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Totally agree! It's hard to fathom why so many languages leave you to be some kind of detective trying to determine exactly where the issue is rather than just telling you.

I'm hopeful that the shift to VR from PC gaming and perhaps also office productivity will help with myopia. Might seem counter-intuitive given the VR lens is next to the eye but focus in VR is in the distance. Even productivity in VR is usually done on huge screens further away from the user than traditions pc screens.

If in the EU try a GDPR request for her personal data.

I did that once when hit with a similar situation with no reason given for refusal of service from a faceless corporation.

The request resulted in a human looking at the situation (because they had to in order to give me my data). They reinstated the service after realising a mistake had been made.

You mentioned unbiased news, I read Reuters daily on my phone and think it fits the bill.

Love anki. On the topic of brain training, an n-back app working memory training app. Evidence is mixed on whether it works. Anecdotally I've used it and think it worked for me. It's free to train, only cost is your time. I think the risk reward is in favour of trying it for 8 weeks.

I too want a foldable with the latest generation tech but is that available today?

At the time I bought the z-flip 3 my understanding was that the tradeoff was unavoidable. My opinion at the time of purchase was that the incremental benefit of the latest version of CPU, camera and battery were pretty marginal relative to the large benefit from the unique form factor.

I'm not currently in the market but that could well have changed if new foldables have since been released.

I have the Z-Flip 3 and love it. It meets the 2 criteria of the post's 4 that matter to me:

1.fits nicely in pocket. I can sit down comfortably with it in a pair of jeans. No dodgy posture.

2. Won't fall out of my pocket

Its screen is also much less likely to break like has happened with all my old phones when they accidentally fall out of jacket pocket

I asked a Chinese friend who is studying the ongoing restrictions about this. He told me that over 80 vaccination rates in China are only c. 55 percent vs 80 percent in the over 60 category.

In HK death rates from omicron were quite high due to the same reason when it had its spike some weeks ago.

I too was baffled until I learned of the above.

Are you saying 18bn is way too high or way too low when you say ' lI don't think CloudFlare's fair value is anywhere remotely near $18bn?'

I know it's down a lot but I'm asking because it started from such a loft valuation I have no opinion on NET but a lot of the cloud bubble stocks of the last few years needed to come down by 95 percent IMO to get closer to intrinsic value. To do that they'd first drop 90 percent, then drop another 50 percent from that point. Hence I don't know which you meant.

My understanding is that 10000 lux bulbs are accepted treatment for SAD. I live in a dull country and bought one despite not suffering from SAD. Anecdotally I find it great to help wake up in the dark winter mornings.

My father brought home unlicensed games from Hong Kong for my brother and I to play on the NES in the 80s. I recall after putting in the game and powering on the NES, the screen used to flash for a second, kind of like when the reset button was pressed. It's interesting to read that the negative voltage to evade the DRM may have caused that!

Sounds like they had their holiday period B team both in the crew that flew the plane and in the department that wrote the memo.

Ya I saw this Dan Rojas video linked on HN a while back when the laser mosquito idea came up. He uses an open bottle of carbonated water to attract them to the fan/screen trap https://youtu.be/6BhV-o77RqQ

Yep all while people working for the financial regulator Bafin traded Wirecard stock in their personal accounts.

My comment was in response to the statement you made before your edit which was

>>main infections in the UK are currently from Delta.

Things have changed fast. In London, 86.4% of COVID-19 cases with known S-gene status have s-gene target failure[1] which is a marker of Omicron (albeit with pending sequencing confirmation for certainty[2])

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[2] https://www.who.int/news/item/26-11-2021-classification-of-o...

If the person was hit by a bus or died from a cause other than Omicron then that would strengthen the point I was making in the post you replied to which was

>>doesn't this suggest that the case fatality rate is a lot lower (not marginally lower)?

The headline says "with" and the first bullet point says "from". The first paragraph says

"the first publicly confirmed death globally from the swiftly spreading strain"

I know deaths lag cases. I mentioned just the cases in the south African study because those are the earliest cases we have. None of the 78,000 cases up to 7th Dec in South Africa resulted in a reported death up to 13th Dec.

This can be deduced from yesterday's Reuters article I linked which said the first reported death globally was in the UK (not South Africa) and from the fact that the study looked at 78,000 cases of Omicron from 15 November 2021 to 7 December 2021 (source: https://www.discovery.co.za/corporate/news-room). At the time the Reuters article was published we were 6 days after even the most recently reported of those South African cases.

I wasn't trying to present the global denominator - that is far higher than 78,000 since it includes all countries, not just the 78k reported in the South African country.

>marginally lower case fatality rate

The op didn't state marginally could you please share where you are getting this from?

The first publicly confirmed death globally from Omicron was reported just yesterday (source: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-says-omicron-spread...

Given that the South African study discussed in this Washington Post article included 78k people, none of whom died if the above Reuters article is correct, doesn't this suggest that the case fatality rate is a lot lower (not marginally lower)?

Thank you for removing the uncertainty on that! Agreed regarding the unspecific reporting. Seemed to me to be one of those areas where the author assumed you'd assume... I dislike that as it introduces the possibility of misinterpretation.

Now the next question is what is the percentage reduction in deaths for Omicron vs prior variants. It seems like more than the 29 percent reduction in hospitalisation given the first death from Omicron was reported in Britain last week right?

What is the max speed of the bike you made jacquesm? I note from the start of the article that low speed of alternatives was one of your motivations. I saw the range stats in the last paragraph but didn't notice speed stats (perhaps I missed that?)

On the topic of the effort being a memory concern and related to the spaced repitition comment in the article, I've found the app Anki to be great for learning a new programming language. There are pre made flashcard decks for many languages at the community ankiweb.net site or if you're good at scraping you can create your own from the docs pretty easily.

For comparison I recently had an installation done at a similar distance and the cost was less than $5k

The article said that the power company quoted 80 grand despite the nearest pole being across the street, about 45 metres away.

The guy wasn't feeling entitled to costly infrastructure for free. He seems to have correctly concluded that the price the local monopoly quoted was ridiculous.

Dude cares so little about looking stupid that he writes an essay to explain that he really wasn't actually stupid all the times he looked stupid.

Yeah they're almost inviting a breach:

>>Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in my butt?

You weren't lying about being completely off topic.

The latest firmware update for the Quest 2 (v33 [1]) brought "Link sharpening" which improves text clarity when connecting to your PC through Air Link (wirelessly) or Link (via USB). I tested before and after the update. Before the resolution wasn't quite there for coding etc., but I could definitely work with the post-update resolution.

As an aside, a handy cheap way to get more screens in VR with Oculus Link is to insert a headless HDMI plug into your video card. This also works for creating new screens in VR using Immersed although they claim that the virtual screens (paid feature) work better.

[1]: https://support.oculus.com/release-notes/

That Reuters article you referenced does not say that he traded on insider information. It says that Paul Pelosi may have gotten access to an IPO based on Nancy's position (although that is disputed by Pelosi who says that access was applied for in the standard manner through his broker). That's very different from insider trading.