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by ethbro 7y ago
In a lot of ways, public health communication has the same problem as Federal Reserve communication -- any communication is itself likely to influence the situation. Consequently, the standard playbook seems to be "Say as little as pos
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by ethbro 7y ago
I believe the point of this submission, and it's a good one, is that a little bit of knowledge does not make one an epidemiologist. I see folks who couldn't define PCR tossing around R0 with the confidence of someone who's be
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by ethbro 7y ago
In the US, private industry is broadly empowered to say "No" or "I'll see you in court" to government demands, to a larger degree than many other countries. The side effect of empowering private industry is that org
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by ethbro 7y ago
> ...the back of my computer is ugly. https://www.homedepot.com/s/Spray%2520paint?searchtype=text&...
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by ethbro 7y ago
James Garfield begged people not to nominate him, and they did. He then spent most of the Presidential campaign at home, and won. And then proceeded to upset the spoils system of appointing political donors and supporters to jobs, and got s
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by ethbro 7y ago
In worst cases, I always tell people to bind to user-visible elements, then only navigate the local DOM from there. Global XPath type traversal is fragile, unless you're plugged in enough that the dev team lets you know when they break
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by ethbro 7y ago
This. If your framework only does timing through pausing, find a new framework. That's 20 years out of date.
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by ethbro 7y ago
If your UX designers can stomach it, simply ensuring async actions have a defined signpost to signify completion is the most helpful. E.g. an element that shows up when results are finished loading on the page. "Spinner that disappears
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by ethbro 7y ago
Here's looking at you, Material UI. (And almost any vendor-GUI-framework-in-a-box solution) :/
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by ethbro 7y ago
As someone who's worked in the UI automation field for approaching 10 years, getting it to not break takes a little of (1) knowing what actual user interactions look like, (2) knowing how UIs commonly break, (3) knowing how the underly
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by ethbro 7y ago
I thought this article was interesting: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coron... Particularly the point about "Why build hospitals?" Because in strongly centralized, comm
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by ethbro 7y ago
With the move to $0 order fees for online brokerages, not surprised to see more tie-ups. Even running the business at break-even, MS gets to market their other products to all E-Trade's customers. That said, what's the current eco
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by ethbro 7y ago
And yet in most countries people are able to find substantial amounts of time for education in the first ~18 years of their lives. There's time for voter education, that's currently not being used. As to malicious media, I hesitat
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by ethbro 7y ago
I agree with you, but I think it's a very debatable problem as to whether addressing the result (money buying influence in politics) or the source (voter education) is a better plan of action. Unintended consequences abound, should Cit
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by ethbro 7y ago
A few of my female friends were in similar situations. Don't discount the drive that caring for a child you love can provide. (They're all superheroes, and I live in awe of the load they've carried, but I think their child de
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by ethbro 7y ago
Anywhere there's love and more than one person, there's a family.
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by ethbro 7y ago
By definition, everyone who does illegal drugs is somewhat flexible with regards to suggestions from authority. One of the core propositions of cigarettes was always that they were legal. They catered to both the rule breaker and (substanti
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by ethbro 7y ago
https://www.cassandracapital.net/blog Oh, but the author's other content inspires so much faith!
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by ethbro 7y ago
Because the generating model ran out of memory.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Is there any reason why global corporations aren't opening engineering offices there? Seems obvious knowledge-salary arbitrage.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Public health authorities like CDC don't recommend their use among people who are not infected See: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/index.html Your link & the CDC don't say
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by ethbro 7y ago
I was thinking in terms of virality velocity as well. Using the postal reference, something may have taken a week to transmit to 100 people. Now, it takes 5 seconds. That's a fundamentally different situation, and it requires different
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by ethbro 7y ago
I think this is a balanced appraisal of the situation. Historically, US free speech has been "crazy rant" = okay, "fire!" (in a crowded room) = not okay. And that worked, when distribution was relatively centralized with
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by ethbro 7y ago
Show Hackers to kids these days, then tell them essentially all the law enforcement stuff was true. (To say nothing of the unrelated Hackers 2 )
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by ethbro 7y ago
Loom to farmer to table.
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by ethbro 7y ago
It's almost as though someone were intentionally slowing down HN by deliberately and repeatedly getting this on the front page. But I'm sure it's just forgetfulness. ... or is it?
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by ethbro 7y ago
> if we started investigating every DoD contract where personal biases decided who won and who lost... the military industrial complex would probably crumble overnight You have in fact described exactly how most long-term DoD contrac
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by ethbro 7y ago
There is variance in all things. Believing that the absence of visible corruption is still proof of equivalent invisible corruption is unreasonable. And side note: corruption in politics is a weighted term. From one perspective, politics is
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by ethbro 7y ago
See quip about market remaining irrational for longer than you can remain solvent.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Stock markets dominated by semi-intetested participants are terrible at predicting unlikely events.

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