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by hyko 6y ago
Yes. You need to understand them. The proposed solution doesn’t work for every multithreaded environment, e.g. mobile. You should instead work with threads at the level of abstraction that your skill supports and your spec requires. Some as
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by hyko 6y ago
Next week: teaching your grandmother to suck eggs!
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by hyko 6y ago
I’m afraid I have to disagree with all your points in the strongest possible terms :) The idea that “the sick and the old” would not as a whole impact the economy if they went missing because “most of them are not currently producing anythi
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by hyko 6y ago
Yeah that’s a good point, it would be super useful to have that ‘weighted density’ available.
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by hyko 6y ago
Why are we doing it? The same reason we don’t try to eat a year’s worth of meals in one day: we simply couldn’t handle it. The modelling and current experience indicate that hospitals would be overwhelmed relatively quickly. The only real a
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by hyko 6y ago
I can’t stress this enough: Sweden is not acting as a control group. Every nation on Earth is restricting freedoms in some way, on a continuum, including Sweden. Even if Sweden is used in a future study, we wouldn’t know the cost benefit ou
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by hyko 6y ago
That’s not quite accurate - the ONS data does not attempt to attribute COVID-19 causality in that way; death certificates that mention COVID-19 are not quite the same thing as deaths we know were caused by COVID-19. To balance that somewhat
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by hyko 6y ago
It should be a lot lower, give that Sweden’s biggest city has roughly 1.5 million inhabitants (vs 8.9 million in the UK), and Sweden’s population density is 24 people per km2 (vs 281 per km2 in the UK).
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by hyko 6y ago
The UK government has made some mistakes, but to describe them as having “totally failed” is just needless hyperbole. Edited to add: “total failure” would have been to just do nothing, allow the health service to be overrun, let hundreds of
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by hyko 6y ago
No. The 50k number refers to “excess deaths”, which is the portion of “all cause mortality” above what you’d expect this time of year.
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by hyko 6y ago
Bit of a misleading headline, as the 50,000 excess deaths are almost certainly not all caused by SARS-CoV-2. Nowhere in the headline or the article is that claim made.
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by hyko 6y ago
I guess one thing to point out is that the cost of social care (circa £20 billion) in the UK is not borne by the NHS, but by a mixture of local councils (70%) and private individuals (30%). Nursing home deaths will not really significantly
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by hyko 6y ago
I think it’s a reasonable statement, in fact I’d say it represents orthodox economic thinking. Permanently removing hundreds of thousands of people from the economy (as well as temporarily removing millions) will depress both aggregate dema
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by hyko 6y ago
A boycott is when you avoid an organisation in protest at something; I am exercising what I think is a rational consumer choice. I don’t believe that my action (or inaction) will have any impact on Tesla, nor do I want or need it to. e.g. i
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by hyko 6y ago
My apologies for the paywall link and for the fact that the study doesn’t really support all the points I was trying to make. I take your point about not assuming the breakdown of the deceased group is representative of the general populati
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by hyko 6y ago
I’m not boycotting Tesla. What I’m saying is that as a prospective customer I am not reassured that the company won’t just try and pull a load of weird shit on me in the future (either by imploding or screwing me over) and for that reason I
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by hyko 6y ago
It’s very difficult to live life to the max when you’re dead, or in hospital for weeks. The idea that a rampant COVID-19 would cost a few months of life expectancy, or that victims of the virus are not economically productive is not support
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by hyko 6y ago
I guess technically speaking, the threat to move Tesla production & HQ to Texas and the lawsuit against Alameda county are separate topics.
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by hyko 6y ago
Other electric vehicle makers are available :) And none of them need an erratic soap opera swirling around them to market their products.
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by hyko 6y ago
And so fades any chance that I’ll ever buy a Tesla vehicle. All this lunacy is rotting the brand from the inside, and nobody has the power to stop it. Especially galling because they were supposed to use technology to lead us to a better wo
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by hyko 6y ago
Lives are the economy. The lockdown protects the economy.
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by hyko 6y ago
Extreme wealth and power are amplifiers; any character flaws you have are going to be magnified by it a thousand fold. Most of us would appear very strange if viewed through this prism of the unbounded ego. Or maybe it’s just for the lolz +
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by hyko 6y ago
Elon Musk is liberal Donald Trump.
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by hyko 6y ago
Kind of odd that Elon doesn’t count financial engineering as innovation, when he’s bankrolled his dreams on the back of financial engineering innovation.
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by hyko 6y ago
Duh.
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by hyko 6y ago
I always find it strange that people use forecasting failures as an excuse for inaction on climate change. If you were driving a car and you couldn’t see five feet in front of you, you probably wouldn’t think acceleration was a prudent cour
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by hyko 6y ago
We’re talking no power grid for months or years. Most portable electronics would be technically fine, but unable to operate for any significant period of time because of the lack of power. Your best bet might be to stash a solar panel some
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by hyko 6y ago
Just another existential threat to our civilisation that we all know about but assume someone else somewhere else is dealing with. A toxic combination of normalcy bias, the availability heuristic, and hyperbolic discounting?
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by hyko 6y ago
All of them, if there’s no power grid.
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by hyko 6y ago
Describing SARS-CoV-2 as a “monster” virus is pretty far from describing it as a “doomsday” virus. Doomsday is typically understood to mean the destruction of all life, or in some contexts merely the end of human civilisation. No serious pe

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