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Comment Re:Trump Mania (Score 1) 132

Is it more likely that the Mennonite population found some measles lying around, or that the immigrant/refugee population of Alberta might have brought it from somewhere else?

It does not matter even slightly where it comes from. It's coming in all the time. What matters is what percentage are vaccinated, which determines whether a population has effective herd immunity. The immigrants aren't moving the needle on that, but the religious are.

Comment Re:Applause please (Score 1) 132

It is not the same to say a brand-new vaccine for a never seen disease that affects the entire planet has the same safety.

So what? Is there a point here or are you just wildly offtopic? Because that brand-new vaccine DID go through some testing, albeit much abbreviated from the usual, and it was already clear that it was safer than the disease. There was also less need for testing because due to its nature it was LESS hazardous than traditional vaccines. We already knew this because we had been doing mRNA vaccine research for years.

Comment Re: Oh, Such Greatness (Score 1) 132

All these mayors and governors telling their local law enforcement (you know actual men with guns) to thwart the efforts of federal law enforcement

There are zero of those.

There are mayors and governors instructing local LE not to assist the crimes of federal human traffickers, but they're NOT instructing them to thwart anything, even though the things they're doing are illegal at all levels.

Comment Re:The Patent System (Score 1) 22

Make a random patent generator. First spit out sentences, and then try to feed that to AI to assess and create a patent around. For example, at some point a 3 word sentence and a dictionary from the year 1850 would have the words "random patent generator", "electric voice transmitter", "winged flying chariot", "dexterous automated horse" etc. From a 1950 dictionary you could invent microchips "electronics on substrate". In theory with a 6 word sentence and a modern dictionary, you can probably can invent a large amount of things.

Comment Re: I'm so glad the government makes me safe. (Score 0) 57

All it does is make it so that the ability to get a ticket shifts from having more money to he who gets there first, which isn't really a huge tradeoff.

The reality is that if the tickets are selling out that fast and they're being resold for significantly more than the original price, then they were underpriced to begin with.

Comment Re:So why are we allowing this again? (Score 1) 27

Legit uses are bomb squad and SWAT. Safer for all parties to have a robot enter premises. You haven't seen the videos or read the news stories about police entering a home and having to shoot because people panicked? A robot can enter a home and assess the situation. If doped up people panic seeing T2 come after them, worse case some damage to police property. I really don't see how robots are the worse option. We should have oversight and strict rules (as in, jail-time for anyone involved in bypassing) about robot-initiated deadly force.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 31

Broadly speaking, a lot of the 'cloud native' stuff are complex solutions to potentially complex problems that fit within the parameters that those approaches can handle.

If you don't have those complex problems, then it's a premature optimization that is painful. If your use case is not the sort of use case resembling the bread and butter of the applications that instigated these approaches, then it's all pain, no gain.

There was a team that maintained a project that was broadly panned for not being good enough. The developers decided that the cure for what ails them would be changing to 'cloud native' approach, despite the complaints really being about limited functionality, not even about performance or scaling issues. Now on top of having the same functionality complaints *now* they have performance and reliability complaints too, and they have no idea what they are doing, they just arbitrarily carved their single fixed instance of software into a couple of dozen fixed instances of services (they can't figure out how to scale arbitrarily, so they still have exactly one instance of every component). Not one of them is capable of debugging the convoluted network situation they've created, and the logging information is just a mess.

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