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by spfzero 6y ago
No one knows when vaccine or natural immunity expires. We only know that it doesn't expire within 6 months, because that's the longest it has been tested so far. Most experts expect immunity to last much, much longer than that.
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by spfzero 6y ago
That is a good point. There are so many loopholes left open that the typical large corporation pays far less than the existing rates. Small companies that can't play fancy games with offshore tax rates are the ones that get hurt.
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by spfzero 6y ago
Amazon is in the category of companies that do business primarily in the US, and do not depend on global supply chains to bring its product to market (though they retail some). They are not competing with foreign companies to the extent tha
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by spfzero 6y ago
The opportunities to mutate depend on the number of infections, and on the immune response of the infectee. Due to deaths, naturally-conferred immunity, and vaccine-induced immunity, there just aren't those opportunities anymore, here
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by spfzero 6y ago
Each new case gives the virus a few dozen or hundred or thousand generations to mutate, depending on how large and long the infection goes. We're in a period where the severity and number of infections has lowered, so mutation is less
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by spfzero 6y ago
Its a trade-off, of course. When the potential probability for causing deaths goes below a certain point, then the benefit of the activity (economic, human happiness etc.) outweighs and it goes ahead. If that were not the case, we'd al
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by spfzero 6y ago
Hard to understand why anyone would think it is a good idea to drink water with a pH of 9.0! Our biochemistry works in a very narrow pH range (7), and there are all sorts of mechanisms that work hard to keep it in that range. Have to admit
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by spfzero 6y ago
I don't worry about them deprecating MacOS. Apple has some important and beneficial constituencies for MacOS, not least of which is developers developing apps for iOS, watchOS, etc. Music and video production, etc. I know that by perce
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by spfzero 6y ago
Yep, it's cmd-`. I use the heck out of that when I have multiple spreadsheet windows open, or even an in-progress email window or two.
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by spfzero 6y ago
I also just type bc -l in one of my iterm windows. Usually that gets me my answer quicker than launching an app or worse, using a browser.
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by spfzero 6y ago
Taking a tool from an academic research project to an actual product is very difficult. This article points out several of the ones left by the wayside because the final leg of that journey is boring, tedious, and grueling. It’s kind of an
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by spfzero 6y ago
Or even if this wasn't the only guy he was copying at the same time.
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by spfzero 6y ago
Boy it sure wasn't when I was an undergrad EE.
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by spfzero 6y ago
Except that you’re wrong about everything you say. He’s not a pedophile, by any definition, etc. he doesn’t defend any type of child rape, whatsoever, obviously, if you actually understand what he has said.
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by spfzero 6y ago
I still to this day refer to Twilight Zone as Scary Door. All of my friends and family knows what I mean whether they’ve ever watched Futurama or not, surprisingly.
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by spfzero 6y ago
Loved the first four seasons, but the rest were still Futurama. If you really enjoy it, you’ll enjoy all of it.
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by spfzero 6y ago
When was the WHO ever relevant wrt Covid 19 though? Their advice has been contradictory. They gave guidance before knowing whether masks would help, and later had to change it. They gave guidance about the transmissibility of the virus, and
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by spfzero 6y ago
When you set the price at free, you set the value of the work represented, at zero.
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by spfzero 6y ago
What entity indeed? Is the nuclear industry so flush with excess profits that it could fund a massive propaganda campaign? Or is there an industry, awash with decades of profits, who might be threatened by nuclear because it is carbon free
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by spfzero 6y ago
Its not all on the people though, there are many forces bent on keeping people nutritionally illiterate. Low fat, cholesterol, its all been found to be, at the most charitable, completely wrong. When I grew up, my Mom made sure we ate “heal
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by spfzero 6y ago
When I was managing engineers, I would insist that the engineer talk 1:1 to the engineer on the client (or customer) side when doing fixes or feature enhancements that happened to be requested from outside the company. This always caused co
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by spfzero 6y ago
That depends on the developer, some need to slow down, go back and rewrite, etc. Others write naturally good code without much extra effort. Maybe partly experience?
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by spfzero 6y ago
So, you had customers. Which you eventually lost, but you had them. These guys don’t even have a first customer yet. For them, code quality can wait. For you, you just waited too long to address it.
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by spfzero 6y ago
But Apple could easily decide to monetize user privacy a-la Facebook. They just haven’t. It’s sitting out there whenever they want it, billions in revenue. That’s different than not having skin in the game, because they could easily get tha
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by spfzero 6y ago
“Obviously seems to imply...” Thats an interesting phrase.
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by spfzero 6y ago
There's more to it than chip design though. There is the OS work to take advantage of the chip's new features. And designing new chip features to accommodate sw bottlenecks. Apple has very close collaboration between software and
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by spfzero 6y ago
I wonder why airlines don't simply offer a higher cost flight without small children? Say, none under 5? I would happily pay more.
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by spfzero 6y ago
Feinman said something like that. IIRC, “I cannot understand it if I cannot create it.” I probably butchered it.
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by spfzero 6y ago
Interestingly, one place I worked we had a 20% set-aside for technical debt. This resulted in endless arguments with product owners who wanted to categorize bug fixes as technical debt. Sadly, some of the less experienced engineers would ta
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by spfzero 6y ago
But during the 50 years, you are probably paying in a lot of little ways for the less robust system. In my experience that takes the form of 5 engineers working for two weeks to accomplish something one engineer could do if he/she full

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