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It is hard to read this any other way then - you are in a privileged position of having never been personally challenged by a lack of privacy so are fine with privacy not existing.…

The cowardice is in surrendering your moral agency "So if there was anything I was considering doing where if it became public I would be hurt, I wouldn't do it." There is a great …

I think this is generally good advice for software engineering, accept when its not. The problem is that some bad ideas become better ideas by virtue of being popular ideas. Write …

100% this. People forget when using dynamic languages they are trading up front cost - its easier to write the code but harder to test. In trivial or exploratory coding the tradeof…

If you are talking speed to production ready code then rust is really productive. The rust tooling picks up a lot of errors and leads you to spending more time fixing coding issues…

If you are trying to promote usage of the data you might want to put the dictionary under a more permissive license as GPL-3+ conflicts with a lot of other licenses. Something like…

Ironic to me that it is completely possible to make pdf copies of a physically borrowed book, and at least in academia making physical copies of chapters of books was extremely com…

If the people you borrowed from say its OK after the fact then yes it is OK. If I borrow a neighbours defibrillator, without asking, to save their child it would be insane for the …

I think that's more perception then reality. I live in a 30 year old house and it could easily last 100 years if properly maintained, but there is little incentive to improve the b…

You are loosing the investment potential of the building on your property. There is nothing to stop you buying an old house (that is essentially valued at nothing) on a property an…

Japan introduced taxes to remove the incentives for speculative investments in realestate. The changes mostly seemed to have worked, but it came at a high cost for the speculators.…

The big issues that consistently affects real-estate around Tokyo is proximity to a station and the age of the building. The basic rule is that a condominium must be within 10 minu…

Good advice 1 year too late.

If there were an unlimited supply of surgical masks that would make sense. If you wearing a mask deprives actually sick people of wearing one then you are still worse off then not …

Surgical masks are designed to prevent you spreading viruses. That is the type most people wear in Japan. N95 masks are designed to protect you.

It is too early to know whether what Japan has done is enough and whether it will be effective long term. That said, It isn't just people wearing mask, or something innately Japane…

I would guess their criteria for testing is people who could develop into a critical situation quickly because the tests are not 100 percent reliable and they are slow. They were t…

I would assume its because the number of people with similar symptoms far exceeds the capacity to test for covid-19. If the numbers in this article[1] are accurate there were aroun…

The question is do longer stays result from worse care or economic incentives. In the case of our child, we choose a 7 day inpatient treatment that could have been done as a more r…

I don't think simple comparisons between Japan and US are meaningful. Japan has a universal health care system so everyone is covered by health insurance. There is little incentive…

There are some graphs broken down by age for the Spanish flu https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734171/

The information release so fare makes this look more like a bad flu with a 2.5% mortality rate, nothing like the Spanish Flu's 10%~20%. The Spanish Flu was also especially bad beca…

Some interesting infograpics but I really don't like the "Coronavirus vs Sars: daily cases and mortality rate" it is a misleading way to represent the data. By separating cases fro…

This was not the case with the Spanish flu, which disproportionately effected young adults[1]. 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734171/

Most of our presentations are in English which is a barrier to many. That said, around 20 attendees is a really nice size. Its small enough that its easy to host technical meeting …