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by nanis 6y ago
It is important to note that we are talking about one specific virus, SARS-Cov-2. There are zillions of types coronaviruses around us at all times[1]. They've been here a while and they'll be here or a looong time yet. Who knows,
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by nanis 6y ago
> being an in-demand speaker, except her ability to ‘direct government largesse’ She was a decent economist. Her work not associated with politics ended as the 20th century was in the rearview mirror. Take a look at her bibliography[1].
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by nanis 6y ago
> Why does comic-con pay famous actors to appear? In the case of Comic-Con, they do that because their audience who pay for their tickets are more likely to pay if the actors they like are part of the experience. In this case, we are tal
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by nanis 6y ago
The price of everything is always between the value placed on it by the buyer and the cost to the seller. Not a revelation. At the margin, they are all equal because trade continues until the gains from trade are exhausted. In many countrie
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by nanis 6y ago
> It's not for the EU to be scared. They just need to setup camp in Armenia, then others will not dare attack. That should be the case but is not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre Specifically,
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by nanis 6y ago
Yeah, I get the emotional downvotes, but a mention of what part of this (obviously broad-strokes) story is wrong would be appreciated.
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by nanis 6y ago
Yes, school sucked. No, life would not have been better without school. Without the ability to leave the confines of "home" where you now probably have parents who are scared to go outside.
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by nanis 6y ago
> Armenia Is an Orphaned Client State Of course, it is. My answer below is an attempt to explain why it is an orphaned state. It has been so since its formation. During WWI, Armenian separatists in the Ottoman empire were tools used by N
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by nanis 6y ago
When I was a grad student, the entire campus was able to log in to their email by telneting to a well known host. Upon log in, you were dumped in to Pine. Innocent times.
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by nanis 6y ago
> CHAR_BIT is a minimum of 1 byte (8 bits), but is not guaranteed to be 1. It seems like you are conflating things. One is, a char does not have to be an octet. That is correct. The other is the unit for sizeof(char) is always and everyw
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by nanis 6y ago
> can ... write *buffer = malloc(n * sizeof *buffer) The extra parentheses are there for the us humans who might need help distinguishing between * as dereferencing operator versus * as multiplication all happening within the space of ei
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by nanis 6y ago
> Shouldn't that be: > bufsize += LSH_RL_BUFSIZE * sizeof(char); sizeof(char) is always and everywhere 1.
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by nanis 6y ago
> char *buffer = malloc(sizeof(char) * bufsize); Please don't do this. sizeof(char) is always and everywhere 1. More importantly, don't do: <type> *buffer = malloc(n * sizeof(<type>)); which frequently leads to bugs
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by nanis 6y ago
Friedman was right when he said "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." Assume doodads are $1 today. If tomorrow money supply is doubled, they will be $2. A reasonable definition of the intrinsic value of a sto
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by nanis 6y ago
> last revised 9 May 2020 (this version, v9)]
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by nanis 6y ago
On campus, university administration is a government. Also, > "You may NOT leave your room for solo outdoor exercise, which is a change from previous self-sequestering guidelines,” UC Berkeley’s campus housing webpage reads. “We are
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by nanis 6y ago
> The US government is quick to say that most prisoners at Guantanamo are not technically in solitary confinement because they can yell at each other through the gaps underneath their cell doors; they can talk to one another during recre
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by nanis 6y ago
It looks like "Logan's Run" is relevant again ... It's beautiful outside but you are not allowed to go because we must control you. We'll ruin your youth and kill you when you reach 30. Go outside, get some vitamin
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ATtiny85 chirping in response to red key presses on a Liyafy HC-35 keypad(nu42.com)
2 points by nanis 6y ago|0 comments
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by nanis 6y ago
> It might also be true that neither the buyer not the seller, in any transaction, are happy about it as such. "Happy" here is used in a very specific sense: If two parties engage in a transaction without coercion, it must be b
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by nanis 6y ago
Given that it is the difference, matching areas are black. The areas that are no black are faint. You might want to play with your monitor's contrast settings. The non-black areas are clearly visible on my ancient laptop's not so
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by nanis 6y ago
Cool. Although, I think the difference between the "before" and "after" is interesting in terms of showing what's going on. https://imgur.com/a/YOEDQVj
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Australia Puts Perth in Lockdown over One Covid Case(nytimes.com)
1 points by nanis 6y ago|1 comments
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Fun with an ATTiny85, Liyafy HC-35 with 8 LEDs, & a serial to parallel shifter(nu42.com)
12 points by nanis 6y ago|0 comments
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by nanis 6y ago
How do I play using the keyboard? Why not link notes the letters and chords to digits or something like that?
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by nanis 6y ago
> So you think they should use some lower Ct number Everyone should use the same number in all tests. From what I understand, about 20 is a reasonable number which might still result in positives up to a month post-infection. I consider
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by nanis 6y ago
> Nevermind the people who you infect and kill, you can’t be blamed for that, right? This is a new standard. Even though the flu is very dangerous in small children, adults who mix with adults in work settings while infected with the flu
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by nanis 6y ago
> What should a schoolteacher do then, die? Feudal traditions aside, no one has the right to draw an income from a position where they are not doing the job. So, if teachers don't want to teach, then they can find another occupation
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by nanis 6y ago
> In this paper they've used 45 for HIV. What's your point? There is a difference between HIV vs SARS-Cov2: If you get AIDS, your body does not have the capacity to recover from it on its own. So, 1) the chances of detecting de
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by nanis 6y ago
Nice, downvoted for a thoughtful post supported by facts and logic.

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