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by thu2111 6y ago
The assumption that FTL is impossible is predicated on our understanding of physical laws being complete. But current physical theories are not complete, and in particular have large holes in them related to gravity. We don't actually
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OK, so I get that the data doesn't seem to match your local perception. That's useful to know, thanks. But the suggestion that more available!=more use does make logical sense given the information available. Lots of vaccines ha
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I feel like a challenge so I'm going to play the devil's advocate. It is possible to craft explanations for why UFOs behave this way, if they are in fact aliens. There's a very common fallacy in a lot of alien debunking discu
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Can you provide a citation for the EMA doing parallel processing because I have yet to hear about that and in fact read the opposite. It's not in AZ's interest to keep an expensive factory idled in an environment of unprecedented
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That's not been the case for a very long time and even then it wasn't really about 'correctness'. Actually there's a proposal to delete strictfp from the language: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3
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Where did you get that idea? This is not a meme, it's repeats of widely available data and news reports. As of the 17th March nearly half of all delivered vaccines had not been used: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/millions-o
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Knowing how these sorts of regulations work, there's probably considerable scope for speeding things up by parallelising. That's apparently how the MHRA went faster. Usually the regulator would demand a complete pack of informatio
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What screwups by AZ? There haven't been any, they've been doing the same things as other pharma firms, who have all always said that manufacturing is unpredictable and they'll try to make it all as quickly as possible but can
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Your wife is one thing and understandable because she's (presumably) not a full time feminist advocate. But I still routinely see this claim be made by e.g. journalists who have been writing about feminism their entire careers, or peop
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by thu2111 6y ago
It is possible for the EU to both have a democratic deficit, and for the completely opaque and unaccountable process for choosing the head of the Commission to be a part of that. Bear in mind, the EU Parliament is not a real parliament, so
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by thu2111 6y ago
Can you give a citation for that. The generally agreed figure is that it was done 3 months later. Bear in mind, the EU has still not even approved production from the AZ Halix plant. EU has generally been doing things slower than the UK.
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Actually, Kotlin does. I know this because I did a startup and chose Kotlin for it a few months before the language hit 1.0 (bold move!). The Kotlin ecosystem is the Java ecosystem. It runs as fast as Java, partly because Kotlin is basicall
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Lack of correct leadership. Java, Kotlin, C# and TypeScript are led by companies that want usage. Scala was and still is primarily an academic exercise. Same problems as with Haskell - the leadership are paid to add random optimised-for-sou
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Huh, I use Java all the time without containers. You definitely don't need them.
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Well, we know what the EU press are claiming, but that quoted paragraph isn't true is it? How has AZ undermined its own efforts? Where are the communication problems or lack of transparency? They have been doing pretty clear press rele
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By the latter are you referring to the pay gap myth? If so it's well beyond innocent innumeracy because feminists have been doing univariate "analysis" to make false claims of pay discrimination since the 1980s, and people ha
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In this case, the authorities actually are lying to people about vaccines, just in the opposite direction than the one than usually hypothesised (i.e. claiming it's dangerous and useless when in fact it's safe and effective). This
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This is horrible. There is no difference between the AZ vaccine and Pfizer. One is not "crappy" - you're literally posting this on a thread that says it's safe and effective in multiple studies . The EU is becoming a di
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That can already be implemented with sufficiently creative uses of the JVM sandboxing tech.
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It's definitely related to the cost of hiring and the cost of the employees. But it can work against the employees in the long run because they learn they can get away with bad behaviour and it gets normalised. Then it's hard to g
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I only vaguely recall the conversation. I think they were cultural. Tech was more full of people who genuinely bought their own hype, even when it was self-evidently ridiculous. Basically the sort of issues that the show Silicon Valley pick
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It does get coverage, often when something terrible happens like an intern committing suicide. But finance has been like this for decades and lots of people are aware of it, it's not news. The games industry crunch-time phenomenon is l
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This seems like an instance of a common tactic (or problem, depending on your perspective) that is especially common at software firms where management learn to work around employees' problems instead of challenging them to improve. Th
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I read the full emails. The statements weren't out of context. I don't think it quite rose to the level of 'conspiring to manipulate public opinion' but they were absolutely conspiring to manipulate the data and the conc
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What do junior workers do at these banks that require them to work 80 hour weeks? Nothing worth it. I've talked to people who have been through the investment bank meat grinder and who got out. One guy went to Silicon Valley. He said
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The big skew started when trump was elected (check historical polling data to see that). Basically the media abandoned the pretense of neutrality and turned into a full time informational army trying to take out Trump, which democrats respo
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I know how Googlers justify it, I used to work there. But it's bizarre. Their codebase is highly modular but it's as if they forget all about modules, interfaces and so on the moment they talk about releasing stuff as open source.
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I don't think those things are necessarily mistakes. Maybe JNI was but most languages took the same approach of exposing interpreter APIs instead of providing FFIs to C. AOT compilation of a dynamic language like Java is hard to do wit
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The users aren't that stupid. If the police have been quiet for months and suddenly start busting many different gangs by doing raids that would have required information only a few gang members had, it doesn't take a genius to fi
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Yeah. This is a point I've been hammering for a long time now. The problems here are not technology related and it's a mistake to look for technological fixes. The same companies that can ban apps from an app store can also ban we

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