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by scurvy 7y ago
There's a component to it that we haven't found yet (blood type, genetics, obesity, glucose levels, etc).
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by scurvy 7y ago
Definitely! That's why I mentioned no lack of requery 2 weeks later. "Oh I was fine then, but now I feel horrible." That is missed in these studies. They're flawed!
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by scurvy 7y ago
I truly doubt the asymptomatic carrier and spreader myth. People lie to their doctors all the time. Why wouldn't they lie to a stranger taking a poll of their health? Sure, the virus will hit some people much harder than others. There&
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by scurvy 7y ago
Or back in the day, post on f*ckedcompany. Though pud wouldn't bring that site back now. Back then it was because of irrational exuberance. Now, people are losing their jobs because of pandemic.
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by scurvy 7y ago
THP => never. I thought about that, too.
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by scurvy 7y ago
Yes but they're the easiest to ramp up and wind down. Certain segments of the economy as devastated right now. Would not want to be a flight attendant, but airplane engine mechanics are probably still in demand as cargo flights replace
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by scurvy 7y ago
Sales and account management are easier to hire and fire. That said I bet some engineers were let go. If you're not directly client facing or related to e-commerce, you're not essential right now.
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by scurvy 7y ago
>> native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath path >Which spinlock was that on? I've seen a number of different ones over time. I've definitely hit ones in various drivers, and in both the generic parts of the unix socket and tcp s
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by scurvy 7y ago
I'm not resorting to mockery. I'm sympathizing with the original article's pain. Everything worthwhile in Postgresql involves major downtime and pain to adopt. It's not nearly as seamless as other RDBMS. That was his poi
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by scurvy 7y ago
That tool is only available in the latest versions of Postgresql (11 and 12), which very few stable shops are running in production. Checksums were introduced in 9.3, yet not made the default until 9.6. Converting it requires lengthy downti
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by scurvy 7y ago
Doesn't this require a full dump/import? Can you stream from a primary server w/out checksums to a replica that has checksums enabled? Or does this fall into the "everything neat with PostgreSQL requires major downtime&q
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by scurvy 7y ago
I'll trust postgresql more when it can support a few thousand connections without resorting to running middleware (pgbouncer) all over. That was his point. PostgreSQL is just abysmally bad in this area. The process per connection model
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by scurvy 7y ago
Only for temporary worker benefits. That's not much for Airbnb like, say Uber.
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by scurvy 7y ago
Wrong, and let's try to keep things civil. You clearly missed the point and are dying on a hill not worth it. I'm not alone in my disgust about people's activity during the lockdown: https://www.washingtonpost.com&
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by scurvy 7y ago
Yeah these people are remodeling bathrooms. They're not even living there. Also, lol at new construction in San Francisco! ;)
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by scurvy 7y ago
Now you're picking winners and losers. These people get to work but those people can't. Bad situation.
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by scurvy 7y ago
> coffee shops are exempted for take-out and delivery. > Residential construction is exempted. That's some very essential services there. My point is that the number of exclusions make this policy a joke. It's not a serious
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by scurvy 7y ago
I'm not excusing Musk's decsion, but I will say that lots of places are ignoring the shelter in place request. Residential construction workers are still putting up drywall, laying tiles, etc. Parts of the city have the usual numb
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by scurvy 7y ago
You're comparing stagflation double digit interest rates from the 1970s to today? We'll be in a declining or low rate environment for the rest of our lifetime. We'll never see double digit interest rates again. Gold is useles
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by scurvy 7y ago
People don't buy bonds for yield any more.
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by scurvy 7y ago
That's a retro thinking back to the era of the bond vigilantes. That's gone. There's so much stuatory purchases of t-bills that will outweigh any inflationary pressure from QE4. The demand for t-bills was almost insatiable _b
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by scurvy 7y ago
> And "lately" isn't after weeks or months of substantially reduced economic activity. They'll be even higher if/when that happens. They're not in bonds for the interest. They're in bonds for safety and
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by scurvy 7y ago
Old people are generally in bonds at this point in their life. Bonds have been on a tear lately. Their investments are doing OK.
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by scurvy 7y ago
How are California and Washington "behind" Italy, when both states had infections reported before Italy? Sorry, trying to understand the methodology here. Or are you just basing this off of raw case counts?
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by scurvy 7y ago
So, it sounds like the UK is having a big chicken pox party?
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by scurvy 7y ago
As is New Zealand. They're both tiny countries. No way the US could have done that without closing all borders (air, sea, land). Israel also expelled all tourists. We're dealing with very different legal systems and mindsets.
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by scurvy 7y ago
Hit 2. Only 1 crashed. You wrote "lost". A plane that flies back to base isn't "lost." Also, the US didn't deny that they lost any for decades. I remember the news footage (in the US) of the night it was shot d
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by scurvy 7y ago
> Not really enough though, which is how they lost all the F117s over Serbia in the 90s. One of which I have a framed picture of on the wall along side an original "sorry we didnt know it was invisible" flyer. < Only a singl
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by scurvy 7y ago
>We have had a fair opportunity to deal with it and prepare. We knew how contagious and dangerous it was. We could have screened all people coming into the United States internationally< How? Keep them at the airport for two days whil
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by scurvy 7y ago
To be fair, you're right that China embargoed virus samples from leaving the country. That did put other countries at a disadvantage from creating functional test kits. They also covered it up until the whistleblower came along.

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