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by gregwebs 6y ago
These articles are missing an important aspect of the vaccine: the immunity gained is non-sterilizing. [1] The vaccine stops the infection from becoming severe and spreading throughout the body, but it doesn't actually stop infection (
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by gregwebs 6y ago
It’s nice to see a project that explains how it fits in the design space. Still after looking at this I get the feeling they haven’t really tried Cue in anger. I also think cue should be easier to introduce to a team precisely because it is
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by gregwebs 6y ago
Richard Stalman and others that believe the GPL is generally the best license are not against ever using the MIT license. Stalman has been willing to be pragmatic and support tactical choices of other licenses besides GPL when licensing. So
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by gregwebs 6y ago
There are also more recent papers such as this 2018 paper concluding that rodent fleas could not have caused the second pandemic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5819418/
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by gregwebs 6y ago
I doubt a model of disease for the plague that requires rodent to human transmission. Here is a good explanation of evidence of spread direct from human to human: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17223184-000-did-
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by gregwebs 6y ago
Have you tried using SimpleNote on mobile? The sync to other devices is great and it works on more platforms.
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by gregwebs 6y ago
PingCAP | Engineer, Customer Success, SRE, Sales, Legal | Full-time | REMOTE | https://jobs.lever.co/pingcap We make TiDB, a MySQL compatible open source database built for scale. TiDB is a distributed scale-out database th
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by gregwebs 6y ago
I had the same experience (but only used fish for a few months). I am quite happy with zsh after settling on zim [1] for plugins and starship for the prompt (starship supports many different shells) [2]. My main takeaway from fish is was th
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by gregwebs 6y ago
I see Dhall mentioned in the comments. cue is another great configuration language: https://cuelang.org/ Both of these are actually designed well for dealing with the problem of configuration and it really shows.
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by gregwebs 6y ago
They don't just select from the population at random from these studies. For example the study excludes those over the age of 85 or those that are immunocompormised. You can see more details on the exclusion criteria listed in seciton
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by gregwebs 6y ago
The vaccine has 95% efficacy in initial controlled trials. It is almost impossible to reach (within 1%) of that same level of effectiveness in the real world as claimed here. The real world has a big chunk of the population with an immune s
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by gregwebs 6y ago
Do power saving recommendations given out here to reduce consumption such as "don't use the oven" help in the winter given that wasted electricity ends up as heat? Or is this given by the electricity company hoping that they
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by gregwebs 6y ago
This is why they created the ACME protocol. There are actually other providers of this protocol now. So there is a possible future that is much more like DNS.
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by gregwebs 6y ago
All the current vaccines being rolled out give non-sterilizing immunity. This means the vaccinated still get infected in the upper respiratory tract and still transmit the virus (but perhaps 50% less transmission). The vaccine protects them
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by gregwebs 6y ago
PingCAP | Engineer, Customer Success, SRE, Sales | Full-time | REMOTE | https://jobs.lever.co/pingcap We make TiDB, a MySQL compatible open source database built for scale. TiDB is a distributed scale-out database that you
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by gregwebs 6y ago
Many successful databases are open source. MongoDB (at least before the recent license change!) is a good example of a huge company where I doubt anyone would have made a noticeable business out of a proprietary version of the product.
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The main business proposition of open source is that you can create a larger market. This is hinted at in the article by saying "easy distribution", but it isn't really discussed. The goal of open source is to create a market
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by gregwebs 6y ago
I think you are right and we need to use the actual term "correlated". "linked" has a stronger connotation then "associated" for me, and some dictionary definitions show this stronger connotation as well.
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by gregwebs 6y ago
This is a correlational study. So there is no causal link, there is a correlational association. I think the term "link" needs to be banned in this context. "associated" would be much clearer. Maybe the Hacker News mods
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by gregwebs 6y ago
This was a great solution and execution under pressure. You might consider TiDB in the future when you have some breathing room to consider a new operational model. It is MySQL compatible, open source, and can scale writes horizontally as t
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by gregwebs 6y ago
PingCAP | Engineer, Customer Success, SRE, Sales | Full-time | REMOTE | https://jobs.lever.co/pingcap We make TiDB, a MySQL compatible open source database built for scale. TiDB is a distributed scale-out database that you
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by gregwebs 6y ago
Just knowing the commands and their arguments (environment vars) with make is difficult. Env vars can easily have typos. With just you can actually list out all the commands.
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by gregwebs 6y ago
Have you tried Haskell? It has garbage collection and immutability. This entirely removes the need for a borrow checker (while maintaining correctness). Overall development is at least twice as productive in my experience. Of course this co
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by gregwebs 6y ago
At at least some of the age range here (5 years old) children are still trying to understand death (for example they might not experience grief and loss when a close relative dies) and it doesn't make much sense to me to compare to som
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by gregwebs 6y ago
Make is designed to track build dependencies, not to execute programs, so I think the problem is the choice of name. "just" is a utility designed to execute programs: https://github.com/casey/just#just
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How would you turn this into a gold mine? As I understand it the opportunity for off-label drug use is limited. Although the off-label drug will be cheaper to bring to market the patent will expire and then you can no longer recoup the enor
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by gregwebs 6y ago
There are probably hundreds of other treatments with similar results in test tubes. This is great research, but it is odd to see here on HN. It costs > 1 billion dollars to bring a drug to market and put it through clinical trials. This
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by gregwebs 6y ago
I developed my own statechart lib many years ago (before React, but I used it with Angular) and used it for the high-level state that drove the application. It worked really well. Redux, etc have always seemed like a step backwards for high
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The US frequently has it's own lab incidents including even with anthrax. China must be having lab incidents as well. There isn't a smoking gun to indicate either that this is a lab outbreak or natural. However, in the absence of
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Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise (2009) [pdf](pnas.org)
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