jnbiche

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by jnbiche 6y ago
So the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct headquarters was just overrun, weapons seized, and burned down by hundreds of citizens. National Guard and SWAT are en route. Are you still so sure about the idea of internal civil strife being "u
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by jnbiche 6y ago
Modern warfare is very different than war 150 years ago. Look at Bosnia and Syria for typical examples. And before you say: oh, they're different from us, remember that Sarajevo was a modern city that hosted the winter Olympics 8 years
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by jnbiche 6y ago
No, no. Internal civil strife.
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by jnbiche 6y ago
That question depends on how Brexit goes, doesn't it?
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by jnbiche 6y ago
I agree. I'm surprised more HNers aren't aware of this potential. To be clear, I condemn those pushing us toward political violence, but it has a decent chance of arriving in the next 6-12 months even.
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by jnbiche 6y ago
I appreciate this comment and mostly agree with the contents of it. But I take exception with the use of words like "evil", "monsters", etc. I can't think of anyone who regularly writes on HN whom I'd character
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by jnbiche 6y ago
In the comments, an educator references an excellent article related to this confusion, "When Can you Meaningfully Add Rates, Ratios, and Fractions" that implicitly suggests some pedagogical approaches: https://flm-jour
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by jnbiche 6y ago
I'm sure you think that's clever but there are plenty of respiratory diseases that don't require sustained contact. Measles, for example. The point is sustained contact, not the route of transmission.
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by jnbiche 6y ago
I agree with you about parks and beaches. But restaurants and hairdressers are known to be places where COVID-19 can be actively spread to large groups of people. And gyms are even worse. We should be encouraging people to go outdoors, and
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by jnbiche 6y ago
> The primary way to spread a virus via droplet transmissions is to spend a sustained amount of time around lots of other people in an indoor space In some ways, very similar to TB, although a much shorter exposure time is sufficient for
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by jnbiche 6y ago
> I wish they had considered going back decades ago Considered what? You've said they had a hard life. Edit: Oh, I misread that (parsed it as "considered, going back decades ago", thinking you were implying you wish they h
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by jnbiche 6y ago
> I don't quite understand the power imbalance here There's only a power imbalance if workers are prevented from organizing, or if they (for whatever reason) refuse to organize. Or if they workers are very easily replaceable. O
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by jnbiche 6y ago
> The most powerful movers are the most exploited and dispossessed people, but they don't want to risk what little they have. By that logic, then technical folks, particularly devops people, are in a very strong role to make change.
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by jnbiche 6y ago
> this point could hire more mediocre talent and function in more of a maintenance mode and continue to be successful for a long time Eh, not sure about that. IBM went downhill fairly quickly once they stopped getting the cream of the cr
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by jnbiche 6y ago
Know that the actual laws relating to this concept depend entirely on what US state you work in.
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by jnbiche 6y ago
> I coded a script in python to generate the html from rst files There’s an outstanding and fairly flexible static site generator for rst files in Python that’s been around for quite a long time, called Sphinx. It’s basically a docs gene
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by jnbiche 6y ago
> For starters, this is a media company, so they would like to have instantly updated posts on certain parts of their site. How are their posts instantly updated using a static site generator? Don’t get me wrong, I was sold on in static
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by jnbiche 6y ago
Oh, my apologies. I read a few paragraphs and it looked like a basic tutorial about Swift protocols and inheritance vs composite, so I stopped. I'll read the whole thing. Edit: Yeah, you're right. I read to the end and that's
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by jnbiche 6y ago
While most statically-typed functional programming offer some approach to composition similar to Swift prototols, the concept goes above and beyond the idea described in the article you posted, which relates more to the idea of programming
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by jnbiche 6y ago
No, it wouldn't. They both account for years of early death, just in different ways.
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by jnbiche 6y ago
In terms of a metric akin to "mathematical DALYs", Galois was perhaps the most impactful early death of all, followed by Abel. Both Galois and Abel founded entire branches of mathematics before the age of 25.
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by jnbiche 6y ago
I can't agree with this enough. People are failing to account for viral load. I think that's part of what may be happening in areas like N. Italy and NY where the health system gets overloaded and the death tolls are high. People
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by jnbiche 6y ago
It's such a breath of fresh air coming on HN where most people are numerate and capable of understanding data. I actually agree that most parts of the US should carefully open up - the lockdowns have a significant portion of the popula
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by jnbiche 6y ago
The plural is virus is viruses, or "virus" if you insist on its Latin form. It's a Latin word, but it only occurs in Latin as a singular collective noun: https://jdebp.eu/FGA/plural-of-virus.html
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by jnbiche 6y ago
Positive predictive value, which is discussed in the article, is derived from Bayes theorem. So they do discuss that.
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by jnbiche 6y ago
First, each patient coughed directly upon a petri dish 20 cm away, not once but 5 times . I don't think anyone would rationally believe that a non-fitted mask would have a high probability of providing protection to a person directl
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by jnbiche 6y ago
With due respect, if you're in your late 40s and have been in the same job for "decades", then you don't have any personal experience with the hiring ageism common in our industry. And I totally agree with and live by th
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by jnbiche 6y ago
>IFR is more like 0.02->0.05%, so even taking NYC numbers at face value COVID looks 10-50x more fatal than flu. Exactly, my only point in mentioning approximate flu IFR was to demonstrate that it's significantly lower than flu CF
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by jnbiche 6y ago
The CFR will be much higher than the IFR. For example, approximate flu IFR is 0.05%.
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by jnbiche 6y ago
"alleged ageism" How long have you been in your job? How many times have you changed since you hit 40? Do you look your age, or younger? Personally, as someone well over 40, I've found it not worth my while to even apply to a

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