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by catears 6y ago
I started programming at gymnasium and through uni. Throughout uni I did a lot of Competitive Programming. Most programs in CP are written and discarded within hours of each other. You also pretty much only use the standard library and no t
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by catears 6y ago
I think the argument goes something like this: if the state lends money to allow more people to educate themselves, then in the future those people will be earning more money and then be paying higher taxes. Therefore the interest on the lo
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by catears 6y ago
I don't know about other countries but here in Sweden we have Lantmäteriet ("The land measurement agency") and they have an interactive map based on their data that is free to use. https://minkarta.lantmateriet.se&
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by catears 6y ago
The two main ways to get into university in Sweden is through your grades or through a national test (Högskoleprovet ~ The university test). From your grades you calculate a score and then people are accepted into programmes at uni based on
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by catears 6y ago
I can't remember which TV-series I saw it in, some kind of murder or "who dun' it?" show. But I remember that they had a pretty genuine and true role for a mathematician in that episode. The mathematician was tasked with
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by catears 6y ago
I work in the med-tech industry and Jira is a very good fit for that industry. Most compliance issues are solved by defining a way of working that uses a project management system like Jira. Someone else read how to label a product with CE-
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by catears 6y ago
I don't think that lockdown is an instant recipe for covid handling success. There are many countries that "performed poorly" despite going into lockdown. Also, I think you are missing the point. The swedish strategy was base
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by catears 6y ago
Reading the article I understood it like this. ~10 million residents from Wuhan (almost same size as Swedish population) got screened for covid. In ~30k people who recovered from covid, 107 tested positive for covid a second time. Roughly ~
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by catears 6y ago
I know these countries are often compared. My point is that it is not a very good comparison to make in all cases. And mind you, the original claim was that a comparison between Sweden, UK, Spain etc. was not valid "because you should
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by catears 6y ago
I did some simple google searching as well, and while it seems possible to transmit the virus without symptoms it also seems that a small minority of cases are transmitted by asymptomatic carriers. The numbers I find are ~20%. Sure, that is
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by catears 6y ago
To me, this sounds like Tegnell (who is an expert and has studied viruses and pandemics) knows what he's talking about. If you've ever seen an interview with him it becomes quite apparent that he's got a real scientidic minds
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by catears 6y ago
To be honest it sounds pretty denialist to me when someone says you have to compare Denmark, Sweden and Norway, but adding other countries is "not comparable". To me it just sounds like cherry picking. An example of a big differen
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by catears 6y ago
I think this is actually incorrect. Again, there is so much misinformation about this that I don't blame anyone. I think there was quite a lot of things being done. I believe the goal was to keep people informed about the dangers of th
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by catears 6y ago
The covid response did not depend on the opinion of a single person. The FHM is responsible, not Tegnell. This was clarified early during the pandemic (somewhere around May maybe?). The director of FHM essentially told everyone during the p
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by catears 6y ago
Hey, that was pretty cool to hear. Thanks for sharing that experience. The one thing I have continuously relearned about this virus is that pandemics are incredibly complex. It makes sense the pandemic spreads into every context humans plac
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by catears 6y ago
This is incorrect, please refer to the press conferences held by FHM between march and june. I think every other one had a question about herd immunity (mostly from international media) and that herd immunity was not the strategy that swede
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by catears 6y ago
Yeah, that is my understanding as well. We have a word for politicians that try to use the ministeries to "get it their way". "Ministerstyre", very roughly translates to "rule through ministry". Ruling by &quot
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by catears 6y ago
Maybe I should make it clear I don't defend the strategy. I'm not an expert and honestly I don't know what the best national strategy for protecting against a pandemic is. Regarding the lack of information for the elderly car
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by catears 6y ago
As a swede, I want to correct you. There has been a ton of outright mis-information about my country and how it handled the coronavirus so I don't blame anyone for not knowing. The poor journalism that has been conducted is to blame an
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by catears 6y ago
There is already protection against this form of attack in the browser with CORS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS
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by catears 6y ago
I tried looking up if there are any previous examples of FIPS 140 that allow bcrypt. I can find 37 matches when searching for "bcrypt" here: https://web.archive.org/web/20141226152243/http://csr
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by catears 6y ago
It will always baffle me how some programmers believe that meetings are the bane of their existance because "they only waste time", while at the same time they can entertain the "tabs vs. spaces" (or "vim vs. emacs&
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by catears 6y ago
It's true. Unfortunately whichever road a project takes it will eventually lead to Rome.
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by catears 6y ago
But if you google "twitter bots state level actor" the first three links are two government sites and one is nature.com (as in the big journal Nature). I can give lots of examples of googling that gets you to conspiracy sites, but
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by catears 6y ago
I want to tackle a misunderstanding I have seen from some posters in this thread about passwords/secrets/keys. Using a password should not be considered a form of "obscure defense". If you are using a password there is a
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by catears 6y ago
While the article does have a point that obscurity can improve defences, I think security is not about defence. Security is about managing risk in a consistent and rational manner. This means that any defense mechanism need an appropriate
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by catears 6y ago
I recently found this out. You need to specifically create a "secret chat" in order for telegram to actually use E2E. I originally chose Telegram because I wanted a messaging app that respects my privacy and E2E by default is pret
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by catears 6y ago
Would you mind stop telling everyone that they don't understand compounding interest? I've read a lot of comments and your replies and I have noticed a disturbing amount of normal comments being greyed out while you explain to the
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by catears 6y ago
If I understand you correctly, you mean that wealthy americans who have built their fortune and life in america will choose to not only leave but also revoke their citizenship and leave the US? All because they have to pay more money than b
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by catears 6y ago
I would suggest "The Big Short". It mainly focuses on the huge disaster of the 2008 financial bubble, and what led up to it. Before watching the movie I had this feeling of how impossible it could have been for so many normal peop

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