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This is my final comment. This account has been abandoned. Mike Dilger has lost faith in the Hacker News community. Mike Dilger would rather engage with retorts and argumentation t…

I'm being downed for reporting on the information that I have about this? Fine. Downvote me a thousands times I will not hold my tongue. ADD: I pointed out the info was from Andy N…

If you provide service to everybody, then you provide service to unsavory types. That doesn't mean you cater to them. The alternative is 'cancel culture' which many people reject o…

Epik pushed back against the mob, particularly against Chad Loder who some consider (according to Andy Ngo) to be an Antifa extremist. No doubt this was retaliation. https://t.co/L…

Well said. Deep corruption everywhere and it is spreading. I think empires in decline are unavoidably this way. I think this Ivermectin debate has nothing to do with Ivermectin, bu…

Very good they are thinking about addressing this, but they are still labouring under a few bits of their own misinformation. Claiming it is a central part of someone's identity, a…

Many of us don't want banks or shopping sites on our phones. AndOTP authenticator works great for me. I also wrote one that I use on an offline computer (TOTP is rfc6238) in case m…

There are other non-ingredient things that matter: limiting sun exposure, cleaning the oil/dirt, and using something to maintain hydration (glycerin, aqueous cream, ... petroleum j…

Years ago I wrote a rust program (pre 1.0) that linked to a python library that a co-worker wrote. We got deadlocks. Turns out we also were linking the system OpenSSL which interna…

While not disagreeing with that, I think we can continue to eliminate. During level-4, the R value is clearly lower than 1.0 meaning the infection shrinks. And the infection is sma…

Whenever I hear that China is the biggest polluter, I think that all they need to do is divide themselves into twelve countries, then none of them would be the biggest polluters an…

I clicked on "Covered Vaccines". The COVID-19 vaccines aren't on the list.

I hope that's mostly just an American tribal thing. I'm pro-vaccine, pro-ivermectin, pro-masks and pro-lockdowns. This is a serious disease and we need to use all the tools at our …

Thanks for that correction. However they are functioning like journalists here. Notice all of the judgemental, ideological, political one-sided narrative. They fail to apply Hanlon…

This article itself is politicizing the science and medicine. Please don't take medical advice from journalists. Talk to your doctor. If you want to weigh in on the ongoing medical…

If you hire medical personnel to determine if havana syndrome is real, and if they say its not real then their position goes away, of course they will say it is real and serious.

I'm pretty sure the patent office has been doing less and less actual work, approving more and more patents, and figuring that the courts can sort it out.

NOT HAPPY WITH YOUTUBE SPLITTING UP SOCIETY: I'm not happy that YouTube (having a strong network-effect monopoly on online video content) has decided to close the Overton window so…

If you live in the country you can fix that. Raising chooks is easy. I raise my own sheep for food, heavily under-stocked so they can pick and choose what they want to eat (makes t…

This is true for houses built more than 20 years ago. But houses built in the last 18 years or so almost all have insluation, baths, better joinery, and many with double glazing. W…

Let me add that these reports don't show cause, just correlation. Attempting to determine cause is very speculative and tenuous, and so all adverse events should be reported. So lo…

Risk of serious harm from vaccines from a country where I trust the people a lot more than Americans is 1:3571 (based on 446,380 doses). Where are you getting the 1:200,000 from? h…

Matt Taibbi supposes (in that paragraph) that their motivation in censoring scientific discussion of Ivermectin's effectiveness was to be "opposite to Donald Trump's comments" and …

I've been intending to try process-to-process message passing using a lock-free data structure very much like io_uring where the processes share pages (one page read-write, the oth…

> io_uring is not an event system at all. io_uring is actually a generic asynchronous syscall facility. I would call it a message passing system, not an asynchronous syscall facili…