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by mariojv 6y ago
If you are in the US, you may be observing a local trend rather than one representative of the whole country. It's very difficult to measure, but this site has an estimate: https://www.statista.com/statistics/55579
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Amazon's new “Care Hub” lets Alexa owners keep tabs on aging family members(techcrunch.com)
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Same here and it’s been getting worse (less power less frequently). CPS has said rolling outages could continue for 24 hours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5QU5rru9Rs They also said that areas close to critical infrastruc
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by mariojv 6y ago
Yes, they have some docs on GitHub for how to do it: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/wiki/How-to-buil... You can build the iOS version too for development: https://github.com/signa
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by mariojv 6y ago
Your purported statistic about the flu is demonstrably false. For the entire 2016-2017 flu season, not just January 2017, there were 14,400 deaths from the flu in France. [0] The latest death count for COVID in France is 60,549, even after
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I'm a fan of Texas, but this is unfortunately quite true. Even in West Texas, a lot of folks have trouble with the dust.
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Your premiums will be capped at a certain percentage of your income if you make around $51K or less.
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It's not proof to you, but Pfizer is shipping the vaccine in boxes that monitor temperature and location and transmit it to them so they can watch it. I trust that they wouldn't allow risky doses to be used. The risk to them of so
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by mariojv 6y ago
This comment and another got me looking into mRNA more. It seems like an mRNA vaccine is more akin to food you consume that produces a desired effect, rather than something permanently sticking around in your body. It doesn't permanent
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Does anyone have data on how many Moderna vaccines will be produced by the end of the year with Operation Warp Speed? I've read somewhere that the vaccine uses similar tech to Pfizer, so I'm wondering how many vaccines will actual
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This is only somewhat related, but I've used Go's protojson lib for pretty printing protobuf encoded data: https://godoc.org/google.golang.org/protobuf/encoding/protoj... They say not to rely on the
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Absolutely. Check out the price of lumber: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-07/timber-to...
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Moderna CEO Expects Covid-19 Vaccine Interim Results in November(wsj.com)
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I have to agree. I've convinced a non-technical group of friends to use this over SMS for group chat, and their experience so far has been delightful. Even without getting into encryption, they're delighted at its support for thre
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Don't out of pocket maximums only apply to in-network care most of the time? I think you're still on the hook for the full coinsurance amount if you're at a hospital and a doctor from out of your network happens to step in th
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How are you verifying they're real N95s if you're buying from eBay? And where can you buy them cheaply with the 60 day wait? All verifiable sources I've seen have them reserved for medical personnel, although I haven't l
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by mariojv 6y ago
I'm not newly remote but have been remote since pre-COVID in San Antonio, Texas. Relative to the Bay Area and other major Texas cities, it has a really low cost of living. We also have great parks, great food, less traffic than Austin,
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LINE is owned by a South Korean company, so it's not really a good example of a local brand.
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Aren't short-term treasuries more at 0.2% right now? Looking at yield to maturity here: https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/VFISX
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What makes you optimistic?
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Job Anxiety Spills into Tech Sector(wsj.com)
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Is there a reason other than time commitment you think this is not possible for most people? With 12 minute miles, it takes an hour. It takes time to build up endurance, but with pretty simple training - measuring weekly mileage and increas
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Thanks so much for providing this service! Here in San Antonio, there were over 1000 tuned in a few nights ago. Some local news channel management asked reporters on the ground to leave the scene quite early in the night, so this service wa
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Average rent for a 1 bedroom apartment in Fremont is 70% more expensive than one in Austin right now: https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/tx/au... https://www.rentcafe.com/a
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Absolutely. There aren't a lot of details in the article, so I'm wondering where exactly near Austin they're thinking of building the factory. San Antonio's only an hour to an hour and a half south of Austin and is where
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I'm not saying I agree or disagree given mild inflation trends over the past decade, but how long do you think inflation takes to really get in gear if you're right? We experienced deflation last month according to the consumer pr
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by mariojv 7y ago
The data around parks & recreation seems really odd to me, does anyone else agree? Anecdotally, the public parks where I live (Bexar County, Texas) have gotten so busy that I rarely go on weekends anymore because social distancing has b
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by mariojv 7y ago
I hadn’t thought about the shape of code much as a refactoring heuristic, but it’s neat to see a post about the concept of code shape. I found examining code shape to be an effective method for assisting in algorithm recall in some college
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It's not for everyone, but getting into distance and running really helped my sleep and energy levels in general. It does take a lot of time to train for a full marathon IMO, so I'm not sure that would be very manageable as a so
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by mariojv 7y ago
What a fantastic blog post! I particularly liked the audio samples and learning about what tasks the author uses a screen reader vs. braille for. I also liked hearing about how they're handling code reviews with linear diffs instead of

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