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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 the…

> In today’s episode we’re talking about an emerging model of gaming called play to earn, in which players can make actual money based on how much time and effort they put into a g…

The vast majority of people aren't that dense, and in fact, a lot of people actually have a reasonable sense of humor.

> 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'…

So what's your intent in calling out machine learning?

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> 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 tr…

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 tha…

> ...cafes and restaurants seem like natural partners for charging parks. $30 Avocado toast and $15 lattes.

> 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.…

You should look up the term "multiple expansion."

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.

> 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 …

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 exper…

> 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 cred…

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 amusi…

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 br…

> 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 a…

> 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…

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 t…

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. T…

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…

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 be…

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 ma…