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by exegete 5y ago
Someone linked to the bill and it actually does that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30689043&p=4#30690481
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by exegete 5y ago
Oh wow it really is just redefining standard time as DST
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by exegete 5y ago
Now when people write the time in the format 9:00 EST you can smugly correct them that it should always be EDT (for Eastern time zone).
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by exegete 5y ago
>Isn't that just changing the time zone and abolishing daylight savings? Yes but the clocks will now say EDT instead of EST (in the Eastern time zone for example). We will forever know that we have saved the daylight.
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by exegete 5y ago
Would that logic also work for loading images from other sites and services? I never sent the info to the server myself but told the browser to load the image from that server. Is you argument that it’s client-side code so doesn’t count?
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by exegete 5y ago
It most definitely is a word irregardless of your feelings about it https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless
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by exegete 5y ago
Hopefully a vaccine will be approved for the youngest group soon, although I imagine there will still be a disparity between poor and wealthy countries.
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by exegete 5y ago
After this Ireland still has more restrictions than most US states currently since it requires masks in public places.
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by exegete 5y ago
It might be the scale that’s important though. An energy consumption map would be similar to population density but the scale probably changes over time (more energy efficient devices, etc). Also it would be interesting to see outliers - wh
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by exegete 5y ago
A lot easier to switch to renewals with electricity. I don’t know of a way to do that with natural gas.
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by exegete 5y ago
mRNA vaccines have been a thing in labs for a few decades and first human clinical trials against a pathogen in 2013 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_vaccine
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by exegete 5y ago
Agree that we’re getting better at treating it. You seem to be praising those treatments and not wanting to get the vaccine. I don’t understand the idea that medicine that prevents the disease is bad but medicine after the disease is ok?
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by exegete 5y ago
Why four phases? Why not 3 or 10? You can divide the month up any number of ways to create “weeks”. The Romans had 8-day “weeks” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nundinae
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by exegete 5y ago
I read through it and the assessment makes sense (vaccine effectiveness is not binary in the face of spike protein mutations). But I think it also fails to mention the promising anti-COVID pills that are going to be approved soon, and those
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by exegete 5y ago
“Kai” (chi / χ) is a different Greek letter than “ksai” (xi / ξ).
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by exegete 5y ago
IPA English pronunciation: “zai” or “ksai” [0] 0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_(letter)
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by exegete 5y ago
It’s a good question. Is there a statistical test that can be / has been done with the data? Are the numbers between Pfizer and Moderna statistically different (and are they different than the incident rate in the general population)?
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by exegete 5y ago
You don’t make money having a debt. You’re still accruing interest to pay. I think another way to think about it is that the lender is not making a profit when inflation is factored in. It’s a bad deal for them and a good deal for you. Addi
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by exegete 5y ago
We had “town halls” for a long time and then one time it was called an “all hands”. You can bet everyone was on edge before the meeting, but the meeting was exactly the same as the others (general info dissemination). I definitely gave feed
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by exegete 5y ago
I’m actually in the same boat. My approach to save a few bucks was to buy a lower end laptop I knew was somewhat compatible with Arch. But now I want something that just works without me configuring everything (and some better hardware too
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by exegete 5y ago
mailbox.org was also attacked https://twitter.com/mailbox_org/status/1451237052855595012?s... I kept having errors in sending emails and logging into the web interface and the mailbox.org status page indicated not
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by exegete 5y ago
The technology that enabled mRNA vaccines took more than a few decades to get to this point.
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by exegete 5y ago
Here’s a link regarding the pump outages https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_2f508a9e-06b8-11...
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by exegete 5y ago
Agreed. The ones that were way off should know better. The candidate that said 90k was laughable!
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by exegete 5y ago
A few of the candidates did get the exact answer or were within 10% of it https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nyc-mayor-candidates... I think only one was “an order of magnitude” off.
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by exegete 5y ago
The 70% with one shot is weighted to areas like Northeast and hospitals filling up is in Southern US. Averaging those stats over the entire US misses that aspect.
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by exegete 5y ago
What’s 1% of your country’s population? Of the world’s population? Also it’s not like the options are binary if you get infected - lots of room between healthy and dead.
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by exegete 5y ago
The author of the email probably technically “could” buy a Mac but why would he do that? The negative press would have been detrimental to Microsoft. The same is true today. Imagine the headlines that would get re-tweeted - “Microsoft head
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by exegete 5y ago
The dotted line is not directions. It just indicates that you can’t get to the destination by car so it brought you to the closest place and you’ll have to walk the rest of the way. The dotted line is not walking directions but I guess I ca
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by exegete 5y ago
With CarPlay Apple Maps now has an option to report radar and hazards. Google also now owns Waze and uses info from it to show hazards.

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