john_moscow

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by john_moscow 5y ago
A criminal matter is when a person A does specific physical actions to person B. It usually requires fairly solid proof and serves the purpose of preventing the perpetrator of committing further physical acts. The forced arbitration applies
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Because around the times of Occupy Wall Street the Left has been hijacked and redirected from addressing economic issues relevant to the majority (property ownership/retirement perspectives, cost of raising children, medical/educa
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Or, more importantly, selection bias. When people form a family, they eventually start having some disagreements. Those who have the skill to resolve them, de-escalate situations and find compromises, stay together. The ones who don't
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Except, the hospital capacity per 1000 population has been steadily declining in the West for ages [0] and is at half the capacity in China for comparison. So rather than blaming the unvaccinated, we should maybe review the policies that le
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by john_moscow 5y ago
It has nothing to do specifically with Firefox, but is all about the incentives. If someone puts a non-trivial amount of effort into developing a product, they could be motivated by: 1. Trying to make money off selling it to end users. 2. T
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by john_moscow 5y ago
I am sorry, my intent was to pinpoint a possible conflict of interest between policy makers and specific policies benefiting specific for-profit entities. With all due respect, I believe this is a fair point to consider, even though I expr
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by john_moscow 5y ago
You are right. On the other hand, we are not trying to increase the vaccination rate from 0% to 100%, it's more about convincing the remaining 10% to go, so the effect on the actual hospital utilization would be much lower. Plus, we do
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by john_moscow 5y ago
What exactly are the staggering rates? What if you exclude 60+ year-olds, overweight, smokers and immunocompromised? From what I can hear in Canada, unvaccinated make about 10% of population and about 50% hospitalizations, that makes the va
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by john_moscow 5y ago
I would appreciate some links. All I could find from brief googling looks more like a sales pitch than an unbiased study. Looking at absolute hospitalization prevention numbers without controls, making no distinction between incidental COVI
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by john_moscow 5y ago
>Because it causes unneeded worry until the studies actually show causation rather than weak correlation and there is so much misinformation out there already. You know, the studies can show anything other than the party line only if the
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Well, then like with any other trade-off, we need to quantify and refine: * How much does the vaccination status reduce the chance of death/hospitalization? * How does it differ among age groups? * How does it change over time (not 2 d
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Why is this flagged? Why expressing any vaccine-related concerns has suddenly become a thought crime with an army of volunteers ready to shoot the messenger? How can we possibly hope to resolve the pandemic in a way that benefits the ordina
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by john_moscow 5y ago
>How come 1Password needs the equivalent of 7750 years of $80k annual salary to build the same? It will go to all-expense-paid trips, consultancy fees and other things you need to eventually get acquired for $10B+ by one of the big playe
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by john_moscow 5y ago
The growing disconnect between the person's decisions and their economic output. Imagine you wake up at 10am and make $1K, and your neighbor wakes up at 6am and makes $2K. You could be happy with it (extra $1K not worth 4 lost hours of
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by john_moscow 5y ago
It's trickier then just the paycheck. People have an inherent need of seeing their actions slowly making a progress to some global goal. Saving for retirement could be one. Paying off your mortgage, or growing your business, or raising
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by john_moscow 5y ago
People resort to stealing when they have unsatisfied ambition. When they want more than they have, and don't see a legal way to get it. If every job available to you is minimum wage where you don't make any noticeable difference,
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Well, for the past few decade or so, the country has been gradually destroying the underlying mechanisms that made it different from the 3rd-world countries, so you can hardly be surprised by those actions starting to bear fruit.
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by john_moscow 5y ago
>What is less likely is the notion that evolution magically stopped Well, the problem is that the science stopped being about "what is more likely" and turned into "what is more pleasant to hear to an average person".
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by john_moscow 5y ago
I beg a pardon, but what's wrong with this one? Sure, if you understand enough of the general relativity theory, you kinda get that "X was earlier than Y" starts making less and less sense if X and Y are light years apart, bu
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Could anyone please explain why we don't have commercially viable gas mask-style full-face respirators with replaceable filter cartridges? The problem with the regular masks is that a huge amount of air still goes around them. You can
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by john_moscow 5y ago
It's for internal consumption. The average life quality is dropping both in Russia and the West, so the governments need to divert attention and redirect the frustration to external targets. The "NATO being a threat to the whole w
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by john_moscow 5y ago
I think, there are different aspects of quality. What you are referring to is the increased adoption of unit standardized techniques (unit tests, abstractions, continuous integration, etc). What the OP was referring to is the reduced unders
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Oh, I happened to live on both sides of the globe and have a fairly sound explanation. Europeans (that have the only universal healthcare system of comparable quality) have a concept of doing your duty. It's when a tool manufacturer wo
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by john_moscow 5y ago
So, we are not building new hospitals, not creating new ICU beds, not investing into more medical programs at universities (or making them more affordable), not cracking down on opaque pricing and exponentially growing hospital administrati
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by john_moscow 5y ago
They have to check it for private information (e.g. names of specific people) and keep the factual part without any PII.
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by john_moscow 5y ago
There's an outflow of people willing to produce value, and an inflow of people ready to consume it. It will work just great until suddenly there's not that many value left to feed all the hungry mouths. And then the mouths will ta
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by john_moscow 5y ago
This sounds like an internal political game between your boss and the skip level and has really nothing to do with your performance. The non-asshole way of your skip-level to ensure a critical project gets delivered in time is to discuss th
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by john_moscow 5y ago
If the target site is controlled by the same party, it could easily include logic for loading the auto-scrolling script when opened from the player, and pretending to be a regular site otherwise.
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by john_moscow 5y ago
I am not sure about Popcorn Time, but these days you can find plenty of watchable results by searching for "<movie name> watch online" in search engines from countries that don't care about copyright (notably Russia). I
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by john_moscow 5y ago
The technical interviews are not meant to judge your current experience or work quality. They de-facto measure one's ability to research, memorize and explain the top X asked questions/problems in the field. So most of the people

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