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You should note the preprint you've quoted refers to a study covering "people aged 13 or more". Therefore, I'm not sure it's relevant to any claim on the risk to "youh children", given the youngest are already teenagers.
"Flu shots", aka seasonal flu vaccine.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm
It seems that your personal belief of what a vaccine is does not match the real concept of what a vaccine is and always was.
Your own source shows quite clearly that the estimated death rate for >65yo lies between 3.8% and 4.0%.
The >65yo cohort is both the one reporting the lowest number of total infections (~18M) and the highest death count (~700k).
You see, that assertion does not pass any smell test. Think about it: any discussion, and complain, regarding the constitutionality of any policy is purely conceptual and abstract, and the conclusion is always absolute: either the constitution is violated, or it isn't.
Therefore, if anyone is honestly worried about the constitutional implications of a policy, they do not care if it affects everyone or even anyone. The discussion is purely conceptual: either the constitution is violated, and thus it must be upheld, or not.
With this in mind, any discussion on extrajudicial imprisonments, violations of the Geneva convention, and even extrajudicial assassinations, feature at the top of any concern.
And not whether you need to wash your hands or wear a face mask.
Think about it: how many times did the constitutionality of jailing people for pooping on the street was discussed in an election? Did fining people for not picking up their dog's poop ever became a divisive political talking point? Did you ever saw radical militant groups threatening with political action for being barred from urinating in public? Never, right?
Could you please explain how exactly the recent coup attempt intended to overthrow a democratically elected representative to install an authoritarian despot is not profoundly anti-democratic and thus anti-american, or how the coup was just a reflection of a "one-sided" coverage by the media? Regardless of how dissenting your view is, a coup to overthrow a democratically elected representative is still a coup.
Perhaps all those basic public health measures implemented to contain and eliminate the spread of air borne diseases such as COVID or the flu is a factor?
I mean,the lockdowns alone have a clear and critical and measurable (and measured) impact in lowering the spread of COVID. Wouldn't it be possible that staying away from people with the flu was also a factor in not catching the flu?
I suggest you review your definition of "marginal". Even the use of low-effecriveness cloth masks have been observed as reducing the symptomatic seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 by about 9%, and in the outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt it was associated with a 70% reduced risk of infection.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
I also couldn't help notice how you base your personal assertions in no evidence or observation, and instead you simply repeat your baseless assertions without any substance. Do you feel this conveys any relevance to these personal beliefs?
Don't you believe that reducing or outright eliminating the chance that a single person you come across to not experience hospitalization or death due to covid constitutes a worthy reward given the tradeoff?
> Also, do you wear glasses?
Why do you feel this is relevant?
Even if your personal assertion regarding the effectiveness of facial masks in containing COVID spread had any bearing in reality, don't you believe that such a low effort/high reward move is well justified given the current public health scenario, and more importantly the need to avoid escalating to higher-impact measures?
This irrational opposition to facial masks reads like ranting against other basic personal higiene etiquette, such as covering coughs and sneezes.
Can you please point out precisely which OP's point you feel classifies as "misinformation"?
https://m.dw.com/en/how-japans-mask-culture-may-have-saved-l...
No, you really don't. If you read the thread you're commenting on, you'll notice it's about C#.
The very first comment of the thread you're discussing in, and also the top post of this discussion, is, and I quote:
> It is quite interesting that most of the problems mentioned don't exist in recent version of C# on .NET Core, considering all the similarities of C# and Java. (...)
And somehow Rust fanboys parachute into the discussion to yet again talk about their hammer handling all nails and nail-like problems.
The US has organized, in recent history, concentration camps based on the premise that national security was at stake.
More recently, the US employed secret prisons to torture people who were deemed persons of interest, both foreign and US citizens.
I'd figure that requiring basic personal higiene and public health measures, such as wearing a mask in public places to avoid spreading a disease which is already killed well over 800k US citizens, shouldn't even register as a concern regarding "constitutional freedoms". Yet, why is this only a concern, and the "most broad and assertive" one to boot, regarding constitutional rights in the US?
As an outsider, one of the US's core values is democracy and the democratic process.
Given the current push to undermine it, and the recent coup attempt intended to overthrow a democratically elected representative to install an authoritarian despot, and given the current level of support given to this dictatorial push, I have to say that from an outsider's perspective one side of America's political establishment clearly does not believe in American values.
If you really want to parrot that line, the very least you need to do is get informed about the issue you're trying to discuss.
Vaccines are safe and effective in training your immune system to handle a COVID-19 infection. That's how vaccines work. They are not, nor they ever were, a silver bullet that stops everyone from catching the disease and transmitting it to everyone the come across.
To put it very clearly and unambiguously to you, vaccines don't stop the virus from spreading, they only improve your chances of not dying from it.
Also, it's disingenuous to pretend that the current generation of vaccines, which was developed for the original Wuhan strain, also have the same effectiveness against subsequent strains such as the Delta and now Omicron strains.
Your blend of vocal ignorance is tiring. It feels like you're arguing in bad faith. A brief one-minute read on the topic is enough to clear up any possible misconception regarding the topic. Is that too much to ask?
The point is that the issue does not involve people discussing "modern languages", just mindlessly shoehorning references to Rust into any discussion involving any application of a language which is not Rust.
I get Rust fanboys are excited about their hobby, but this sort of obsessive "when the only tool you have is a hammer" discussion is very tiring and fruitless, and only conveys a poor image of Rust's community.
I'd also add that the author also failed to notice that all time series in that graph, with the exception of Python, either flatlined or are dropping. Thus that says more about SO and bad data analysis than real world trends in frontend development.
The labor market is not a magical entity. It's comprised of companies doing the hiring and people doing the working.
If you look at sectors where unskilled work prevails and corporations treat workers as fungible resources then the labour market lies firmly in the supply side, and workers have no alternative other than getting exploited. This means paying the least possible amount, which means less than minimum wage.
Think about it for a second: why do you think so many companies pay minimum wage, and not a single cent more? Is is because the workers' negotiating power magically breaks even at the minimum wage level, or is it because labor laws make it illegal to pay less than that?
The conspiracy theory going around reddit is that US companies are complaining about labour shortage to try to get their COVID payroll subsidies pardoned.
Even if you blindly assume that revenue is tied to salaries, are salaries in the US only 20% apart?
Your citation also points out that a McMeal in Spain is cheaper, and I'm sure that quality of life + benefits in the US is even in the same division, specially give that Spain has free healthcare for all.
The truth of the matter is that workers in the US are massively exploited and abused, and that as a deep impact on everyone's quality of life, even the privileged.
Given that Java followed that path and already acknowledged that mistake by deprecating the original HTTP client, why do people insist in not learning lessons?
Is it wrong though? I mean, if Microsoft's reiterated pattern of license switches is automated, wouldn't this also mean that the error would be easily detected based on public feedback alone? And given this was not the first or second or third separate and independent occurrence of this pattern, if this was a honest mistake then wouldn't this already be addressed in any of the multiple past shout-out?
You do realize that tribalist arguments based on absolutely no technical point whatsoever do not make any sense at all, don't you? I mean, who in their right mind would argue that only nodejs developers need to delete dirs?
And if you believe that putting together a reliable cross-platform library that handles idempotent directory creation then be my guest and just do it. How hard would it be, right?
Between libcurl, POCO, or even Qt, does it matter at all that the C++ standard offers "any kind of sockets support"?
Just because Java forced everything under the sun into their standard library, that does not mean that move makes any sense at all. Between Boost and Apache and POCO and others like that, it's high time we stop insisting in this nonsense.
A "crazy trap-setting knifeman attack" is not the only scenario that results in a blocked exit trapping people inside the building in a life-threatening situation. Think about it for a second. Imagine, for instance, that a fire breaks out for any reason. Is this unthinkable? And how do you factor in emergency response personnel trying to go up the same stairs that are the only way out of people trapped in the building?
We should not forget past lessons for no reason.
They really aren't. At all. What exactly are the pain points you experienced with C libraries?
> So most C programs use less of them
This assertion doesn't hold any water. In all the years I worked with C and C++ projects, not even once did I ever heard "let's not add a library, it's hard".
Do you actually have a concrete, real issue in mind?
There is no size limit on how many features could ship with a library. In fact, we live in an age where packages like rimraff report around 50 million downloads per week.
But the original question, and the point it made,still stand: why isn't there such a library to provide such a feature? Might it be that you're overblowing it's demand and usefulness? Perhaps there is no such thing in the standard library because no one bothers with it, or feels it's missing?
Keep in mind that the bread and butter of engineering is "extremely rare circumstances".
In civil engineering, infrastructure is designed with 100 year floods and 50 year seismic events in mind.
Blocking the only exit does not come even close to be a rare event.
The software world is well versed in the concept of a single point of failure, and the importance of eliminating it and mitigating any chance.
And yet here we are downplaying a critical design problem because it was a single point of failure?
This is how any credibility breaks down. Posting a bug report takes as much time as posting a message on HN.
Moreover, if these problems were so eggregious and so frequent as claimed, wouldn't you be more motivated to post something about them in order to get them fixed? I mean, most of jetbrains' product line is only available to paying customers.
But alas no example is given. Not even a faint description of what the problem felt like. Just a blanket accusation that the world-leading IDE company is unable to ship a stable IDE.