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by jkachmar 7y ago
Yes, I’m saying that the figures on page 10 imply that the blue curve (on its own) is not effective enough to avoid critically overwhelming the hospital system in the UK in the short term. The guidance towards the measures you see now (none
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by jkachmar 7y ago
Please see the Imperial College London report, recently released, for a model that contradicts what you’re suggesting [0]. In particular, see Figure 3 for a direct refutation of the idea that simply applying suppression techniques to the in
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by jkachmar 7y ago
I’m concerned that there is a vast disparity between the number of confirmed cases and the actual number of contracted cases (esp. asymptomatic). NY has tested the largest number of people out of all states and has >4000 confirmed cases
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by jkachmar 7y ago
The monitor I have is a Samsung C27HG70, which _is_ a quantum for LED monitor. Although it’s not 4K, given the fact that it ships with a color calibration report I think calling it “some gaming monitor” is a bit silly. As someone who’s a bi
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by jkachmar 7y ago
My motorized standing desk, VESA amounting arm, and 27” FreeSync + color-calibrated monitor _combined_ total at around $1000 dollars. To highlight the absurdity of this estimate: $2000 USD should be enough to pay for an entire work-from-hom
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by jkachmar 7y ago
Not GP, but: I think the point is more that even the (massive) concentrated effort it takes to patch the IDs will be less than the collective impact of not having those IDs at all (in terms of the convenience it would add to peoples’ lives)
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by jkachmar 7y ago
So? I have an emergency fund that I keep in a high yield savings account and don’t touch except in the event of... an emergency. I’ve missed out on some money by not having that in the market, but during this time I’ve also been working and
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by jkachmar 7y ago
I don’t believe this is correct. My understanding is that these automatic limit down rules were added in response to the flash crash in 2010, during which the Dow Jones lost 1000 points over the course of minutes.
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by jkachmar 7y ago
> The snippet used in these examples is almost never what you actually write in real code. This statement is categorically false, and I would encourage you to search GitHub for `return err` under the Go language. There are 200k+ code res
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by jkachmar 7y ago
Counterpoint, regarding community: the Rust programming language has a much more vocal, cohesive, and engaged community than Go does in my experience, even though it has a fraction of the corporate backing. Counterpoint, regarding “reducing
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by jkachmar 7y ago
Another commenter points out that Go has Google backing it, which is a significant confounding factor in terms of figuring out how good it is on its own merits. I’ll add to this and say that Go is a language that is very well-suited for Goo
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by jkachmar 7y ago
Big ol’ “Citation Needed” on this one. The flip-side here is that a language that doesn’t support basic programming language theory concepts dooms its users to repeat the mistakes of those who discovered them. I also would personally disagr
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Analysis [..] casts doubt on the credibility of China’s organ transplant reform(bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com)
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by jkachmar 7y ago
In my experience there has always been a _deep_ culture of mutual respect between industrial aviation players and the NTSB. Everyone knows that the investigative body is there to help figure out what went wrong and to provide guidance on ho
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by jkachmar 7y ago
I think that these corporate responses can only be thought of as "rational" through a _very_ short-term lens due to the nature of _how_ foreign companies are permitted to operate within China. The CPC explicitly exerts a lot of co
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by jkachmar 7y ago
I’m going to just pull from two of Maciej Cegłowski‘s tweets on this article (@Pinboard on Twitter, idlewords here): > This is a really tendentious article by the New York Times that makes me question their other Hong Kong coverage. The
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by jkachmar 7y ago
I might be misunderstanding, but it’s definitely possible to emulate this feedback loop with statically typed languages. For example, Haskell has the `-fdefer-type-errors` flag that will turn type errors into warnings at compile time and ru
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by jkachmar 7y ago
As mentioned elsewhere, please see the ACLU’s suggested alternatives to the current United States administration’s detention policies [0]. Also consider that the following conditions are obviously inhumane: separating children from their pa
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by jkachmar 7y ago
Fortunately the ACLU has you covered: https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-fact-sheet-alternatives-immi...
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by jkachmar 7y ago
> It is curious that since 2013 Tesla sales have jumped from approx 20,000 per year to approx 30,000 per month and yet the stock price hasn't shown an equivalent increase. For the Nth time that this conversation has to be had on the
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by jkachmar 7y ago
Quillette does not feature a centrist perspective. See Media Bias Fact Check’s overview, in which they’re considered “Right” and to feature pseudoscience and poor reporting [1]. Also see the Wikipedia page on Media Bias Fact Check for citat
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by jkachmar 7y ago
There’s an “easy” solution to this quandary, IMO: you can adopt. You’re not directly contributing to the increase in carbon associated with having a child because that child would exist regardless of your actions, and you have the opportuni
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by jkachmar 7y ago
I don't particularly like that essay because the author seems focused on the idea that "your brain is a computer" is a metaphor rather than a theory (see [1] for a more nuanced discussion). The author correctly points out tha
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by jkachmar 7y ago
Please consider disclosing that your first source comes from a publication that is attached to a politically motivated organization with a known socially conservative bias (The Liberty Fund [1]). The Pew Research Center [2] is recognized to
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by jkachmar 7y ago
This is exactly the kind of pseudo-wisdom that I read the GP as referring to, though. In the case of Go, the core team saw the pain of indirection-masquerading-as-abstraction in complex Java/C++ codebases and considered the whole thing
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by jkachmar 7y ago
Chiming in as an NYC resident: I'm _extremely_ grateful that my current lease, as well as the upcoming one that I hope to sign if my application is approved, explicitly spells out the penalties for renting out apartments on Airbnb as a
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by jkachmar 7y ago
> I live in central Tokyo and I can go on for days and days without seeing a foreigner! I’m quite surprised to hear this actually. I visited Japan recently and I consistently saw other foreigners around the center of Tokyo. I think the o
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by jkachmar 8y ago
I was fortunate enough to take an Intro to Communications course with Dr. Gaeddert as an undergrad, and I distinctly remember stumbling on this software and being totally blown away by the plots and simulations it produced. Very, very cool
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by jkachmar 8y ago
Definitely not as popular, but Arrow-ized effect systems are an interesting area that I've seen people exploring more lately. Jake Keuhlen spoke about it at LambdaConf this year [0] [1], and John De Goes spoke a bit on the notion of Ar
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by jkachmar 8y ago
> but all that really means is: "I don't know how to do this in a simpler way, so I need the "advanced" language features..." I disagree with most of your comment, but I want to respond to this one section in par

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