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by sigstoat 7y ago
> The biggest concern, in my opinion, would be people who try to come to Canada in the hopes that they can get sick here and recover somewhere that isn't going to bankrupt them as a result. do canadian hospitals not send foreigners
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by sigstoat 7y ago
https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-o...
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by sigstoat 7y ago
you were addressing the costs. we'll yet see what the costs to South Korea, and Italy, and all the other countries are. even if single payer is magically wonderful, it doesn't necessarily make a natural disaster like this cheaper
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by sigstoat 7y ago
imagine what this population would do to the budget and _resources_ of a single payer system. it's bad news for everyone.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
they've got a house brand, Solimo, that sells sanitizer. it's sold out like all the rest.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
i wasn't aware these were a thing: https://www.amazon.com/IPEVO-Definition-Document-Camera-5-88... might be a nice way to aim a camera at your desk.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
might've been an option a month and a half ago. but: exponential growth. most western countries are _days_ behind italy. if you're destined to downturn, it'll take you a week or more to need the ventilator, and you'd be
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by sigstoat 7y ago
There's a respondent on the page suggesting OBS, the Open Broadcaster Software. I think that's the way to go. If you need to feed it in to Zoom or Skype or something, you should be able to use OBS-VirtualCam (haven't tried it
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> That's my point: to observably flatten the curve, you need to go almost all the way there of killing it altogether. no, you don't. killing it completely would (hand-waving) require taking R0 < 1, and holding it there indef
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Healthcare is a politically charged issue, right or wrong, listing that here discredits the message for half the readers. and regardless of what one thinks about the issue, there is no way the US is passing sweeping legislation overhau
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by sigstoat 7y ago
"doesn't behave in a fashion maxerickson approves of"
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by sigstoat 7y ago
any of the expander (SATA, or SAS) things, yes, will be sharing bandwidth. but as you mention, it won't be a limiting factor for mechanical drives. and considering the latency involved in this sort of retrieval, probably isn't a p
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by sigstoat 7y ago
at a minimum the facility will need some power conditioning and/or insurance. you don't want a brief power surge to eat all of your capital, and lockup fees, in one go. > For a 32 HDD system, you expect about 5 drives to fail p
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by sigstoat 7y ago
basically everyone who works on "space" projects drank a fucking gallon of post-apollo space koolaid. all of the aerospace companies take wild advantage of it. at least musk is actually doing something interesting with their obses
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> In America, there are tens of millions of people who work more than one job. not simultaneously, or even interleaved in 30 minute increments.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Here's a simple personal finance question that seems very hard to answer: should you overpay your mortgage, or put more money towards retirement? it's certainly subtle, and depends quite a bit on a person's circumstances
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by sigstoat 7y ago
quite. the writable discs don't last nearly as long. i had a pile of writable DVDs that were unreadable 8 years later when i went back to fetch the data from them.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Social distancing measures may prevent that outcome but will devastate the economy even further. it would be nice if we could encourage low-consequence social distancing now, instead of being mindlessly told not to "panic".
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by sigstoat 7y ago
what's the inverse of WSB look like? holding for the long term? it's the only thing none of them are doing.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> in the interest of "the economy" (ie, money) this is childish. "the economy" is the thing that makes everything you have, and the food you eat and medicines you need. there's very good reason to not just turn i
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by sigstoat 7y ago
first answer on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
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by sigstoat 7y ago
by what metric is it a "faster" piano roll?
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by sigstoat 7y ago
Yes, I agree that the microphone has to be responsive to ultrasound. That doesn't seem to be the only requirement, though: "When these tones arrive together at the microphone’s power amplifier, they are amplified as expected, but
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by sigstoat 7y ago
the original paper on jamming microphones and/or using them for covert data transmission: https://synrg.csl.illinois.edu/papers/backdoor_mobisys17.pdf it seems to me that this is largely an attack on common preamp
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by sigstoat 7y ago
FWIW, I did some embedded development in C (STM32) using Eclipse, and I was astonished by how nice the whole environment was.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
there's other stuff in low orbits, but contrary to the claim, low earth orbits aren't carefully planned. you ask for a rough altitude, and then you get whatever you get, because you probably don't have anything on board for a
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> River boat pilots once could say the same thing. > As could steam engine operators, the original "engineers". and to the extent that unions protected those jobs any longer than they were necessary, society as a whole was h
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Rural populations in Africa barely have electricity and yet there are scads of cell phones there
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Either way, a few thousand things spread out over the surface area of the earth is practically nothing. and the surface of a sphere at the altitude they're orbiting at is even larger. and the satellites are all spread across a var
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> There are tens or perhaps (globally) hundreds of millions of rural users who these constellations would help, as well as some fraction of more urban users. indeed, even if you have a ground link, something radio based makes a spectacul

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