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by cempaka 2y ago
What was the upshot/benefit of this "reduced transmission" which was purchased at enormous cost? Everyone eventually got COVID anyway. How many deaths were actually prevented rather than delayed?
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by cempaka 2y ago
At times it was as though people believed no one had ever died before COVID, and never would die if only they could indefinitely avoid catching it.
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by cempaka 2y ago
I ran my personal risk profile through qcovid.org and it spat out a 1 in 80,000 chance of death and 1 in 3,000 chance of hospitalization. Any notion of taking a rush-to-market vaccine went out the window at that point. And before someone sa
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by cempaka 2y ago
There's not really even any solid evidence that Trump was hit with shrapnel.
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by cempaka 2y ago
Public opinion polls consistently showed widespread overestimation of personal COVID risk across the political spectrum, and the policy response of reaching for poorly studied therapies and NPIs reflected this.
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by cempaka 2y ago
Not going to go and try to unearth it right now but everything he is saying about the figures coming out of England & Scotland is absolutely true, I saw it laid out on Twitter with links to the primary sources in real time.
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by cempaka 2y ago
I think my favorite trick here was categorizing people less than four weeks out from their second dose, or anyone who didn't get a second dose (likely as a result of a nasty reaction to the first shot, itself a good indicator of high s
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by cempaka 2y ago
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by cempaka 2y ago
A good parallel is the U.S. campus protests in opposition to military aid for Israel's Gaza campaign, which were violently dispersed. You can find lots of instances of mostly right wingers saying they should never be able to get a job
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Canada PM Trudeau is likely to announce resignation, source says(reuters.com)
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More Liberals add to calls for Trudeau's resignation(globalnews.ca)
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Khan-Led FTC Makes Final Court Plea for Worker Noncompete Ban(news.bloomberglaw.com)
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Next-Level Development: Harnessing AI with AIDE(blog.vanillajava.blog)
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by cempaka 2y ago
Yeah I actually did not necessarily mean to dispute Matz's perspective there. I actually think it will benefit programming as a whole if at least one widely used language takes the path of trying to eschew explicit type annotations.
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by cempaka 2y ago
I think they direct people to tapioca by default at this point, but that was key to making it a smooth process for us.
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by cempaka 2y ago
Is that really something that's been slated to be added to the language proper? I attended RubyConf and in his keynote Matz seemed pretty opposed to adding types to Ruby source, and argued in favor of automatic typing instead.
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by cempaka 2y ago
I wish I could reach for Kotlin as a kind of "Ruby with typing out of the box" but the lack of a good REPL is a real dealbreaker.
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by cempaka 2y ago
At my day job we use Ruby with Sorbet to stitch together a large number of data engineering pipelines. It's a good choice since we also often stand up small Rails apps to expose the results from those pipelines, so we can keep everythi
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by cempaka 2y ago
Unfortunately one can't go to war with percentages of GDP.
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by cempaka 2y ago
I have to assume this isn't whom the parent had in mind, it's just too funny otherwise.
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by cempaka 2y ago
A single prisoner dying in a remaining camp now being used as a prison in 2024 is a far cry from making the argument that "gulags were essential to the Soviet system."
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by cempaka 2y ago
The United States was always ahead of the Soviet Union in military spending and escalating the arms race. We even have documented statements from Western architects who said the purpose was to bankrupt the Soviets.
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by cempaka 2y ago
I haven't made any argument that no gulags ever existed, or that no one was ever mistreated in them. I imagine it was especially rough to be in one when resources were being poured into ending Nazi Germany's salt-the-earth campaig
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by cempaka 2y ago
It would be nice if we had an example of a communist state which came into existence and was not immediately beset by foreign intelligence agencies, influence campaigns, and actual military invasions attempting to depose it. We've seen
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by cempaka 2y ago
How long emptied, exactly?
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by cempaka 2y ago
Is Nial Ferguson really your idea of a troublesome dissident?
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by cempaka 2y ago
It may not have amounted to a desire to save communism itself, but there was enough opposition to the "shock therapy" liberalization being imposed after its fall that Yeltsin had to shell parliament at the U.S.'s behest in 19
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by cempaka 2y ago
Ruby has had this in the same form as "_1" for a while (and the obvious other indexes in the case of multiple params), but I agree Kotlin's "it" reads much better.
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by cempaka 2y ago
I'm not sure providing that level of complex logic and scheduling is really a proper task for OS kernels. It's essentially what you get from green threads / coroutines which are provided by numerous runtimes and frameworks, b

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