The thing about public health is that it's a game of averages. Smallpox vaccination, because of the specific details of the vaccine itself, has significant potential side effects well beyond any other modern commonly-administered vaccine. These side effects can be permanently disabling, or in some cases even cause smallpox-like illness itself. When smallpox was widespread, the downside of vaccination (side effect risks) was much smaller than the downside of not vaccinating (dying of smallpox). Now that smallpox has been eradicated, the calculation is changed - on average the damage that will be done by side-effects in a wide-spread vaccination campaign are outweighed by the extremely small risk caused by not vaccinating.
That leaves the question of whether a better (safer) smallpox vaccine could be developed - I don't know enough about medical science to know if that's feasible, but even if it is it's likely not worth the cost and effort to develop a new vaccine for a disease that is no longer really a threat.
I know one Covid long-hauler personally. She's in excellent physical shape, and has worked for several years as a paramedic (which is, in fact, where she caught Covid). She's got medical training, professional expertise, and is generally an all-around no-bullshit kind of person. It's been six months since her original diagnosis, and she still has lingering symptoms - on bad days she can't climb up a flight of steps without getting winded, despite literally running 10Ks earlier this year. This is just a single anecdote, and COVID long-haulers may not be as widespread or as significant as the article suggests, but having witnessed her experience firsthand I'm absolutely not willing to write it off.
Hilariously, around like the third sentence of this I thought to myself "I bet this guy would like Steve Ramsey". He really is head-and-shoulders above anyone else making content in the hobby.
Standard practice for Google SREs in any serious outage is to communicate via internally-hosted IRC, since it has a minimum amount of dependencies outside of itself
Yes, though exactly why depends on the jurisdiction. In some areas a tenant blacklists is explicitly illegal; in others this would fall afoul of credit monitoring registration laws. Additionally the fact that they're using AI opens the door for a lot of issues; for example, if it turns out that their blacklist flags a disproportionately large share of African-American renters they're on the wrong side of fair housing and anti-redlining laws.
Closure, the printer spool “book” in question, is one of the best works on the philosophy of software engineering and life on the modern internet ever written.
It seems to me that while any one of those metrics isn’t particularly useful in isolation, if the same person is consistently at the top of all of them, that’s telling you something.
There are ~230,000 Persian Jews in Israel, ~70,000 in the US, and under 10,000 left in Iran. As a non-Persian Jew who grew up with lots of Persian Jews, I can tell you that 300,000 left for a reason.
I didn't go through a bootcamp but I know plenty of folks who have, and in my experience the overall average quality of bootcamps did seem to be significantly higher several years ago.
It means that your normal vest schedule doesn’t start for one year, so if your initial stock grant vests quarterly, none vests at all for the first year and then 25% vests all at once after year one, then the other 75% of it vests quarterly over the following three years. Essentially it’s a small, localized version of golden handcuffs for the rank-and-fils, since it means if you leave the company within the first year you get no stock.
Switch teams, ideally to something entirely different than what you’re doing now. Google makes it easy and painless (in most cases) for a reason. I stayed at my first team at Google for years longer than most people do, and though I started strong, by the end I found I was feeling similarly to what you describe. I took that as an impetuous to switch teams and moved to doing something very different, and now a year later I’ve got my fire back and I’m learning tons every day. I’m sure at some point I’ll get comfortable and complacent here again, but now I know to keep an eye out for it and take that as a signal that it’s time to move forward again.
Heroes 3 did have multiplayer via LAN, and IIRC it had online multiplayer as well. It worked pretty well for the time; the fact that the game is turn-based probably helped in that regard.
Considering Tesla’s history, and the fact that this is pretty clearly a concept car, I genuinely don’t think that the designers have considered stuff as pedestrian as “crash safety”, no
“Strength” is the last thing you want in a car. Cars crumple in an accident because that significantly cuts down on injuries to both the passengers and whatever is hit; if your car won’t crumple all that force transfers in to flinging you straight through the windshield.
This is so absurd that the only response that would make any sense for the Times would be to double down. Sulzberger should challenge Fred Smith to a fistfight live on CNN.
This has worked so well for me in the past that back in my undergrad Analysis of Algorithms class, I would take extra showers just to work through particularly tricky problem set problems. It never failed.
It's nice to learn about the backstory of Stasis in particular. The card art in Magic was gorgeous all around back then, but Stasis in particular has always been one of my favorites. Totally iconic, highly unique stylistically but still a great fit for what the card is and does. It's a real classic of the genre.
For anyone interested in kicking in some cash to support his work, the ID Ransomware main page has a link to his Patreon, where for a dollar or more a month you get to see pictures of his cats (https://www.patreon.com/demonslay335)
(there's also a BTC address, for the crypto-inclined)
Yeah, I'd view Neumann a lot less negatively if it hadn't been for all the job losses. Someone getting paid a billion dollars to set ten billion dollars of Softbank's money on fire is hilarious in a vacuum, but someone getting paid a billion dollars when a thousand+ people are gonna get laid off and it's largely his fault, way less so.
Much of the Christian symbolism is just there for the sake of aesthetics, but this is less so true for the Jewish (and especially Kabbalistic) imagery - there's actually a lot of overlap between the plot of Evangelion and themes from Lurianic Kabbalah (especially the notion of the ein sof and the traditional interpretation of tikkun olam, which is reflected in the Human Instrumentality Project), so the visual/aesthetic nods to it are a nice touch.
The thing is, a PhD is in its own way a professional degree, like a JD or MD. The difference is that the profession a PhD is teaching you is research. If you don't enjoy research, there's really no reason to get a PhD. For non-research jobs in industry it doesn't matter if you have a PhD or not, and if you don't want to do research then you probably won't want the jobs in industry that would require a PhD.
The dynamic gets really interesting - I play Final Fantasy 14, and looking at content you can tell the moment they switched the core of their monetization strategy from subscription fees to optional cosmetics. The game got tighter and way less grindy and repetitive; the later expansions are significantly better games for it (so much so that the devs are actually talking about going back and cutting out a bunch of the earlier grind for newer players, since it's notorious for putting people off).
Borscht with a T is the Yiddish pronunciation, unlike Russian which drops the T. It's a more common spelling in areas that historically had a larger Eastern European Jewish population (like the US, where the "borscht" spelling extended out from New York).
I'd take this with... not quite a grain of salt, but maybe a small dose of healthy skepticism. Simon Baron-Cohen is a legitimate and respected researcher, but he's well known in autism research circles as pushing very hard a theory that autism is a manifestation of an "extreme male brain", which is a theory that almost every other significant researcher in the field disagrees with. I'd suggest taking a critical view of any research coming out of his lab that bolsters his pet theory, like this does - there's a lot of context here that's lacking.