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by buboard 6y ago
IT workers are partly to blame for it. By creating , embracing, extending, normalizing and advertising a culture where companies compete for office perks, they also allowed the creation of the underclass of unwashed workers whose businesses
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Colleges need to change their model and build a "facebook for rich students". Memberships cost $1000 / month, pokes $100, by invitation only. I 've heard that online classes do not work. Conferences do, however, in fact
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by buboard 6y ago
Try r/covid19
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by buboard 6y ago
- production at scale - rivalry about countries to acquire it first - .. followed by unwillingness of low-risk populations to be vaccinated for safety reasons - backlash after the first side-effects are found
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that governments oversell themselves
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we aren't going to 'get moving again' nowhere near the levels we were before
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by buboard 6y ago
- no social signaling value - knowing that there is an easily obtainable alternative (piracy) makes buying feel like being cheated/ripped off. people don't like feeling like fools, they like to think they re on top of things - cop
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by buboard 6y ago
Over time this will lead to backlash towards mobile technologies from people. Not that big tech does not deserve it after decade of pushing hard on surveillance tech and telling governments how great it is. No country wants a completely ano
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many tech companies do too.
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by buboard 6y ago
thanks for doing this. YEs, the imperial model seems to be "Simcity for pandemics", but i m not sure why it was considered reliable since it wasnt ever calibrated to match a real world epidemic
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by buboard 6y ago
It doesn't matter; politicians already love it because they appear to be “Doing Something(TM)”, and the ~~commecial arm of NSA~~, er, big tech are excited to provide yet one more surveillance tool. What could go wrong? This year it wi
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by buboard 6y ago
the (in)famous Imperial model is not much different in nature. It's an agent-based and capable of making nice pictures like this. https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/ However i have not been able to find a c
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by buboard 6y ago
As a non-US person, where would i invest instead of US equity ?
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I don't see any of these happening. People will demand large investment in biotech after this scare, instead of vanity projects.
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by buboard 6y ago
Most popular web hosts offer preinstalled wordpress. You basically buy the domain and then log in to your wordpress dashboard
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by buboard 6y ago
Suppose people make the massive move from walled media to their own websites. How long will it be until mobs start going after web hosts to demand censorship? The next security/privacy law will probably make it illegal to publish your
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by buboard 6y ago
.. or just create a bookmark with this javascript:window.location='http:/'+'/sci-hub.tw/'+window.location
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by buboard 6y ago
> every developer who could possibly build your app well haven't they? a competitor doesn't need to be a copycat. like how, e.g. google bought deepmind
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by buboard 6y ago
This is overly simplistic. There is plenty of great services that can be done in a weekend. And some very elaborate engineering projects with tiny traffic. When people wonder "why they need so many programmers", sometimes they are
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by buboard 6y ago
They deal with real, physical stuff. The virtual world has no externalities (except maybe a solar storm).
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by buboard 6y ago
Not sure if huge. i ve enjoyed lectures more, and there is a lot of interaction in breakout chat rooms , probably more that RL conferences Also, conferences easily scale to thousands now
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TBH i expected this to happen some time. I wonder how much funding agencies like NIH , ERC etc spent on travel grants per year. From my experience it s a lot
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This is an older study which IIRC terminated early because they couldn’t rectuit enough ppl. There is newer, positive data coming out today from the ongoing study of advanced covid: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events&#x2F
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by buboard 6y ago
So, how is it that people employed in essential businesses have not become rich in this pandemic? After all they are in high, crucial demand and could/should command better wages than programmers at this time. Sure, some of those raise
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by buboard 6y ago
> React introduced a whole new way What will happen to this way when React is "outroduced" ?
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the average life expectancy (especially for males) is relevant here. India's at 70 yo, while UK is 80
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by buboard 6y ago
israel's plan : https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-hi-tech-and-pre...
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Contact-tracing apps are not a solution to the Covid-19 crisis(brookings.edu)
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They dont even mention other options such as previous vaccinations, cross effects from other drugs, antibodies from other coronaviruses , humidity/sunlight etc. "They must be hiding something" means they either believe it&#x
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by buboard 6y ago
/r/covid19 is a great place to find the latest curated research reddit is great, if you avoid the popular but juvenile places

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