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by bodyfour 6y ago
Remember that even if you have a thousand factories, one will be first. Meaning that there will be a time when there appears to be just one. That's why it feels like that right now. There are many factories around the world gearing u
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by bodyfour 6y ago
Yeah it's an interesting visualisation of the data. I can't personally vouch for its exact accuracy -- every government reports their metrics on a different schedule and I guess they're building realtime estimates based on th
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by bodyfour 6y ago
Because nobody credible in the vaccine industry is saying "we could speed up XYZ if we had a bit more money." If they did, they'd find themselves buried under an avalanche of cash before they finished the sentence. The story
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by bodyfour 6y ago
Just about any part of production that could be scaled up by throwing money at the problem has had billions of dollars flowing in its direction.
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by bodyfour 6y ago
It's important to not get too discouraged with "By this rate..." The rate is increasing and should continue to do so. More production capacity is coming online week by week.
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by bodyfour 6y ago
The issue with the EMA approval date is a red herring, in my opinion. Unfortunately it gets given a lot of attention (especially in the UK press) even by organisations that should know better. The most important thing to remember is that b
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by bodyfour 6y ago
That is exactly what happened -- governments around the world paid for pre-approval manufacturing and the pharma industry has spent the last 6-8 months ramping up production. That's the reason we have any supplies at the moment. The
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by bodyfour 6y ago
Or if you'd rather see it in git https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-4-S...
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by bodyfour 6y ago
It was just a (short-lived) bug, not a conscious decision to break anything. Not sure why this got so much traction on HN.
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by bodyfour 6y ago
It was a mistaken assumption from the Homebrew developers who didn't realize AVX would cause problems with Rosetta2. Within a few days problems became evident and Homebrew turned the compiler flag back off. Now it's just a questi
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by bodyfour 6y ago
I doubt that today it's a big topic of discussion, but pre-WW2 it certainly was. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles#France Remember that the years of fighting on the Western Front had been o
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by bodyfour 6y ago
That HK government website is amazing.
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by bodyfour 6y ago
Yes.. although excess mortality is the thing that we'll look at in retrospect to gauge the overall human cost of this disease, I don't think it is all that useful for measuring "how well is containment working" in real t
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by bodyfour 7y ago
In the early days of std::string multi-threading was much rarer, so reference counting was cheaper. As CPU count grows the relative cost of needing an atomic refcount on every string also grew. The COW strings also were a constant source o
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by bodyfour 7y ago
> Also holding down a hardware key to get to accented characters, oh fuck, how is that ergonomic? I think it's a good addition for when you very occasionally need to type a particular accented character, since you can visually see
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by bodyfour 7y ago
That mostly matches my experience. I was following 386BSD's progress at that time and was really eager to try it for myself. However, the machines that it was targeting (SCSI disk of ~200MB, math coprocessor) were out of my reach. I
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by bodyfour 7y ago
As someone who made the opposite move (Bay Area -> London) I found that I started suffering from hay fever for the first time in my life. I think that any move to an area with a sufficiently different mix of pollen can cause problems for
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by bodyfour 7y ago
signals might have gotten more complicated in BSD, but the concept certainly existed earlier: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...
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by bodyfour 7y ago
On the other hand, maybe some are moving on to harder stuff? https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/07/18/scotland-overta...
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by bodyfour 7y ago
Speaker Pelosi married into money, so no need to "wonder" (or throw baseless allegations around)
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by bodyfour 7y ago
I think the question is at what point does liquidity have diminishing returns? If a security could only be traded once per 10 years then it's obvious that its lack of liquidity would make it less valuable. Holding it would tie up your
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by bodyfour 7y ago
Temperate, not necessarily arable. Arable implies soil conditions, etc which most of these areas probably don't have.
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by bodyfour 7y ago
It's true that council tax is paid directly by renters, whereas in the US renters only pay property tax indirectly via rental cost. However, from the point of view of the housing market they are comparable. They're both an annual
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by bodyfour 7y ago
...but it's unlikely to be accidentally used as an exponent, since you can't dereference a number.
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by bodyfour 8y ago
Yes, I'm a vegetarian myself and also would have appreciated a better selection in that regard. Both times I ended up having meals that were heavy in the potato and cheese departments. The buffet had some fruit and cooked vegetables
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by bodyfour 8y ago
I'm actually surprised they let you stay on the train. Both times I've taken that route they seemed pretty diligent about making sure everybody was off the train. I assume this is for safety reasons -- down in a darkened train o
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by bodyfour 8y ago
Was in the same boat... except my 2014 rMBP did die and I had to replace it with a 2018 model. I also dreaded the soft-escape, but that turned out to be the least of my problems. Remapping caps lock to escape wasn't hard to get used
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by bodyfour 8y ago
> It should not be too hard to drastically reduce binary size with a build-time flag. And then how portable would the code be? Would this be a path to running node on CPUs without JIT support? Or does it still have to mess with the cal
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by bodyfour 8y ago
I've used it a bunch in UK and Northern Europe... absolutely loved it. Most of my travel tends to be last-minute and I've always found the selection and pricing to be great. I've never had a hotel that wasn't at least
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by bodyfour 8y ago
Not really needed. Newer versions of gcc support "-Wmisleading-indentation" which is good at catching misuse https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/02/26/gcc-6-wmislead...

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