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2-3 years small salary vocational training straight out of HS at 1 of 400k participating companies in 1 of 400 role types.
I want to know why implementing this isn't a national debate in US, it seems like such an obviously good idea.
When I've worked with designers it usually starts "pick a site that inspires you", where the deliverable has resemblance.
That's the sad state of reddit today from a user of 10+ years.
That aside I personally think Reddit has far more serious speech challenges to overcome than Twitter. It's too easy to manipulate certain viewpoint to always appear on the front page. Especially blatant during election years. Too weird for me to visit.
a) 95% of severe covid cases in Indonesia had vitamin D deficiency (n=780)
b) Darker skin in high latitudes is strongly correlated with vitamin D deficiency
c) In Sweden, Somali immigrants make up 40% of the covid hospitalizations despite being .8% of the population.
d) Vitamin D is also a hormone that regulates up to 5% of all gene expression while your immune system cells have vitamin D receptors
e) 70% of Americans have insufficient (a step above deficient) Vitamin D levels
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45rlZGRz6Qo&feature=youtu.be,
I worked at one startup on the AI team, and we were allowed to deploy at will, we iterated constantly, pushed multi times a day, and had a flat hierarchy. We weren't under the political umbrella of the engineering and product groups. It was definitely risky but no major issues ever came from it and we gained the trust of DevOps team and our CTO.
The back end team, different managers, was very hierarchical, had to schedule deploys well in advance and inside certain time windows, and non technical engineering managers would monitor and send summary emails to everyone after each deploy.
Guess what, that back end team sucked. Their timelines for features were embarrassingly long, they watched the clock, their managers loved to booze, they overcomplicated the architecture and never produced anything innovative for the company.
Deploys can signal culture.
I do hope said concentration diffuses to other cities, because in retrospect it's clear to me SF is a mess... the generally low quality overpriced housing, filth, and general anxiety walking on sidewalks in most parts of the city (not unfounded, been harassed many times). Goes for most neighborhoods. Was still fun experience in my 20s, but I wish I hadn't been so attached to the idea of living in SF.
Cost of lockdowns:
a) lack of preventative care ; lack of trips to hospital when would otherwise ; missed vaccines
b) mental health issues ; suicides
c) child and spousal abuse
d) vitamin D deficiency from staying indoors extra hours, weakening immune system ; lack of regular pathogen exposure also weakening the immune system
e) metabolic issues from sitting extra hours each day
f) economy wise, destruction of businesses and livelihood, with new huge pile of national debt risking long term economic problems and inflation
Sweden:
Sweden has claimed they will reach herd immunity the month. The mortality per capita in Sweden is less than France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Netherland, Switzerland. 3k deaths total, that’s less than the seasonal flu in Sweden, with average age being above the average age of life expectancy (same in US too).
CFR in US:
We know it’s far lower than what’s reported due to sampling of asymptomatic (and common sense - it started perhaps as early as October with any significant screening or testing only staring 3-4 months later), as well as because “died with Covid” is merged with “died from Covid” in official stats in US. If you need further proof look at places like Singapore where it’s < .1% CFR despite 25k cases/ large volum of new cases per day.
Politics in the US:
Watching this unfold in recent weeks it's hard not to be cynical and conclude this is perhaps the only reason someone would extend these lockdowns for 3 months.
I'm sure you're aware that positive news about the virus is generally being censoring by mainstream outlets, if you're wondering why you didn't hear about it.
He didn't mean don't explore multiple fields when you're a teenager.
He was already specialized as a coder and went on to build startups, as engineer. I don't really see your point.
Edit - does anyone have data to contrary?
Arguably the WHO has blood on its hands for allowing the virus to spread.
They unquestionably are influenced by China and CCP's politics, not just denying Taiwan's existence, but the many statements praising China throughout the entire pandemic, on virtually all talking points, while being critical of western nations handling of the virus.
If ever there was a time to take action, point fingers, and restore some dignity to supposedly independent health organizations, it is now, by creating a new organization.
The problem is the OP didn't test anything: He launched and users couldn't log in.
Ideally I'd like to gain 100% visibility into everything related to my tasks in webdev, but it's impractical and counter productive.
Web development could be stupidly simple if we wanted it to be. I feel like it got too easy, and suddenly there were waves of bootcamp grads, and a lot of developers resented that.
This viewpoint seems to be largely censored, but I think it deserves to be front and center of our covid discourse right now. Sad that marginal youtube channels are doing the work that our main institutions of journalism should.
> William Paley, the president of CBS broadcasting and a founding father of the CIA
Did this used to be open knowledge and scrubbed now? There isn't a mention of Paley's involvement in cia on his own Wikipedia page... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Paley
All that really matters is if you can build things that work.
People who can do the above will get paid, can even be CTOs.
So what if Google wouldn't want you as a programmer, that's for a particular type of person.
After you're hospitalized, yes you might or might not then have a month long battle for survival.
Another data point, ~12k healthy foreign workers in Singapore have tested positive. The city-state has only 12 deaths total (all elderly, not the foreign workers). In Singapore the foreign workers may have already been asymptomatic for weeks.
Based on NYC data, LA city data, Stanford's Santa Clara data, Singapore, Danish blood donor data, a picture is emerging that the virus is not particularly dangerous to healthy people.
Crazy to think that so many doctors around the world, experts, and policy makers didn't really question the fundamental nature of the disease, and perhaps telling that it took an ER doctor in NYC posting on youtube for a month to bring it proper attention.