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by sharken 5y ago
Setting up two likely scenarios is a very reasonable way of approaching future development, both scenarios sound likely to me. We could look at the flu for clues, in that case every year will have one or more variants that are the most prom
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by sharken 5y ago
This BBC story speculates that Delta became the main variant in part due to the cold weather. But I'm not sure any one factor can be singled out. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57489740
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by sharken 5y ago
I have lost count of statements from epidemiologists who have grossly overestimated infection rates. Predicting the future is hard and if you're obviously not good at it, you should stop doing it. The bit about vaccinated being eight t
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by sharken 5y ago
We might have been able to do pull requests in Mercurial, but were using a special tool to manage multiple Mercurial repos. Trunk-based development is where you use a single branch for development, instead of multiple branches that you have
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by sharken 5y ago
Class action lawsuits rarely benefit the users financially. On the other hand the lawyers get a nice $21m payout. You can read the original complaint here: https://www.classlawgroup.com/zoom-class-action-lawsuit/
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by sharken 5y ago
Well, if all companies apply the same rule then you are not really free to choose are you ? I don't take offense with the vaccine, it has helped to turn things around, it's the mandate that i have a problem with. And again, tattoo
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by sharken 5y ago
So i must agree to disagree then, none of the examples mentioned require you to make changes to your body.
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by sharken 5y ago
As someone about to migrate from Mercurial to Git i absolutely agree that Git is the superior tool. Pull Requests were never going to happen with Mercurial and it's also not possible to delete a branch without some black magic server-s
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by sharken 5y ago
A vaccine mandate should not be mandated by corporations, instead it should happen on a country level if necessary. To me it's a slippery slope to allow corporations to mandate what happens to our own body.
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by sharken 5y ago
Besides this war between companies and tech companies, I'm glad that I live in a part of the world where vaccine mandates are not happening.
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by sharken 5y ago
If you know Rio, then a less valuable gold medal seems to be a good thing.
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by sharken 5y ago
What is it about Covid-19 that make people want to decide what others should do (vaccine mandate). The MMR vaccine was made nearly 60 years ago and it took another five years to improve it. On the other side you have the fastest vaccine eve
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by sharken 5y ago
As someone who never liked the taste of whiskey, I'm glad that there is Rum or even Vodka. To me a Dark'n'Stormy is a great drink, in part due to imagining the pirates of the old time sailing on the high seas with nothing els
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by sharken 5y ago
Denmark. Table 2 states 1,644 deaths due to the flu. https://www.ssi.dk/sygdomme-beredskab-og-forskning/sygdomsov... English article: https://cphpost.dk/?p=101073 Deaths caused by Corona is currently a
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by sharken 5y ago
People in the category you describe are few and far apart in my experience. To me solving a problem like the one you describe here is one of the biggest joys of working with IT. Though it seems to come at the expense of being able to design
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by sharken 5y ago
Not a bartender, but i do wonder if tipping the bartender is more of an American thing. Will definitely think about tipping the next time I'm at a bar.
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by sharken 5y ago
I agree to disagree then. The No Smoking policy mandates what you should not do, same as there is a Must Wear Clothes policy. On the other hand you have the vaccine mandate, which forces you to give up control of your body if you want the j
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by sharken 5y ago
I wouldn't compare a vaccine to a no smoking rule, it's not the same.
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by sharken 5y ago
This one is different. In my country in 2018, deaths caused by the flu was more than 50% of all registered Corona deaths. Just that season alone. Now some wants to mandate Corona vaccines, but then what about flu vaccines ?
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by sharken 5y ago
I thought Google was better than this, guess not.
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by sharken 5y ago
The problem is not the vaccine by itself, it is that you no longer have a say in what happens with your body. I guess switching jobs is the only cure for this unfortunate trend.
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by sharken 5y ago
Absolutely my experience too, tech is not really controversial. But discussions on health, religion and culture that is where the downvotes are used. If you can accept that premise, then HN is a great place to be. Reddit is just not in the
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by sharken 5y ago
Two countries show the difference, Tunisia and Senegal. Both have a muslim majority but only Senegal is able to uphold democracy. But you are welcome to present counter-claims.
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by sharken 5y ago
Excellent point which i agree is most likely overlooked. At least professionally it's easy to forget the progress others less experienced do, if you have walked that path long ago.
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by sharken 5y ago
When it's sincere i really don't care about the mind games of giving a compliment. But then the threshold for giving a compliment is probably too high, in the workplace it's reserved for those truly doing a difference.
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by sharken 5y ago
Hmm, my goal is to do something memorable during a workday and not just showing up. Let alone the fact that in IT, you can rarely produce something worthwhile after 4-6 hours. It would also be hard to respect arbitrarily chosen rules, that
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by sharken 5y ago
It would be a breath of fresh air for Tour de France if they did not use radios. Another outcome could be that we would not see the same rider winning multiple years, simply due to missing radios. All in all seems like a win for viewers.
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by sharken 5y ago
You are absolutely right. Number 2 is hard to fix as lobbyists and fast food companies have a lot of influence. But it is concerning that of US women from age 20 and up, 60% or more are considered overweight. A woman 50 years old has an ave
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by sharken 5y ago
Difference being that Covid restrictions take away the free choice of the individual, remove restrictions and let each get on with their lives as they choose.
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by sharken 5y ago
There is absolutely no way that we can implement the above, WITHOUT losing a lot of what makes us humans in the process. I'd rather keep our pre-Covid level of human interaction than limiting it forever. But to each their own, one thin

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