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by slumdev 6y ago
SARS-CoV-2, by best estimates (0.3% mortality), is roughly 3x as deadly as the seasonal flu. The common cold is a coronavirus. It is significantly less deadly than the seasonal flu. We have every reason to believe that a more contagious b
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No reason to be afraid of new strains. Coronaviruses become less deadly as they evolve to become better at spreading.
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"30% more deadly" means that only 99.6% of people survive it rather than 99.7%. Still not ebolapocalypse.
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We might not be connecting in the way that we're expressing ourselves. At $300k TC, most people in the United States could pay off their mortgage and retire after only 3-5 years of working. Is this what you mean? I took the statement
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This is true. If you can hire into a FAAMNG during a stock market crash, you're set for life.
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Remarkably out of touch. In most of the US (i.e. outside of a few large cities), $250-$300K is executive compensation, not individual contributor compensation, regardless of experience level, genius, or negotiating ability.
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Employment in software engineering is very bottom-heavy everywhere. The number of software engineers doubles every five years. That means half of all software engineers have less than five years of experience. (And 75% have less than ten
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> CO2 is usually your safest option People with COPD need not apply. CO2 intoxication is unpleasant for us because the baroreceptors in our arteries can detect when the partial pressure of CO2 is too high. This is the feeling you get wh
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It's real. What's worse: There are some people who celebrate Christmas but who choose not to wish others a "Merry Christmas" out of fear of offending them. Peak woke.
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Pidgin is included in the TAILS image. It's a good idea to know how to use it.
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The "Delivery/Deployment" distinction is baseless and used as a justification for not shipping by people who are attached to old and burdensome change management processes. Software not in the customer's hands hasn'
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It's probably the mention of chicken eggs. Some vaccines are grown in HEK 293 cells. HEK 293 is a cell line taken from an aborted fetus. (HEK -> Human Embryonic Kidney). Many people consider vaccines grown in HEK 293 to be immora
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No reason to believe it couldn't work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)#Public_rese...
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I am inclined to believe that criminal inclination is a human universal. I am also inclined to believe that the American system catches and punishes more criminals (as a percentage) than the European systems. But some disparity does seem
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It's not a scare quote. It's how reasonable people approach novel turns of phrase so that they don't become part of our culturally accepted common knowledge without any basis in fact.
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Some things that used to be exclusive are no longer exclusive. And they scale poorly. Every museum and monument in Western Europe suffers from this problem. Sometimes there are tricks. If there's a "City Pass" that lets you
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by slumdev 6y ago
Or, instead of banning anything, we could try convincing a very small number of countries to use landfills instead of just chucking it in a river. 90% of plastic polluting our oceans comes from just 10 rivers: https://www.weforum
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by slumdev 6y ago
Is there any deterrent benefit from potential jail time? Companies with armies of lawyers are pretty good at establishing plausible deniability, so the "because your employees made a mistake" argument, while you advanced it in goo
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Your university education and healthcare are free, your public transportation is ubiquitous and functional, and your retirement is a bit more secure than ours. The method of financing these things (VAT) affects your employer's top line
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The second definition from Wiktionary is most appropriate for this situation: > (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis. There is no evidence that asymptomatic people are 75% as infectious as symptomatic peopl
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> the researchers presumed that 30% of individuals who contract the new coronavirus never develop symptoms but remain 75% as infectious as those who do develop symptoms. They made up some numbers and played with the math. It's conj
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> So is it possible that someone might test negative but then is actually asymptomatic? No, with PCR, the opposite is true. It is most likely that someone who is "positive" but asymptomatic has such a miniscule amount of virus
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PCR is sensitive, but at the cycle thresholds most labs use, it is not specific.
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> the political left (who were previously notorious for promoting free-speech) Free speech is a libertarian ideal. The libertarian right and libertarian left both support free speech. What you're seeing is the rise of the authorita
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Most of the old /. tropes would probably earn some kind of moderation penalty here for being too similar to a low-effort Reddit-style comment. I also miss those days.
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It's more likely a domino effect. In other words, they've all wanted to do it for a long time, and now there's a social momentum that allows them to do it without having been the first firm to do it. It's just optics.
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I can't speak for your country, but in the U.S., this is a well-known phenomenon. The media choose nouns according to their connotation, depending on how they intend to shape the narrative (regardless of the facts). Our allies have &q
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If they were scaled up to the size of an Enforcement Droid, there would be ample space to solve their battery capacity problem.
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History rhymes. Noting a pattern is insightful.
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People won't think they're cute when the DOD awards a contract to strap a belt-fed .50 cal to each arm. Hell, why stop with two arms?

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