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by cletus 5y ago
Think about it this way: what is the evolutionary pressure for it to become more lethal? Particularly if we accept your premise that such lethality occurs after it spreads. Now a given strain may mutate to become more deadly but why would s
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by cletus 5y ago
No one still thinks Covid is ever going away, right? It's likely something we'll just have to deal with like the flu. For one thing, there are now Covid-19 reservoirs in various animal populations. It's hard to say how this w
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by cletus 5y ago
> Do you have kids? hobbies? friends? Do you like to go fishing on weekends? Do you like having a job that gives you money to pay for all those things as well as the basic ability to, you know, live? How far do you want to take this? Is
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by cletus 5y ago
Task is a general all-encompassing term here as well as the internal task tracking tool everyone uses (called "Tasks"). Tasks could be filed by users of your service or external reports that get routed to your oncall or an alarm t
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by cletus 5y ago
This question presupposes a lot and it's a deep topic so I don't want to get lost in the weeds. Your question, I assume, is based on the idea that humans may well colonize Mars and one of reasons for doing so is to increase humani
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by cletus 5y ago
So I've seen personally been involved in this at both Google and Facebook. They have very different approaches. One works reasonably well. One... doesn't. At Google, when you develop a service, you as a software team are responsib
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by cletus 5y ago
Crypto is increasingly looking like a Ponzi scheme to me. I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion on HN but it's no less true. The fact is that blockchain solves a problem for almost nobody. The primary use seems to be to avoid
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by cletus 5y ago
There are many variations of the "lab leak" theory for Covid-19. For example: 1. Was the sample found or engineered? Or found then engineered? 2. Was it a deliberate leak or accidental? Here are some open questions that haven&#x27
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by cletus 5y ago
What a lot of concepts ignore is material requirements, which is super-important. A good example is Larry Niven's Ringworld. It's a cool idea in the early days when people were thinking about mass-to-living-area ratio but to produ
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by cletus 5y ago
Two things spring to mind reading this. First, I can't remember who said it but there's a quote that goes something like (paraphrased) "open standards are for losers" (side note: if anyone has the original quote, please
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by cletus 5y ago
100% this. It's now right up there with "X considered harmful", which 80% of the time translates to "I don't like X". Specific to Python from the article, I'll add that I personally am done with dynamicall
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by cletus 5y ago
> We are going to go extinct with that attitude I understand your point and I agree (within limits) but that makes it no less true. Side note: total extinction of the human race is incredibly unlikely at this point and certainly not from
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by cletus 5y ago
I've said this repeatedly here: the world won't address climate change even if it's mildly inconvenient to do so, let alone the massive endeavours that have been proposed thus far. The solution will be economic. Want to repla
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by cletus 5y ago
First strange thing: this post just mentions GameStop and leaves that hanging in the air without explanation. I assume this is because of the sale of order flow at Ronbinhood in particular but it still seems odd. Second, the real estate thi
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by cletus 5y ago
Not you specifically but lots of people have tried to conflate restrictions for unvaccinated people to various historical blights including, but not limited to, Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, South African Apartheid (google the phrase
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by cletus 5y ago
This is a Republican-sponsored bill in the House so, unless it has Democratic support, is going absolutely nowhere. I'm actually a little surprised this isn't Democrat-sponsored. It may find traction with Democrats unfortunately b
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by cletus 5y ago
Estimates of costs for getting payloads into LEO in the Apollo era are around $50,000/kg (in modern USD terms). I believe the Shuttle was pretty similar. Estimates for SpaceX seem to be around $2,700/kg but I'm not sure this
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by cletus 5y ago
I'm sure this is to appease brands and we can say a lot about that. But I want to focus on one big problem with dislikes and down votes. It applies to Youtube, Reddit, HN and probably everywhere you can dislike something: too often peo
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by cletus 5y ago
We can't even get people to wear a mask to help stop the spread of a respiratory disease let alone take a vaccine that may save their life and will unquestionably save the lives of others. So there are two possibilities here: 1. This c
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by cletus 5y ago
I like the idea of Discord in general. It certainly does have uses like making voice communication more accessible. But I think I must be in the small minority who thinks that Discord UI/UX is beyond terrible and Discord is nothing mor
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by cletus 5y ago
Pinterest seems like such a squandered opportunity to me. It’s classic short term thinking vs long term vision. I basically ignore any Pinterest links because they’re just shoe pages and a login trap driven by mindlessly chasing engagement
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by cletus 5y ago
Good for China. I hope it works out for them. China seems politically stable and already has nuclear weapons so there's really no additional risk here. I'm happy to sit back and learn from their mistakes. I'm honestly surpris
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by cletus 5y ago
So this isn't directly resultant from 23andMe but it's hard to overstate just what a revolution has happened in genetics in the last decade. The specific subfield I'm talking about is genetic genealogy. In the late 20th centu
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by cletus 5y ago
> For my age/health group, I view this risk of Covid to be less than the risk of the known issues with the vaccines 1. If you extrapolate that out to everyone doing it, we have a ton more people die, many from things unrelated to Co
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by cletus 5y ago
Again this demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the origin, meaning and reality of "apartheid". Black South Africans didn't choose to be black. They couldn't choose to be white to escape the segregation, loss o
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by cletus 5y ago
> Twisted how. It doesn't apply. It makes the (false) claim that anti-vaxxers don't have body autonomy. They do. No one is holding them down and making them take a vaccine. You've given the choice: get the vaccine or don&#
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by cletus 5y ago
Personally, I'm against making students use Eclipse because it's a terrible IDE and this constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Seriously though, I have trouble following the author's argument here. For example, she points
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by cletus 5y ago
> medical apartheid This is such a baseless and inflammatory mischaracterization. It's like the tamer version of those who have unironically compared mask and vaccine mandates to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. No one is be
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by cletus 5y ago
I appreciate you posted a credible link to this. The article specifically calls out this risk as "very low" and quantifies it as less than 1 in 50,000. The death rates from motor vehicle accidents in the US was ~11 per 100,000 peo
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by cletus 5y ago
What about seat belts for children who can't make an informed decision to have a greater risk of death or injury in the name of "freedom"?

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