0.6ish% fatality rate in a population of ~350 million, with obviously a much higher hospitalization rate sounds about right.

More than one million is “millions” in English.

Remember when people used to have 7-12 kids in the hopes that some would survive?

These people want to go back to that.

From diphtheria at https://maps.app.goo.gl/TosrRknL1aJeNu728

https://www.ajc.com/opinion/opinion-visit-to-historic-cemetery-shows-power-of-vaccinations/VGZMNQOI3ZDZBE6AN4LMM7CAJY/

Nvidia is the stock.

Good luck with the timing. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Okay then, tackle climate change.

That old autocomplete is great. It’s specifically the AI autocomplete that’s less useful.

21 days? What the hell.

Wow, well it’s absolutely terrible at A. B is worth a shot, but it’s 50/50 to bullshit you in my experience.

Eh, I’ve enjoyed writing a SQL query and having AI translate it to Linq. I’ve had at least one work directly, very clear on what it’s doing, just with Linq’s odd syntax. The other query was more complicated and wasn’t something that translated well to Linq. I may have had to split that into two Linq queries.

Then again, I wouldn’t count translating psuedocode (or SQL) as really vibe coding. To me “vibe coding” means you’re not really looking at the code it produces.

Yeah, I just wrote a blog post comment about how I enjoy using Copilot. But that’s when I explicitly ask it a question or give it a task. The auto complete is wrong more often than it’s right.

Probably doesn’t help that if it was tedious, boilerplate code I would have already explicitly asked it.

like the US did with Iraq back in 2003

No. I’m not excusing anything that did happen there, but it absolutely wasn’t a genocide.

I’m sure the Epstein files vote is a coincidence. She’s just suddenly changed her mind for no reason.

Have you looked at those Israelis lately?

And yet not much of a surprise.

Absurd. I get that you want everything to be black and white. It’s certainly easier to just rage indiscriminately. But it’s not productive.

My theory is that he traded the release of these files. Still questionable at best.

Maybe, yeah. To some extent though, I think perception is reality.

I think if the overwhelming reaction is “nothing will come of it”, it makes it more likely that nothing will come of it. But the media is certainly acting like it could be more.

At least my friend’s reaction, “he’ll never be held accountable for his crimes” still acknowledges that he’s a criminal that should be behind bars.

I think billionaires are realizing he’s actually not good for the economy or their money after all. So they’re going to rightly use the truth to get this stuff to the right media this time and force him out.

He’s out by Valentine’s Day was my call. Of all the stuff he’s done, it may have been screwing with JPow and Lisa Cook that does him in.

You think it’s ghosts and goblins. I think it was a bad trade for more Epstein files in the hopes they’ll topple the emperor.

Do you have a strategy or just hopelessness?

That’s not what the phrase “dark pattern” means.