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by choward 6y ago
Exactly, there's two ways to make sure hospitals aren't overrun. Decrease the number of patients or increase capacity. For some reason everyone is only focused on the former.
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by choward 6y ago
Sure, the candidate may say things they like but since when do politicians do everything they say? They are going to prioritize whatever has the most money behind it.
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by choward 6y ago
So that's what the Congress people are up to instead of trying to help people during a pandemic. Putting in laws to reduce streaming while encouraging people to stay at home. I guess that $600 they paid people whose job they eliminated
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by choward 6y ago
> No abstraction is better than a bad abstraction. I misread that at first. At first I thought you were saying that there is no better abstraction than a bad abstraction. Gotta love the ambiguities in English.
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by choward 6y ago
> why place a newspaper ad if you just want to reach politicians I'm guessing it's similar to the reason pharmaceutical companies use TV ads to reach doctors.
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by choward 6y ago
Manuals make sense to read to learn something. I'm not going to seek out an FAQ unless I have a question. I guess I don't like FAQs in general. They're usually not really FAQs, but more of disorganized manual.
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by choward 6y ago
True. I was just trying to provide an alternative to the "I got it so I'm immune" argument.
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by choward 6y ago
That's an interesting take. There are a lot of negative affects caused by covid too. Disposable masks, boxes for shipping, social distancing means you need to build more so people are spaced out, public transit is inefficient since eve
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by choward 6y ago
Another question you may ask is why get a vaccine for something your body has proven it can fight?
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by choward 6y ago
That doesn't make any sense. The worse the virus is the less you should need to "sell" the vaccine. If it was a rushed vaccine to prevent you from becoming a zombie you wouldn't need to sell it. If it was a vaccine for t
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by choward 6y ago
Not trying to be snarky, but just curious: do you know anyone under 45 who has died from it?
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by choward 6y ago
Why would I read the FAQ if I don't have any questions?
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by choward 6y ago
I'm guessing their own 3rd party seller marketplace is next.
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by choward 6y ago
> Politicians often claim to follow the science, but that is a misleading oversimplification. Science is rarely absolute. It rarely applies to every setting or every population. It doesn’t make sense to slavishly follow science or eviden
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by choward 6y ago
So basically just correlation vs causation.
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by choward 6y ago
There are many drugs with many different properties. Some are medicinal, some are addictive, some are illegal, etc. They all effect people in varying negative and positive ways. The word "drugs" typically has a negative connotatio
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by choward 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. Typescript is a language with a type checker and compiler. It's the same thing with C. Typescript has to be compiled to run. C has to be compiled to run. When I think of language performance I
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by choward 6y ago
People buy "smart" TVs which are subsidized by an integrated computer used to track and advertise to you.
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by choward 6y ago
I think it just means something different than the norm. "I'm having a moment" can be something positive in certain contexts.
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by choward 6y ago
Automate the entire set up of my computer using a declarative language. I use NixOS. Mac OS isn't even close.
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by choward 6y ago
This isn't true. I know this because I've been using Linux as my desktop operating system for years.
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by choward 6y ago
There are more than 1,000 people and it's a sampling of a larger population. There are more developers and technical savvy people out there than just the ones who use HN.
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by choward 6y ago
You don't have to "trust" them. In fact you shouldn't. That's why you encrypt locally first. And if they lose your data you still have it locally. It is good to also have two local copies.
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by choward 6y ago
I hope you have an encrypted off-site backup somewhere.
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by choward 6y ago
Do you remember CDs, cassettes, records, etc.? Is it illegal to let family listen to those?
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by choward 6y ago
I'm no Qt expert but on the linked page it says: > Qt 6.0 does drop Qt Script and also removes Qt Multimedia / Qt Bluetooth / Qt Virtual-Keyboard modules until a later Qt6 version.
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by choward 6y ago
Why wouldn't you trust it if you encrypted them yourself? Are you afraid they'll break the encryption, lose the data, or collect other data such as when you upload?
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by choward 6y ago
I sense Goodhart's law coming in to play eventually once people learn the metrics that contribute to the the input of the "AI".
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by choward 6y ago
Or even "a Monopoly". Using it like they did leaves no other interpretation really than it being the name of something.
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by choward 6y ago
> I always feel awkward when I don’t know who is writing on the other side. Is it the CEO? Someone from Sales? Is it a super intelligent baby? Why would someone feel awkward? It's from neither of those. It's automated so I thin

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