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by ericb 6y ago
Let me clarify that a bit--their concept has better real business prospects than ever. I'm not commenting on their ability to match their over-promises, their leadership, capital structure, or their misalignment to their valuation. I s
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by ericb 6y ago
By the end of the year, we'll have started a new roaring 20's. People are pent-up--eager to travel, excited to be with friends, vacation, go to bars, party, see movies. Pent-up demand will help kick-start the economy. Work from ho
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The developed world has sub-replacement fertility rates. As other countries develop, their fertility rate drops in the same manner. Japan has been in a funk for years. China has shifted from a many-child culture to a one-child norm. These p
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I think you misunderstood me, or had a soapbox you wanted to stand on. My claim was limited--non-gradual population drops are a negative thing. Basic income is a way of re-allocating the value produced. I'm for it. It won't solv
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Imagine the entire population of the world was a village of 100 houses. There are 100 people. Imagine the village ages out and you have 90 old people, and 10 middle-aged people. There's not enough people harvesting grain to feed everyo
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Yes!
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> My personal pet hate is when people make it concise by using acronyms and I’m just left wondering what the hell it stands for. I agree. I can find, and understand reducePermissionLevel, but reducePermLvl is unguessable, and not searcha
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Sure, except randomly distribute the goods, and then forcefully extract payback from many who were never involved, and many who fought to prevent the theft, and now you're getting closer. Will there later be reparations for the reparat
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The tweet was up for four hours! People pointed the "white power" part out right away. The president is always reachable by his people, by definition. It was more than a smoking gun. No apology or explanation from him, not eve
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> doesn't prevent infection My understanding is not that it doesn't , just that this hasn't been proven yet.
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I'm not so sure. When you disagree in a code review with the "top performer with all the commits" it gets escalated to management, who sides with the "top performer" because they are a "top performer."
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Tests are fiddly to get working and could expose problems! Maybe in a new commit and PR later?
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Hah! That's some top performer thinking! I tip my hat to your team!
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> praised by management for the amount of work they produced Management literally can't tell the difference, sometimes even if it is a former dev. There are many ways to ship code faster. -Don't test -Don't worry about san
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I'm curious if there was widespread serology testing to get to that number with the original SARS. That's in the ballpark of what the early SARS-COV-2 research (15%) showed until we realized there were asymptomatics and people who
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by ericb 6y ago
Annotations? Beans? Generators? @Entity @Type @JsonProperty Maybe any technology seems magical until you understand it. I see at least as much magic in Java as Ruby now.
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Yes. No problems, ever.
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> Why is that worse than the risk of potentially (without knowing any probabilities obviously) developing autoimmune conditions as a result of taking the vaccine? Well, in the 20,000 dosages in the pfizer vaccines, I believe there was no
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by ericb 6y ago
Heart complications (inflammation): up to 60% (after removing pre-existing) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/... Mental illness: 20% within 5 weeks https://www.thelancet.
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There's a good portion of people with long-term effects that weren't "vulnerable" but end up with chronic fatigue, lung damage, or mental health problems. If you compare the frequency of those side effects alone vs. the
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by ericb 6y ago
> Uniform syntax is very helpful for code readability. I don't understand this argument. Are people really having trouble reading code because it has two different quote characters? This goes against my understanding of "readab
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by ericb 6y ago
> Mainly avoid getting into code review Jenga about style preferences. What about a world where style concerns aren't part of a code review? Style debates provide the superficial appearance of a code review while offering no useful
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Handy bash alias: alias 'karen'="rubocop"
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edit: I amended above slightly to more accurately describe the ennui.
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Where are the stages for: Realization that no one else will be contributing Realization that programmers capable of really contributing probably think "filing a bug" was "contributing" and will bug you about timelines Re
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> "We can make the RNA by a single process in a single factory. All we have to do is change the sequence of the RNA or DNA." That's really interesting! Imagine RNA vaccine creation "as a service." Researchers ord
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> politically weaponized If a political leader's response to a quarter million deaths is denial, that's not weaponization, that's democracy working.
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> You think Trump stole it? Not the parent, but I think there's a difference between looking at a few datapoints that make you curious and jumping to "Trump stole it." As for 2012, who's to say they back the same par
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by ericb 6y ago
If I were going to try an influence an election via voting machine software, I would affect only some percentage of votes so it wouldn't be too obvious--if there was also mail in ballots, it wouldn't matter. I might also target on
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by ericb 6y ago
Has anyone done a study that maps voting machine software used vs. "polling error" in key states?

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