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All these ridiculous Rube Goldberg contraptions for solar and wind when we could just build more and different types of nuclear reactors.

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.

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 s…

surprising you were downvoted for saying what virtually everyone is thinking.

You didn't read the article. Any medical professional who seriously considered the lab leak was ostracized.

_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 conspi…

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 …

Upvoting because you are right. All roads of investigation lead to Fauci. Many seem in denial about this.

have very positive experiences w/ discord. I have learned a ton from channels like Economics Design (token economics) and Reactiflux (Reactjs)

I get the distinct impression that HN, like Slashdot before it, has aged along w/ its original audience. I suspect most of the readers and submitters are aged mid-30's to late 40's…

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 cras…

I see I am downvoted by the newest generation of "old telco guys." HN is a retirement home.

Have you even taken more than a cursory look at Ethereum? I will get off your lawn now.

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.

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.

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 tramp…

Why is this flagged? HN seems to shut down anything that doesn't match the left-wing consensus, from Covid to BLM.

Over the last 24 months I have been surprised by how HN has adhered to the mainstream narratives on 1) cryptocurrency and 2) Covid-19. I expect diverse viewpoints from HN but shock…

Big hedge funds never do risky things and leave us holding the bag

The IFR for young people from Covid is less than 0.03%. that is very, very low.

kudos to the Haredim of Bnei Brak for choosing to be human. I used to live near there.

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Fear robs you of life before any credible threat. Stay in your home and turn off your Internet access. I implore you. Become obese and Vitamin D deficient. All the public health au…

CFR is positive tests divided by fatalities. Given that this is a highly transmissible respiratory disease it most likely that the actual fatality rate is 1/10 or 1/100 of 3%. The …