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by crpatino 12y ago
What about characters that are regular human beings... born to extremely wealthy families... which get murdered by petty criminals, providing the sion child with a live long hunger for vendetta? If you dig deep enough, every memorable chara
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by crpatino 12y ago
That's still an improvement over countless adults not reading at all. People that was going to read the good stuff anyways will find their ways there eventually.
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by crpatino 12y ago
Back in the 90's Microsoft tried it's "embrace and extend" dirty trick on the nascent Java environment (have a look at Wikipedia's entry on the infamous J++: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_
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by crpatino 12y ago
> During the industrial revolution, the goal of progress in technology (and machines to be more specific) was always to, one day, have no humans working to survive, but living lives and do whatever they want. No, that's actually pro
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by crpatino 12y ago
Could you please clarify? Do you mean that more than 50% of the eventual total lines of C++ have already been written as of today (Peak C++, anyone)? Or do you mean that a very large percentage of eventual lines of C++ to be written in the
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by crpatino 12y ago
Yo soy americano, but would not call myself American. There is no confusion, the two words mean two different concepts, even if they share the same root. Formal translations of "American" would map to "estadounidense" o
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by crpatino 12y ago
The way you presented your message is not even trying to be polite, and I understand some people might be offended. However, it does not deserves the down-votes. Specially because it is probably correct. People tend to claim victory a bit t
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by crpatino 12y ago
At risk of going tremendously off-topic here... yes, people learn from their mistakes, if the consequences are hard enough. This was true in war, as it's probably going to be true in this epidemic. Little consolation for the poor souls
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by crpatino 12y ago
> (eg patients being treated by large numbers of medical staff seems to be the norm in the US). Treating knowledge workers as assembly line workers might be great for the bottom line, but at the cost of making the organization impossible
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by crpatino 12y ago
> Silence and blind obedience already spread unhindered through our medical system long before Ebola arrived. Not just the medical system. "Shooting the messenger" is standard procedure across most industries, so people learn p
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by crpatino 12y ago
> text alone is not nice either. Good luck describing a complex design, I much prefer a diagram. If you look at a detailed diagram of a complex design, it is even worse than text. I consider myself pretty good at spacial intelligence (Be
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by crpatino 12y ago
Why not? Because is not perfect? Such is life. And still, I am sure those people that have received proper care and survived are grateful enough. Or are you arguing that additional measures are needed both at the individual and at the socia
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by crpatino 12y ago
Exactly! 70% mortality if disease is let to follow its course, 30-40% if supportive care is provided. I don't know guys. But anything that doubles my survival rate sounds like a big difference to me.
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by crpatino 12y ago
It is very likely that thousands of people are going to die this year alone, because the elected officers that are supposed to protect them are more concerned with "preventing panics" than with implementing actual measures to cont
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by crpatino 12y ago
Presumably cutting down 2000 jobs in India would achieve the same cost saving as cuting ~500 jobs in US/EU.
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by crpatino 12y ago
I don't think the "above its weight" in the title refers to the quality of Cuban education, but the size of its economy. So, if you look at the number of qualified personnel committed to the epidemic by country, and divide ov
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by crpatino 12y ago
Security "contractors" are not the same as real contractors. They are themselves employees of a different 3rd party company that "hires" them to the paying customer for a (usually much) bigger bill than the contractor&#x
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by crpatino 12y ago
Even in US settings, compliance with basic hygiene protocols may be below 50% [1]. This happens mostly in overcrowded facilities where personnel has been cut to run at or near capacity most of the time. The most salient factor is indirect c
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by crpatino 12y ago
Imagine your employer wants to pay you only for the time you spend coding. Then, you have to attend a status meeting every day, where everybody reports their progress. You can report your progress in a couple of minutes, but have to wait fo
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by crpatino 12y ago
This is not completely accurate. The guy went to the hospital on the 26th, was misdiagnosed and sent home on antibiotics. Then he was taken to a different hospital by ambulance 2 days later when he obviously got worse instead of better.
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by crpatino 12y ago
I continue to use Dropbox, but treat it like a semi public storage. I do not particularly fear that someone will go around looking at my files, but if they do, they won't find anything very valuable anyways.
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by crpatino 12y ago
Thanks, I was not aware of the SIR model. Regarding your original question... if you can identify individual regions where the model can be applied, maybe you could use Markov chains to model the transitions between states in each region. I
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by crpatino 12y ago
If the ghosts of people who died in the road began to spook drivers and cause more accidents, you would see a rapid spike of mortality in the short term, followed maybe by change of behavior where ~90% of traffic is composed of professional
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by crpatino 12y ago
I am not saying that this will grow exponentially for ever. For what I know, disease expansion is modeled with a sigmoid curve: exponential at first, then slows down once a saturation level in the population is reached. According to Wikiped
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by crpatino 12y ago
Last week, the total number of cases was ~6500. One month ago it was ~3000. Two months ago it was ~1300. How do you call a process that duplicates itself every fixed unit of time (in this case, every ~3 weeks)? Of course, we should not fall
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by crpatino 12y ago
Frankly, and succinctly, I think you got down-voted because you did not use the word quarantine in your original post. It read as if you were proposing to send drones to indiscriminately murder people in the affected areas. Which takes us t
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by crpatino 12y ago
I wonder the legal implications this is going to have regarding prostitution. I don't say this is intentional from the part of soothe's creators, but they will have to deal with (and accepting the legal liabilities of) an issue th
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by crpatino 12y ago
To be fair, Linus's Law was meant to apply to all bugs in general, not particularly to security bugs. Though it can be argued that, given that human nature makes people more prone to go looking into things when there is a (perceived) p
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by crpatino 12y ago
I think a factor is that critical thinking is a skill that has been eroding in society across all levels for quite some time on. Even if more technically savvy, the "educated" are not better prepared to resist propaganda than the
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by crpatino 12y ago
No, it's the economics. The inherently scarce number of "others" to work for you means not everybody can amass wealth. The ability to bring other non-human categories of "others" can move the balance in the supply s

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