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by hilbertseries 6y ago
> will just ban all Chinese trade This can’t be done without triggering a depression and causing massive shortages. The economies are too connected. We could add more sanctions, increase tariffs look at better trade deals to encourage bu
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
Gonna need a citation on ADE taking time to discover. It’s typically caught in trials and we can run trials much faster during a pandemic.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
This leaves out the part where they were already working mRNA vaccines for other diseases, like influenza. They repurposed that work, much the same as moderna did to make their vaccine.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
Yeah, the answer in this case is that there was some low hanging fruit he was able to find. There's not always a simple solution to latency and performance problems.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
Steve Job didn’t invent the smartphone and Elon Musk didn’t invent the electric car, they did both make those things cool. Steve Jobs also had a treatable form of pancreatic cancer and died from it, because he refused traditional medicine.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
Corporations have been killing people for a long time. The early cars were death traps that would almost certainly kill you if you got in an accident. Cigarette companies kill their customers and used to tell them it was good for their heal
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
This is a terrible argument. You’re basically saying that computers can do anything humans can, which so far has not been the case.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
I work at a company that employs developers in the US and in Europe. The European developers are more upset that they’re paid less, than the US developers care about the European benefits.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
The alternative is natural gas these days.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
I remember around a decade ago, when metacritc shut down their forums. Also citing an inability to keep up with moderation duties. I suppose in their defense we were posting a lot of download links at the time.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
This doesn’t really make any sense. Bitcoins wild fluctuations make it terrible for a currency and its fluctuations have only gotten worse over time. It’s just a speculators game. If it became a universal currency, you would just convert wh
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
If Texas was on the federal grid they also would have been able to import excess power from other states and ease the energy crunch.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
I would encourage you to read more about what tobacco companies have been doing in developing countries. Big tobacco is certainly a global problem. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/12/big-tobacc
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
Even more surprising we tried to repeal prop 13 for just commercial real estate last election and it failed.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
> And, of course, in 2018 I helped create and produce the most ambitious project I’ve ever worked on: Caliphate. > While I remain proud of our team and what we were able to accomplish with Caliphate, getting any aspect of any story wr
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
> The declaration claims that increased infection of those at lower risk would lead to a build-up of immunity in the population that would eventually also protect those at higher risk from the SARS-CoV-2 virus We’ve seen what happens whe
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
gRPC has a pleasant developer experience? This is news to me.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
> he claims that Godel's Incompleteness Theorem is not true, and that the actor model is more general than the Turing machine He is certainly wrong about the incompleteness theorems. And it’s entirely possible to create a model of c
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
OOC, what are the downsides of storing service discovery information like this in TXT records? As opposed to using ZK, consul, etcd or a more standard solution?
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
> Without an uncensorable currency, any political adversary -- especially an incumbent -- can just coerce payment processors into blocking payments to their opponents through threats of imprisonment or violence against a handful of execu
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
Protestors, armed with guns and pipe bombs carrying zip ties as well. Who were seeking to stop the certification of the electoral college vote. Yes, insurrection.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
I don't support CHAZ and I never said I did. Claiming to secede for a couple of blocks in a neighborhood in Seattle, is incredibly stupid and dangerous. My point here is the scope of things, armed insurrectionists stormed the capitol b
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
Are we really sitting here comparing storming the capitol building and interrupting the certification of the electoral vote, to CHAZ? Pipe bombs were placed in capital buildings, the insurrectionists were armed and had zip ties. Five people
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
> I guess HN just really really wants to speculate on all the ways they'd have secured things differently in the capital building with retrospect and with absolutely no idea what the circumstances are that went in to the decisions m
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
Because hundreds of additional police officers and members of the national guard arrived in order to secure the building?
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
I’ve worked with many libraries and frameworks and I haven’t seen transactions by default. Given how easy it is to deadlock yourself this way, for instance by naively making batch reads in random order. I doubt many libraries would make tra
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
Generally a connection pool also checks the health of its connections. In SQL connection pools this can be done by executing a select 1, if this fails then a new connection can be attempted.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
Innodb does not create locks for reads, unless in a transaction. > SELECT ... FROM is a consistent read, reading a snapshot of the database and setting no locks unless the transaction isolation level is set to SERIALIZABLE. For SERIALIZA
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
He also stopped posting on social media and has yet to surface to reject claims that he's missing.
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by hilbertseries 6y ago
It’s okay for the commenter to use an anecdote to undercut the discrimination POC frequently face. But a POC calling this out is “extremely fragile”.

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