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Please replace the (cont) in your title just by suicide. That is what the article is about.

The main source of problems in the US is the winner-takes-all system in its elections. The US is stuck with a two party system. There is no realistic way that a relevant third party can evolve.

I have heard some consultant telling me that we don't need consistency because the real world is not consistent.

He also told that if we wanted eventual consistency, modern systems do this automagically, but he could not tell how they do it.

Writing headlines is difficult. My immediate question when I read this one was: Which factor is the cause of the surge in hospitalizations in the UK? I knew that the delta variant was spreading in the UK, but apparently that was not the cause. Perhaps a new variant?

The truth is that there is no surge in hospitalizations, but perhaps some minor increase. So the existing vaccines also give a decent amount of protection against the delta variant.

Not vaccinating children leaves them vulnerable at some later stage in life. Currently, most (but definitely not all) young people do not appear to suffer much damage from an infection. This is definitely not normal for virus infections, e.g. the Spanish flu killed mostly young people.

It also means that the most successful variants in the future will be those that infect children. This is just natural selection. It will also mean that vulnerable persons will have to be very careful with interacting with children.

> Instead, Bezos envisions a more holistic relationship between work and life outside the office.

Unfortunately, this appears to mean that employees have to be available 24/7 for work for the rest of their lives. There is a way that employees can be freed of this by means of manumission [0], but this generally requires that they have a lot of money.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manumission

It is a pretty good article.

The title is a bit misleading, if you interpret agile as is was described in the Agile Manifesto[0], most successful large software projects followed many of its points. And they will continue to do that.

Some organizations believe that SCRUM is agile, perhaps they are not flexible enough to understand that it really is not.

[0] https://agilemanifesto.org/

I did not know that. It appears that conquering the solar system is easier than conquering the PC desktop.

Thanks for your very informative response.

This is about the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. It is probably doomed to "Live fast, die young" but it is still amazing.

(Also, AFAIK it is the only installation of Linux on another planet)

The automobile industry can do some amazing engineering. Examples: lowering emissions, increasing safety, and switching to electric engines. The main thing they need is some pressure from the public. Accessibility for disabled people is an engineering problem that the industry can solve if they feel enough pressure.

It is a noble goal, but will it have any real effect?

> It also noted that an unintended consequence of the law could be that influencers feel more pressure to undergo cosmetic surgery “in order to live up to beauty ideals.”

I am afraid that that pressure is already present for many people, not just influencers.

It is an interesting article, but unfortunately its ideas do not appear to be very popular in the US.

Also, it seems that the article is from 2008.

It is probably not so very surprising that combinations of different vaccines might produce better results, they probably trigger different parts of our immune system. We are very lucky that we have multiple very good vaccines that are based on multiple different mechanisms.

A link to the research paper:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3874014

It seems an encouraging result. I hope that we follow this in the Netherlands, because I had one injection with AstraZeneca and the result of the mix appear to be better.

Sometimes it is a mixed blessing. But with regards to privacy regulations it tries to do some good (but difficult) work.

There are also some interesting comments in this HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27709408

The Vaccines journal is retracting the article, that had attracted many negative comments from scientists[0].

[0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/scientists-quit-jour...

It sounds very much like winning a battle, but still losing the war.

In the EU we have at least some legal framework for protecting privacy (probably due to our experiences in WWII). Unfortunately, it seems there is not really something similar in the US.

When you are working in a team, please try to find some common conventions for naming things. There is no global best solution for a name, it all depends on the other people you are working with.

When I first read Design Patterns by the GoF, what I liked that it gave names and rules for some patterns that I had already encountered. But using this naming convention only works if your teams agree to use them.

There were some other submissions about Kaseya, but this one is the first one that describes the problem for us outsiders.

What I especially like about his approach that he selects local species. This helps other local species like plants and animals.

This site would definitely be illegal in the EU. GDPR certainly prohibits showing details like phone or email info.

I can understand that people want to hold police accountable for their actions but I don't think this is the way to do it.

I am surprised that they intended to use these in satellites. I would expect that they would be more vulnerable to cosmic radiation.

> At a speed of Mach 1.7, journeys times are supposed to be cut in half, with a flight form London to New York lasting 3:30 Hours (instead of 6:30)!

Add the time at the departure airport, 3 hours for international travel, and the time at the arrival airport for customs and collecting luggage, lets say another 2 hours, the difference in total journey time is 8:30 versus 11:30. This is definitely not a 50% reduction.

The fastest way of course is to use a private jet.

With written text, you would expect that at least some the letters from one shred would continue on its neighbors. I don't see why the similarity metric would not work. Also normally you have a pretty high contrast between the letter and the background, unlike the image that was used in the example.

When I look in my spam folder, I am always pleasantly surprised at how effective my ISP is in spam detection.

But how does the car know what the local speed limit is?

Also how does it handle temporary speed limits due to road works?

Lisp machines were an interesting idea. Unfortunately they were very expensive and fairly slow compared to other machines at the time.

This article is about using AI to generate images from a description.

I liked the Tim Burton one.

Pretty good description of the problem and its causes.