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by blub 5y ago
Here in Germany the BLM protest marches were tolerated in the middle of the pandemic. News orgs would fall over themselves trying to dredge something to be offended about in Germany’s colonial past or discussing any triviality regarding bla
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by blub 5y ago
A certain degree of xenophobia, like in the example you mention is present everywhere. Or where are foreigners treated just like the locals in this world?
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by blub 5y ago
Many (most?) web projects allow hiding performance issues by scaling horizontally, caching and offloading work to native implementations where necessary (like video encoding). Python can work great in such circumstances. The best testament
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by blub 5y ago
The decision depends on country, pandemic course, mitigations in place and personal risk. Making general claims regarding vaccination is spreading misinformation. Now you've already been caught making false claims once, the decent thin
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by blub 5y ago
In that case, another poster already explained why this comparison makes no sense. Vaccination needs to be compared with the lack of vaccination, not with driving, getting out of bed or sky diving. Yes, life has its risks and that's wh
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by blub 5y ago
If there's so many sources that the risk is 10-20x, then perhaps you can choose one which is not a tweet. One can't be expected to know what the credentials of some random doctor on twitter are and he doesn't reference any so
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by blub 5y ago
There’s no connection between car crashes in the US and risk of myocarditis from the vaccine in Sweden. Each country is looking at the risk for its own citizens.
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by blub 5y ago
Management is a different career path though and coding is not one of the skills they require even for software management jobs. The problem is really more applicable to senior technical roles like tech leads, architects, where it is actu
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by blub 5y ago
It seems your thesis was conclusively disproved by the parent poster and you're just nitpicking. This would be a good time to stop posting and reconsider your approach.
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by blub 5y ago
The really interesting question is whether you and the other N guys replying claiming that they're enjoying good careers are an outlier or the typical case. Based on the multitude of threads and articles about ageism posted on HN alone
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by blub 5y ago
Embryotox is a collection of pregnancy safety info for many drugs maintained by the Charite hospital in Berlin, Germany. It’s very popular locally, I’ve seen it used also in pharmacies. Paracetamol is the therapy of choice for pain and feve
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by blub 5y ago
You're probably referring to Biontech*, but when I got AstraZeneca the chances of dying from the virus for my age interval was only slightly more than the chance of dying from the vaccine, as calculated by the ECDC. * which as an aside
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by blub 5y ago
The US completely botched testing: insisted of creating its own test which didn't work, wouldn't test most people and didn't scale testing capacity. I feel very sorry for those which had COVID and have sequelae and no way to
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by blub 5y ago
Folks weren't hoarding the masks, they were being bought and sent overseas, because the US didn't block exports, like for example China did. Anyway, this whole hoarding issue can be elegantly side-stepped by not outsourcing mask p
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by blub 5y ago
In March 2020 the official recommendations coming from Hong Kong, China or Korea were the complete opposite to what the US, UK, Germany or the WHO were recommending. While the former were pragmatic and -very importantly- had enough masks, t
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by blub 5y ago
The WHO, CDC, RKI, etc were all telling people not to wear medical masks and the press was happily parroting this information while the Korean and Chinese CDC were recommending the exact opposite. Not only were they doing that, they were al
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by blub 5y ago
If those were quacky scientists in toilet duck lab coats it would make it quite endearing. Facebook should also show scientists in company uniforms, with fluffy hair and fake moustaches to announce their research while holding test tubes wi
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by blub 5y ago
The only mitigating factor is that they’re not remote vulnerabilities. That being said, this is more or less the industry standard. And even if the other person mentioning this was downvoted, they are right: this has been the case since for
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by blub 5y ago
Your assertion is trivially disproved by the fact that studies are required before recommending combining vaccines or additional doses. A vaccine is not like water, where nothing spectacular happens if you just take more of it or combine it
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by blub 5y ago
The part about fakes may be specific to the US. Amazon Germany’s also filled with cheap junk to the point one must search for specific products, but they are not mixing inventory (yet).
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by blub 5y ago
Which city can easily add thousands of parcels of land for building houses? There’s significant administrative effort and those extra houses would put pressure on all local municipal services. This has to be thought out and done increment
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by blub 5y ago
Kinda funny thay you’re more concerned about those that may have not gotten your doses instead of your own person, given that your combination of vaccines was very likely never tested on anyone.
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by blub 5y ago
The prices are spiraling out of control everywhere that’s even moderately desirable. In a city in the BW part of Germany which has ~20k inhabitants and is nearby another city with ~200k inhabitants there’s new 3 room apartments for sale for
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by blub 5y ago
They got 3x what they expected and still it didn’t dawn on them that they were missing something. At first sight this goes off the stupidity chart into evil territory.
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by blub 5y ago
Those errors can also be considered and mitigated though, if one thinks about what could go wrong instead of only thinking about what exceptions can be thrown: 1. One must either encode the assumption into a precondition or transfer the inc
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by blub 5y ago
Java's been making the garbage collector better for decades at this point and is still in the second performance tier compared to those other languages. Of course, if one does GC tuning like a pro, uses a sufficiently smart GC and mayb
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by blub 5y ago
If the leaders of a country and its specialists completely fail to prepare for such a crisis (even if it was well known that something similar - likely flu - would happen) and then make several immense mistakes while handling it, there&#x27
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by blub 5y ago
Thanks. NPR used to have a pop-up asking if one wants to be tracked or go to the text-only version. Now they only offer getting tracked or some convoluted guide on “other options”.
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by blub 5y ago
I remember reading that cloth masks may even be worse than no masks because while they stop large particles they also aerosolize the virus. They provide nearly no protection for the wearer. Don’t have the reference any more as I’ve long swi
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by blub 5y ago
Alternative definition: * product-first engineers have been tamed by the company and can be expected to obey orders and perform tricks for rewards (money, coffee, biscuits, etc). For them code is just a means to an end because they have str

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