Recent content by deonb

Very interesting take by Beau this week on the responsibility of tech companies, with some indirect mentions of Elon:

Same here. I have 3 Teslas - none of them (or my current Truck) will be replaced with a Tesla. I supported the company since 2012 at a time when it was most financially vulnerable. I feel ... defeated.

Does the E in your icon stand for the "Epsilon" variant you're trying to create by "letting it rip"?

1) It's unlikely the unvaccinated would have been more careful than the vaccinated. 2) We do know the symptomatic rate of vaccinated was 79%. Unvaccinated could be at worst 21% more. 3) Is there a reason to assume it will be significantly different? Also 80% of the hospitalized were vaccinated...

I need help interpreting/reconciling this: "vaccination coverage among eligible Massachusetts residents was 69%. Approximately three quarters (346; 74%) of cases occurred in fully vaccinated persons" Doesn't this imply that vaccinated and unvaccinated people had about an equal chance of...

How do you do that?

Or ampere-hours. Why does that exist so commonly? Why don't we just use kC (kilo coulombs)? And why on earth does the following conversion calculator exist?? Amperes to Coulombs Per Second Conversion

Fixed. Wow, don't know where that came from.

Actually, yes and no. Currently east-coast to west-coast you're already dealing with 50ms of roundtrip latency with ideal fiber, and in practice it's closer to 85ms. Initially StarLink will introduce a 15ms to 25ms latency overhead up and down to their nearest fiber backbone. But they plan in...

County, not Country...

So be it. I'd rather lose one county to white supremacy than have it be interweave all over. Economics will prevent radicalism from being widespread. You got to REALLY want it more than anything else. Some people do. If the west coast go completely nuts and implement crazy radical leftist...

Wow. Read the Twitter responses to this tweet (below). We're doomed. Twitter

I lived and worked in Saudi Arabia for a few years and had a Palestinian friend there. He was always saying how much more free living in Palestine was compared to Saudi. So I eventually asked him why he moved, fully expecting it would be money, security or something like that. Nope. His wife...

How about if instead of the blue states supporting the red states with taxes, we just pay to assist individual red state people who enjoy Civil Rights to move to blue states? California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts fund about a $100b to other states. That's easily enough to...

That's actually exactly how it works in South Africa. Every parking lot have multiple "parking attendants". They're not paid for by the lot owner, they work on tips and each person guards a couple of rows of cars from breakins and thefts. Nobody is armed, it's just big intimidating guys walking...