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You need to follow through your logic...

> if there's a reasonable valid reason

Who says it's a valid reason? Who says the reason is what they say it is? Who decides the best fix would be to censor a transaction?

What if FakeBlockchainCorp decides to target you, then says there was a bug with these transactions, everyone agrees... Where's your bitcoin?

Where'd you get that number from? That's pretty interesting

"it hasn't been done before, so it can't be done now". 25 years ago isn't 14 years ago isn't now...

I for sure agree, I accidentally made it seem I was defending Facebook or Social Media in general. I think I meant it's also not accurate to say Fox News DOESN'T do that. But fair points!

Yep, cause Fox News makes no money giving crazies a place to congregate lol. MyPillowMan TM sends his regards, brother

Here's one example:

https://www.denverpost.com/2012/12/17/archaeologists-find-pr...

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/science/ancient-bones-tha...

Do you think they wouldn't be able to keep you inside a house?

There's a few examples on how it is centralized, not sure what you were looking for?

It's absurd to me how OK everyone is with the fact that you're heavily implying that "the LGBT" or "women right" (sic) is in some way responsible. Greed, lack of sight and poor management are all at fault, as you said. There's literally no point in singling out those groups, beyond validating your biases.

The point is that you get more excited by that, but I personally would never use that app lol

Have you not seen any examples in history of "civilian freedom fighters" (there's an Arabic word for that, I think.........) getting a lot over an "experienced military"?

lol dem chinese comin for ya brother

I think this is referencing Alencar, another character in Os Maias. Queiros calls him that only 5 or 6 times during the book, If I remember correctly he uses it as a callout for something, but I can't remember what. Wonder what "poet of the voices of the dawn" could mean

This seems to be arguing for more mentorship time.

> Every successful remote team still needs to master semi-regular synchronous meetings to combat the “island” effect. No matter how shy or introverted an employee may be, you, as a leader, need to hear their voice fairly frequently and pay attention to their messaging in how they discuss their work.)

How are we defining a mentor? I don't necessarily think I've had a "mentor", but I've had managers that allowed me to grow and learn on my own, some more than others. I don't think I would have had a lot of value added from more time/meetings with these managers, but I might be willing to call one or two of them "mentors". Maybe part of the whole restructuring needs to be defining when there is a mentorship going on, even

Super interesting, and that's what I wonder: is this type of event happening because of something we haven't even thought of measuring (at least at scale)? No idea, obviously. Thanks for the link

Good to know, thanks!

Is this whole thing at all related to climate change? I know nothing about that field, just seems interesting timing of "once-in-a-lifetime" events

And what is your point exactly? COVID can kill an individual thousands of times faster than they can shed their other comorbities. So then what? In an ideal world, the government would have focused on health YEARS ago, but that's not real life. In real life my grandmother cannot walk and is overweight, and thus cannot do almost anything about it. So should she just die in your scenario? And that's fine because she's older and fat?

Wait, isn't this very page you linked them "disclosing it transparently to the user"? Or are you talking about the content of it not being transparent enough for you?

Can you explain how?

+1 here, we've been using Gunicorn in production for ~2 years now, once it was set-up I never had to think about it

We're currently making an effort to restructure our databases so that we can accommodate mononyms. Nice to see at least one person might find that cool lol

Forgot to address your point about the imposed isolation: this is a response to the person's individual liberty to choose not to get the vaccine. Yes, you have the freedom to choose to be unvaccinated, but you have to deal with the consequences of your actions.

If your immuno-compromised neighbor gets COVID because you chose not to get vaccinated and are not in isolation, then they are paying the consequences of your decisions. I agree, they should not be ignored, but they should be educated on the importance of public health measures. Sadly, again though, some people just cannot and will not be convinced to care about their neighbors.

Yes, I agree that these costs all exist. What were those same costs where countries kept open measures, on top of the resulting deaths? I honestly can't even find that information, but it seems that it's not being factored in most calculations. It's always "open is bad because increased deaths/infections, strict is bad for the economy". I gather from the world data that the open measures have a comparable economic and human cost, on top of and also from the increased infection rate.

I think your final point is the sad truth, but not because of not having the technology: people, especially in the US, are ultra individualistic. If people thought of the folks around them as real humans with lives that would be devastated by such a disease, we wouldn't have a need for any government measures. But people decided not to wear masks. People decided not to quarantine properly. People decided to write articles such as this, condemning the few institutions that (for whatever reason) are doing even the bare minimum. Appreciate your thoughts.

I got the math wrong, more like 400, but still: yes, the group is at significantly lower risk of death. What would you say is a valid explanation of "let's make things more open" to the people close to those young adults who died? Personally I'm lost for words, but maybe I'm alone? It just feels very easy to say "the risk is low", but what about if YOU were a high risk? What if YOU had HIV or other immune system issues? What if you're allergic to the vaccine and have respiratory problems? Yes, it's a TINY group. But can you honestly say you'd be OK with reading things that imply you literally don't matter to those around you. I'm not even talking about some vague BS "my fellow man" type s**, just imagine your dorm neighbor has HIV which he got from his mom at birth, would you be cool with open measures? That's not a non-existent person, these people are real.

The rationale is that the CDC measures have proven ineffective and they've shown to not have health as their priority, to say the least. The shift to 5 days quarantine came a few days after an urge from the Delta CEO, I believe. Fauci's own justification did not involve much health, it was all about the economy. The CDC was also ignored by the very same people saying that we should listen to the CDC now, just like vice versa. Yet, you can look at the data and see that the US had 1mm cases in a single day and ICUs are starting to get overwhelmed again. Not days after the CDC's measures.

And yes, the colleges might be doing this to cover their ass, but if the end result is lessening the spread of a brand new disease that has already killed a lot and severely damaged many others, I'm OK with that.

TLDR: people are still brushing off the death of a large number of young adults because they don't want to be inconvenienced. Now might even be too late, but I'm personally not a fan of "ay man, we tried, let's just run it and see how it goes" when it comes to this.

2. How would we possibly know? The fact is in the short term, open measures are not working. Can you expand on the immense economic and human costs? Are you accounting for the economic and human impact from the millions of deaths from failed open measures? I agree there is a cost, my view is that the deaths also carry a great cost to those close to the dead, which extend the economic and human costs from the deaths themselves.

3. I noticed that, couldn't figure out how to edit, it may not be possible? But yes, I'm aware it's just this subgroup, I just still think it's very careless to brush them off. Yes, statistics, etc... But there is a human element being lost, imo.

4. I agree, sadly. At this point it seems people agreed that COVID is inevitable. But that made me think of another point these articles/advocates for open measures often gloss over: what are the LONG term effects of COVID? Is it even possible to know?

5. Yet another: what about new variants? Open measures = more people get COVID = more likely to have new variants, obviously not as linearly, but you see my point, I hope.

In any case, I'm not saying there aren't awful costs for strict measures, but the devastation brought from COVID is something I hope does not come to anyone's family/friends. And even more so about this article, just feels like a lot of complaining about wearing a mask, being in a room alone, learning over zoom, all things that are fairly inconsequential

It's interesting how all articles against measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 seem to ignore/gloss over:

1. What would the statistics be without any measures? We saw what happened... everywhere... That chose to go "herd immunity".

2. Are the two "sides" truly equal? The author says Georgetown is imposing tests, quarantines, etc... Even if you include a more difficult learning experience because of remote learning, is that truly as bad as the side effects of not having those measures? (see #1, Italy early on, Sweden early on, etc... Vs places like NZ and Taiwan) This brings me to:

3. Why is it fine because "only 0.001%" of the population died in the past two years? In the US alone there are ~40mm people in the 15-24 age group (conveniently chosen, how many 15-18 year olds are in college versus 24+ year olds?), articles like this always something that boils down to "it's fine that ~40k YOUNG ADULTS DIE". "oh, they are unvaccinated and fat!!". So what??

I get it, it really sucks to be inconvenienced; masks, tests, quarantines are awful; education is going to suffer somewhat... But why is everyone so cavalier about free, young, innocent people dying like that? And not a pleasant death either.

Sorry for the rant, stay safe.

Public perception is always part of big budget projects like this. They are most likely releasing some outstanding "enhanced" visually interesting images

Because the "argument" has a limited view, namely that individual liberty is the ultimate goal/blessing/benefit. A blanket "all banning is bad" is just wrong. Saying "are you gonna arrest me from doing math" is like saying "are you gonna arrest me for mixing chemicals?" when you're making a homemade bomb to explode other people. The impact of the current crypto rush is worldwide, this person's energy use to generate BOOBER COIN TM is directly impacting the environment I exist in, why is it OK for your liberty to affect me? Do I then have the liberty to somehow harass/exploit your liberty to make my money?

Not saying banning crypto is the answer, just saying this is reductive and flawed as an argument

Look into the city of São Paulo, Brazil, before and after banning billboard ads before drawing an example from the USSR