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by mantap 6y ago
I don't think that's what they're doing. Intersection of people who care about privacy and people who wouldn't see through that tactic is tiny. They are using the NHS brand to get high adoption. Plus the UK govt slogan r
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by mantap 6y ago
I think the way it works now is correct. Using escape characters is more common than writing strings with backslashes. The more common case should be default.
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by mantap 6y ago
If you are low on disk space you want something predictable to happen: the oldest logs are deleted and the newest logs are written. This would be a nightmare to achieve with SQLite, as said above it's just way too complicated.
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by mantap 6y ago
There's no such thing as "strongly" or "weakly" typed languages. Those terms have no definition and are meaningless. Yes Wikipedia will tell you that C and JS are weakly typed, but what attribute is it that C and JS
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by mantap 6y ago
That is the difference between a dynamically typed language (like Python) and an untyped language (like JS). The dynamically typed language checks types at runtime, whereas the untyped language doesn't.
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by mantap 6y ago
How would you get any privacy? I don't think other people on the train are going to be happy with me dictating "eggplant emoji smirk emoji" to a wearable.
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by mantap 6y ago
If you find that shocking you would probably drop dead at seeing what Lisp programmers get up to with macros :) Language flexibility doesn't obscure the readability of code. It enhances it. In a flexible language, unclear code is alway
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by mantap 6y ago
By what mechanism? Increased pressure on healthcare systems increases mortality not decreases it. It doesn't make sense to me that Sweden could get lower absolute mortality by avoiding lockdowns.
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by mantap 6y ago
The USA has one of the most insane systems on the planet. There's 50 states plus DC. Each with their own laws which apply to anybody selling in that state, so if a business is selling in 50 states then they need to follow 50 sets of la
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by mantap 6y ago
If you play Russian roulette and survive, was the decision to play Russian roulette a good one? If you make a bad decision but it works out OK, then it's still a bad decision. If you make a good decision and it doesn't work out, y
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by mantap 6y ago
Honestly these things are all variations on a theme in JavaScript. The language is flexible enough that you can write code in many different ways and they all end up being equivalently powerful. In JavaScript you have precise control over i
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by mantap 6y ago
At least where I live the only reason someone would be put on a psych ward is because they are a danger to themselves or others.
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by mantap 6y ago
This is a really good analogy actually. The porn industry has higher risk for STDs but lower incidence than the general population.
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by mantap 6y ago
Right but what I'm getting at is that when people talk about "Asian Americans" in the context of college admissions, it seems like a coded way of talking about people of Chinese descent and not e.g. Filipinos.
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by mantap 6y ago
By "Asian American" do they mean Americans of Chinese descent or what? Does it include Filipinos? Thai? Afghans? It is an odd term.
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by mantap 6y ago
Of course not, it's a novel virus, with novel transmission characteristics, there is no evidence for any of the interventions against it until someone tries them, and even then the evidence is usually inconclusive. Such is life.
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by mantap 6y ago
Does there need to be a control group? Can we not detect if the vaccine is working or not without one?
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by mantap 6y ago
The presence of antibodies is not sufficient for herd immunity. For herd immunity you need those antibodies to stick around.
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by mantap 6y ago
It's not black and white. A person who goes to the store more often has a greater chance of being tested, than someone who goes infrequently. There's also the issue that people are trying to avoid other human beings right now, inc
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by mantap 7y ago
FaceID is dead until a coronavirus vaccine is developed.
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by mantap 7y ago
Strongly disagree. The slots will immediately book out to the last available date. So if slots are available in 10 days that just means that everybody has to wait 10 days for their delivery. Increasing latency doesn't increase throughp
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by mantap 7y ago
Seems what is needed is inverted Y adapter, with two inputs and one output and a switch.
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by mantap 7y ago
I use an interdental brush. It's soft and designed for getting debris out of sensitive places. Works a treat.
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by mantap 7y ago
That's the opposite of what I heard, that breathing mostly produces droplets. But I wouldn't be surprised if it's wrong, it seems like this area of research is not well understood by public health professionals. Regardless of
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by mantap 7y ago
The change in habits cuts both ways. I've bought from many small online stores recently as a result of the big retailers (inc Amazon) being totally sold out.
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by mantap 7y ago
2 meters is only sufficient for droplet transmission (e.g. breathing). Aerosol transmission (e.g. a sneeze or heavy cough) can travel much further than 2m. Granted these are for confined spaces and outdoors it will depend on factors such as
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by mantap 7y ago
Could that not be because of shortages? If there's a shortage of ventilators then only the very sickest patients will get them. Don't see how it's valid to compare numbers against disease in "peacetime".
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by mantap 7y ago
Who is undermining the meaning? Veggie burgers have been called that for decades. The meaning of burger as a cooked patty between two round pieces of bread is well established (chicken burger, falafel burger, whatever).
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by mantap 7y ago
Yeah basically the extreme correlation of mortality with age makes it hard to state a mortality rate. Small changes in the population age distribution create big changes in mortality.
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by mantap 7y ago
Entire countries are under house arrest. I don't trust the government but I also want my parents to be able to go to store or hospital without risking their lives. Pretty much everybody is either in at-risk group themselves or has a cl

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