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How the novel coronavirus has evolved

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Re: How the novel coronavirus has evolved

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And I was downvoted on HN for merely asking the question whether coronavirus could mutate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24035686

HN has an tendency of becoming a hivemind like reddit due to the intellectual pride of the overpaid CRUD technologists that reside here

Re: How the novel coronavirus has evolved

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And I was downvoted on HN for merely asking the question whether coronavirus could mutate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24035686

HN has an tendency of becoming a hivemind like reddit due to the intellectual pride of the overpaid CRUD technologists that reside here

looks up from writing a fancy Azure function that manages a blob store

Hey!

Re: How the novel coronavirus has evolved

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And I was downvoted on HN for merely asking the question whether coronavirus could mutate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24035686

The stuff I get downvoted for boggles my mind (e.g. get downvoted for saying thank you this was a good post).

They should rename HN to HM, HiveMind.

Re: How the novel coronavirus has evolved

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And I was downvoted on HN for merely asking the question whether coronavirus could mutate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24035686

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> HN votes more on delivery style than substance.

It's much worse than that.

Because most HNers have almost no actual knowledge or experience, you have to provide two links for them to read to get up to speed on virtually any topic.

I've done experiments on HN readers where virtually all of my posts are downvoted or flagged, but adding 2 links will usually get them upvoted. No difference in tone or opinion.

So if you read HN, you're also my personal guinea pig. Thanks! :)

Re: How the novel coronavirus has evolved

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And I was downvoted on HN for merely asking the question whether coronavirus could mutate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24035686

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Wow, that was salty. Better wash it down with some whine. Oh, wait, I see you already have some there.

Re: How the novel coronavirus has evolved

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“If the virus changes substantially, particularly the spike proteins, then it might escape a vaccine. We want to slow transmission globally to slow the clock,”

Is this why some are saying we might need a booster shot in a few years?

Re: How the novel coronavirus has evolved

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And I was downvoted on HN for merely asking the question whether coronavirus could mutate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24035686

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That is by design. You should upvote/dovnvote good/bad ways of expression, and if you disagree with something then argue why you do.
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