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by ggreer 6y ago
You said it yourself: Users are viewing your site on devices with totally different screen sizes, different resolutions, on different platforms, with displays of varying brightnesses, glare, viewing angles, color spaces, and in environments
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by ggreer 6y ago
Web fonts are my litmus test for whether I can trust a designer's judgment. Users don't want to see a site's brand in every letter on the page. They want legible text that loads quickly. The default fonts on Windows, Mac, iOS
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by ggreer 6y ago
> Do we really? I don't keep up with the news, did we already dismiss those reports about re-infection? Does it last long enough to be globally useful? It seems to be extremely rare, and it's hard to know how many of those case
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by ggreer 6y ago
Low doses of SARS seem to have much lower mortality: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3367618/ Of the 79 infected, 19 died. E block (where the index patient was), had 53 infections and 15 deaths f
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by ggreer 6y ago
Hanson is saying we should do those trials, not that we should start deliberately infecting the masses ASAP. The issue is that such trials are banned.
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Not entirely accurate. We know variolation will provide immunity. The main risk is to the volunteer, not to others. A vaccine might not provide immunity. That would make the patient a vector for the disease and endanger others.
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by ggreer 6y ago
If you read Robin Hanson's blog post on the topic[1], he found data on other diseases: > The most directly relevant data is on SARS[2] and measles[3], where natural differences in doses were associated with factors of 3 and 14 in de
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by ggreer 6y ago
I'm pretty sure Robin Hanson would want challenge trials with experimental vaccines as well. The issue is that authorities won't allow such trials, not that there is a lack of willing medical experts or volunteers. Though vaccine
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by ggreer 6y ago
You are misconstruing Hanson. He's not saying that we should mass-variolate tomorrow. He just wants it to be legal for such experiments to be tried (including experiments with unproven vaccines). There are doctors and domain experts wh
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by ggreer 6y ago
This is the same FDA that forbade researchers from running their own tests in January and February[1], squandering our chance to prevent this catastrophe. It's only because researchers broke the law that we discovered community spread
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by ggreer 6y ago
I'm guessing people will live in cheap places that are considered to be in the same region as expensive places. For example: live in Tracy or Fairfield or Hollister while collecting a bay area salary. Or live in Vancouver, WA while col
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by ggreer 6y ago
That's not what is happening. Please look some of this stuff up before assuming the worst. Apple does not have the ability to decrypt the device, nor do users depend on Apple to unlock the device. Users can choose to enable Activation
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by ggreer 6y ago
Activation Lock is only enabled when you have the "Find My" service enabled. I'm pretty sure the device asks you during setup whether you want it on or off. You can toggle it in settings whenever you want. Users only need to
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by ggreer 6y ago
You misunderstand. Apple can erase the device and let a new user set it up from scratch, but they can't read the data off it. The feature is called Activation Lock and it exists to discourage theft.
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by ggreer 6y ago
Pornographic movies are quite legal in the US. Heck, SCOTUS struck down the provision of the Communications Decency Act that prohibited knowingly transmitting obscene or indecent images to those under the age of 18. Their ruling was unanimo
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by ggreer 6y ago
Depends on the system. On newer Intel machines, it will prevent the SoC from going into lower power states than PC2. On my laptop, that means idling at 5 watts instead of 2ish watts. That said, I don't think any laptop has a PCIe to PC
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by ggreer 6y ago
Hate speech is free speech in the US. SCOTUS has ruled on this many times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_Stat...
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by ggreer 6y ago
It looks like it's not a fine in the sense that refusal to pay can result in suspension of your driving license and possible wage garnishment. They don't even call it a fine but a "penalty". Basically they ask you for $5
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by ggreer 6y ago
Wouldn’t anyone who did that be subject to a civil suit for damages? Also the bridge owners would have insurance. In addition to standard economic devices like tort and insurance, the bridge owners could have a part of the road before the b
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by ggreer 6y ago
Americans tend to vandalize speed cameras. As long as repairing/replacing the cameras costs more than the revenue they generate from tickets, they’re not worth deploying.
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by ggreer 6y ago
Many sites hosted in the US aren't accessible from the EU due to GDPR. Also GDPR reduced VC investment in EU startups by 1/3rd.[1] 1. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3278912
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by ggreer 6y ago
Gears 5 is a UE4 game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkW_uD0PzIw&t=7m40s If you want to see particle effects like the demo, skip ahead to 11 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkW_uD0PzIw&t=1
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by ggreer 6y ago
What? It was arbitrary and ineffective. OSHA never busted people for actual dangerous stuff like being high on the job, lacking eye protection, driving without a seatbelt, or smoking next to gas cans . It was always stupid bullshit like we
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by ggreer 6y ago
Doesn't that prove my point? Weed wackers have been around for 50 years, used by hundreds of millions of people, and the worst you could find was a freak accident that was treated successfully. I was far more likely to suffer from heat
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I'm always amused to see people use the "fire in a crowded theater" analogy. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. coined the phrase in Schenck v. United States.[1] In that case, he sent a man to prison for the crime of leafleti
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by ggreer 6y ago
It's not like people are demanding less testing. Public demand for testing is as high as it's possible to be. Test capability is being ramped up as quickly as possible, but even if we manage to double it every month, it will be
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by ggreer 6y ago
I guarantee that if you drove around and looked at people using weed-eaters that day, at least 1/3rd of them would have been wearing shorts. Heck, I bet the majority of them weren't wearing eye protection. I'm an adult and I
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by ggreer 6y ago
What if the government can't execute test & trace successfully? Right now we can only test around 0.1% of the population per day and that capability is growing linearly.[1] The lockdowns aren't restrictive enough to get R0 far
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by ggreer 6y ago
They are called OSHA-approved state plans. They have to be at least as strict as federal OSHA to be approved. See the OSHA state plan FAQ[1] for more info. Honestly the OSHA enforcement I've seen has been a joke. One summer when I work
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by ggreer 6y ago
Now it shows a red screen with the message, “Your browser does NOT support WebAssembly!” Thanks for fixing that.

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