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by pedrocr 6y ago
I've yet to see any argument for why that would be, and your argument was that everyone was going to get it "sooner or later". At this point you're just conjecturing scenarios without an argument. The actual metric to co
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by pedrocr 6y ago
The 4000+ extra COVID19 deaths they've had are years of life lost even if in the end the same number of people die. And their economic downturn was no better either.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Finland, Denmark and Norway had less excess deaths the whole year and much less COVID19. It's amazing how people keep trying to make Sweden out to be a success by comparing it favorably to the worst cases. Detailed source: https:&#x2F
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by pedrocr 6y ago
> The argument operates on a spectrum of specifics, and line drawing is always going to look absurd to someone. No doubt. My point is exactly that you have to find a balance somewhere, and it can't just be first come first serve. Be
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Just because you built something in the "middle of nowhere" doesn't necessarily mean you should get to impose externalities that devalue the properties around you. It depends on what the externality is but zoning may not be e
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Manufacturers could do a better job at making screen replacements easy, as that's what breaks a lot. Other than that, having software updates for a long time is a much more important missing piece on Android than this. For anyone that
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Moore's law is still on pace but Dennard scaling has broken down for ~15 years now. That means we're not getting the same speedups as we were used to and that gets explained by "Moore's law has broken down" as a tit
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by pedrocr 6y ago
I would have ordered an AMD Lenovo T14s if they hadn't artificially segmented it by not offering the 4K screen available on the Intel version. Hopefully AMD can increase the volume for these chips and more configurations show up.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
20/20 vision is only average for the population when you get to 60. So most people here will see significantly better than that. At 20/20 1080p is probably enough. Most people will enjoy a 1440p screen and 2160p will have marginal
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by pedrocr 6y ago
For a screen that you're placing in front of each eye, giving the total resolution actually sounds pretty appropriate. Particularly since although this is technically 1440 lines it only has as many pixels as 1080p resolution, which won
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by pedrocr 6y ago
The screens are 1440x1440 and square format makes a lot of sense for this application. They're best described as 2MP instead of 2K.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
> According to this Statista data, they’re roughly in the middle for Western Europe I stopped right here. You linked data that shows them 5th of a list of 31 countries, with values that are 5x larger than 2/3 of the list. You linked
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by pedrocr 6y ago
> Are you ok with lockdowns to save .001% of the population from this? No. But that's a full 4 orders of magnitude off our best estimates of mortality which are around 1%. Do I support the limited lockdowns we've had, lasting o
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by pedrocr 6y ago
> Not saying Norway or whatnot is not doing better, just we don't really know. But we do, excess deaths have all causes integrated. Comparing to the Nordic neighbors makes sense because they have more similarities than comparing to
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Sweden is not middle of the pack. They are in line with the worst death rates in Europe when their comparable neighbors have the best rates. And they achieved that while still doing quite a few lockdown measures, just less. In numbers of ca
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by pedrocr 6y ago
I'm also from Portugal and know our stats well. We're not doing well, and haven't really done all that well in the past either. Comparing Sweden to their 3 immediate neighbors makes a lot more sense.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
If you have to argue your stats are bad because you've "front-loaded deaths" maybe don't go around saying you are vindicated just yet?
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Yes, their numbers are very similar, in some cases better, to the places in Europe that had the worst outbreaks. Meanwhile their much more comparable neighboring countries have 5 to 10x better outcomes.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
You're cherry picking Portugal's screwup in general healthcare response when there are much better comparisons. The excess death rates in Sweden are much higher than all its neighbors which are much more comparable. At the peak z-
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by pedrocr 6y ago
The idea that Sweden had no lockdown measures at all and other places had draconian lockdowns where the whole population was closed down for three months is a strawman. They are also near the bottom on all those indicators you mentioned. Do
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by pedrocr 6y ago
3x more people died than in places that did the consensus strategy. And they haven't stopped having more cases either. 4000 more people died than in the other strategy. It will take a long time before that difference disappears, if it
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by pedrocr 6y ago
If you're indexing using just the S&P500 you're arguably making a quite directional bet on big established companies over the rest of the market already. Much broader indexes are in common usage. For someone indexing with thos
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by pedrocr 6y ago
While I'd begrudgingly agree the two are not independent. I moved back to Firefox from Chrome exactly because Firefox became once again performance competitive thanks to Quantum. Most (all?) the big Firefox improvements were integratio
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by pedrocr 6y ago
In Linux you can probably do it with a script that calls ddcutil: http://www.ddcutil.com/
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Compared to the AMD chips already shipping it will have +17% single-threaded boost clock. The base clock is much higher so only benchmarks will tell what the real performance comparison is. And when this ships it will be up against the 5000
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Perhaps you should lend a hand then? :)
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by pedrocr 6y ago
It's a microkernel with even the drivers running in userspace, and has its own graphics stack. Seems the ideal setting to go for realtime requirements for the UI. I don't know if they've done anything in that direction but it
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Redox seems like a big effort that has at least some of the properties you're looking for: https://www.redox-os.org/
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by pedrocr 6y ago
And if they would start providing 4K or at least 1080p to Linux users I might consider subscribing again. Streaming services are popping up left and right while at the same time turning into their own specific guettos of supported platforms
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by pedrocr 6y ago
In modern shipping is this used or do ships just follow the shortest distance between points? Perhaps GPS has made that simple?

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