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by gdubs 7y ago
I hope we get there. Things have gotten closer. The ideal is being able to harvest something like a strawberry without ruining it and it turns out to be rather difficult. With enough attention and investment, this is certainly a solvable pr
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by gdubs 7y ago
Every bit counts and even on a small balcony it’s possible to at least grow fresh herbs and a few other things in pots and containers. There’s also the indoor microgreen approach. There have been some cool prototypes that look about the siz
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by gdubs 7y ago
Just FYI that if you’re in Northern California I believe that Mission Trail or whoever has a centralized compost where you can pick up what you need. In normal times, at least. I’d imagine that service is currently shut down, but worth chec
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by gdubs 7y ago
It’s pretty exciting for rural areas — not that it should be hard to run fiber everywhere (not my area of expertise). It just seems like a very quick way to turn on access for a lot of areas. Especially places just beyond towns and cities t
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by gdubs 7y ago
For the experiment to be fair we should spend three months unable to leave our offices, and have everyone bring their kids, and be responsible for janitorial, barista, and cafe services.
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by gdubs 7y ago
I recently implemented boids in a compute shader [1]. It’s using Apple’s Metal framework, and rendered in 3D. The boids are simple triangles, and I added a bit of specular shading to give them a little bit of a “shimmer” as they flock. I im
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by gdubs 7y ago
The entire article is about the various cascading effects, from an overwhelmed healthcare system with reduced capacity to handle normal emergencies and elective procedures (which will have a long term effect on people’s health), to manufact
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by gdubs 7y ago
Your link — which you’ve posted twice — doesn’t address the points being made. It’s a fact that the pandemic response team was cut, and it’s a fact that the White House budget proposal included cuts to the CDC. 1: https://www
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by gdubs 7y ago
I remember being a kid and seeing this music video for the first time and thinking, wait, that's the guy who sings this song? Rick Astley must have one of the most incongruous voices in the industry.
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by gdubs 7y ago
It’s also been a week . Like you said, this is anything but a controlled experiment. People are trying to push through a lot of psychological stress right now. Families are suddenly responsible for homeschooling — 2 young kids and a toddle
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by gdubs 7y ago
So, where are the masks? There’s an enormous push this week to end the clampdown and return to work. As this article says, masks are critical. Well, where are they? How many? When are we getting them? When will we be at capacity to test suf
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by gdubs 7y ago
“For context, most people live in "neighborhoods" comprised of several high rise apartments in a compact area w/ a shared green space (see pic).” Off-topic I know, but this is a pretty good description of the Sim City “donut”
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by gdubs 7y ago
Thanks, it’s early here. Fixed.
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by gdubs 7y ago
I’ve been thinking a lot about the next looming crisis: Climate Change. On Bloomberg radio a few weeks ago, an analyst / money manager was talking about how his firm was looking at satellite imagery of pollution in China to measure the
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by gdubs 7y ago
As others have said, this is largely a guessing game right now. How swiftly and how boldly governments act is going to determine a lot. In 2008 you had people like Paulson and Bernanke who studied the Great Depression and desperately wanted
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by gdubs 7y ago
I get that your comment is coming from a good place, because the threat of misinformation is real. But this is an “Appeal to Authority” argument. I’d rather have an informed discussion among smart people, even if they’re not experts in the
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by gdubs 7y ago
Like a plane crash, there's a moment where the error is realized. Someone says 'oh sh!t' on the flight recorder when they realize the error, and that there's no time left to correct. Yet enough time remains to wait. That
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by gdubs 7y ago
Thanks. And same – I'm not advocating one way or the other, simply wanting to understand the constitutionality.
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by gdubs 7y ago
Wouldn't this fall under 'martial law'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_the_United_Stat... "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Re
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by gdubs 7y ago
I can't even figure out what my HVAC vents do, or how not to mess up my entire heating and cooling situation – so I leave them alone. Utter respect for you and all the other medical professionals who are having to adapt and deal with
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by gdubs 7y ago
The newest CDC estimates are that young people require hospitalization at rates between 1 in 7 and 1 in 5. At scale, that’s an enormous number. The “flatten the curve” trope feels a bit tired at this point, but it’s true nonetheless. We hav
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by gdubs 7y ago
Bill Gates did an AMA on Reddit and said the optimistic angle is that the antivirals and various therapeutics, etc, will come much faster than a vaccine and bring the rate of infection down. Clamping down now buys some time. Nothing is gu
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by gdubs 7y ago
FWIW the 'two strains' theory was debunked.
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by gdubs 7y ago
Humans still have to read these things. Getting policy makers to pay attention is an actual problem, so using 'plain talk' can be effective.
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by gdubs 7y ago
About every two weeks since January, it seems there are people who say that it's too expensive to take bold action. And roughly every two weeks later it gets much more expensive, and the options become narrower. This, despite having Ch
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by gdubs 7y ago
This crisis is exposing that our modern economy has a very thin layer of resilience. I can't help but think of Climate Change as the next obvious thing that we should have seen coming, but have not adequately taken seriously.
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by gdubs 7y ago
It's a metonym, and you're right it refers to finance. But, many corporations over the past 30 years have kind of evolved into financial companies. Look at GE. The criticism, relevant to this very article, is that (many) companies
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by gdubs 7y ago
I’m reminded of an old saying that there two hard things in Computer Science: - cache invalidation - naming things - and off-by-one errors
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by gdubs 7y ago
It depends. If it’s a child, runny nose can be a symptom: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/children-f...
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by gdubs 7y ago
I’m making a direct appeal to the people receiving this money — people who frequent this very website — to consider the people who work for their households. I’m not making a policy argument, nor am I a proponent of trickle down economics.

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