I did flag, but it usually doesn't do anything. At least on here I might be able to get a response from dang or something about why it happens so often.
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To me ignoring style is kind of like slipping a PR/diff/cl through without unit tests. Sure, that individual CL won't be the downfall of the codebase, but repeated offenses will destroy the codebase without an easy way to fix it all. Of course, without unit tests you end up with an unmaintainable fragile codebase, and without style you end up with an ugly, hard to read codebase.
My main point is that there are sub-populations that have a small enough risk that we shouldn't stress over them too much. And talking about them is a distraction.
There are plenty of valid arguments to vaccinate everyone we can.
Covid has killed 42 people from age 5-14 in the US according to the CDC, for example. That alone is really not something we should be making huge policy decisions around. It's sad, of course, but it's extremely isolated. All it does is distract us from making good policy decisions.
If I was making policy decisions I'd order vaccine rollout as follows:
Essential workers => 80+ years old => 70+ => 60+ => etc. as we produce and distribute the vaccines.
At some point we might look at the data and say "that's good enough, we can resume normal activities while we work to vaccinate the rest of the population".
And the areas I've lived in definitely have massively more "SF culture" than downtown.
It's one thing when you're not able to get information, like way back in the day when we had no real world explanations for lots of things, and had to work with what you've heard from word of mouth. But now? There's no excuse.
Sorry I'm not sure what you're trying to say.
Are you saying that Americans should lose more in film directed at Americans? It's not that it doesn't happen. It's just that it's hard to do. An example that immediately came to mind is the ironically named (for this conversation) show, "The Americans", where the Russians definitely win more than they lose. From Wikipedia:
"The series's final season earned Rhys the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, while Weisberg and co-lead writer Joel Fields won Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series; it was also awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama. Additionally, Margo Martindale won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series twice for her performance in the third and fourth seasons. It also became one of the rare drama shows to receive two Peabody Awards during its run."
It's easily my favorite show.
Looping back to Queens Gambit, I think the basic idea is that it's juuuust unrealistic enough without being too unreasonable to take you out of it. It's not unrealistic that Americans can be the best at chess. Hell, an American faced Magnus last world championship for the title and is still world #2. It's also not unrealistic that a Woman could get there as well. Hou Yifan is 84th right now.
But the combination is just unrealistic enough without taking you out of it, which makes it very entertaining.
A documentary about an orphan Russian or Chinese guy who ascends to the top? Might be more realistic, but not a good enough story for a Netflix #1 level of entertainment to a US audience.
I bet 2 years of daily effort and study would get most people to 1500.
How many people play for years without actual dedication, or join tournaments before they're at the 1500 level, or quit when they keep losing a lot to higher level people in tournaments, or whatever?
My definition of "dedicated" probably removes at least 50+% of the pool right away.
AFAIK the biggest speedup was being able to skip in line and with other bureaucracy speedups.
Take a look at the macOS App Store medical section. Doing a quick scan of the top apps there is one app to help with some diabetes pump, one for a personal ECG machine, one that says it's a "mobile lactation consultant". Those can reveal a lot about a person that they might want to keep private. Searching "therapy" or "dating" also shows many results that people might want to keep private.
Think about someone having a dating app that would out them. Or a therapy app that they don't want people to know about. And that just scratches the surface.
Sure, it takes some planning. You can't just do it tomorrow. But it seemed pretty easy for them.
I don't understand. The media isn't doing this. The US government is definitely not doing this (not sure where you are). And you were probably exaggerating when you said bubonic plague, but the death rate is like 10-15% for that. The media is definitely not saying that it's even close to that at a population level.
If you actually listen to the media, they all say that all of the precautions are mostly for those in vulnerable populations. In fact, the entire reason we wear masks is because covid is so mild in healthy people that you might not know when you get it, and then you'll spread it.
That's the point! You don't knock a star off a product because they didn't ship the product in time. You knock stars off the SELLER. There's literally a whole system in place to review the seller.
And if the seller is Amazon, it's even worse. Why would I care about whether or not Amazon was able to ship your product in time 3 months ago?
Pizza in NYC usually not only has great crust and sauce, but it also has plenty of cheese. They don't "overload" it like many places outside the area. (I am purposely separating "Pizza in NYC" from "NYC Style" because people around the US suck at emulating it).
Everyone on earth knows that it might rain during your dinner, just like everyone on earth knows that packages get lost sometimes or the UPS driver might drop your TV. It's not useful or fair to the product's company or restaurant to leave these kind of reviews.
It's really annoying to sift through comments like "Amazon gave me the wrong product" or "the UPS driver kicked the box through my window" as if that has anything to do with the product I'm looking at. Those comments should absolutely get deleted.
I really don't understand this attitude. If someone offers me enough money so that I never have to work again, you expect me not to take it?
I'll sell any company if I could get $4 million after tax and never have to work again. Every single time I'll take that offer. I guess that's how much my "soul" is worth. And yes, that will make me happy!