paul_milovanov

The NYT article presents his COVID vaccine policy changes as yet more crazy MAGA shit, whereas in fact he holds nuanced views, based on up-to-date review of available evidence. He has published in NEJM and elsewhere on the topic:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929

A short take on the above from Adam Cifu, whom I respect greatly: https://www.sensible-med.com/p/prasad-makary-and-an-evidence...

With all of that, I suspect that the rumours of FDA's death are greatly exaggerated.

Comment · 3 years ago

Wind/solar don't produce baseload power absent storage. If you can't scale storage proportionately to wind/solar, you can't compare w/s to nuclear because baseload and non-baseload supply are not mutually substitutable.

Comment · 5 years ago

Well! That's an honest-to-God discount then!

$1.00 + 30% = 1.00 + 0.30 = $1.30

then

$1.30 - 30% = 1.30 - 0.13*3 = $0.91

PROFIT!

Comment · 5 years ago

Sunshine is free, but materials, labour, manufacturing, manufacturing and end-of-life waste, land and opportunity cost of building solar/wind energy installations are all not free.

Comment · 5 years ago

thanks!

Comment · 5 years ago

looks like they're just multiplying two 100x100 matrices, once? (maybe I'm reading it wrong?) in Julia, runtime would be dominated by compilation + startup time.

A fair comparison with C++ would be to at least include the compilation/linking time into the time reported.

Ditto for Java or any JVM language (you'd have JVM startup cost but that doesn't count the compilation time for bytecode).

Generally, for stuff (scientific computing benchmarks) like this you want to run a lot of computation precisely to avoid stuff like this (i.e you want to fairly allow the cost of compilation & startup amortize)

Comment · 5 years ago

this is great, except apparently there's no support for containers? is that on the roadmap?

thanks!

Comment · 6 years ago

Well, that's the point. 2020 is not 1990-2000. Time to IPO has increased dramatically.

Comment · 6 years ago

Laden or unladen?

Comment · 6 years ago

Well, sheeeet.

(might want to rethink naming)

Comment · 6 years ago

Bazel is buggy?! Bazel is not a clone, it's the refactoring of the internal build system, basically. I am 99% certain that Blaze currently has Bazel at the core.

And it's pretty damn robust.

Comment · 6 years ago

I mean, NY Times shouldn't be taken at face value. Al Jazeera shouldn't be taken at face value. CBC shouldn't be taken at face value. Everybody has bias/interests and I fail to see how the stuff coming from Sixth Tone is any more objectionable.

Comment · 6 years ago

Question for founder: who takes on credit risk, the artist or Art in Res? Who does buyer credit check and determines interest rate? What does "responsible for damages" mean?