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by mxcrossb 5y ago
I wonder if someday we get even more absurd. Musk wagers company money on the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl, announces this on Twitter, then hedges his bet when Vegas moved the line after a bunch of pro chiefs action. I mean, it’s not like t
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
I always try to use HIV as my point of reference for COVID-19. We got off lucky by that measure. So maybe my pessimism is unfounded, but I really wish we had learned more lessons from HIV.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Half a year into the pandemic the president of the United States was filling stadiums was maskless supporters. The WHO seems completely willing to fall on their sword over COVID, and indeed they failed in many ways. But in the long run, we’
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Stick a fan in it so I can hear if a background process is being run!
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Disinformation Quote taken out of context in Google Snippet(skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com)
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
More like buying indulgences
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
For the list of mutations, there is a convenient Wikipedia article [1]. For example, the South Africa variant has mutation E484K which means mutate amino acid 484 from Glutamic Acid to Lysine. It’s just that simple; you could even download
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
It seems like the flu virus is the example you want right? Every year the vaccines delivered is a cocktail based on the predicted most common variants, because no one vaccine can protect against them all.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
This is a reminder that a lot of this comes down to the whims of whoever is staffed at HR. I’ve often read contradictory advice about resumes in articles written by people in charge of hiring. It’s not a big surprise, a lot of these views a
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
I am in favor of the current title as it makes it extremely obvious how few HN users actually read an article before commenting.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
The article isn’t saying they’re happier people… > Tesla Models X, S, and 3 all have high customer satisfaction ratings on Consumer Reports, with the Model 3 earning a CR Recommended label.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
I wonder how serializing a novel would mesh with most author’s work flow. I guess most would want to write it first and release monthly an already finished product?
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
> The galactic center, according to the scientists, “provides an ideal” central location for “advanced civilizations to place a powerful transmitter to efficiently send beacons across the entire Milky Way,” in what is yet another advanta
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Where in North Dakota Is Carmen Sandiego?(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
It sounds to me like what the author is really saying is that a quantum theory of gravity would look like some of these modified gravity equations in the classical limit. Of course it would be nice to kill two birds with one stone and knock
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
It drives me crazy when people complain about charity ceo pay. Half a million is a drop in the bucket compared to their actually expenses. If you reduce the ceo pay, you’ll find your ceo leaves every few months because they’re being offered
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Easier on the eyes -> more time spent using your phone and not sleeping?
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
If this is the case, it seems like you could get a lot of bang for your buck by building up a beach evacuation infrastructure.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
It would be far better if Facebook just said: “he tried to undermine democracy in the home country of our employees, so we banned him because we don’t want that”. This charade just leaves them open to people calling them hypocrites in the f
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Time to take a hint from the college board and insist that every student’s code has to run on a TI-84
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Great story. I wonder if somewhere on a site like the daily wtf you can find the sys admin’s retelling where he relays in horror how a bubble sort almost brought down the system!
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
IMO the problem is that OSS developers hate any change that’s made to a UI because it breaks their workflow. As a result, a lot of OSS has old style interfaces, and it’s hard for UI designers to convince the others to make changes.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Or in this case, maybe we should be relaxing the legal requirements that lead to YouTube trying to enforce copyright.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
> evolve to be hyper-infectious in the local conditions I’ve never heard that idea before, very interesting. I wonder if we will figure out if certain mutations work “better” on certain populations, environmental conditions, etc.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Deep down in the human psyche, I think we all believe that disease is a punishment for our bad behavior. So we always see comments saying it’s because of X or Y. But from what I’ve seen, this disease is very chaotic in its spread. So I thin
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
I get your instinct, but there is one thing missing. I’m theory, my CI isn’t really being run in a known environment. I can’t write a shell script to power the ci, because how am I to know the CI launcher even has a shell? Of course, once a
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
> there seems to have been little to no cost-benefit analysis performed by policy makers regarding the lockdowns and other attempts to combat it. What evidence do you have of this? This seems like a baseless criticism.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
I think I would prefer a separation between the package manager and build system. I’ve already got a build system for my FORTRAN codes, and that system can handle all the complications. SPACK, for example, can easily work with a pre-existin
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
It’s interesting that iPads are up. I wonder if people wanted tablets due to corona
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
A number of Kosuke Kindaichi movies are available on Netflix (at least, here in Japan!). I thought they’d make a good watch, but I found that there is a huge culture gap, that ends up making them very complex, so I gave up. But that might b

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