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Will Policymakers Let the Covid Crisis End?

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7 points·by bryanwb·5 years ago·1 comments

Ask HN: Where do the young nerds hangout?

20 points·by bryanwb·5 years ago·15 comments

Ask HN: Why is HN dominated by Normies? Hahaha HN is run by normies. HFSP.

1 points·by bryanwb·5 years ago·0 comments

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bryanwb
·4 years ago·discuss
All these ridiculous Rube Goldberg contraptions for solar and wind when we could just build more and different types of nuclear reactors.
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
So Hater news censored this post by flagging it -- just like Facebook and Youtube censored discussion of the lab leak! Hacker News is officially part of the MSM.
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
not surprised this was flagged. Anything that questions the MSNBC/CNN political orthodoxy gets flagged on HN. That's not "inclusive." How did all the tech nerds of SV become woke sjw's?
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
surprising you were downvoted for saying what virtually everyone is thinking.
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
You didn't read the article. Any medical professional who seriously considered the lab leak was ostracized.
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
_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 recently released e-mails support this line of reasoning but don't confirm it. To argue the opposite of this, you should have better than ad hominem attacks.
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
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.nationalreview.com/news/fauci-argued-benefits-of...
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
Upvoting because you are right. All roads of investigation lead to Fauci. Many seem in denial about this.
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
have very positive experiences w/ discord. I have learned a ton from channels like Economics Design (token economics) and Reactiflux (Reactjs)
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
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 South Asia. The only place where it may still rise in big numbers are the prison islands in Oceania.

There are better ways to spend our resources than on redoing the world's HVAC, like maybe, y'know, climate change.
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
I see I am downvoted by the newest generation of "old telco guys." HN is a retirement home.
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
Have you even taken more than a cursory look at Ethereum?

I will get off your lawn now.
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
It is like the early Internet and you are like one of the old telco guys I worked w/ in 2000 who said people would never make phone calls on the Internet.
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
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.
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
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 weren't interested in gold in the first place you likely aren't interested in Bitcoin either.

The proof-of-stake, smart contract platforms are truly exciting. Stable coins and Uniswap are real innovations w/ more to come.
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
Why is this flagged? HN seems to shut down anything that doesn't match the left-wing consensus, from Covid to BLM.
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
Big hedge funds never do risky things and leave us holding the bag</sarcasm>
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
The IFR for young people from Covid is less than 0.03%. that is very, very low.
bryanwb
·5 years ago·discuss
kudos to the Haredim of Bnei Brak for choosing to be human.

I used to live near there.