LurkingPenguin

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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
No, I didn't. Maybe if HN had an effective system for mods to message users... It's strange to me that voicing an opinion about predatory businesses and lamenting the fact that these are supported by an investor class smart enough
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
The vast majority of people aren't that dense, and in fact, a lot of people actually have a reasonable sense of humor.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Credit is useful for the single use case of buying a house. I haven't paid a cent in interest on a credit card since I was in my early 20s. Thanks to credit card points/miles, I've flown all over the world (often in busi
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
So what's your intent in calling out machine learning?
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Collectively, hospitals have overflowed... This bears repeating every time this gets mentioned: In the US, even before the pandemic, it was "standard" for ICUs at most level 1 trauma centers and tertiary care facilities to op
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
I had the exact same reaction. It's like the NY Times is stuck in the past and totally out of touch with the present, and hung up on stereotypes and ideological generalizations that aren't very accurate.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> ...cafes and restaurants seem like natural partners for charging parks. $30 Avocado toast and $15 lattes.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> So I'm very sure that my most effective means of improving the situation is to put cameras on their affairs from my house and get all the other adjacent neighbors to do likewise. The dealers have felt the heat, and now their clien
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
You should look up the term "multiple expansion."
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
I can assure you there are people in San Francisco who would be very excited if you told them that you had finely-ground Antarctican coffee.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Some in the investment community say that much like Tesla's rally to become the most valuable car company on Earth, Rivian's value is also a sign that valuations have gotten out of hand. > "Despite the popularity of t
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Full resume is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OevE4HFiAgUPlOym3RAPjtvp... Not mentioned in the Protocol article is that Angelina also has adult entertainment industry experience and expertise in Mia Khalif
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> It's human nature I think this is only true to an extent. In my own career, I've worked for and hired people who were honest about their roles, taking a reasonable amount of credit where appropriate while also owning the thin
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
I felt the same way and find it somewhat ironic that this guy now works at...wait for it...Facebook. You know, the world's most non-toxic, consumer-centric charity. It's also amusing that he has this in his LinkedIn bio: > Prev
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
It doesn't look like it. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v... > SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees had a 13.06-fold (95% CI, 8.08 to 21.11) increased risk for breakthrough infection with
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Everyone will need boosters at least once per year in perpetuity if they want to maintain any reasonable amount of protection At 6 months, there's a stark difference between VE against infection versus VE against hospitalization
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> I still don't understand how people don't get it. I've come to believe that it's all political and ideological at this point. There is indeed a contingent of crazy people who don't think COVID is real, believe
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
SARS-CoV-2 is basically already endemic. In the US, since the start of the pandemic, the total number of deaths "involving COVID-19" in children aged 17 or younger is 595. During the same period, total deaths in this age group amo
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
The recommendations are simply based on estimates of the observed incidence rate by age. We don't even yet know for sure the mechanism by which the vaccine can cause myocarditis. There are various theories, a number of them related to
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
I live in Taiwan and while there's much to be lauded about the way the government here has handled the pandemic, the current situation is not sustainable. Taiwan's case numbers are low because the borders are effectively sealed sh
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
No, you wouldn't. If influenza viruses didn't mutate the way they do, you'd inevitably get infected (whether vaccinated or not) and you would have natural immunity such that the benefit of getting vaccinated every year would
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
What do you say to people who eagerly took the initial 2-dose vaccine series but aren't interested in perpetual boosters every 6 months? Are they antivaxxers? Do they need to be marginalized? The neutralizing antibodies generated after
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
In the US, even before the pandemic, ICUs were typically run at very close to capacity. From Becker's Hospital Review[1]: > For most level 1 trauma centers and tertiary care facilities, operating intensive care units at 80 percent t
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> I think what Western observers are missing is that this was an intentional "let fail" in order to prevent this structural weakness from becoming too big of a problem. I think what you're missing is that China isn't
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Better erections, better pumps in the gym, better chemotherapy. Now that's my holy trifecta!
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> It'll sting some emerging market investors, but I don't think you'll see a massive knock-on here. China has basically been the single biggest driver of global growth over the past decade. Its highly overleveraged real es
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Even better news: in the Metaverse, race, sexual orientation and politics themselves will be banned. All will merge into the singularity that is The Zuck.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Many vaccines require boosters. There is no other vaccine routinely administered to large numbers of people that requires a booster every 6-12 months in the general population. Of the vaccines that require ongoing boosters in the gener
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
The bed was probably listed as a separate budget "room" on AirBnB.

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