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by kenhwang 6y ago
That's what I noticed as well. I didn't switch over to DDG because it was better, I did because Google just got much worse and so cluttered with ads and knowledge blocks that were wrong more often than not.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
There's also a shortage of said tanks. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-29/oxygen-s...
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by kenhwang 6y ago
From what I've read, its a hospital infrastructure problem, not a material shortage problem. The pipes that deliver oxygen to the machines can't deliver oxygen any faster because they're freezing up from the amount of oxygen
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Normally such patients aren't either. This is media sensationalism. Someone got alarmed by the wording of the reminder/clarification of the policy as-it-was. Pronounced dead at the scene and should not be transported for failure t
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Which is why credit appearance order and grouping is such a big deal and part of contract negotiation in films. Earlier appearances is supposed to signify importance (notice when a group of names isn't alphabetical), along with pre-tit
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Arguably, unions are the best judge of someone's competency, because its supposed to be a group of peers. It's already how it works in tech, software engineers evaluate the skill of prospective software engineers, not management.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I think it's the exact opposite problem the tech industry has. The film industry has way more talent supply than the employment demands, which naturally suppresses pay. The guilds/unions are a way to increase scarcity to maintain
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Credit everyone by name or credit no one by name. It is inherently unfair to only credit key talent.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Everyone in the US film industry for these unions: https://castifi.com/2020/03/24/list-of-film-industry-unions/ There's way more union members than there is work. So if the pay's the same for u
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Of course. Which can be evidenced by the working conditions in the film industry for the typical staff and the lack of diversity at the top.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
The film industry operates on a gig-by-gig basis. Imagine drafting a legal contract for every sprint. Because you're working at a different company every sprint. Or interviewing/hiring new people every sprint. Kinda how the film i
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by kenhwang 6y ago
The unions (edit: film industry) require a certain amount of work experience to join and some have different levels of membership depending on how much work you do after joining. Because everyone prefers union workers, it creates a situatio
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Well typically there isn't such a large gap in vaccine performance. 62% is about as bad as vaccines get, and in any other circumstance the manufacturer would retrial instead of seek approval. Even the WHO recommends a 70% minimum durin
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by kenhwang 6y ago
> From 21 days after the first dose, there were ten cases hospitalised for COVID-19, all in the control arm; two were classified as severe COVID-19, including one death. Means they didn't get the vaccine at all.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I'm thinking more the other way around. All the vaccines practically prevent hospitalization/death. But the AZ one is coin flip odds for symptoms, however minor. But even minor symptoms from COVID can have medium term damage (loss
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I wonder if more authoritarian governments like China or Russia would be willing to do challenge trials. Outside of ethical concerns, it comes with other complications, like how to design infecting the challengers so that it would be repres
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Both Pfizer and Moderna were approved within a week of request. So it's not expected for the approval process to be slow. If you compare the data between Pfizer[1] and AstraZeneca[2]. The AZ trials were significantly more complicated,
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Reading the journal paper from AstraZeneca[1]. I don't think AZ can claim anything about preventing asymptomatic infections. You're right in that they're the only ones with that data, but that data is practically identical be
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Where are you getting your source for Astrazeneca's sample size being larger? Everything I've read so far says this result was based off a sample size of ~11k people. Which would be significantly smaller than the ~40k of Pfizer an
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by kenhwang 6y ago
The biggest speedup factor was how easy it was to get people sick. A certain number of people had to get sick within the trial groups before results could be conclusive. With how widespread COVID is and how many people caught it, they hit t
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Pfizer has the highest efficacy endpoint (95% at preventing symptomatic infection, which would theoretically also prevent spread and symptoms at higher percentages) with equal efficacy across age groups. Moderna is 95% at preventing symptom
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Looks like they approved the two-dose 62% ~effective~ efficacy regiment. There was a lot of hope for the one-dose given the supply constraints or a retrial for the more promising half+full dose for greater efficacy. I wonder if people will
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Which is expected to be severely reduced with EVs unless Apple's plans are to enter the ICE market.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Apple makes more money per unit selling an iPhone than most automakers make from selling an entire car. The auto industry has historically been a low margin, low volume, high capital investment industry with significant government subsidies
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by kenhwang 6y ago
I used to work for one of AWS's biggest customers. This was 100% how we operated, we told AWS what we wanted them to solve, and they would build it for us. When we're done closed beta testing it and getting changes in, it gets rel
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Generally considered to be professional class. Working class generally refers to jobs that require little experience/education to enter since skills can be learned on the job. Professional class generally requires higher education.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
Guido also worked at Dropbox from 2013-19. Python's shortcomings probably can't be attributed to its lead struggling to pay rent.
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by kenhwang 6y ago
That used to be the role a union played as well. Before unions got all corrupt and self-serving, there used to be a better than market guarantee of quality and conduct when hiring union labor. Unions would train and discipline their members
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by kenhwang 6y ago
We just ask nicely. Never really had a problem getting a huge % discount on the bill because of an outage. Extra bonus for us since there's no bottom line impact since we can tolerate some downtime (just annoying for engineering).
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by kenhwang 6y ago
The best weather really lies between Socal and Norcal: SLO and SB. Their biggest weakness was always the lack of local jobs.

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