rpearl

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by rpearl 6y ago
The rest of that paragraph says: > beyond a select few, similarly expensive places. Nobody's putting Boston and NYC on the list of cheap places to live, any more than SF. That said, someone in a different part of this thread brought
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by rpearl 6y ago
Nobody really brings up that the bay area is one of few places in the US where you can live without a car. Really, even compared to other "walkable" cities beyond a select few, similarly expensive places. Nobody really brings up t
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by rpearl 6y ago
we're in the middle of a global pandemic
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by rpearl 6y ago
cool. where's Justice Merrick Garland, then?
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by rpearl 6y ago
Alameda (East Bay) went 78.7% to Clinton plus another 6.6% to third parties Santa Clara (South Bay) went 72.2% to Clinton plus another 7.2% to third parties San Francisco went 85.0% to Clinton, with another 5.7% to third parties So yeah, pa
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by rpearl 6y ago
they're not _independently_ reaching similar conclusions months apart, they're strengthening (and writing about) the same conclusion from the same and more data.
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by rpearl 6y ago
The article is a summary of research findings over the course of the pandemic. What makes you think the research is happening in a silo? it's not. Medical researchers, just like, uh, that guy you saw on YouTube, are quite capable of re
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by rpearl 7y ago
https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2015/naming-new-d...
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by rpearl 7y ago
Not quite... You'd need to catch a bit over half of all cases _before they passed on the virus to anyone else at all_ to bring R0 below 1 in this fashion.
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by rpearl 7y ago
the us has tested less than 500 cases in total
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by rpearl 7y ago
the results of the test indicate whether quarantine and contact tracing are useful.
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by rpearl 7y ago
You wouldn't go to ER, even as a positive test, unless you needed intensive care. Most cases could be isolated at home.
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by rpearl 7y ago
if we knew the identities of all or most of the current cases, we could isolate them, trace their contacts, and thus slow the spread giving our systems more time to prepare by letting us allocate resources more effectively instead of reacti
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by rpearl 7y ago
the current federal administration does not operate with the well-being of the general public in mind.
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by rpearl 7y ago
On the other side of it, there's selection bias--most identified cases have visible and notable symptoms, some very severe. If you have a mild cough or a bit of a cold, you might not think anything of it beyond staying home from work,
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by rpearl 7y ago
> Come on, none of us are really "human" anymore since the advent of cell phones. We've been cyborgs much longer than that! Writing is a very old auxiliary memory mechanism. See also: Truth of Fact, Truth of Feeling by Ted
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by rpearl 7y ago
current SSDs are page/block oriented, but that's likely to change. (See intel's relatively recent Optane).
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by rpearl 7y ago
I get it, but also please map capslock to escape, your pinky will thank you for it
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by rpearl 7y ago
[citation needed]
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by rpearl 8y ago
No, it's not, it is many, many times larger than 'usable v4 space'. Like, if each of the hypothetical 10^27 displays was given a single IPv4 address we'd run out and still need to assign billions of billions of displays.
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by rpearl 8y ago
Nowadays, usually tetris random is actually done by "randomly shuffle the bag of 7 pieces, then deal them out", which isn't the same as randomly selecting a piece. With that, and the hold functionality (also not around in thi
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by rpearl 8y ago
that's a simplistic analysis that doesn't really capture the whole effect a universal basic income might have. For one, with a livable basic income, the value of housing shifts somewhat--since there's not essentially a requir
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by rpearl 8y ago
some amount of inflation is a desired property to have in a currency, and this result is for the most part the intended result
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by rpearl 8y ago
My commute is down market st, 4th to Castro, which is particularly bad. I bike. What happens is that at _every_ major market st crossing, cars will run their red (actual red, not yellow), and then stop just before the crosswalk due to pedes
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by rpearl 8y ago
On Friday I decided to count the number of drivers running reds, since everyone gives cyclists a hard for doing so. My commute in San Francisco involves crossing 16 streets. It's not very far, about 2.5 miles. On Friday I observed 35
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by rpearl 8y ago
That's a super, super weird formulation here. First from the abstract standpoint, the math here is not right. Discussion: https://pastebin.com/qqQ3KGS5 because I don't want to divert from the more important point.
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by rpearl 8y ago
I've had good luck with https://github.com/OpenKieler/elkjs
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by rpearl 8y ago
With _zero_ risk? I guess a CD ladder would get you about 30k/yr
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by rpearl 8y ago
Okay, go for it then. Good luck!
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by rpearl 8y ago
the point is that "just consuming" the electricity is nontrivial. Suppose you've been paid to take some number of megawatt hours of energy. Okay: What do you do with it? At the least useful, you have to safely convert it in

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