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by flocial 5y ago
Don’t forget the supplement that begins with N. Not to mention government essentially denying their own research demonstrating the efficacy of these cheap and safe treatment options.
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by flocial 5y ago
We have an environment of fear and denial about these adverse effects. Many people like you are afraid or weary of sharing experiences because of personal attacks, gaslighting, and censorship. There isn’t adequate informed consent. Btw you
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by flocial 5y ago
The vaccine is now a political issue just like mask wearing and lockdowns or any other aspect of this pandemic. Rational discussions that deviate from the accepted narrative are attacked and suppressed even on HN. Apparently experimental mR
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by flocial 5y ago
It’s crazy how we’re expected to cope with myocarditis, blood clots, other mystery symptoms and even death by participating in a large scale clinical trial for experimental gene therapy. The shot is usually free or cheap but god forbid you
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by flocial 5y ago
"We are deeply concerned by the blocking of Twitter in Nigeria. Access to the free and #OpenInternet is an essential human right in modern society." Yet they see no irony in being self-appointed arbiters of who gets to say what in
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by flocial 5y ago
So deliberate censorship of political groups, manipulating elections, suppression of dissenting opinions on experimental gene therapy aka covid vaccines, is all naivete? This pandemic is pushing some people towards extremism and conspiracy
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by flocial 6y ago
I suspect the majority of programmers who say this have internalized the core api features they depend on (function calls, syntax, common algorithms, etc.) that make them super productive. Whereas average programmers and below need all the
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by flocial 6y ago
You just can't falsify a medical diagnosis and would you rather have a Prime Minister leading the country despite deteriorating health? Japan's COVID-19 situation is still way better than most countries. Whether it will hold is an
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by flocial 6y ago
He is the longest serving Prime Minister in the history of Japan just shy of 8 years. Before COVID-19 he was under constant attack for a school funding scandal, manipulating a cherry blossom party guest list hosted by the government, and hi
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by flocial 6y ago
COVID will eventually pass even with unnecessary fatalities in its wake. E2e encryption and loss of rights will stay around much longer.
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by flocial 6y ago
You can try for a student visa for Japanese language school for two years. If you're willing to pay for a plane ticket to a nearby Asian country, you could probably renew it in perpetuity every three months. There are also other visas
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by flocial 6y ago
This is probably one of my favorite developments coming from the quarantine. Maciej Ceglowski is a keeper of the torch reminding us of what the web used to be: a weird place filled with weird people who were guided by curious intellects and
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by flocial 6y ago
Seed word: Donald Trump “If only stupidity wasn’t the key to Donald Trump’s plans.” Seed word: Trump “The best way to educate yourself about Donald Trump's incompetence is to spend twenty minutes reading the Wikipedia article on Donald
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by flocial 6y ago
On average it depends on your family size and if you live in a big city. If you're a double income household with no kids, you still might not have enough room to carve out office space so one partner has to take work elsewhere or work
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by flocial 6y ago
Guilty as charged but I thought it was a reasonable jump to speculate on how there might be a cumulative effect of being in the "shallows" where critical thinking skills are atrophied and people are susceptible to misinformation.
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by flocial 6y ago
It generated $15 billion last year not including 20 million Premium subscribers. https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-al...
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by flocial 6y ago
One thing that surprised me about this pandemic is how vulnerable people are to misinformation and conspiracy theories on social media. For many people their idea of authority or "credentials" directly correlate with the strength
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by flocial 6y ago
"You always seem to play the vulture @Kvogt — we all know the @cruise Origin’s origin is @zoox . While flattered, you do make a valid point in seeking the best: Zoox engineers are better than yours, and soon better funded :)" h
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by flocial 6y ago
I had this and solved it by clearing the cache and cookies for Quora (and maybe facebook) several times. If it works in private browser mode it's definitely corrupt data.
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by flocial 6y ago
Anytime I have sleep-related kernel panic issues I delete the sleep image: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/326807/removing-th...
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by flocial 6y ago
Very valid counterpoint. It could by HN's latent bias against marketing types (in the dismissive sense) as the GP is the top comment (as of now). There's a difference between clickbait and trying to convey the gist of an article w
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by flocial 6y ago
I saw her interview and she was just so awesome and confident. She grew up in China, graduated with a degree in Chemistry, learned to speak fluent English, and then somehow ended up being the sole maintainer (using the term loosely because
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by flocial 6y ago
Also, considering the source's long history it would be a huge break for stylistic reasons.
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by flocial 6y ago
Well, her github profile pic is "I ️ 35000 lines in gc.cpp". She's been working on it successfully for 15 years so I guess she's untouchable even within the org (I can't imagine the amount of stress she went through
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by flocial 6y ago
> backend engineers get paid more than front end I'm not surprised having setup a hosted GL instance. It's actually quite amazing how it mostly just works but when things go wrong between upgrades and migrations you quickly rea
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by flocial 6y ago
Or maybe virtual airbnb with onsite vpn ip per unit in the residential area split across different employers?
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by flocial 6y ago
This sounds great but I wonder how much of that was employer's discretion? I imagine your work was that valuable but perhaps a less productive engineer might get a different "package". Regardless of the rational and pragmatic
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by flocial 6y ago
I was about to ask the same question. I didn't even know this product existed!
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by flocial 6y ago
That all changed with COVID-19 now everyone wears masks. And this was long before emergency was declared, around the end of January. Masks were constantly sold out until quite recently.
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by flocial 6y ago
This. Talking on the phone on public transport is considered bad manners and practically never happens. Commute trains are dead silent with the exception of friends/family/coworkers traveling together. On top of all this everyone

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