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by wwweston 5y ago
"small", "remote", and "island" aren't significant direct contributions here. "seal" does -- whether any group is collectively capable of taking chain-of-exposure and its management seriously. Ma
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by wwweston 5y ago
Regarding the surgeon general quote, if you understand that he's referring to protective masks (such as N95s) and their capacity -- and it's pretty clear that he is -- the contents of his statement holds up very well, even now. PP
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We’re done with the death comparisons over distancing measures — we’ve been past the point where that was in the running for most effective intervention for months now. If Sweden fared poorly during the time it was true, that’s the conclusi
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by wwweston 5y ago
> the two things for me are whether you can do technical cave diving like figuring out what happened to that threading issue, and whether you have the capacity to read and understand a large amount of text, like being a lawyer or politic
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by wwweston 5y ago
I love the idea of Google Voice, but the actual execution has me looking for an alternative to migrate to, especially since they stopped message forwarding a week or two back. Would love suggestions for feature+ compatible alternatives — an
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by wwweston 5y ago
Discord leaks which apps you're using to other people?
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by wwweston 5y ago
Or as Colin Powell famously put it: “you break it, you bought it.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule
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by wwweston 5y ago
This is a terrible article. Even if you drill down to the specific point "some people aren't sure vacancy taxes will help", there is a near total lack of anything remotely resembling an explanation for why they think that m
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by wwweston 5y ago
And also, in that example, it actually seems to have worked, just not as much as they hoped, so obviously total failure, right?
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Van-dwidth.
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> George Soros talked a lot about how hard it is to give money, how it corrupts both parties (both the donor and the grantee) Did he talk about the specific how / underlying dynamics, and what if anything could be done about it? Wh
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Where's a good place to find a guide to that?
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Retirement is news to me; I've seen one in action within the last year. Where can I read about the developments you're talking about?
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> Now, there will come a time where you'll need to automate this. Unless you buy hiring-from-a-bootcamp-to-be-told-your-practices-are-archaic-and-pulled-into-regular-meetings as a service, of course.
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In general, I think it's pretty rare that anyone gets comprehensive and accurate information about why they've been rejected. :) However, you can make some inferences about how it works by what people complain about in their p
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by wwweston 5y ago
That's not exactly the point the existing reports linked lead me to... It's plausible that you could see some private solutions to accomplishing known goals, and see those sold to the government. But that leaves the resourcing p
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I'm given to understand leasing/outfitting 747s to drop fire retardant can be fairly profitable: https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/...
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It's good to approach the topic in terms of solution-thinking, but it more or less looks like a lot of the problems involved are political: https://lhc.ca.gov/report/fire-mountain-rethinking-forest-ma... For the e
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Yeah, the way planned burns make people anxious and provoke questions about unintended consequences is a pretty good example of a political problem with implementing something officials have known is generally good policy for a while. That
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See also: https://lhc.ca.gov/report/fire-mountain-rethinking-forest-ma... tl;dr: state and federal officials have actually been thinking about most of the contents of the article for a while, there are intermediate pol
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by wwweston 5y ago
It's a good question. Not too long into the rideshare explosion I tried a couple of apps that were more or less interfaces for yellow cab services. Definitely a weaker experience: longer wait time and not as much information (real or p
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So let's analyze this for a minute, first at a general level of incentives that every software-building org has, then at the specific level of Spotify's founding culture and present incentives. Generally: ideally we imagine UX &am
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Why does anyone care what commentors on HN think? Why not read the actual Twitter thread and see if the argument has merit? Or engage the summary that the GP brought into the thread instead of pretending the only relevant point in play is t
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Cryptocurrency is more likely to become a powerful tool to the rich and powerful with even less accountability than there is now than it is to become an incredible boon to the "average person." There's a difference between
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If we've established that the vaccine is 1/10th the risk of covid itself to younger people (which I think I did in my comment), as far as I can tell any extra weight that might be assigned to preserving young life just falls out o
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The precedents you're invoking as fearsome are scattered over a century old, some older. Past vaccination requirements have been examined and upheld -- all without leading to an overwhelming push to eliminate general autonomy. So the i
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Let's put those puzzle pieces together: In the US, over 300 million doses of covid-19 vaccines have been administered so far. Reported deaths of any cause (regardless of any established connection with the vaccine) among this group w
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> What? I have never heard anything like that at all. Sure you have. It's embedded in the common phrase (invoked earlier) about the right to swing a fist ending at the edge of people's noses. Or in the oft-invoked expression ab
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> "Excess death" is a pragmatic term, not a normative term Fully aware of that. The reason I invoked them is to make the pragmatic point that those statistics alone and the correlated rise with covid should tell an analyst th
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> an overall risk of illness and death that is on par with every other year I have been alive. The excess death statistics would like to have a word with you, but more importantly: > If I ever become so afraid of death that I demand t

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