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by rabidrat 7y ago
> Prevention of loss/death should not completely eclipse our purpose of being alive. The economy is not our purpose for being alive! The "economy" directs our best and brightest to work on adtech and HFT for the benefit of
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by rabidrat 7y ago
You answered your own question. We've already tried to make our own tests and failed, thereby significantly delaying our response. It's likely that we would fail to integrate the IP successfully on the first try too. Also what
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Location?
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Maybe to give us hope that now is not the beginning of the end of our country/society, but merely another turning of the cycle, that will ultimately yield more robust institutions and another 'high' that we have to look forwa
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by rabidrat 7y ago
We thought the Crisis that impelled the Fourth Turning would be 9/11, or the 2008 financial crisis, or the election of DJT. But those potatoes are too small, turns out. Let's hope that the Coronavirus is actually the catalyst th
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by rabidrat 7y ago
> I suspect humanity follows cycles of enlightenment, complacency, and self-destruction This theory would agree (and it makes sense to me): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generatio...
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by rabidrat 7y ago
We had this exact issue with VisiData, and had to resort to some not-great hacks. Thanks for your work!
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Yes, I love Machinarium and I wish I could upvote your comment multiple times.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
What about 'drag-to-hover' and 'tap-to-interact'? I don't feel like this is an unsolvable UI problem, when some core apps have 3-finger-pinch-and-drag-while-swiping gestures.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
> No one writes down boring stories. Millions of people on Facebook and Twitter are doing this right now.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Can you stop payment on the deposit check?
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by rabidrat 7y ago
on-site even right now? Isn't everyone in CA or WA supposed to be WFH and shelter-in-place?
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by rabidrat 7y ago
You might be able to bribe the ticket taker or border guard with gold, which you can't do with items like food and meds that have lower value-density and less liquidity. IOW it's more useful when human systems and group behavior
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Many of us risk our health on a daily basis with long commutes, stress from unreasonable deadlines, lack of sleep, and of course the usual co-working with people who won't stay home when they're infectious (even with non-COVID).
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by rabidrat 7y ago
A vaccine does not make people "a little bit infected". Vaccines are deactivated virii, so your body develops the antibodies, without any actual infection.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
FWIW, I was ballsier back in 2008 and bought WAMU on the way down. It's exciting to watch your investment go all the way down to 0 :/
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by rabidrat 7y ago
We did learn things and it caused us to develop a national health care infrastructure. Things have started to decay on that front over the last couple decades though, at least in places like the US which haven't had a SARS outbreak.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Okay, I think you're right here. But then why when I calculate compound interest, it's (1+rate)^time ?
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by rabidrat 7y ago
(to be completely pedantic, flattening the curve is about changing the base. The exponent is time.)
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by rabidrat 7y ago
If it embeds itself into the population substantially enough, it becomes 'endemic'. Like influenza.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
It would be great if we had some kind of global institution with distributed local branches whose aim was to feed the hungry, tend to the sick, and commune with the destitute.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
One of the key benefits of employer-sponsored health insurance for me is that I don't have to shop for health insurance. Talking with my self-employed friends and the ridiculous number of options (which are all designed to screw you a
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Wash your hands, don't touch your face. But seriously, I wonder if we can take the lessons from mitigating a biological viral epidemic, and apply them to mitigating an informational viral epidemic.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Not to mention it's a lot easier to search for `reduce` than `+`.
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Blockchain Can Track the Deadly Coronavirus(blockchain-council.org)
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I don't care what chat network I use, as long as I can use weechat.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
This is brilliant! How have I never heard of this before?
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Git was first released in 2005. Did other VCS/SCMs have a rebase workflow before git?
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by rabidrat 7y ago
If we continually needed more firefighters, and the government either refused to hire them or couldn't afford them, so a volunteer group took up the cause and got people to donate money for trucks and volunteer their time to fight fire
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Obligatory link to Rasputina's haunting song "1816, The Year Without a Summer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0zWSg9gHv8

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