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by rualca 6y ago
I've spent a few minutes googling for the topic, and I've stumbled in this link: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml Taken from the page: > During that 20-year period, the total
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by rualca 6y ago
> This is heartbreaking, and by no means anomalous. I know a number of people that have committed suicide during the lock downs. Do you have any basis for that assertion? I've seen that argument being made since lockdowns started to
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by rualca 6y ago
> Yeah, that was super short sighted. It boggles the mind that anyone could have believed that replacing many of the core productive bits of the economy with fluff like management (and ownership), finance, and hospitality would lead to a
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by rualca 6y ago
> Do you expect the mayor and head of police of one city to take on the entire hierarchy themselves? Since when do you need a lot of excuses to stop state officials from indiscriminately murdering anyone without absolutely no consequence
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by rualca 6y ago
> “5% of those who took the vaccine developed covid19 symptoms” is somewhat misleading. You misquoted me for some reason. I explicitly stated that "only 5% of those who took the vaccine contracted and developed covid19 symptoms when
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by rualca 6y ago
I'm not sure this qualifies as an operations research problem. I mean, there is zero drawback from administering a vaccine. There is no need to pick between vaccines. Vaccine cost is also not a constraint. Thus the optimal solution is,
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by rualca 6y ago
It means that it's double blind study showed that only 5% of those who took the vaccine contracted and developed covid19 symptoms when compared with the placebo group. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/l
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by rualca 6y ago
This sounds an awful lot like a PR move, not justice nor a way to ensure the same never happens again.
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by rualca 6y ago
> I love that BTC is supposed to be correlated with inflation Is it really? BTC is renowned for being systematically and thoroughly manipulated. It makes no sense to expect any correlation that is based on the assumptions of a free marke
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by rualca 6y ago
> If people are selling stock, taking out loans, doing other things in order to demand and obtain dollars, then we won't see inflation. Yet. Isn't it plausible that the dollar supply isn't actually reaching consumer market
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by rualca 6y ago
> Using glue on small PCBs doesn't seem very sensible to me. Then why are you basing your argument on an approach which you already believe isn't sensible? I mean, you can glue everything you wish on a lego piece, including all
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by rualca 6y ago
> I’ve seen an industry-wide trend toward using standard programming languages with those things (Pulumi, CDK, et al). I can't really talk about Pulumi, but CDK is just a high-level CloudFormation generator, and arguably one whose o
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by rualca 6y ago
> The frustrating thing about this is that they’re not necessarily off the mark in terms of the existence of political corruption. That's another issue that's blatantly abused by conspiracy theorists. Lobbying does not mean cor
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by rualca 6y ago
> I don't want MAKE, or whatever DSL, I want to be able to drop into a real programming language when necessary. So libraries. That's one opinion, sure. However, DSLs are always in a far better position to solve domain-specific
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by rualca 6y ago
It really depends on your goals and needs. Still, in a world where 3D printing is sold as a happy path solution to everything, putting glue on a couple of COTS plastic pieces sold for about $0.10 seems like an absolute no-brainer.
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by rualca 6y ago
How many degrees of separation are there between the people referred in the article? 3? Even for the normal standards of conspiracy theorists, this link seems far-fetched and forced.
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by rualca 6y ago
> They're not very flexible though, I can't just take any accessories like the display in the article and attach it properly with a few extra blocks. Well, you can. You just need to attach the accessory to a lego piece that sui
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by rualca 6y ago
> i.e. something like Lego or Fischertechnik but better suited for electronics. There are already lego raspberry pi boxes. They are sold for less than $5.
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by rualca 6y ago
Well, nowadays digital documents, such as videos and photos, are much more important and widespread and mundane than they were a couple of decades ago. During the 80s there was no digital consumer camera market. Nowadays every person can ea
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by rualca 6y ago
> A 12 TB HDD requires 10 GB/day for three years to be filled. This is not home market (...) You're basing your argument on extreme and unrepresentative assumptions. First of all, you do not need to fill a storage device to the
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by rualca 6y ago
Arguably, mac minis are servers that can be repurposed as desktops. Even in their marketing blurbs Apple advertises mac minis as build and render farms.
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by rualca 6y ago
> If it's too long to be read, then are all those details really necessary? My take is that those details are intentionally left in as is to ensure that the status quo remains exactly the same, thus ensuring that updating a piece of
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by rualca 6y ago
> What if the last element on a page is deleted when you click "next"? That makes absolutely no difference. You're still querying the database for elements that come after a value from a data type for which there is an ord
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by rualca 6y ago
> I don't know man, there are about 5k pages of thing to object to. What? Trump quite explicitly stated in his veto his refusal to approve the bill because it did not included "an unrelated repeal of a law granting liability pr
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by rualca 6y ago
They really aren't. Exceptions handle exceptional events that potentially lead to a shutdown, while the Result monad only reports.... Results. I mean, not finding a record in a database is not an error, nor is getting a response to a H
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by rualca 6y ago
That's a nice scapegoat and all, but wasn't Trump's veto a reaction to not complying with his wish to persecute Twitter? https://www.npr.org/2020/12/03/942345212/trump-wants-to-use-...
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by rualca 6y ago
> Picking an authority and taking their every word as gospel (...) The man makes his living designing and implementing programming languages. He expressed his opinion on the subject of designing and implementing languages. Enough with th
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by rualca 6y ago
> That is because it is his opinion. Most people that complain about something, don't fully understand it. I'm convinced a person like Walter Bright knows a thing or two about software development in general and creating and im
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by rualca 6y ago
> I personally prefer null and exceptions over Option types and Results. Personal preferences and all, I feel the comparison between Result and exceptions is somewhere between misguided and miopic. The Result type and exceptions do not s
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by rualca 6y ago
> (...) BSON, which is effectively TLV encoded json. For those who, like me, never heard of TLV prior to this post, it's type-length-value encoding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-length-value

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