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My personal favorite is this gem: "Task failed successfully".

Ohh, thanks for pointing that out.

I think he hits the nail in the head. He's main observation is this:

"...digital spaces generally have no equivalent of a disapproving glare. You're stuck choosing between staying silent and entering the fray, with few options in between. If you have little reason to believe that other reasonable people will back you up, you're going to stick with the default: silence."

In this permanent work from home situation, I can relate...

This is very interesting, not just in terms of the controversial statement itself, but also on a meta-level. When should a scientific community exclude a statement from thorough discussion?

I cannot judge how well-founded his arguments are, but I think he's right with the meta-topic: their analysis seems to meet the basic requirements of scientific reasoning, so they deserve an open discussion. Especially because the statement is so controversial.

(He explains that this finding, if true, may have far reaching consequences not just on a political level, but also on how certain virology studies may or may not be conducted in the future.)

See previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708779

Most of the large independent news outlets have already been destroyed or transformed in the recent years (to be pro-government) [0,1]. Now, there are attempts to break the largest online-only news site, index.hu.

[0] https://apnews.com/39028d9c44b64e08a6609b60a8bf7a13 [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-orban-media-insig...

Very interesting and nice.

It is more than an hour long, so it may be worth looking at the youtube comments [0]. There are some interesting moments in the video indexed by the commenters (e.g. solar eclipses, transit of Venus, etc.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3QQQu7QLoM

Related Wired article from 2014: https://www.wired.com/2014/05/tech-time-warp-cloud-is-born/

Ok, I guess there was some temporary issue, it's working now.

The link you provided does not work. Could you fix it?

Hmm, this is not a very good name for anything. I don't know if a pun was intended or not, but anyway, it's bad naming.

Unfortunately that's not necessarily the case. I don't have the reference, but I read somewhere that asymptomatic patients may have even larger amounts of the virus, compared to symptomatic people.

Yes. This sounds astonishing, and really explains the expansion we see in Italy and other countries.

I live in Hungary, where health care workers don't get (enough) protective wear, the health care system is neglected since decades, and government is not willing to communicate clearly. Also, most of the people who should be tested are not tested, because of the "protocol".

I fear this, and the rate of asymptomatic cases will lead to a deadly mixture here.

"So the order has ancient roots, but where does it come from?

I hate to disappoint you, but we're really not sure. The practice of having the letters in an established order makes sense: It’s easier to teach and to learn. Why some ancient people put them in that specific order, though, is unknown. Whoever did it didn’t leave any record that we know of explaining why they lined the letters up like that."

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29011/why-are-letters-ab...

I don't disagree, just mention that there's also Ericsson, which is leading the RAN market in North America [1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2018/09/04/wh...

But VR would prevent you from interacting with your real environment. For instance, with AR you could still grab your tea mug without switching context.