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by pbourke 7y ago
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. A number of public health authorities, including the US CDC, have stated that there is likely community transmission happening.
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by pbourke 7y ago
Is this any better than other resources or just mildly interesting because it was made by the NSA?
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by pbourke 7y ago
People are also brigading comments from other accounts despite them being substantive. HN guidelines say not to comment on voting but something sure seems up here.
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by pbourke 7y ago
How would you know about the issues if you abstained from the news?
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by pbourke 7y ago
> What degree of practical responsibility does a person in Brazil have for something bad happening to someone in Sierra Leone? That's a great example. The hypothetical Brazilian could vote for a politician that does not promote burn
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by pbourke 7y ago
> did I do well in the last four years? As in you did you personally do well financially or what have you? So you're voting as the ethical equivalent of a four year old? The rule of law is threatened by a subtle erosion of norms in
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by pbourke 7y ago
> Did we invade China to prevent the mass killings that occurred under Mao? Did we invade Cambodia to prevent the Khmer Rouge? Did we really care when Saddam gassed Iraqi Kurds? Why did we support Saddam invading Iran but not Kuwait? Whe
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by pbourke 7y ago
> If you look at the quarantined cruise ship only 63 out of 3700 people have been confirmed as cases. I believe they only tested ~300 people.
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by pbourke 7y ago
The New Year holiday in China clearly accelerated the spread of the disease there, so I don’t see how you could extrapolate from the situation there to other countries.
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by pbourke 7y ago
> The "free" healthcare that you get is not very good Utter bullshit. Source: the many friends and family members who have been treated by the system.
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by pbourke 7y ago
> It bugs me that in the US the only accepted stakeholders are the shareholders and nobody else counts. Executives, too (or mostly)
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by pbourke 7y ago
It’s interesting to watch the response to this crisis ricochet around the world. Results come from China, the CDC sequences the virus from the Chicago and Seattle patients and releases them, researchers in Seattle process the merged data th
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by pbourke 7y ago
I can think of two scenarios (they overlap): 1. Reference data (countries, car makes and models, zip codes, tax rates, etc) 2. “Human scale” databases - ie stuff that a small group of people are manually curating O(n) would probably be fine
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by pbourke 7y ago
> but it's absolutely not the first thing I'd reach for when starting a x-platform mobile project. What would you go with now?
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by pbourke 7y ago
> I'd love to see a documentary on the design & construction “21st Century Jet” is a documentary about the building of the 777. Looks like it’s available on YouTube.
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by pbourke 7y ago
Yes, do mention CNN without the context of Fox News and AM radio. Due to social media, we know more of the unfiltered thoughts of Trump and his supporters that any other president and political movement ever. My opinion of both has been for
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by pbourke 7y ago
See also “anthropogenic climate change is real”
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by pbourke 7y ago
> It has pretty low entry barriers Cost being the obvious large one. Every time I’ve had an inkling of interest in Delphi, I pop by the website and nope out within a few minutes after finding the pricing page.
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by pbourke 7y ago
What’s the difference between Rustaceans and meth addicts? Meth addicts don’t make _everything_ about meth.
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by pbourke 7y ago
It wouldn’t matter. 0.0001% of content authors would employ semantic markup. Everyone else would continue to serve up puréed tag soup.
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by pbourke 7y ago
Normal people are those who are not wealthy or politically connected such that issues like this can be made to disappear.
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by pbourke 7y ago
> Startups likely can not compete with google Then why didn’t google found/outcompete the laundry list of unicorns that have emerged over the last decade plus? Google could outspend them all by 10x. Google is very, very good at wha
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by pbourke 7y ago
> We need a new social media focused on personal, tight-knit groups of people and interests Group chat: text/Messages/WhatsApp. The fewer frills, the better.
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by pbourke 7y ago
Follow up: where can you do best based purely on technical/design/product skills? Freelance/consulting?
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by pbourke 7y ago
Well, it’s stuff that Google did in 2019 that it wanted to highlight, so take "best of" with a grain of salt. I’d be interested in a similar list from an independent perspective that doesn’t skew so high concept. Any improved logi
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by pbourke 7y ago
Scripting is different, though, because there is often little or no ability or desire to use a 3rd party library from a script. When’s the last time that you installed a bash package? (that was not distributed as a second-order effect of in
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by pbourke 7y ago
If you need the full power of BLAS, etc then it’s absolutely the right call to use the library. The situation outlined in this article is different: you just need one function (say dot product) and so the minimalist approach is to not take
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by pbourke 7y ago
> if the hotel belongs to a brand let’s say Hilton or Marriott I’ll email them directly to get a better price. Does this work differently than calling the front desk? I tried that a few times over the years and never got a price improvem
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by pbourke 7y ago
For me it’s “download the latest bill as a PDF” and “pay bill”. Invariably whenever there’s a redesign the first of those two functions gets buried further in the site.
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by pbourke 7y ago
You can try it and cancel after 1 month, according to their docs. It seems like it’s a one-click cancel too. Seems like a reasonable approach, especially since it’s an open source project and thus "free" if you so choose. They eve

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