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I'm an Italian living in the UK, so I've been following both the stats and the debate in Italy (and elsewhere) very closely. My conclusion is that whoever thinks that this problem can be not stopped, but contained to a manageable
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Lombardys health facilities are excellent, but there is only so much you can do when you're overwhelmed
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I was delaying investing in the stock market waiting for the next recession. My intention though isn't to try to time the bottom (which nobody can predict), but just to start buying when I think prices are "good enough".
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IIRC this was instituted after the crash of 1987, when they realised that automated trading could set off a crazy plunge. At any rate, it's public knowledge, not some sort of ad-hoc manipulation.
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I reproduced a chart I saw which explains this better: https://imgur.com/vtaqIrz
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I'm not expecting you to comply, I'm just stating what the risk is that those measures are trying to contain, and hoping this will help some readers understand. By the way, given the mathematics of exponential virus spread and pre
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When - pretty soon - intensive care units in most countries will be overwhelmed, and millions of (mostly elderly, granted) people will be left struggling for their life in their homes, we'll see who is acting like a 9yo.
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Would you mind expanding what you think he did right? I'm curious to have a counterpoint to the other top comments, which are pretty negative.
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For those who want constant updates about the international situation, this is the best source I found so far: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ By the way , I'm wondering how much the high cost of the te
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I read a lot about this virus lately, and it looks like the mortality rate depends a lot on the availability of intensive care. If that's the case, slowing down the diffusion of the infection could be really important in keeping down
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I suppose the idea is that most of the energy will be expelled as kinetic energy of the alpha particles, that then can be converted into electric potential energy?
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> Pretty much only one wanted to get rich (and did). Metcalfe?
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The article shortly addresses these points: ... One unresolved question is whether such a plane would have windows or use video screens to give passengers a sense of their surroundings. Another issue that has dogged such experiments in the
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On Chrome, I use the Dark Reader extension. Works perfectly well with HN, and I use it with many, many other websites.
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To reinforce your point: static typing doesn't just force you to fix some bugs earlier, but it also forces you to spend more time doing design upfront, often when you still don't have clear specs. That can be a big drag when you n
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Climate science is heavily politicised, because its findings have a massive impact on our economies. But the strongest economic interest is in downplaying global warming, not overplaying it. As a matter of fact, scientists that have a contr
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The point is that if you're good at something, you shouldn't be forced to do something else you're not as good at.
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The difference here is that China has a rich (and growing) internal market.
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> Higher minimum wage is a subsidy for tech companies though By which mechanism?
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With many "monolithic" frameworks - eg Ruby on rails - you can do end to end automated testing without having to create a staging environment. https://www.codewithjason.com/rails-integration-tests-rspec-...
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You don't create the fixtures... because you're not testing that the system works as expected in the situations that those fixtures would simulate. Having that kind of tests takes time, but I find them invaluable.
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I never tried that, but my understanding is that those tests wouldn't check if the distributed business logic works. To do that, you would need to set up the state for the various services, and I don't see any easy way to do that.
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One of the points listed as the promises of microservices is: "Easy to test" A microservice might be easy to test in isolation, but testing a microservices based system is FAR more difficult than testing a monolith - personally, I
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You could argue that it's becoming like Pompei, but for sure it's nothing like Disneyland.
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An optimistic interpretation is this one: an enlightened, mutually agreed regulation is the last best hope against a non-enlightened, nationalistic regulation.
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We usually overestimate the short term impact of technological changes, and underestimate their long term impact.
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Fusion Real Soon Now would mean that we wouldn't need to change our lifestyles to stop global warming. So, the list of those who would, if not make, at least not lose money is nearly infinite.
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I'm afraid this is going to be true, unless some other far cheaper source of energy is going to be developed. On the other hand, the rate at which that oil is going to be burned is very relevant for climate change, and that is a factor
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You can frame facts in different ways, but you can also tell things that contradict known facts - ie, lies. It's the latter that shouldn't go without consequences.
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Would transistor density be a better metric? Or that wouldn't be significant either?

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