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by nodamage 7y ago
I mean all those countries eat a ton of rice. I would not consider any of them to have low carb diets.
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by nodamage 7y ago
A few thoughts: 1) Extrapolating from the infection rates of very specific groups (for example, evacuees) to the entire population without taking into account transmission dynamics and the time between infection and detection does not make
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by nodamage 7y ago
> Unless you are in a risk group, the test doesn’t really make a difference. If the test is positive, you can self-quarantine and notify everyone you've been in contact with that they need testing . Then any one of those people tha
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by nodamage 7y ago
> Go read HN comments from weeks and months ago, and see the posters encouraging prompt measures getting called paranoids. Exactly. Two weeks ago every coronavirus thread on Hacker News was full of deniers claiming this was no worse than
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by nodamage 7y ago
I wonder if the internet "experts" here (and on other forums) who declared two weeks ago that "this is just overblown media hysteria and no more dangerous than the flu" will retract their claims now that the WHO has decl
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by nodamage 7y ago
(3) is kind of a strawman. No one actually thinks Donald Trump said the virus itself is a hoax. In context the "hoax" is referring to the claims about the seriousness of the virus and the government response to it. And there are d
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by nodamage 7y ago
This Business Insider article seems really pointless and vapid to me. Their criticism of reddit is they don't link to official CDC or WHO pages at the top of their search results? You might as well level the same accusation at Hacker N
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by nodamage 7y ago
Yeah but I think it's reasonable to assume no one using Python in production actually does this.
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by nodamage 7y ago
> Python programs that do close to nothing still use way more CPU than you would if you were running in the JVM, or Go, C, whatever. Yeah but that's not exactly shocking news to anyone, is it? People generally choose Python for othe
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by nodamage 7y ago
Yes after reading through the article it's not very clear to me what the actual problem is with using Python/Gunicorn/Gevent. The author seems to be saying something about how if a worker is busy doing CPU intensive work (is
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by nodamage 7y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I keep seeing people try to claim "but we don't know the true number of unreported cases therefore the true CFR is lower than reported" as if epidemiologists are somehow unaware of this factor.
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by nodamage 7y ago
You seem really hung up on the fact that the flu has killed more people. But based on all the studies we've seen so far, this virus is more contagious than the flu, and more deadly as well. If it infects the same number of people as th
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by nodamage 7y ago
Looking only at the total numbers paints a misleading picture. It is no longer growing exponentially in China because they have quarantined millions of people. It was growing exponentially prior to the quarantine. It is growing expone
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by nodamage 7y ago
Yes more people have died from the flu so far, but Covid-19 was only officially identified last month and is growing exponentially. Based on the studies we have seen so far, it is more contagious than the flu (R0 of 2.2 vs 1.3), and signifi
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by nodamage 7y ago
Bill Gates wrote a fairly cogent op-end explaining why we should be taking this seriously: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2003762 The short answer is the combination of a high transmission rate an
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by nodamage 7y ago
> But that doesn't really matter, you can adopt concepts and designs from 3rd parties (including competitors) so long as the same is not protected. Maybe it's legal but I don't think it's ethical. And while implementi
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by nodamage 7y ago
Competitive analysis is one thing, point for point copying of another company's user interface is unethical. Apple put in the R&D to make the iPhone interface more intuitive and easy to use compared to other phones at the time. Sam
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by nodamage 7y ago
You make it sound like Samsung was quietly doing their own thing and then were blindsided by a lawsuit from Apple. But actually after the iPhone was released Samsung deliberately went through it screen by screen and produced a 132-page repo
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by nodamage 7y ago
> No but Apple's patent for rounded corners didn't help Samsung engineers from creating their devices...and yet Apple filed the patent and sued Samsung for patent infringement. It's unfortunate that this story has now been
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by nodamage 7y ago
Yeah I suppose we should not be surprised by that, I'm just curious whether the exploit 1) only gave access to data that WhatsApp would normally have permission to access, or 2) gave access to the entire phone regardless of permissions
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by nodamage 7y ago
> As an exploit category, iOS sandbox escapes are medium difficulty. Are there any published explanations of exploits that achieve this? Just curious what it would look like.
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by nodamage 7y ago
Two questions (which aren't really explained in this report): 1. Did he have to actually play the video, or was simply receiving the message enough to compromise his phone? 2. It says after his phone was compromised, a large amount of
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by nodamage 7y ago
Not sure why you think this is specific to the US. Plenty of other countries require you to collect your luggage in order to clear customs when making an international to domestic transfer, for example: Japan and New Zealand.
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by nodamage 7y ago
You're clearly coming from a very C# centric viewpoint and reacting to my statements from a perspective of: "well, if I don't do it in XML then I'd have to do it in C# and that would be even worse". Which I don&#x27
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by nodamage 7y ago
> Designers would most likely be familiar with XML given their HTML background, but they wouldn't necessarily know C#. I am really curious how often XAML has been used by a designer who didn't know C#. Most of the XAML I&#x27
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by nodamage 7y ago
Primarily the two I originally mentioned, WPF and Android, both of which rely on configuration of controls through XML attributes, which are all strings and not necessarily checked for validity at compile time.
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by nodamage 7y ago
I'm definitely not advocating for JSON here, that would be even worse.
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by nodamage 7y ago
Yes I agree that building declarative UIs in code does require language support and some languages are not well suited to it. But I think this is an area where we could see real improvement and we should want our tooling to evolve to better
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by nodamage 7y ago
> - User interfaces are very prone to have big files, because there tend to be a lot of different components. I don't get how XML will add more bloat, other than having the <> tags for defining elements. I disagree that this
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by nodamage 7y ago
> Code generally isn't declarative or hierarchical unless your language is those things as well. A declaratively defined interface in C# would end up being some like a bunch of strings or enums passed to some object constructors. A

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