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by mantap 7y ago
HN has an infamous feature called shadowbanning whereby mods can ban a user in such a way that they can't tell that their account is banned. As far as the user is concerned they are not banned, but the comments they submit are immediat
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by mantap 7y ago
You are shadow banned btw. Since this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22316460
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This sounds reassuring until you realise that "People who cough and sneeze" = all humans.
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Maybe. What helps more is 1) indoor smoking bans, stopping people from smoking socially inside bars and restaurants, 2) heavy taxation, 3) vaping.
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You know, people said the same things about Porton Down when the Novichok nerve agent was released in Salisbury UK. It was mightily suspicious that this nerve agent was released just down the road from the UK government bio&chemical res
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by mantap 7y ago
I don't understand why people would believe that it is. It has all the wrong properties to be a bioweapon: it mainly kills the weak and elderly (unlike the 2009 "swine" flu which most severely afflicted the young), it isn&#x2
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You need 60Hz if you are making any user facing software for sure.
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The problem is that programmers tend to confuse the concept of unsigned integers and non-negative integers. They think that just because a number can never be negative it is OK to use an unsigned integer to represent it. This leads to lots
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by mantap 7y ago
Before learning a language it's essential to enumerate your goals and determine not just the level of fluency that you desire but what part of the language you wish to learn. A diplomat is going to need to learn a different vocabular
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by mantap 7y ago
The authorities have completely fucked up the naming. No news outlet can call it SARS-CoV-2 as it will create panic as SARS has a higher death rate. So you are left with the hypercorrect use of COVID-19 over the actually correct use of &quo
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by mantap 7y ago
My outside perception of marriage in US is that there is little stigma against divorce, it's almost expected in certain situations (such as one partner is unfaithful). If I was an investor I would not invest in such a startup.
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> Would they still have wanted to "experience the create comforts of modernity" if modernity hadn't presented itself to their doorstep? Yes, absolutely. Without either hospitals or contraception, it's quite common for
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Do isolated tribes generally want to stay isolated? There certainly are examples of tribes forcefully isolating themselves, such as the baduy dalam in indonesia. However in many cases it's the reverse, and tribes want to come into the
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by mantap 7y ago
Pretty much the first thing you learn in game development (OK not the first thing), is the difference between linear-RGB and sRGB and the need to do lighting calculations in linear space in your shaders. It's crazy that professional gr
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by mantap 7y ago
It was theoretically replaced by notification center widgets, but in reality it was replaced by smartphones. All the little apps I used to have on dashboard, like the weather, are now things I check on my phone.
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Only a minority of countries are doing that. It might work now because most cases are in China. If self-sustaining outbreaks run out of control in Thailand and Singapore, will travellers from there be blocked too? It quickly becomes a game
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by mantap 7y ago
15-20% of people who get this illness require hospitalisation. In the worst case scenario where it infects a billion people... you can do the maths. There is a huge potential for disruption to production and supply chains, especially in dev
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> The coronavirus has caused a lot of setbacks but it's only a short term problem We hope it's only a short term problem. It's far to early to say if this outbreak will be contained somehow, if it will continue into the
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Funny, I much prefer the journalistic style of Tech Dirt, who at least bother to cite and quote from their primary sources. Comparing it to a former porn magazine is unfair.
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It seems intuitive to me that visual centers of the brain don't develop properly in the absence of visual stimulation. Has anybody done fMRIs to compare congenitally blind people with those who became blind later in life? Also it begs
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by mantap 7y ago
They are not for devs. Few workplaces are gonna pony up $10-20k for a developer box. The 16" MBP is Apple's developer machine.
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I think what laypeople and experts mean by "asymptomatic" is different and contributes to talking past each other. One of the first symptoms of this coronavirus is a dry cough. These people would not be considered asymptomatic in
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by mantap 7y ago
As I understand it, while a cooking process is not protected by copyright, the prose describing a recipe can be. So if the recipe is more than just a matter-of-fact exposition of instructions you'd have to rewrite it in your own wo
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I'm going to assume this is sarcasm.
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If it's in your own free time on your own hardware why would Amazon be able to capitalize on it? Employees are not slaves.
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The incredible thing about this is that when NASA gave the contract to both Boeing and SpaceX, SpaceX was supposed to be the risky new startup and Boeing was supposed to be the safe "nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM" backup
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Comparing the two is exactly the role of governments (and by extension, us as their supervisors) as there are only finite resources to allocate. I don't think it's quite true to say that after 20 years we would be left with nothin
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I was replying to this: "I just copied the data from WHO sitreps and the total-cases diff of diffs has been increasingly negative for three of the last four days." In any case I disagree that the data from Wuhan contains any inf
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The numbers from Wuhan are simply wrong and we have no idea how many people there are infected or how many have died. So you should discard all data from Wuhan at least before doing your analysis. The whole city is under quarantine, people
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Unlikely to be at the 10% end in Wuhan . Mortality rates are properties of epidemics, there's no such thing as a mortality rate of a disease per se, because mortality depends on the prior health of the people infected, the sophisticat

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