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by schemy 6y ago
Which is what's happening right now. The only difference would be that you don't need to do industrial espionage on google to see what works first, so the cost of the seo would drop.
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by schemy 6y ago
A mathematician, physicist, and engineer are taking a math test. One question asks "Are all odd numbers prime?" The mathematician thinks, "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is not prime -- nope, not all odd numbers are pr
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by schemy 6y ago
New Zealand has just had to quarantine 1/3 of their population, again, because of 4 cases. Until the virus is contained everywhere you will yo-yo between closing everything and opening it. Unless we build a wall around every developing
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by schemy 6y ago
It's an American term and like usual cultural imperialism means everyone else must use it too.
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by schemy 6y ago
Yes and? If I owned slaves and called them unpaid indefinite interns the law would rightly disagree. You can call the relationship whatever you like, but the law is there to keep the playing field level for everyone. That it's taken Ub
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by schemy 6y ago
Rust is the future and always will be.
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by schemy 6y ago
> Last I checked Red Hat was a for profit company not a commune. Last I checked Red Hat was bought by IBM and everyone with half a brain was bailing out.
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by schemy 6y ago
Freedom zero should be only for people.
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by schemy 6y ago
I'm not interested in digging up the information on this because it was over 10 years ago, so take it with a huge grain of salt. He had this huge presentation about a laser zapping mosquitoes. The patent was fed to a patent troll, the
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by schemy 6y ago
I was expecting something about Morse code. I too was disappointed.
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by schemy 6y ago
In the same way that it's more efficient for me to drink high octane fuel rather than eat food.
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by schemy 6y ago
It doesn't. The sun provides about 300W/m^2 on average at temperate climates, that's 7.2kwh per day. Wheat takes about 4 months to grow and nuclear power costs 0.77c/kwh. That's 665.28$/m^2 at wholesale. [0] h
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by schemy 6y ago
It means that people who have no idea what science is like to pretend they have a deeper reason for their biases other than their innate preferences. They do not like that pointed out to them and will violently react to anyone who does. You
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by schemy 6y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=sweden+covid+deathrate&oq=sw... Sweden's death rate is down to zero today and has been trending down since mid April. Summer Holidays did not start until late May where deaths were a
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by schemy 6y ago
>This evidence completely invalidates the premise of your first point regarding r0. You do realize that it's exactly the opposite right? If asymptomatic r0 is high a quarantine without a lock down is pointless. If it's low no l
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by schemy 6y ago
The problem, as always, is that a table isn't the natural output for a computer. It's either serialized text, or a graph. Unix tools work ok-ish for serialized text and you need general recursive functions to deal with graphs. Som
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by schemy 6y ago
Please provide the doi.
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by schemy 6y ago
>We already know that it is bigger than 1. Do we? Do you have a study?
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by schemy 6y ago
Australia is looking at up to 40% of all households with mortgages to be foreclosed on within the next 3 years: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-04/covid-recession-mortg...
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by schemy 6y ago
>Why not just look at other countries, see which have had the best outcomes, and copy them? Because if the R0 value for asymptomatic cases is high enough you will need 2 week quarantine for all travelers and fortress boarders until the v
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by schemy 6y ago
>you seem to be suggesting the no lockdowns would have no impact on the economy. No. I'm suggesting that acknowledging the cost of lockdowns is something that is not allowed to be discussed in liberal circles. 4: World war 3 caused
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by schemy 6y ago
You are far too optimistic with how wrong things can go. The economy running smoothly is what keeps revolutions and wars from happening. The last time the wheels fell off as badly as they did over the last three months we had WWII happen wi
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by schemy 6y ago
>My point is, it's not just a difference of opinion when a group of people promote racist, neo-Nazi views (alt-right), or peddle in conspiracy theories (Qanon). Opinion: A thought or belief about something or someone [0] If
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by schemy 6y ago
The sheer hubris of your post is the problem I'm talking about. Banning cars saves lives. Forcing everyone to wear a helmet when walking saves lives. Banning sugar saves lives. The issue is how many lives and at what cost? I'll wa
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by schemy 6y ago
>It's good to see a piece that shows how complex the science behind COVID is, in the middle of so many contradictory or over-simplified news. It's rather unfortunate how politicized the whole issue is. I got banned from reddit
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by schemy 6y ago
What's the difference? Offense is in the mind of the offendee not the offender. Liberals in NY and SF have taken being offended to an art form I hadn't seen since old church ladies got angry when you didn't say H-E-double hok
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by schemy 6y ago
>However, the caveat to that is that journalists are on Twitter, pay a lot of attention to Twitter, and report it as reality. Getting dogpiled on Twitter may not matter, but having it reported in newspapers may make it matter. And how ma
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by schemy 6y ago
>I've been spending close to a day trying to figure out how to respond to this statement. It's like you're saying [...] No, it's like I'm saying: Software development is fad driven and shallow. The details change
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by schemy 6y ago
Sociopathy and narcissistic personality disorder on top of average skills. My career took off when I had a particularly bad metal break where I exhibited both to a frightening degree. When I got over those I just retired with all the money
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by schemy 6y ago
Don't forget cars, they kill an average of 40k people a year since the 50s in the US.

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