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by sreque 5y ago
This article completely destroy the CDC's report: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/more-voodoo-e... . The CDC's report is a fantastic example as to why the CDC don't deserve our tr
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by sreque 5y ago
It really depends on the virus. For some viruses, the vaccines are far more effective and less risky and have helped eliminate or mostly eliminate the virus entirely. For other viruses, vaccines are far less effective. The Israel data is cl
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by sreque 5y ago
I misremembered the numbers but if you click to the linked analysis the numbers are correct there. As to the delta variant overwhelming hospitals, that's partially because hospitals are firing nurses that won't get vaccinated. The
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by sreque 5y ago
I misremembered. It was 90% of people over 50 that were vaccinated. It's in the article I linked. But I don't think that discredits my main point, that increased vaccination rates aren't going to eliminate the virus entirely
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by sreque 5y ago
Your biggest problem is that your data isn't accurate. The page notes that it's case count isn't necessarily correct. This page shows the total case delta at 650 for today versus yesterday: https://covid-19.ontario
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by sreque 5y ago
The main problem is that the U.S. federal government in particular has been pretending for a while that we can get to zero COVID, then blaming the unvaccinated when it doesn't happen. First, they said we need 50% vaccination to achieve
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by sreque 5y ago
That should be a clue that something is wrong with your numbers. 10% of unvaccinated people getting COVID are absolutely not ending up in the ICU. It's not even remotely close. Also, as good as the vaccines are against delta, natural i
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by sreque 5y ago
Michael Knowles latest book, "Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds", delves extensively into this subject. The PC culture partially wins by corrupting language; redefining words to mean new things, often the opposite o
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by sreque 5y ago
Has anyone traced the history as to when equity, which has historically meant fairness, got corrupted to mean "equality of outcome", which is really the opposite of fairness? I've recently discovered Thomas Sowell and I'
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by sreque 5y ago
Michael Knowle's book: Speechless, controlling words, controlling minds, covers this topic extremely well. Unbridled free speech has never existed and never will. There will always be standards of speech. The question is always: what a
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by sreque 5y ago
I don't need to tell it to you. I and everyone I know have gotten covid and are doing fine. Covid is not the bubonic plague. Its not even the Spanish flu. The data show that already.
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by sreque 5y ago
I consider my self a bit of an optimization geek who sometimes errs on over-optimizing from the start. I think there are two major concerns. First, you want to write code whose style fits in with the team, project, and organization. If othe
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by sreque 5y ago
As someone who has argued against a rewrite, lost the argument, and then proceeded to do the rewrite, I would push back strongly on the notion that we have a perfect specification, which is just "do what the old thing did". This s
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by sreque 5y ago
I think people disagree with each other all the time right now, but rarely ever actually listen. You can't update your view of the world based on feedback if you refuse to take the feedback seriously in the first place or think critica
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by sreque 5y ago
I read your comment, including the "have a nice day." However, You don't get to dictate my actions, including what I decide is a good use of my time, or how I behave in a public forum. Also, I'm not attacking you. I&#x27
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by sreque 5y ago
I'm pretty sure courts consider eyewitness accounts as evidence, and rightly so. In what universe is it not considered evidence? Note there is a difference between evidence and incontrovertible proof. I'm starting to think when yo
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by sreque 5y ago
I don't agree with everything Jordan says. In fact, as a religious person, I find his attempts to redefine religion as a form of atheism with psychology-based respect for religious instinct to be offensive. But, I don't believe a
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by sreque 5y ago
The evidence that radicals have already successfully overtaken Western universities is overwhelming, and the evidence that these radicals are in the process of taking over secondary education is also readily available for anyone who is inte
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by sreque 5y ago
I unfortunately can't agree with that sentiment. If I have to rely on production traffic to test my feature, then, at minimum, my feedback cycle is: 1) Make change. Think really hard about it to make sure it's correct. 2) put out
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by sreque 5y ago
I find it's much easier for greenfield projects than existing projects because you can lead by example. Also, with these projects there are opportunities to define team rules and culture for the project from the beginning. Perhaps the
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by sreque 5y ago
Agreed. I was an SRE for over a year and the philosophy is that anything that is shipped can be broken. SRE is all about detecting, limiting, and mitigating damage. I think this is the right philosophy for SREs but should not be the total p
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by sreque 5y ago
It's a very short-sighted view on testing, although I'm not surprised SREs would say it. The biggest problem with software deployment is that it is owned and managed by people who have no vested interest in developer productivity,
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by sreque 5y ago
All the data and research I've seen so far show that they are roughly equivalent. Here are some more articles: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-02-24/coronavirus... https://www.medrx
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by sreque 6y ago
Tell that to Boeing: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/business/labor-board-drop... I'm pretty sure no one wants to start a dispute almost guaranteed 0-1 before an appeals court that may or may not
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by sreque 6y ago
The NLRB are appointed by the president and can behave with incredible political bias: https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-re... The reach of the executive branch has extended far beyond what is h
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by sreque 6y ago
In response to: "DI, in the sense of separating the instantiation of long-lived service objects from the classes containing business logic that accesses those long-lived service objects, is a great thing for testability and maintainabi
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by sreque 6y ago
I felt strongly enough about this topic to write a full blog post: http://sreque.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-autumn-manifesto-why-... . TLDR: so-called DI frameworks are really just frameworks for creating and consumi
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by sreque 6y ago
I think we can safely blame both owners and employees of the clinics and the people in government who devised and implemented the program. We can blame the owners of the clinics because we have a right to expect people to to make morally co
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by sreque 6y ago
I can confirm this with recent interviewing experience. I interviewed at a top tech company and got asked puzzle coding questions I wasn't prepared for. Testing whether I can find the longest palindrome subsequence of a string optimall
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by sreque 6y ago
Spot on about atheism. If any belief system is not a religion it would be agnosticism; atheism is as much a religion as any other.

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