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I will just leave this here. http://kirkmcd.princeton.edu/JEMcDonald/mcdonald_aaas_69.pdf

I think the winning countries in this pandemic would be the ones who were able to collectively wait for a vaccine while maintaining low death rates. Sadly US will not be one of tho…

Simple math below. NY has 1,300 deaths per million, and NJ has 1,800 deaths per million currently. Let's take the average and say that they reached herd immunity with 1,500 deaths …

As long as you and others _choose_ to define value of a person only for their economic value (work output), we will always have poverty, no matter how enormous our total economic o…

My first Debian install was 2.0. I ordered the CD's (there were 2, as I remember) from an on-line shop that sold burned CDRs with linux images. I wish I could remember their name..…

Over the last 10-15 years or so, I’ve tried so many of these new fonts but always just end up back to DejaVu Sans Mono Bold. Now that my eyes are getting older, it works even bette…

I have been using a text file (actually an org mode file) since 2009. Before that I used a plain text file. It doesn't handle video/bookmark/pdf. If I have to save those, I put the…

> perhaps only the DNA-based life survived some early period in Earth's history. There is a theory that early life was RNA based. The mechanims are simpler, and it's easier to crea…

This article is strange enough that I suspect astroturfing. The reason 5G is being deployed in 24GHz is because we don’t have wide enough blocks elsewhere. The 800MHz and 1.9 GHz s…

This [0] is an excellent resource for ergonomic keyboards. The common myth is that programmers type a lot. We do not. We spend a lot of time in front of keyboards, but most of that…

This is such an awesome answer.

There is so much misinformation even in HN about audio. Rigorous double blind tests, scientific methods, and laboratory measurements do make a difference in producing high quality …

False. Rigorous double blind a/b/c/d tests using real listeners has been performed, and the research has been published in peer reviewed journals since the 80's. What has happened …

It looks quite similar to golang font: https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts It has serifs and true italics. Might be an interesting free alternative.

Verdana used to be my go to proportional font when I was doing Java. Helped with long variable names and long horizontal lines. My buddies thought I was nuts, but I found it very l…

Sqlite.

Most encrypted backup solutions are really bad with protecting keys. Fixed ivs are ok for one file. Not ok for possibly millions of small files. Basically exposed your private key …

I see some terrible backup strategies here. 1. Backups should not be on a single drive. 2. Backups without checksums will result in corruption. 3. Offsite is a must. 4. Unencrypted…