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If a child or a teacher at a school caught covid, the entire class was fully quarantined for a minimum of 14 days and two negative covid tests were necessary for anyone in that class to return. Classes were kept fully…
It was possible in other countries. My children (Quebec) were in class all of last year, except for a 10 day period in January - the tail end of a local lockdown at the height of the third wave. Infection rates were…
We've decided to solve that problem by consuming very nearly the entire residential power consumption of Canada, a country of 38 million people. We've done this with a network that can process 400k transactions per day…
Bitcoin currently consumes roughly the energy used to power one quarter of CANADA. I'm optimistic that there is a better way to store a ledger as you describe. Perhaps a database?
You don't know how hard it is, as a parent, to make the call to medicate your six year old child. Here are some of the things that went through my own mind: - Maybe he'll outgrow it (he's fairly severe ADHD, but we went…
It's not about removing human agency. It's about nudging the aggregate views of a whole population, ever so slightly. Determine what works, reinforce that, repeat algorithmically. He's making the point that Facebook has…
https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976783608219279360 He goes on to defend his work at Google, arguing that they're similar on the surface, but Facebook is truly dangerous where Google is not. I'm not sure I agree with…
> However, don't forget that when a baby is left unsupervised and is submerged in a pool for 15 minutes, it's called neglect. Whoa there, slow down. Kids are quick. One moment, your three kids are happily watching…
We removed the youtube app from our iPad, because our 4 year old was starting to get too deep into these. There's a lot of great stuff on Youtube for kids (genuinely, whole-heartedly, terrific stuff; I was amazed), but…
You may be right. However, the Volt is basically just a hybrid with a bigger battery. By 2011, hybrids were pretty common, so being nervous about the tech wasn't as much of an issue. That's the point I'm trying to make:…
This is a big deal. Car of the year, when you're talking about normal internal combustion cars, doesn't really matter that much. When you start talking about new (and, for $30000, scary) tech like electrics and hybrids…
I'm so not surprised by the comments here, so far. The core points here are good ones: - In a fundamentally emotional argument, you 'win' with empathy, not by beating people over the head with the same (very reasonable)…
You'd be surprised. This is in Canada, not sure about the US. Deaths per 100,000 people (drowning), Canada, 2006-2010: 0-4: 1.1 5-12: 0.6 13-17: 0.9 18-24: 2.2 24-34: 1.6 34-49: 1.4 50-64: 1.7 65+: 1.6 I don't have the…
The problem with against-the-flow is that it's unexpected to cars that are making a right turn. The other day, I was coming out of an alley, turning right on to a one way street. I'm turning right, so I expect all road…
I actually do. I'm arguing a lot in this thread, but I stopped watching game of thrones around season three. I maybe pirate a movie every 8 or 10 weeks or something? I have young kids and a startup job. :) And I have…
Yeah, I totally get that. And there's definitely a part of me that is biased to "free is better than not-free," so for sure, that's a part of my decision-making process. But unless the content companies actively work to…
And one last thing: It is actually quite insulting to be reduced down to 'free is better than having to shell out money'. No, it's not. I buy books (audible.com is amazing), I buy music, I buy software - all of which…
I'm not trying to help HBO at all. Seriously, not. Couldn't care less about HBO. And you're right, I don't want to pay for it, not when it's priced like that and the distribution mechanisms in Canada are so broken. But…
It's not oppression, you're right. It's way, way smaller than that. My little act of 'defiance' is way smaller than it would be if it were exactly oppression, too. I'm pirating content. I'm watching something that I…
Laws aren't all equal. Stealing a car is zero-sum: if I take your car, you no longer have a car, which is a very, very expensive toy. If I download Game of Thrones, the outcome for every single person in the world…
You've decided that, under no circumstances whatsoever is it ok to pirate content. (Or, perhaps more generally, under no circumstances whatsoever is it ok to break the law) That's cool, and that's a fair position. I…
I consider piracy to be a form of protest. I'm happy to pay, as long as the terms are reasonable. (I have a Rdio account that's been active for years now - I can't remember the last time I pirated music... I can't…
To me, the core problem here is that evernote's cloud synced notes are stored locally in some very proprietary cache. I'm happy to use Evernote and assume that it will fail in some horrible way. When it does, I want to…
We switched from underscore to lodash several months ago, and haven't regretted it. The fact that lodash follows semver is huge. Underscore has introduced serious breaking changes in minor point-releases more than once,…
So, as the rightful owner of the laptop, with proof (serial numbers, receipts, etc), could she not just have walked in, asked to see it, and walked out with it? What are they going to do, call the police? And are the…
If a child or a teacher at a school caught covid, the entire class was fully quarantined for a minimum of 14 days and two negative covid tests were necessary for anyone in that class to return. Classes were kept fully…
It was possible in other countries. My children (Quebec) were in class all of last year, except for a 10 day period in January - the tail end of a local lockdown at the height of the third wave. Infection rates were…
We've decided to solve that problem by consuming very nearly the entire residential power consumption of Canada, a country of 38 million people. We've done this with a network that can process 400k transactions per day…
Bitcoin currently consumes roughly the energy used to power one quarter of CANADA. I'm optimistic that there is a better way to store a ledger as you describe. Perhaps a database?
You don't know how hard it is, as a parent, to make the call to medicate your six year old child. Here are some of the things that went through my own mind: - Maybe he'll outgrow it (he's fairly severe ADHD, but we went…
It's not about removing human agency. It's about nudging the aggregate views of a whole population, ever so slightly. Determine what works, reinforce that, repeat algorithmically. He's making the point that Facebook has…
https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976783608219279360 He goes on to defend his work at Google, arguing that they're similar on the surface, but Facebook is truly dangerous where Google is not. I'm not sure I agree with…
> However, don't forget that when a baby is left unsupervised and is submerged in a pool for 15 minutes, it's called neglect. Whoa there, slow down. Kids are quick. One moment, your three kids are happily watching…
We removed the youtube app from our iPad, because our 4 year old was starting to get too deep into these. There's a lot of great stuff on Youtube for kids (genuinely, whole-heartedly, terrific stuff; I was amazed), but…
You may be right. However, the Volt is basically just a hybrid with a bigger battery. By 2011, hybrids were pretty common, so being nervous about the tech wasn't as much of an issue. That's the point I'm trying to make:…
This is a big deal. Car of the year, when you're talking about normal internal combustion cars, doesn't really matter that much. When you start talking about new (and, for $30000, scary) tech like electrics and hybrids…
I'm so not surprised by the comments here, so far. The core points here are good ones: - In a fundamentally emotional argument, you 'win' with empathy, not by beating people over the head with the same (very reasonable)…
You'd be surprised. This is in Canada, not sure about the US. Deaths per 100,000 people (drowning), Canada, 2006-2010: 0-4: 1.1 5-12: 0.6 13-17: 0.9 18-24: 2.2 24-34: 1.6 34-49: 1.4 50-64: 1.7 65+: 1.6 I don't have the…
The problem with against-the-flow is that it's unexpected to cars that are making a right turn. The other day, I was coming out of an alley, turning right on to a one way street. I'm turning right, so I expect all road…
I actually do. I'm arguing a lot in this thread, but I stopped watching game of thrones around season three. I maybe pirate a movie every 8 or 10 weeks or something? I have young kids and a startup job. :) And I have…
Yeah, I totally get that. And there's definitely a part of me that is biased to "free is better than not-free," so for sure, that's a part of my decision-making process. But unless the content companies actively work to…
And one last thing: It is actually quite insulting to be reduced down to 'free is better than having to shell out money'. No, it's not. I buy books (audible.com is amazing), I buy music, I buy software - all of which…
I'm not trying to help HBO at all. Seriously, not. Couldn't care less about HBO. And you're right, I don't want to pay for it, not when it's priced like that and the distribution mechanisms in Canada are so broken. But…
It's not oppression, you're right. It's way, way smaller than that. My little act of 'defiance' is way smaller than it would be if it were exactly oppression, too. I'm pirating content. I'm watching something that I…
Laws aren't all equal. Stealing a car is zero-sum: if I take your car, you no longer have a car, which is a very, very expensive toy. If I download Game of Thrones, the outcome for every single person in the world…
You've decided that, under no circumstances whatsoever is it ok to pirate content. (Or, perhaps more generally, under no circumstances whatsoever is it ok to break the law) That's cool, and that's a fair position. I…
I consider piracy to be a form of protest. I'm happy to pay, as long as the terms are reasonable. (I have a Rdio account that's been active for years now - I can't remember the last time I pirated music... I can't…
To me, the core problem here is that evernote's cloud synced notes are stored locally in some very proprietary cache. I'm happy to use Evernote and assume that it will fail in some horrible way. When it does, I want to…
We switched from underscore to lodash several months ago, and haven't regretted it. The fact that lodash follows semver is huge. Underscore has introduced serious breaking changes in minor point-releases more than once,…
So, as the rightful owner of the laptop, with proof (serial numbers, receipts, etc), could she not just have walked in, asked to see it, and walked out with it? What are they going to do, call the police? And are the…