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"I'm not even angry, I'm just

Insulting a red-blooded American cop in possession of a firearm is a gamble I would call the American Roulette

Vinay Prasad, the new FDA chief medical and scientific director, is an extremely sensible guy and a co-author of a great 2013 book on evidence-based medicine targeting the lay audience (Ending Medical Reversal)

Here's an EconTalk podcast with the other co-author, Adam Cifu, talking about the book. https://www.econtalk.org/adam-cifu-on-ending-medical-reversa...

The NYT article presents his COVID vaccine policy changes as yet more crazy MAGA shit, whereas in fact he holds nuanced views, based on up-to-date review of available evidence. He has published in NEJM and elsewhere on the topic:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929

A short take on the above from Adam Cifu, whom I respect greatly: https://www.sensible-med.com/p/prasad-makary-and-an-evidence...

With all of that, I suspect that the rumours of FDA's death are greatly exaggerated.

Wind/solar don't produce baseload power absent storage. If you can't scale storage proportionately to wind/solar, you can't compare w/s to nuclear because baseload and non-baseload supply are not mutually substitutable.

Well! That's an honest-to-God discount then!

$1.00 + 30% = 1.00 + 0.30 = $1.30

then

$1.30 - 30% = 1.30 - 0.13*3 = $0.91

PROFIT!

Sunshine is free, but materials, labour, manufacturing, manufacturing and end-of-life waste, land and opportunity cost of building solar/wind energy installations are all not free.

thanks!

looks like they're just multiplying two 100x100 matrices, once? (maybe I'm reading it wrong?) in Julia, runtime would be dominated by compilation + startup time.

A fair comparison with C++ would be to at least include the compilation/linking time into the time reported.

Ditto for Java or any JVM language (you'd have JVM startup cost but that doesn't count the compilation time for bytecode).

Generally, for stuff (scientific computing benchmarks) like this you want to run a lot of computation precisely to avoid stuff like this (i.e you want to fairly allow the cost of compilation & startup amortize)

this is great, except apparently there's no support for containers? is that on the roadmap?

thanks!

Well, that's the point. 2020 is not 1990-2000. Time to IPO has increased dramatically.

Laden or unladen?

Well, sheeeet.

(might want to rethink naming)

Bazel is buggy?! Bazel is not a clone, it's the refactoring of the internal build system, basically. I am 99% certain that Blaze currently has Bazel at the core.

And it's pretty damn robust.

I mean, NY Times shouldn't be taken at face value. Al Jazeera shouldn't be taken at face value. CBC shouldn't be taken at face value. Everybody has bias/interests and I fail to see how the stuff coming from Sixth Tone is any more objectionable.

Question for founder: who takes on credit risk, the artist or Art in Res? Who does buyer credit check and determines interest rate? What does "responsible for damages" mean?

Who said the civic spirit is dead

Who said the civic spirit is dead? Thank you MindGeek for your service!

I'm not sure you can call it "miss" if the article tries to hide its thesis as well as this one. After you keep going about file API and windows for pages and pages, you may insist all you like that "the point is coming", but I'm sorry, I won't believe you.

guys, guys... minimum wage, maximum wage... we got to go deeper! uniform constant wage!!!

I agree that it's quite clear that environmental externalities per dollar GDP (and per dollar of exports) are massive. At the same time consider that as median incomes increase, marginal utility of clean(ish) environment vs income increases, public pressure mounts, and countries do tackle environmental externalities.

That's the story of every country's industrial development since the British industrial revolution. Bread comes first, clean water and air come second. For rich western countries to forget that and demand that China and India put environment ahead of pulling people out of poverty is myopic at best and, realistically, highly hypocritical.

What are the specific "actions of the CCP" that have actually occurred to date that supposedly justify violence from the protesters?

That carbon emitted is largely from the manufacturing of cheap products that you consumed. Western countries have offshored both manufacturing and the associated pollution to a country more concerned about pulling its people out of poverty than about its environment. The ocean plastic is partly from these industrial processes and partly because western countries have exported most of their plastic waste to China for more than a decade.

Also, according to this, China's per capita emissions are half that of the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

Pet peeve: company market cap cannot and should not be compared to GDP of a country. The best comparable is the "Gross Value Added" GVA = delta in EBITDA + employee compensation, as outlined here by Matt Klein in FT Alphaville:

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/01/28/2103622/if-apple-were...

Others have recently estimated Apple GVA to be 0.5% of US GDP and 0.15% of world GDP.

I think that's called "censors"

Corel still exists?! Good for them!

On a side note, were you as a European* stunned and horrified to see the featureless concrete urban sprawl that "Silicon Valley" actually was when you came for the first time?

* yes, yes, some people will contest classification of Brits as Europeans

Exactly; the furnace is where you'd expect it to break out, so it won't. Somebody didn't write their integration tests for the coal storage though.

"No longer"? this didn't exactly happen yesterday; and it's not limited to SF -- Mountain View or Palo Alto are exactly the same.

Any sufficiently complex system has a hidden barely contained coal fire burning somewhere. Working as intended.

The privacy policy really needs a strong statement to the tune of "we do not collect any of your email data or metadata, whether raw, anonymized or aggregated", or a detailed explanation of what exactly is being collected/aggregated together with strong guarantees about what the co promises never to collect.