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by mapme 4y ago
I think that’s a large oversimplification of Facebook. While it’s true a lot of FB storage is MySQL backed they also created many complex systems such as: - Cassandra (based on dynamo/big table) - wrote a custom KV store named RocksDb
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by mapme 5y ago
4.5 billion in ads per year on 200 mil users is a failure? What revenue number would you define as successful?
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by mapme 5y ago
That is an interesting comparison to other reasons why we kill animals, however, the point wasn’t a relative moral comparison to animal slaughter for food purposes but that it’s not zero cost morality wise to kill an animal in its prime.
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by mapme 5y ago
I understand your view and agree with what you’ve said, however, the primary point was that there are moral implications if you intervene in another life so it is not a moral freebie.
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by mapme 5y ago
Wouldn’t you need to kill the animal in the prime of its life, causing a moral issue?
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by mapme 5y ago
Actually in Japan you could argue drinking was somewhat required for their livelihood lol it’s different than driving requirements but interesting nonetheless https://www.google.com/amp/s/ameliemarieintokyo.com&#x2
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by mapme 5y ago
Better to go with N100 mask or heavy duty respirator if you truly wanted to ramp up protection. https://www.grainger.com/product/6AD97?ef_id=Cj0KCQiAw9qOBhC...
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by mapme 5y ago
It’s wild that manhattans population was ~2.5 million in 1910 and is now only ~1.6 million.
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by mapme 5y ago
Exactly, the attack rate of vaccinated individuals who are infected is significantly lower.
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by mapme 5y ago
Did you read the linked article? The governor of one of the largest US states asked hospitals to delay elective procedures to ensure hospital capacity.
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by mapme 5y ago
For me the major point of vaccinating others is ensuring hospitals are not overwhelmed and have enough capacity to treat other patients and perform elective procedures. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com
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by mapme 5y ago
I think you misunderstood the quote. It is saying that if you take 10 million people the background rate of death, disease, stroke etc., (unrelated to vaccine) will be high and a confounding issue, even if you didn’t give them the vaccine.
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by mapme 5y ago
You have to compare it to the background rate to tease out signal from noise. That said any intervention (including a vaccine) carries non-zero risk. Taking aspirin, Zantac, laxatives, NyQuil etc., all can destroy you, but it’s rare. The
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by mapme 5y ago
The policy excludes children under 12 given they are not eligible.
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by mapme 5y ago
It is much more effective than the flu vaccine and you can still transmit with the flu vaccine, as neither are purely sterilizing.
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by mapme 5y ago
Currently it’s actually the opposite in that the best restaurants are thriving because they ~doubled capacity by adding huge outdoor dining structures on the sidewalks that were previously not allowed. Note that it only impacts indoor dinin
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by mapme 5y ago
I find it hard to believe they “didn’t want the public to know” when one of the earliest studies the CDC did on vaccines, with a March 2021 publish date, was a study that tested weekly regardless of symptoms to see if it prevented infecti
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by mapme 5y ago
Genuine question: were people ever reading the source material? Seems like a dubious claim that folks of yesteryear read deeply into original sources. Most people read headlines and attention grabbing quotes and this was just as true 100
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by mapme 5y ago
I think that’s because the American urban centric view looks at where the meat comes from in the US and it’s not equivalent to hunting on a farm. It comes from factory farms that are pretty sickening when you see videos and pictures. Sure m
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by mapme 5y ago
A notable exemption: “The bill includes a clause that exempts a company "that owns and operates a theme park or entertainment complex" - which allows Disney to be exempt from this bill. Florida is home to the Disney World theme pa
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by mapme 5y ago
The easiest path is to read Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman. Builds from the ground up and by the end (or after a second read) you will have a deep understanding. Book hits on all of of the tech you mentioned except
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by mapme 5y ago
I wish the US had gone harder on telling people to get quality masks. Personally I use only n95 from US manufacturers that have a tight seal around my face. I understand before that there were supply constraints, but also there are better f
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by mapme 5y ago
Isn’t that direct evidence that medical masks work ? Which doesn’t support your assertion that groups all masks together. Thus, your argument appears against cloth masks, not medical grade (surgical, n95). https://bmjopen.bmj.c
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by mapme 5y ago
I wouldn’t say nefarious but just extremely delayed which leads to bad outcomes. This was known for at least the last 6 months and it then let places hide behind this as being safe (we follow cdc guidelines!). Restaurants saying they clean
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by mapme 6y ago
How does rate of community spread impact efficacy calculations? The placebo and treatment group should be operating in similar areas w/ similar case rates. If there were 10,000 cases in placebo and 1,000 in vaccine, how is that differe
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by mapme 6y ago
Israel has much more robust data than the trials for pfizer (monster study group size of 600k per group). They have seen hospitalizations and death in fully immunized individuals. There’s more papers out there but here’s one. https:/&
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by mapme 6y ago
A mild reaction to the vaccine is way different than actually having a viral infection. Potential long term persistent symptoms can occur with viral diseases and particularly COVID. Not sure that comparison makes sense. Additionally JNJ has
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by mapme 6y ago
The positive note is that we are already at 74% of over 65 w/ one dose, so hopefully we can push that to 85% and drastically lower deaths. Vaccine acceptance in 65+ is very high
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by mapme 6y ago
Yes, this was seen in the Israel Pfizer data that death protection was around 93%. There are a number of public data points from Israel with sample sizes that dwarf anything done in trials. Shame it’s not mentioned more as it’s incredibly r
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by mapme 6y ago
CDC study from this week showed 90% effectiveness when doing proactive weekly testing regardless of if presenting symptoms. That is the best data I’ve seen as evidence it prevents even a symptomatic cases as a very high efficacy. Israel dat

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