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by thu2111 6y ago
Die Zeit: "In the dispute over the delivery delay of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the EU Commission is currently making the best advertisement for Brexit: It is acting slowly, bureaucratically, and protectionist. And if something goes wro
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by thu2111 6y ago
What matters is the current status, and that they're not really different. Different countries had their first wave start and end at slightly different times, but that's not relevant.
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How are they not treated well? They get a much higher than minimum wage even though the work is entirely unskilled, and didn't I read once that Amazon pay for some of them to be educated? Seems like a pretty sweet deal to me.
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It's not just about disk space, but also: 1. Security patching in one place 2. Memory usage 3. Allowing a program to be improved without it needing to be recompiled Most obviously without dynamic linking, the concept of an operating sy
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I feel I just looked into a mirror world that's exactly like the one I live in, except everything is reversed. The UK started out very briefly with a Sweden-like strategy. We now know the Sweden strategy was correct: their results are
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by thu2111 6y ago
These days half of Linux is exported via filesystems, IOCTLs and other random pseudo-syscalls. Ignoring drivers, of course. The kernel isn't really that stable.
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by thu2111 6y ago
As someone who has had their default search engine set to DuckDuckGo for the past couple of years, I'm afraid I have to disagree (DDG is mostly Bing). Google search results are objectively much better to the extent that if it weren&#x2
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by thu2111 6y ago
I was also there. G+ was born into an environment of fear. Google leadership had convinced themselves that Facebook would dominate tech forever in every product area because all you had to do to make something successful was make it social,
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I don't think that's really true. I think it's more the case that the sort of languages that have the features large teams need have tended historically to be verbose, and some people conflated the two together. For instance
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That's a common meme but there's not much evidence for it. Java has the syntax it does because it's based on C++. It is verbose because (a) C++ is verbose and (b) it insists on everything being inside a class. The latter is a
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by thu2111 6y ago
Is there anything lacking from the JVM beyond tail-call elimination that Lisp needs? I know Clojure is very slow to start up but my understanding is that this is because it uses the JVM very inefficiently, and they don't seem to care m
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by thu2111 6y ago
This feels like AWS apologism. Slack knew how to set up their infrastructure. Nothing in the postmortem implies AWS was misconfigured. AWS spotted the problem and fixed it entirely on their side. Nothing in this report suggests that Slack h
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by thu2111 6y ago
Those death figures are not deaths from COVID. They are deaths of any cause within 28 days of a positive test, and thus over-count, especially when the elderly who are (to put it coldly) "scheduled" to die get a positive test and
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There is some deep analysis of Swedish mortality for 2020 here: https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2021/01... The summary is that when controlling for population growth there was a very small amount o
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by thu2111 6y ago
No, mitigation measures have had no effect: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.6043... https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5... etc. And
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by thu2111 6y ago
Nobody actually knows how she got the job. The person who runs the EU, the most powerful organisation in Europe, is appointed via a secret process decided in meetings with no public agenda and no published minutes. The closest I've eve
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by thu2111 6y ago
That's incorrect. The EU is a presidential system where the head of the Commission (vDL) can and just did change laws at the stroke of a pen. She has far more power than Trump because Trump could be blocked by Congress and Congress c
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by thu2111 6y ago
Google shouldn't be doing what they're doing, no question. BUT, this reaction to the idea of people downloading apps is over the top. The world is full of people who made lots of money on the back of people downloading and install
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The main hurdle is that (without rooting) there doesn't seem to be a way for alternative app stores to silently update software. Does this actually matter? On the desktop it's normal for apps to update themselves. Is there some
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by thu2111 6y ago
No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that if you have a working mechanism for contract enforcement, then insurer specific mechanisms on top should be redundant. The replies arguing with this seem to mostly be arguing
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Obama birtherism was dumb but never took over swathes of institutions like this. Even Trump abandoned it before he became President. What we're seeing now is not merely a set of hysterical beliefs, but widespread pulling on the levers
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You could make a time based argument like that for any contract dispute. "Payout delayed is payout denied" isn't true, but if it were then it'd mean all contracts were useless. So you aren't showing that there&#x2
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Movement of infected meat? Where did you get that from? I have been reading about COVID every day for the last year and never saw anyone make that claim before, so this looks like motivated reasoning. Are you thinking of wet markets? The wh
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The person in question wasn't fired for "random takes" but rather being seen in the vicinity of services that have been seen in the vicinity of people making decidedly non-random takes on political matters. And now she, perha
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The goal of those rules is to stop people importing meat and selling it, not workers eating their lunch. Look, this is very simple: if the EU's rules require confiscating the lunch of people who are trying to do business, then the rule
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yes, but that answer doesn't explain why anything insurance specific is needed. Courts can rule on contract disputes regardless of how complex they are.
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Literally nobody in the modern world is advocating for the "complete extermination of complete groups of people based on skin colour" with the possible exception of China in Xinjiang (although I guess that's based on religion
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There was fury about Belgian authorities taking away sandwiches etc from UK lorry drivers That happened once and people were right to be furious because the Dutch customs guy was a dick. No rule requires him to confiscate the lunch of lor
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Right, one guy who isn't even that sure about his own beliefs. I was worried when I read the headline, but the more important thing is that Acton is screening employees to ensure they actually agree with the goals of the organisation.
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Yes, nazis should not be allowed to speak free. And no ramblings about privacy here on HN will ever change my mind. That's why the left constantly describe anyone who isn't on the left as Nazis, even though they clearly aren&#x2

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