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by jhayward 6y ago
> If someone is scared of catching something, they should stay home Implicit in this description of your “rights” trumping public health authority is that you believe you have a right to infect anyone who is unfortunate enough to touch
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by jhayward 6y ago
That's still price gouging, it merely re-allocates the supply from those that need it to those that can pay exorbitantly. It's not as though the wealthy have more legitimate need for the products.
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by jhayward 6y ago
Price gouging means you took stock on hand and re-priced it to gouge the desperate with no increase in cost to the seller. It also covers people who buy out the retail stock in 4 states to "corner" the supply, and then try to ext
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by jhayward 6y ago
The equivalent Python would be: result, errmsg = do_stuff() if errmsg: error(f"Error in do_stuff: {errmsg}") print(result+5) Assuming that errmsg is 'None' when do_stuff() succeeds.
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by jhayward 6y ago
First, please support this statement with some forecasts or well established documentation that would quantify the problem: > In particular, shutting down our medical system (ex COVID-19) means that large numbers of people will die of o
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by jhayward 6y ago
Which version did you try? That is to say, what metal and which band?
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by jhayward 6y ago
I think the question is one of ethics or morals, and not predation.
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by jhayward 6y ago
> real time systems came to refer to computers that operated on the opposite of batch computing. The user could interact with the system in "real time", rather than having to wait hours after submitting the job for the results
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by jhayward 6y ago
I'm having a hard time making out what your comment says in response to mine. > As if anyone is arguing this. The comment I replied to literally argues this in its single declarative sentence. > yes, a 25 year olds life is mor
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by jhayward 7y ago
It is a plausible explanation for his recent actions. And, in fact, his recent actions require us to re-visit his past investigations and expose with the assumption of good faith suspended.
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by jhayward 7y ago
> What, if anything, is more necessary to a free society than the free expression and debate of ideas? The commons must be protected from bad actors, and bad faith whose purpose is to use the openness of society against itself. [1] ht
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by jhayward 7y ago
> independent thinkers, like John Ioannidis, whose views were initially doubted. The phrasing of this makes it sound as though his views have become accepted. They have not, in fact the absolute shambles of a "study" he did t
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by jhayward 7y ago
Everyone's life has the same value. Old people, poor people, black people, people with diabetes, people who have had transplants, people who have had cancer, fat people, all have the same value as a 25-year-old who has had 1%-er medic
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by jhayward 7y ago
You fail to make the case that the choice is the straw man presented: destroy America or let the virus run wild. The US has an immense set of tools and strategies available that would, if used intelligently, certainly prevent America being
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by jhayward 7y ago
The WHO clarified their comment re: immunity. They fully expect that post-recovery antibodies confer protection; they do not yet have qualified clinical trials proving so. > Earlier today we tweeted about a new WHO scientific brief on
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by jhayward 7y ago
This is a ridiculously bad analogy. It’s so bad, I would expect it only from right-wing disinformation efforts who are self-parodies of incorrectness. There is no correspondence between an acute chemical poisoning mechanism and the mechani
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by jhayward 7y ago
And I could say I am arguably the most admired blogger in Austin. The claim does not make it true. His site is complete with claims of activism, not journalism. He's claiming to be a journalist because it is convenient, not because i
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by jhayward 7y ago
> From the linked site: Only supporters of Alex Salmond – the Alex Salmond found innocent by the jury – are being pursued by this continuing Police Scotland operation. When you become a "supporter", you cease to be a journali
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by jhayward 7y ago
From my reading of the linked site, the person referred to is an advocate not a reporter. The headline is false.
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by jhayward 7y ago
Sweden isn’t proof of anything, please stop using it as though it is. Your claim is that the vulnerable can be “holed up” while everyone else goes about their happy business. There is no such thing, and I challenge you to provide the detail
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by jhayward 7y ago
Re is a different number based on what proportion of the population is immune. Here we are talking about R0. The point I am making is that some of the people who are on lockdown are truly positive for the virus. That’s why it works. They do
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by jhayward 7y ago
You repeat the fantasy that the more vulnerable population is separable from the less vulnerable. As well you omit the size of the vulnerable - everyone who is obese, diabetic, hypertensive, or cardiovascular diseased, or immunocompromised.
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by jhayward 7y ago
> The false positive rate of lockdowns is 100%. If that were true lockdowns would make absolutely no difference in R0. Clearly, they do make a difference.
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by jhayward 7y ago
This appears to be the most common misunderstanding of how public use of masks helps. They don’t help the wearer - they prevent the wearer from unintentionally being a source of infection. My mask protects you - your mask protects me.
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by jhayward 7y ago
> Video chats mean we need to work harder to process non-verbal cues like facial expressions, the tone and pitch of the voice, and body language; paying more attention to these consumes a lot of energy. Welcome to the everyday experien
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by jhayward 7y ago
No, elaborate insistence on repentance rituals, shaming, and ideologies of "personal responsibility" over systems thinking and data driven improvement is all about ego.
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by jhayward 7y ago
> In some cases imprisonment and an utterly ruined career are the result of mistakes This is quite an exaggerated point; the number of people imprisoned for making mechanical, civil, or electrical engineering errors is very close to ze
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by jhayward 7y ago
I don't expect that because the Python 2 die-hards are, shall we say, not a maintainer-friendly crowd. You'd have to pay me FAANG bucks to even consider it.
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by jhayward 7y ago
Python 3 is an enormous success so I don't know what you could be referring to. Everyone who ships software knows that there is always a very small but disproportionately vocal set of malcontents who can't accept changes; that&#x2
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by jhayward 7y ago
This isn't even close to true. The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Spring Break. Florida beaches. Evangelical churches. Just because a majority of people do sensible things doesn't matter. The actions of the irresponsible a

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