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by E14n 4y ago
It is hard to read this any other way then - you are in a privileged position of having never been personally challenged by a lack of privacy so are fine with privacy not existing. By that reasoning you are also OK with those who are effec
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by E14n 4y ago
The cowardice is in surrendering your moral agency "So if there was anything I was considering doing where if it became public I would be hurt, I wouldn't do it." There is a great book Bonhoeffer[1] by Eric Mataxas which deal
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by E14n 5y ago
I think this is generally good advice for software engineering, accept when its not. The problem is that some bad ideas become better ideas by virtue of being popular ideas. Write a shitty framework/language/technology and you h
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by E14n 5y ago
100% this. People forget when using dynamic languages they are trading up front cost - its easier to write the code but harder to test. In trivial or exploratory coding the tradeoff can be good, but it is a tradeoff. That being said, usin
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by E14n 5y ago
If you are talking speed to production ready code then rust is really productive. The rust tooling picks up a lot of errors and leads you to spending more time fixing coding issues rather then compile to test your code.
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by E14n 6y ago
If you are trying to promote usage of the data you might want to put the dictionary under a more permissive license as GPL-3+ conflicts with a lot of other licenses. Something like Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence (V3.0)[1]
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by E14n 6y ago
Ironic to me that it is completely possible to make pdf copies of a physically borrowed book, and at least in academia making physical copies of chapters of books was extremely common and one of the primary uses of photo copy machines.
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by E14n 6y ago
If the people you borrowed from say its OK after the fact then yes it is OK. If I borrow a neighbours defibrillator, without asking, to save their child it would be insane for the manufacturer of the defibrillator to sue me for not buying m
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by E14n 6y ago
I think that's more perception then reality. I live in a 30 year old house and it could easily last 100 years if properly maintained, but there is little incentive to improve the building because it will not improve the resale value.
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by E14n 6y ago
You are loosing the investment potential of the building on your property. There is nothing to stop you buying an old house (that is essentially valued at nothing) on a property and living in it. That will essentially maintain the equity
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by E14n 6y ago
Japan introduced taxes to remove the incentives for speculative investments in realestate. The changes mostly seemed to have worked, but it came at a high cost for the speculators.
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by E14n 6y ago
The big issues that consistently affects real-estate around Tokyo is proximity to a station and the age of the building. The basic rule is that a condominium must be within 10 minutes walk from a station, and a free standing house up to 15
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by E14n 6y ago
Good advice 1 year too late.
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by E14n 6y ago
If there were an unlimited supply of surgical masks that would make sense. If you wearing a mask deprives actually sick people of wearing one then you are still worse off then not wearing one.
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by E14n 6y ago
Surgical masks are designed to prevent you spreading viruses. That is the type most people wear in Japan. N95 masks are designed to protect you.
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by E14n 6y ago
It is too early to know whether what Japan has done is enough and whether it will be effective long term. That said, It isn't just people wearing mask, or something innately Japanese. At the beginning of last year they had a serious fl
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by E14n 7y ago
I would guess their criteria for testing is people who could develop into a critical situation quickly because the tests are not 100 percent reliable and they are slow. They were talking about having a televised only Olympics which might wo
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by E14n 7y ago
I would assume its because the number of people with similar symptoms far exceeds the capacity to test for covid-19. If the numbers in this article[1] are accurate there were around 2.23 million people who went to the doctor for flu relate
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by E14n 7y ago
The question is do longer stays result from worse care or economic incentives. In the case of our child, we choose a 7 day inpatient treatment that could have been done as a more risky outpatent treatment.
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by E14n 7y ago
I don't think simple comparisons between Japan and US are meaningful. Japan has a universal health care system so everyone is covered by health insurance. There is little incentive to leave hospitals prematurely. One of our children
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by E14n 7y ago
There are some graphs broken down by age for the Spanish flu https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734171/
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by E14n 7y ago
The information release so fare makes this look more like a bad flu with a 2.5% mortality rate, nothing like the Spanish Flu's 10%~20%. The Spanish Flu was also especially bad because it effected young adults disproportionately[1]. T
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by E14n 7y ago
Some interesting infograpics but I really don't like the "Coronavirus vs Sars: daily cases and mortality rate" it is a misleading way to represent the data. By separating cases from deaths you are mislead into thinking the d
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by E14n 7y ago
This was not the case with the Spanish flu, which disproportionately effected young adults[1]. 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734171/
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by E14n 7y ago
Most of our presentations are in English which is a barrier to many. That said, around 20 attendees is a really nice size. Its small enough that its easy to host technical meeting or book restaurants but large enough that you have a range
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by E14n 7y ago
The Tokyo Linux User Group I have been running the Tokyo Linux User Group for the last 13 years. The club was started in 1994. I was first involved in 2002. We have an event once a month alternating between technical meetings were we have
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by E14n 10y ago
The plumber analogy is a bit silly, as it is not access to the hardware of your phone that the author is objecting to (which would be analogous to your home), its the confidential private information that is stored on it. The issue is not
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by E14n 10y ago
Policies that encourage internships and entry level recruitment of young workers. Policies that encourage the supply of child care, schools, university access and other services to support families. Access to family medical insurance.
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by E14n 10y ago
The pension scheme is a bad example as it was put in place in 1961[1] long before Japan experienced it current population decline. Furthermore recent government actions have been towards weakening the yen which will adversely effect the el
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by E14n 13y ago
The Manhattan project was a boy band or had a significant boy band component. It clearly involved a number of amateur male musicians[1][2]. Science is about understanding, engineering is about building something. If the Manhattan project h

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