schemy | 5 years ago | on: Google: Open Letter to Australians
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schemy | 5 years ago | on: Write Your Own Virtual Machine
A mathematician, physicist, and engineer are taking a math test. One question asks "Are all odd numbers prime?"
The mathematician thinks, "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is not prime -- nope, not all odd numbers are prime."
The physicist thinks, " 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is not prime -- that could be experimental error -- 11 is prime, 13 is prime, yes, they're all prime."
The engineer thinks, " 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, 11 is prime, ..."
https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~riesbeck/mathphyseng.html
schemy | 5 years ago | on: Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than Work and Paying Bills
New Zealand has just had to quarantine 1/3 of their population, again, because of 4 cases. Until the virus is contained everywhere you will yo-yo between closing everything and opening it.
Unless we build a wall around every developing country this will be going on for years.
The economy can bounce back from one quarantine, can it bounce back from 12?
schemy | 5 years ago | on: Older men charged more for using Tinder's premium service
It's an American term and like usual cultural imperialism means everyone else must use it too.
schemy | 5 years ago | on: Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees
Yes and?
If I owned slaves and called them unpaid indefinite interns the law would rightly disagree. You can call the relationship whatever you like, but the law is there to keep the playing field level for everyone. That it's taken Uber so long to play by the same rules as everyone else is a travesty and should take a billion dollar law suit or two for damages to sort out.
schemy | 5 years ago | on: C will never stop you from making mistakes
Rust is the future and always will be.
schemy | 5 years ago | on: Why Software Should Be Free (2002)
> Last I checked Red Hat was a for profit company not a commune.
Last I checked Red Hat was bought by IBM and everyone with half a brain was bailing out.
schemy | 5 years ago | on: Why Software Should Be Free (2002)
Freedom zero should be only for people.
schemy | 5 years ago | on: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
I'm not interested in digging up the information on this because it was over 10 years ago, so take it with a huge grain of salt.
He had this huge presentation about a laser zapping mosquitoes. The patent was fed to a patent troll, the whole board was stacked with his friends, the company produced nothing and was set up to sue anyone who did try and produce anything. 10 years later they still haven't produced more than the one prototype. The 'charitable' donations were literally just tax write offs that paid for his friends salary.
Since then I really don't take him seriously at all. His charities are just a way to reduce his tax bill and look like he cares, while he's just paying his friends to work on projects they find interesting regardless of the chance of success.
In short: hubris, corruption, white collar rico and tax evasion.
schemy | 5 years ago | on: All these companies were a lot smarter than us. What we had was luck (1984)
I was expecting something about Morse code. I too was disappointed.
schemy | 5 years ago | on: Wheat yield potential in controlled-environment vertical farms
In the same way that it's more efficient for me to drink high octane fuel rather than eat food.
schemy | 5 years ago | on: Wheat yield potential in controlled-environment vertical farms
It doesn't.
The sun provides about 300W/m^2 on average at temperate climates, that's 7.2kwh per day. Wheat takes about 4 months to grow and nuclear power costs 0.77c/kwh.
That's 665.28$/m^2 at wholesale.
[0] https://ag.tennessee.edu/solar/Pages/What%20Is%20Solar%20Ene....
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#Price_comp...
schemy | 5 years ago | on: A Swedish doctor's perspective on Covid
It means that people who have no idea what science is like to pretend they have a deeper reason for their biases other than their innate preferences. They do not like that pointed out to them and will violently react to anyone who does.
You can't have a scientific response to the virus when you don't know what the asymptomatic transmission rate is, or what the true death rate is. As can be seen here it does not go well when they are made to even consider that they don't have all the information needed for a scientific response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24077233
schemy | 5 years ago | on: A Swedish doctor's perspective on Covid
https://www.google.com/search?q=sweden+covid+deathrate&oq=sw...
Sweden's death rate is down to zero today and has been trending down since mid April. Summer Holidays did not start until late May where deaths were already half of what they were in mid April. This post isn't aging, it's already aged.
schemy | 5 years ago | on: Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die
>This evidence completely invalidates the premise of your first point regarding r0.
You do realize that it's exactly the opposite right?
If asymptomatic r0 is high a quarantine without a lock down is pointless. If it's low no lock down is required and a quarantine is enough?
schemy | 5 years ago | on: Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language
The problem, as always, is that a table isn't the natural output for a computer. It's either serialized text, or a graph. Unix tools work ok-ish for serialized text and you need general recursive functions to deal with graphs. Something that all shell like languages are extremely bad at.
schemy | 5 years ago | on: Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die
Please provide the doi.
schemy | 5 years ago | on: Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die
>We already know that it is bigger than 1.
Do we? Do you have a study?
schemy | 5 years ago | on: Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die
Australia is looking at up to 40% of all households with mortgages to be foreclosed on within the next 3 years:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-04/covid-recession-mortg...
schemy | 5 years ago | on: Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die
>Why not just look at other countries, see which have had the best outcomes, and copy them?
Because if the R0 value for asymptomatic cases is high enough you will need 2 week quarantine for all travelers and fortress boarders until the virus is eradicated everywhere.
Something New Zealand is currently doing after implementing the most draconian nation wide lock-down.
Do you support a barb wire wall around both the Canadian and Mexican border with lethal force counter measures if anyone tries to pass and forced isolation of all travelers?
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The only difference would be that you don't need to do industrial espionage on google to see what works first, so the cost of the seo would drop.