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by ericb 5y ago
Oh, we reached stage 4 denial already? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb2xFvmKWRY&t=16s
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I thought race/sexuality being a part of the hiring decision was the problem ?
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> it’s calling the pandemic a hoax. I find that distinction odd. The definition of a pandemic is "a disease prevalent over a whole country or the world." Is your claim that they are really saying is that there is a virus, but
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by ericb 5y ago
This is a great example of a Schelling Point! I'd also argue that you're right, and that as a principle, good UI/UX and software architecture should default to following natural Schelling Points.
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by ericb 5y ago
Oh no, it was called a "hoax" for a long time, people were claiming doctors were faking death certificates. Trump said Covid is "their new hoax.” People on facebook were saying covid would "disappear" after the elec
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by ericb 5y ago
You're proving my point. My comment was about "field hospitals, Javits center, and the hospital ship" which are all good safety precautions to protect the largest outbreak in the largest city in the country--just like the add
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> Do you remember the hospital ship? The field hospitals? Javits center? Let's not mingle in choices that were reasonable given the best knowledge and advice from medical experts at the time along with crimes. I hate this binary thi
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by ericb 5y ago
"If it bleeds, it leads" has been true since news began. 4 million died, so COVID coverage has the most accurate fear-to-reality alignment the news has ever had.
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by ericb 5y ago
I think the smart move is to put a regulatory requirement to either fund removal via a satellite tax, prepayment, or require a 1-up-1-down trade. Selling a satellite cleanup credit like companies do with carbon or EV credits could work.
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by ericb 5y ago
"So let's be clear: the claim is that the virus can mutate, therefore, any particular outcome is equally likely?" That's where you set up the silly straw man you've been battling. > be tremendously surprising if
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by ericb 5y ago
I provided source evidence documenting an example of the mechanism and result of what I'm saying. Get back to me when you can provide a source example case of a virus evolving legs and doing a little dance and then we can consider the
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> the claim is that the virus can mutate, therefore, any particular outcome is equally likely? No. Did you actually read the study I linked? Outcomes that enhance transmissibility are always being selected for. Things like higher viral l
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> run through fear mongering More than 4 million people have died so far. If you're going to say it was "fear mongering" then buzz off.
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From delta, we clearly have evidence that on a short timeframe a version with _wildly_ enhanced transmissibility has evolved. So speculating that changes will continue is reasonable. Additionally, we know that leaky vaccines and continued s
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by ericb 5y ago
> There are no propositions that "we are in simulation" would imply (unless someone fundamentally lacks imagination). Not true! It implies we might find performance optimizations, especially at the lowest level. Lazy loading, c
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Maybe, but if you can segment out the unobserved items, and back-calculate it lazily, you could save a lot of processing and memory. The place to implement an optimization like this would be at the items with the biggest O in your world, wh
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by ericb 5y ago
The term "deist" fits some of those items, although. Interestingly, I think some of the distinction as to why this idea is more palatable is that it doesn't require "supernatural" or "magic" deities. The &
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by ericb 5y ago
The reason "magicians" succeed is because Occam's razor is a heuristic that we rely on intuitively. When the real explanation is super-complex, like "this magician spent 8 hours a day for months learning to hold a hidden
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by ericb 5y ago
> that the computing model would be anything at all like what've developed Perhaps. I suspect, though, that it would be subject to the same information theoretical constraints which would provide convergent evolutionary pressures. I
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by ericb 5y ago
If we were in a simulation, would the speed of light be the processing speed of the universe as each area re-renders, and spooky action at a distance be two variables pointed to the same memory location, populated with a lazy-loaded value,
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by ericb 5y ago
A well configured web server easily scales really well. Now, application servers and database tiers , that's a different story. Epic novel, really.
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by ericb 5y ago
Such an amazing and well-maintained tool!!! Anyone interested in sharing use-cases where it has helped you?
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Why do you care? I've submitted resumes to companies directly and been ignored--probably dumped in an HR inbox somewhere. Then I later come in through a recruiter and had them pursue me aggressively. Feel free to look through my comme
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by ericb 5y ago
1. Use recruiters. Several. Recruiters signal a company is motivated, and willing to pay more than they need to to fill a position. Tell the recruiters "I'm looking for $xxx,xxx and up." Most recruiters don't like wastin
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by ericb 5y ago
Are you saying they "developed an ingeniuous weapon" and then had the brilliant idea to fire it ~at themselves~? They began the pandemic by sealing in a city the size of London! Your theory is one of the least thought-out theories
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by ericb 5y ago
> The problem with a lot of UI tests is that you might need to add artificial slowness to make the tests more likely to pass. For most real-world performance tests, you should be adding plenty of delay. The average delay on the web betwe
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by ericb 5y ago
> Having built a load-test tool as well. Which tool. Curious. To your other points, > That sounds like throwing money at the problem and it probably worked (for a while anyway). > Maintenance cost is high, especially in a features
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by ericb 5y ago
A fork having activity doesn't imply it is a publicly maintained fork that people can rally around. Many of forks are made for personal purposes, experiments, one offs to patch bugs, to keep an eye on a project, or other reasons. I&#x2
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by ericb 5y ago
This is a serious shortcoming in github's current UI. There's no easy discovery for which forks are active. It would be useful if there was a checkbox "Actively Publicly Maintained" in forked repos that defaults to Off.
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> It never was meant to be, and it never advertised itself as such. Totally untrue. Read Satoshi's emails--it was in the title of his first email about Bitcoin, and the first sentence in the whitepaper! The current bitcoin core dev

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