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by bryanwb 4y ago
All these ridiculous Rube Goldberg contraptions for solar and wind when we could just build more and different types of nuclear reactors.
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Will Policymakers Let the Covid Crisis End?(city-journal.org)
7 points by bryanwb 5y ago|1 comments
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by bryanwb 5y ago
You didn't read the article. Any medical professional who seriously considered the lab leak was ostracized.
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by bryanwb 5y ago
_IF_ Covid-19 is the result of a lab leak on research that Fauci funded and promoted AND he colluded w/ a group of scientists to hide this fact, it literally is the greatest conspiracy of our generation. It isn't a big if. The rec
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by bryanwb 5y ago
It isn't muckraking. Fauci has a clear conflict of interest. Further he argued in favor of GoF research while acknowledging it could lead to a pandemic. He literally wrote that in an academic paper. https://www.nationalrevie
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by bryanwb 5y ago
Upvoting because you are right. All roads of investigation lead to Fauci. Many seem in denial about this.
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by bryanwb 5y ago
have very positive experiences w/ discord. I have learned a ton from channels like Economics Design (token economics) and Reactiflux (Reactjs)
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Ask HN: Where do the young nerds hangout?
20 points by bryanwb 5y ago|15 comments
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by bryanwb 5y ago
Covid's over bro. We now have herd immunity in North America. Even a top doc at Johns Hopkins says so https://www.wsj.com/articles/herd-immunity-is-near-despite-f... Cases are crashing in in Latin America and Sou
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by bryanwb 5y ago
Smart contract platforms are only four years old. Only in the last 12 months have we seen significant throughput on public chains like Solana and Avalanche.
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by bryanwb 5y ago
This post and the comments has convinced me that all the weirdoes and revolutionaries have left HN. It is now dominated by statist near-boomers concerned about the youngsters trampling the lawn. Sure Bitcoin is boring but so is gold. If you
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by bryanwb 5y ago
Why is this flagged? HN seems to shut down anything that doesn't match the left-wing consensus, from Covid to BLM.
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by bryanwb 5y ago
Big hedge funds never do risky things and leave us holding the bag</sarcasm>
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by bryanwb 5y ago
The IFR for young people from Covid is less than 0.03%. that is very, very low.
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by bryanwb 6y ago
Except that we - literally all of us - have to live with this disease. The vaccines are somewhat effective but not entirely at best 70% but perhaps 40% and worse for those most vulnerable. There is only one way forward.
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by bryanwb 6y ago
My family and friends in LA are all wearing masks and social distancing. Doesn't seem to be making a big diff.
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by bryanwb 6y ago
I currently live in a SE asian country w/ very few covid deaths and few restrictions. The most likely reason is prior immunity due to exposure to other coronaviruses.
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by bryanwb 6y ago
LA and Miami have similar # of deaths to covid while LA has way more restrictions. The difference? The difference? The restrictions can't stop the spread of a respiratory disease. They never could. We just copied China on the masks, so
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by bryanwb 6y ago
LA is pretty damn sunny
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by bryanwb 6y ago
It would make sense if closed cities were doing better than oepn cities but that isn't the case. Miami has fewer deaths than NYC and everything is open in Miami.
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by bryanwb 6y ago
do you? during winter? when they are usually full anyways? Also, please tell me if hospitals in cities w/ full lockdowns are doing better than those that are open? You can't. The restrictions don't work. Florida isn't do
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by bryanwb 6y ago
The solution to student debt it Georgia Tech's OMSCS. It is super cheap ($8k whole MS degree), amazing, very hard, and takes a long time. UTexas and ASU's programs are also excellent and not much more expensive. I think OMSCS isn&
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by bryanwb 6y ago
background: I worked in edtech for about 5 years Start w/ smart kids w/ relatively affluent parents and any educational strategy succeeds. The kids will do well no matter what. Start w/ less innately intelligent kids w/
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by bryanwb 6y ago
evidence? the "evidence" of myocarditis in Penn State football players has been walked back https://sports.yahoo.com/big-ten-covid-19-positive-athletes-... The article should be retitled "Evidence Slowly Buil
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by bryanwb 6y ago
I ask b/c it is hard to tell how bad it is just by case counts and deaths. Hard to tell how many of those cases actually lead to illness (most or only a few?). Further hard to tell if people are dying from Covid or with Covid. For that
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Ask HN: Based on your personal experience, how bad is the Covid-19 pandemic?
11 points by bryanwb 6y ago|25 comments
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by bryanwb 6y ago
2nd wave isn't a given. There was no 2nd wave to SARS.
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Ask HN: Will the software industry come out of Covid-19 stronger or weaker?
2 points by bryanwb 6y ago|2 comments
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by bryanwb 7y ago
My current work projects require c++ unfortunately. Some day. Sigh
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by bryanwb 7y ago
An important question to ask yourself is why do you want to learn C? If you want to be able to read large C codebases makes sense. But if you want to write embedded software or systems software, rust or c++11 (ugh) are arguably a better pla

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