skytreader

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by skytreader 5y ago
>> Is heart disease exponentially contagious with the potential to strain medical resources in a matter of days? > How is this relevant when vaccinated people are still contagious? Because while still contagious, they are not expo
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> Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US. Should we have blood pressure/cholesterol "passports" to pressure people into being healthier? Is heart disease exponentially contagious with the potential to strain
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by skytreader 5y ago
As I mentioned in another comment, let's not forget that preventing spread through all these measures is all in service of a greater goal: avoiding strain on public health infra. To put it another way, it doesn't matter if vaccina
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by skytreader 5y ago
> Attempting to protect someone by taking away their ability to make that choice is equivalent to removing the option to eat enough food to become obese. We do that to obese people already. It's called a diet. Some of them even go f
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by skytreader 5y ago
For comparison: > People with COVID-19 have had a wide range of symptoms reported – ranging from mild symptoms to severe illness. Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. Anyone can have mild to severe symptoms. http
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by skytreader 5y ago
Don't forget what makes COVID19 so insidious: without testing, it takes time before an infected contagious person shows symptoms. By the time they decide to stay off public spaces, they have already potentially spread the virus. With t
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by skytreader 5y ago
Any chance your colleague has a YouTube channel and is named "Matt Parker" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBX2QQHlQ_I ?
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by skytreader 5y ago
At the risk of diluting the discussion here, do we know where they got the "TV Tuner" footage? I've been tuned to a channel with "WJLA" at the upper left (I think, aka "ABC 7"---I don't know I'm
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by skytreader 5y ago
I think it would help if Reloaded and Revolutions are viewed as one film; maybe chop off a few parts here and there too. Reloaded, the cerebral philosophical expository arc. And then Revolutions, just guns and fists a-blazin'.
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by skytreader 5y ago
Maybe you're talking about Windows, I don't really know. But I gotta say, I wrestled through using Ubuntu ca. 2010s because they included a cool Matrix wallpaper by default . That's cooler than knowing how to quit vim.
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by skytreader 5y ago
Amusing anecdote involving div soups: Back in 2010 in one of my CS classes, the professor maintained a Google Sites to communicate with her students and upload slides. At the end of the semester, she wrote a list of students who must take
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by skytreader 5y ago
> At the Nuremberg plant where it makes graphite leads and pens, it has developed an "anti-break system" for coloured pencils. > This extra coating around the coloured pencil leads stops them breaking when sharpened, which S
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by skytreader 5y ago
Flattered by your interest but now I'm afraid the words "DSL" and "Lisp-like" might've given the impression of far more complexity than the project actually was. Keep in mind the core engine is ~200LoC. Maybe t
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by skytreader 5y ago
I feel like the bit you quoted already captures what I think came of it after I turned it over. It is even from a paragraph labeled "Honest negatives". Complete certainty of how it turned out is a bit too much to ask. For every st
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by skytreader 5y ago
I'm not sure how the study you linked is an indictment of the weak version. It seems to fall well under my understanding of the consensus that the weak version is only true to a certain extent and definitely not to the extent Sapir an
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by skytreader 5y ago
Has it? I'm genuinely curious to know. "Widely considered discredited" sounds like it's met the same fate as ether or alchemy. I commented on SWH a few months ago in HN too when another user, claiming background in lingu
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by skytreader 5y ago
> What can you say in this language that would be impossibly inconvenient to say in others? Maybe it's just me and my possibly-unreasonable infatuation with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (SWH) but I've come to think it also applie
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by skytreader 5y ago
Such dishonest statistics, this source. For example, > One of these neighboring Southeastern states had a statewide mask mandate. The other two did not. > [Shown: COVID-19 Deaths, per million, 7-day average] But mask mandates do not c
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by skytreader 5y ago
But it just removes photos from image search ; AFAICT text search results are unaltered. Perhaps I would no longer see Boris Johnson failing to comb his hair in Google Images but I can still read articles about it and they will still have
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I'm not the guy you're asking but what jumped out to me is that this change creates a database of images of minors and the damning/ironic part is that these are images of people who don't want to be easily searchable to
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by skytreader 5y ago
But it's just an internet search of photos isn't it? You'll still get links to news articles and write-ups and anyone reading about Abu Gharaib tortures will still see these and the accompanying photos . A prospective employ
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by skytreader 5y ago
First of all, interesting how there's a lot of (seemingly) massive and feature-rich open source games, very specifically today on HN's homepage (two by my count, which is a lot!). Open source games have come a long way since the l
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by skytreader 5y ago
> Do your google searches at work frequently involve porn or something? If I want to look up example of string operations in C I might Google "c strings" or "c strings examples". Incidentally, in similar fashion to G-
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Out of curiosity, how can one have three CS degrees? Do you mean you went through the (1) undergrad, (2) masters, (3) PhD cycle? > Our field has a real problem with hubris and reinterpreting everything through a CS lens Man, I agree if o
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by skytreader 5y ago
This might be a difference in values but to describe the metaphor as "flippant" is rather puritan don't you think? It's not as if the metaphor is reducing the gravitas of the issue. It does not even make a value judgment
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> if the analogy had been "master-apprentice" instead there probably wouldnt be as much pushback everywhere else Except, you know, apprentices eventually become masters themselves. And the space isn't zero-sum; "Maste
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Just a bit more context that might explain why Haas might be the unhappy ones currently. There's a lot of capital-D Drama surrounding the team right now but I'll stick to these two facts: - Due to financial reasons they had to let
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by skytreader 5y ago
> "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win” Great wisdom from Gandhi but I prefer the Silicon Valley way of saying things. More inspiring. "This is what happens when you work to change t
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by skytreader 5y ago
Pretty please be satire because that flew over my head the first time and I'm still not really sure if you are sarcastic or serious. What an exemplar of the cultish enthusiasm and logical inconsistencies I consistently get from crypto
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Man, what an uncanny trip! I don't mean to say it's any less impressive, but it was uncanny. The surrealist nature of the piece notwithstanding, I was bothered by some of the artistic decisions made in the pictures. Maybe the lack

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