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by pbourke 6y ago
The US government could find the money to be fully prepared for pandemic diseases in its couch cushions. The problem is not a lack of resources but rather a lack of operational capability to observe, orient, decide and act.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> but most of the world didn't expect it and didn't prepare for it. You cannot say this about the United States. Both of the prior administrations developed detailed pandemic response plans. Bush’s plan was informed by the &quo
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by pbourke 6y ago
"conditions are unsanitary and dangerous to the crew and patient is confused and ucooperative yet is requesting assistance" That seems better than "there's a homeless guy with a bunch of needles and feces" in terms
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by pbourke 6y ago
Yeah, a switch gets flipped that cannot be unflipped. It becomes a mercenary situation until you can exit.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> You can't, in our current system, shift wealth that readily and quickly. The Fed seems to be doing just that
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by pbourke 6y ago
Emacs was Amazon's first Customer Service email system: "Shel wrote Mailman in C, and Customer Service wrapped it in Lisp. Emacs-Lisp [...] Mailman was the Customer Service customer-email processing application for ... four, five
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by pbourke 6y ago
I have seen the video in question. It’s tragic. You neglect the hundreds of thousands of people who turned up in peaceful protests around the world over the last week. These people are seeking positive change within their communities. Your
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Protesters set homeless man’s belongings on fire This was staged by infowars. I cannot be arsed to look at all of your videos. The right wing lockdown protests had a strong smell of AstroTurf about them: https://www.nytimes.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Question to Americans: if the police really are acting this badly, why aren't y'all exercising your second amendment rights to defend yourselves? Because that is a fever dream. The reality is that if you use a firearm on the
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by pbourke 6y ago
https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1267252951640346626?s=21
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by pbourke 6y ago
https://twitter.com/michaeladams317/status/12669452685676789...
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by pbourke 6y ago
https://twitter.com/allan_wrestle/status/1267230507428974592...
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by pbourke 6y ago
It's been flagged to oblivion so as not to pierce HN's tender bubble. Should have mentioned which JS framework was used to build the site so the post would stay on the front page.
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by pbourke 6y ago
I know this is hard for some people to accept, but the police in a free and democratic society are ultimately accountable to the citizenry yet some police behave as if they are only accountable to themselves. They shoot, club, pepper spray
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by pbourke 6y ago
The redundant computers were only one part of it. The Space Shuttle software engineering capability was on another level. https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
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by pbourke 6y ago
A number of senior Amazon folks went over to Sears 5-7 years ago. Sears definitely had people that know Amazon's techniques.
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by pbourke 6y ago
or, you know, Craigslist and Wikipedia.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> you can only be passive-agressive for so long before you get jaded and unhappy I think you’re putting the cart before the horse here
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by pbourke 6y ago
They had a vaccine for that 4 months after the outbreak.
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by pbourke 6y ago
You misspelled “surveillance capitalism”
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by pbourke 6y ago
That site is wonderful. Even the “Complete contents” page, which appears to load the entire archive in one request, is snappy on my iPhone.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Is 50% of total comp realistic? I find it hard to believe that someone would be paid $250k in the Bay Area and work with someone at the same level in Boise getting paid $125k. I can buy $250k vs $200k or something similar.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Moving from "daily commute distance" to "occasional long trip distance" would still be huge. Moving 2-3hrs out from major east and west coast metros would massively increase affordability.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> my work has totally monopolized what's usually my own personal space for side projects and zoning out I would like to see an increase in flexibility. Many people will choose to work from their own homes, and some may choose to use
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Funding dictates this is impossible, so they make do. Put another way: software quality is not valued in academia. Let’s say the code in question was in great shape. Would it have mattered at all in the trajectory of anyone’s career? N
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by pbourke 6y ago
I tried to find a locksmith once via Google. Maps would list a local locksmith with a street address and phone number with local exchange, but the calls all went to one or two centralized numbers. The locations seemed to be fake. It was a v
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by pbourke 6y ago
But that's essentially a table lookup, not a vtable lookup, right? Dynamic dispatch implies that you dispatch based on the class of the receiver. For instance, you can't have a Point3 value that uses Point's implementation of
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by pbourke 6y ago
> I feel like I should mumble something about regression to oral tradition from literate society but hey. I listen to a lot of podcasts about random topics while doing yardwork and (pre-pandemic) commuting. I find that I remember these p
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by pbourke 6y ago
This is a neat example, but wouldn't dynamic dispatch imply polymorphism?
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by pbourke 6y ago
First off - this is really neat, especially the focus on privacy and the use of AI at the edge. It seems like the occupancy limit problem for small rooms is much more challenging than the building-density problem, since a single error could

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