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by xienze 5y ago
I always get a kick out of how the same people asking why the US can’t do things every other country does, like single payer healthcare or the metric system will have no end of excuses why the US can’t do that other thing ~every other count
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by xienze 5y ago
> (But I've also heard the transmission rate from children to teachers has been pretty low, but how low?) I would imagine it’s pretty damn low. I have two kids in daycare, and except for a few weeks early on in the pandemic, their
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by xienze 5y ago
> but children are absolutely hospitalized and killed by this disease. Same thing applies to the flu w.r.t. to children and yet it’s not mandated for kids. CDC says 188 kids died of the flu in 2019 [0], which is not nothing but apparent
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by xienze 5y ago
> US hospitalizations are at an all time high Well, about that. A few governors have admitted what has been known by “conspiracy theorists” for the past two years: that included in the count of Covid hospitalizations are people who come
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by xienze 5y ago
> The answer I get from my friends in the higher ed business are that the costs are covering decreased investment by state level government in colleges and universities. I’d take that with a big grain of salt. They love to play up this
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by xienze 5y ago
I think the parent comment’s question is more along the lines of “if Australia is so deathly afraid of Covid, why are they hosting an international sporting event at this particular time?”
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by xienze 5y ago
I was not aware of that feature. To call it rare would be an understatement I think. > while it's pretty common in the NPM world, and I don't immediately understand why that would be so. I think it boils down to Node projects
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by xienze 5y ago
A key difference with Maven projects is that you specify exact dependency versions instead of “always use latest” or some variant of that, as is pretty common in the Node world.
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by xienze 5y ago
> putting a pronoun down is for the benefit of those conversing with you, so they don't have to wonder or get it wrong. The type of people concerned with being addressed by the "correct" pronouns will list them without bei
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by xienze 5y ago
> Vaccines reduce spread because of lower viral load. Also reduces severity. And yet, case counts have never been higher than now, a year into vaccines and infections. Ah, but Omicron you may say. Well doesn’t that imply that the vaccin
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by xienze 5y ago
> "XML is bad" is still one of the worst engineering arguments. It’s reached meme status. I think most people conflate complex XML-based _formats_ (e.g., WSDL, XSD) with XML _the format_. The rules of XML parsing can fit on a
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by xienze 5y ago
> At any rate, the value that I'm being compensated next year is less than the value I received this year. Not to be that guy, but has your company’s revenue increased at least as much as inflation has? If not, how can you expect t
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by xienze 5y ago
A variant outcompeting other variants isn’t in and of itself concerning. Viruses mutate in order spread more effectively, not surprising. Does it produce milder or more extreme symptoms? That’s the interesting part and the article doesn’
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by xienze 5y ago
> Politicians "committing" to things that will happen after they are out of office, are mostly just saying pretty words. And these same politicians are taking private jets and massive motorcades to summits when there's a m
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by xienze 5y ago
> Zero anti-vax spam from FB sent to me via texts from older relatives. They probably likewise felt similar relief that they didn’t receive “Republicans bad” spam from their relatives during this time period.
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by xienze 5y ago
> Based on this logic, flu shots are useless If you believe the reports stating that the flu has basically been eliminated since the start of Covid-19, it seems the shots are indeed pretty useless! All it took was some half-assed maskin
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by xienze 5y ago
Yes, but they're hesitant to do that because of the impact the wage increases (which then get passed on to consumers) will have on sales. There's this notion that companies could simply double or triple wages with a negligible im
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by xienze 5y ago
Yes, "if". The problem is that companies don't move in lockstep with the broader economy, so it might take a year or two of food and goods increasing in price 12% before your company has managed to give you a 5% raise, which
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by xienze 5y ago
> It is just so complex that it is impossible to use without heavy tooling support, and this tooling is only really usable in Microsoft's technology. Again, gotta call BS here. My early career was 100% SOAP and related WS-* technol
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by xienze 5y ago
> SOAP isn't some nice standardized language-agnostic API layer. What? Of course it is (well, it's a messaging protocol). Where on earth did you get the idea that it's some Microsoft-only proprietary technology?
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by xienze 5y ago
> The reason we don't get polio in virtually any country on earth is because of global cooperation in the face of a disease with a known mitigation. The polio vaccine being a sterilizing one is certainly a _major_ reason for its suc
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by xienze 5y ago
Why get the flu vaccine anymore? If you believe official reports, it’s basically been eliminated by virtue of simple mask mandates that everyone swears no one is following.
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by xienze 5y ago
> Imagine if they said, 'SV company pricing is causing inflation' or 'wages in SV are causing inflation'. Not sure I follow where you’re going with this — are you suggesting SV salaries aren’t causing inflation in the
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by xienze 5y ago
> Not a single word about natural immunity. There’s major, major hesitance to giving natural immunity any credibility. The reason for that is an exercise left up to the reader.
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by xienze 5y ago
> Could argue the Trump administration is directly responsible for killing tens of thousands of Americans through that act alone. Well then why isn’t the Biden admin doing it?
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by xienze 5y ago
> and cloth masks DO work very well to prevent that person from spewing droplets everywhere But Covid doesn’t spread exclusively through “droplets”, it’s aerosolized. It’s present in an infected person’s breath, which will escape a mask
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by xienze 5y ago
> He's arguing they just don't work and nobody should bother with them at all. Are the virus particles significantly smaller than the holes in a cloth mask — nevermind the gaps typically present around the wearer’s face — or no
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by xienze 5y ago
Who knew after decades of administering flu vaccines that all it took to eradicate the flu was half-assedly wearing cotton face masks?
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by xienze 5y ago
> Expansion of the tech would be something I'd be more concerned about Yeah, and that’s precisely what will happen. It always starts with child porn, then they move on to “extremist content”, of which the term expands to capture mo
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by xienze 5y ago
> there were far too many people who denied it was anything more serious than the flu and didn't take any precautions. Well apparently quite a number of people must have taken precautions, because that's the explanation for why

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