vast majority are all risk and no reward. Risk comes in all forms. Creepy internet denizens, job loss, and misinterpretation.
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A standard 80 year old, which is striking as stated above. It's bad odds for sure and if 80 you wouldn't want to contract it. Only implies it's not a death sentence, roughly as dangerous as space flight.
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Citation needed. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02483-2
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by base698 6y ago
Even at 80 it only about doubles the chance they die. An 80 year old has a 5% chance of death, adding another 5% chance of death is striking no doubt, and would consider that very much at risk. 50 however... 50 year old is only about a 0.1
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by base698 6y ago
I had a roommate just after college that was a civil engineer and had a decent job. Upon getting to know him and his other friends I found out he'd done time for robbery and trafficking. He had come from a really poor back lground. H
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by base698 6y ago
This advice has made many millions of dollars. A decade ago knowing a little design, front end, and backend development would go a long way and give you and edge. Lots of people I know that are quite successful mixed opportunities in uniqu
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by base698 6y ago
^ that was more sensationalism after the death rate started to flatten. The ICU rate then declined after following the death rate. AZ never locked down like CA did. https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1291552
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by base698 6y ago
I do 15 million on about 64GB average memory. Have you tried recently?
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by base698 6y ago
I have an instance that scrapes about 30K targets for 15 million metrics and it works better than you'd expect. The biggest performance issue we have is rendering the targets page. We have a plan to split it down to less instances per
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by base698 6y ago
"Under the Banner of Heaven" explains this effect a bit. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CZCGPUA/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
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by base698 6y ago
The median death rate is 80: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/new-da... At best it saved a few people who would have died in a couple of years.
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by base698 6y ago
How much do you think Trump's DMs are worth? Kanye's? Elon's?
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by base698 6y ago
My wife and I have been on and off keto for long stints (6 months) at a time. We eat what most people would consider low carb--no bread or pasta most of the time. Occasionally we sneak in binges of fruit or have ice cream. Despite times o
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by base698 6y ago
Also, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/03/us... https://m.economictimes.com/news/defence/india-us-sign-3-bil... https://m.economictimes.com&#x2
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by base698 6y ago
On NetJets or ExecJet which is like kind of an Uber for private jets owned by Berkshire Hathaway you could probably get to $15k a head.
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by base698 6y ago
> but the physics that have driven people to urban centers hasn't changed at all. Other than being unable to do anything social and a large portion of restaurants/cultural opportunities are ceasing to exist? I'm not paying
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by base698 6y ago
Anecdotal but: 6 of my 9 direct reports have asked about permenantly relocating.
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by base698 6y ago
Do you want to travel up and down the California coast in 2 hours, or spend 3 hours in an airport getting groped by TSA?
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by base698 6y ago
Some questions to be answered in the 1 second he points it at you: + How do you know your partner is behind you? + How do you know he won't take your gun after he uses the taser on you? + How do you know it was a taser? + Are you confi
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by base698 6y ago
He pointed a taser at the police behind him in pursuit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbf0x_K9i54
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by base698 6y ago
You can be massively misleading even if you're filming reality as it happens. The first of the recent Atlanta shooting videos to air left out the part where you see the suspect point a taser at the police. Ie the video appears he was
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by base698 6y ago
Lindy effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by base698 6y ago
I live in LA in a house I rent. My morning walks take me by houses that cost up to $5 million, a short drive less than 5 miles I can see homes that are $20 million. In addition to the houses and the cars discussed--I'm a pilot. I see
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by base698 6y ago
Use Heroku, AppEngine, or if in k8s, Knative/Rio. It's confusing because a lot of people being exposed to K8s don't necessarily know how Linux networking and web servers work. So there is a mix of terminology (services, ingr
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by base698 6y ago
For the nginx ingress case: An ingress object creates an nginx/nginx.conf. That nginx server has an IP address which has a round robin IPVS rule. When it gets the request it proxy's to a service ip which then round robins to the
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by base698 6y ago
My three favorites, on the topic of the news. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/media/2013/... http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews https://www.d
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by base698 6y ago
Task saturation. It's windy, turbulent, your wife is uncomfortable and giving you looks. Someone cuts you off as you are landing, you go around. The field is busy and as you come back around for landing you're focusing about be
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by base698 6y ago
I wanted an RV7 when I started flying. Partly due to the price, it seemed like a good trade off to be practical. I've flown a few of them, but never long term. We saw several in the 2 years of shopping and one was pretty sketch in t
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by base698 6y ago
Yeah, I recently went through Cirrus training, I'm quite current for a GA pilot (150 hours a year, commercial and instrument ratings) and personally feel it's a lot of plane. Most of the avionics and checklists, while great if yo
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by base698 6y ago
I think of planes as having a CAP Theorem like trade off between speed, safety, utility (can I take a family of 6), and price. A used 172 is pretty safe but greatly lacks in other categories. A Lancair 4P optimizes for speed, but greatly

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