throwaway738

Faith based, other than the dead people.

And the NYE party I host is also made up of billionaires on average if Bezos shows up.

Also, 0.35% means that if everyone in the US contracts it that's a million dead people. And that's only from the disease.

Millions more will die because of the medical resources tied up with taking care of the sick and those who don't die. Arguably, more people will die because of the one person who takes up 20 days of ER resources and survives COVID than the person who shows up and dies of COVID on the first day.

Which is exactly what happened in the hotspots which were hit first and hard in Europe and North America.

The usage of the z-axis is absolutely correct in the article.

The author has essentially defined the x and the y axes. Useful physics (or math), as opposed to what appears to be an arbitrary common convention in whatever field you're familiar with, would suggest placing the z-axis in the direction that is co-perpendicular to the defined x and y axes.

That a z-axis represents height and not depth is the least physics thing I've ever heard. Frankly, I dont think that's a thing at all.

The first 2 sentences of the article, literally:

"Mirror image is a tricky thing, but it's pretty clear when you look at words in a reflection, that mirrors flip things horizontally rather than vertically. Or, at least it seems that that's the case."

Majority of HN comments: "A mirror doesn't flip anything"

The "At least it seems that's the case" clearly suggests that there isn't an actual flip. But ask a regular person whether a mirror flips that is what they will say. The article addresses both the common wisdom and the actual science.

I'm pretty sure the electron browser engine moves slower than Blink.

If so, it would be extremely unhelpful for development and debugging since you would rarely have the latest engine on your machine, which would be the engine the majority of your customers would be on.

Using an external browser makes a lot of sense in that regards, and also, it separates the testing engine from the application itself, which allows for (although I doubt it's been implemented yet) testing in different browsers, or different versions of browsers, etc.