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by chithanh 5y ago
Maybe I am missing something because I am not from the US, but why wasn't it an option to make evictions permanently impossible for precisely the rent that was due during the moratorium? Then people would have had to start paying again
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by chithanh 5y ago
XMG (a gaming laptop brand) even publicly announced that AMD would not meet their request for validation samples of Ryzen 5800 and 5900 CPUs. CPUs that have been launched and are shipping to other customers already. https://www.r
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by chithanh 5y ago
ICEs use friction brakes. Electric (and hybrid) vehicles normally use regenerative brakes, and friction brakes only as a backup system.
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by chithanh 5y ago
> AFAIK Intel 10nm approximately equals TSMC 7nm. I don't think so, TSMC 7nm is ahead in many ways. For example, Intel 10nm power efficiency is much worse. https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-epyc-journey-continues-to-mi
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by chithanh 5y ago
> glycemic index of 0 That doesn't necessarily help. Saccharin, aspartame and acesulfame-K have all glycemic index of 0, but have been found to alter food preferences in humans. cf. Roberts et al., Uncoupling sweet taste and calorie
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by chithanh 5y ago
> I'd rather reduce the harm The fact that artificial sweeteners are used as animal feed additive in order to increase body mass should give you enough to think what happens if we add it randomly to human food. Yes, artifical sweet
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by chithanh 5y ago
No, only "morbid obesity" includes a morbidity in the definition. Other than that, body fat is an indicator not of personal health , but of personal risk .
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by chithanh 5y ago
Plenty of countries have this problem. WHO recommends a "sugar tax", to decrease market viability of products that are high in added sugar. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/260253 Whether arti
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by chithanh 5y ago
People typically mask the sour/bitter taste of not well prepared coffee with milk and sugar to make it more palatable. Good coffee you can drink black.
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by chithanh 5y ago
What is true is that since we have computer-based theorem provers / proof checkers, "working it out" becomes a matter of getting your challenge past one of those, and the orthodoxy will have a hard time arguing against that.
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by chithanh 5y ago
In addition to weakening the logic (or avoiding the parts that introduce incompleteness, especially the existential quantifier) you also need to weaken your arithmetic. We know that Primitive Recursion (PR) is too weak to prove its own cons
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by chithanh 5y ago
> Why is bread not considered ulta-processed? Even traditional bread is certainly highly processed, undergoing mechanical (milling), biochemical (fermentation), and thermal (baking) processing. It doesn't quite meet the definition o
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by chithanh 5y ago
> People let their (understandable) hatred of Intel-the-company colour their technical judgement. Itanium was one of the more interesting architectures of its time, it fairly flew on expert-tuned assembly; I know only few people who main
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by chithanh 5y ago
> We're going to have to agree to disagree there. Everyone can of course have their own opinions. But they cannot have their own facts, a discussion does not work that way. Whether one considers some statement as entitled, that is a
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by chithanh 5y ago
> It's not reasonable or constructive to expect their software to never have bugs I think nobody demanded anything of that sort, that is just a strawman. What was actually demanded is that priority of such bugs be raised, and perhap
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by chithanh 5y ago
If you call it a "whim" if I point out that the latest version of the Signal server is proprietary software most of the time then so be it. Or maybe you are referring to the other commenters who were entitled to expect that the on
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by chithanh 5y ago
> How can users be assured that this type of issue won't occur again? Actually, this very type of issue (sending messages to wrong recipients due to stale/invalid database entries) has occured previously. https://git
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by chithanh 5y ago
Signal typically delay releasing the server source code, so the latest version of the server is not open source. In one case it took them almost a year (no public commits between 20 April 2020 and 6 April 2021). https://github.co
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by chithanh 5y ago
To be more precise, running different cloud customers on different SMT threads of the same core allows them to attack each other. This is also the case with Spectre-related vulnerabilities such as L1TF.
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by chithanh 5y ago
Work done by Schmieden&Laugwitz in the 1950s helped to formalize and retroactively apply rigor to the earlier uses of infinitesimals. Their Omega Calculus approach was also constructive. cf. Detlef Laugwitz, Curt Schmieden's Approa
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by chithanh 5y ago
Even in a VM you have to carefully ensure that memory deduplication is disabled, and/or some form of mitigation against Rowhammer is in place. Else you will be vulnerable to Flip Feng Shui cross-VM attacks. https://fahrplan.
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by chithanh 5y ago
Most companies who publish AGPL software also offer a paid commercial license, so it is accept AGPL (and contribute in kind) or pay (and contribute in money). I don't think this is bad forcing companies to choose between these two (or
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by chithanh 5y ago
Also standard works on this are: Robert D. Austin, Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations (1996). This book coined the term "measurement dysfunction" to describe how reward structures work against company goals. And A
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by chithanh 6y ago
That changes a lot of things. For one, this side effect was neither known nor documented, so people could not make an informed decision before getting the vaccine. Then individuals have a quantifiable risk of dying from COVID vs. dying from
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by chithanh 6y ago
That article is quite uninformed. There was no legal requirement either, it was a purely political decision, based on the advice of the Paul-Ehrlich-Institute (PEI). The statistical anomality about the thrombosis cases was known before and
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by chithanh 6y ago
I don't know about Norway, but for Germany there have been preliminary results published, which indicate that the cerebral venous sinus thrombosis cases were indeed caused by immune reaction. Article (in German): https://www
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by chithanh 6y ago
> Companies don't have ethics. In a way, they do. There exists a "company culture", which is the collection of social norms that have formed inside the company. Most members of a group will behave in a way that does not st
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by chithanh 6y ago
This is not how I read the EMA statement. They don't see any evidence but they didn't exclude the possibility either. Which is why they want the observations documented in the package insert.
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by chithanh 6y ago
>> there are other options > Not with sufficient supply there isn’t. Depends. If AZ is not removed entirely from use but instead only from the most affected group (women under 50), then this can be achieved by shuffling around whic
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by chithanh 6y ago
But did these women have any comorbidities?

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