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Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by koolhaas »

tzs wrote: post #341
drbacon wrote: post #233

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I am also super interested in the answer to this particular question. I know a lot of people who waited for surplus/standby shots at the end of the day outside clinics in SF. Anecdotally, a lot of my coworkers got early vaccines that way. As a non-essential worker with no risk factors, I felt that my contribution to the pandemic was to stay home and wait until my turn. I did, by the way, wait until the vaccine was ge…

> I am also super interested in the answer to this particular question. I know a lot of people who waited for surplus/standby shots at the end of the day outside clinics in SF. Anecdotally, a lot of my coworkers got early vaccines that way. How did that work with the two-dose vaccines? If you were not eligible under the then current phase but got the first shot from surplus (which is entirely legitimate), were you ex…

Essentially yes. Once you get the first, you are scheduled for the 2nd, and aren’t questioned (and really, it’s all very honor system anyways).

Early in vaccination, I believe sites were reserving 2nd doses for everyone who got the first. Then production became predictable enough where cdc instructed sites to not reserve in favor of increasing vaccine rates. Then sites always prioritized people returning for 2nd doses (internally, or through scheduling systems)

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by dang »

pton-throw wrote: post #254
dang wrote: post #115

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27399714 . For best results, let's keep our internet dramas separate.

If you have it, can you link to threads discussing the evolution of online public denunciation in the US? I'm curious why it didn't happen here immediately, but did elsewhere.

I'm sorry but I don't understand what you're referring to.

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by Permit »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #364
Permit wrote: post #134

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Your account may very well be biased but it astonishes me how many HN commenters are willing to chime in while knowing next to nothing about what actually took place. I know next to nothing and as such would typically hesitate to comment. Others appear to know next to nothing and appear very interested in sharing their opinions here, and I don’t quite understand why...

I wish I could donate all of my karma as votes for this comment. I'm really astonished at how the dynamics of internet forums make so many feel like they must immediately pick a side, even when there is such little information and even when getting just a single side of the story. The worst part about this is that when more information does come to light, it's so rare to see an "oh wow, I really shouldn't have jumped…

On the second half, I saw a quote from C.S. Lewis (here on HN[1]) which I thought captured the same sentiment well:

Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible?

If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally we shall insist on seeing everything -- God and our friends and ourselves included -- as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred.

-- C.S. Lewis

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26614034

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by 0xbeefeed »

dang wrote: post #382
verelo wrote: post #351

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Literally you’re the top comment, and it’s not a short one, and it expresses personal thoughts. Good job doing less not more.

I certainly didn't intend it to be the top comment; that was entirely by upvotes.

delete it?

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by kmonsen »

gabereiser wrote: post #329
kmonsen wrote: post #324

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Your original post is a bit unclear. You don’t state if you lied or not pretending to be eligible. If you did I don’t really feel any moral superiority, we each make our own decisions. That being said you are now one of those Karen’s in your own words.

I didn’t lie to skip a line. I just showed up. Labeling me isn’t going to get people vaxed. Go get vaxed. Also, Karen’s (internet term) are people who complain about issues that don’t affect them personally or take offense at others actions that don’t matter to them. Or using their privilege to get what they want. I specifically stated I just showed up.

Oh, I really didn't think it was clear from your comment or follow up.

Honestly I have friends who lied to get the vaccine early and I don't really want to blame them. We were all in different circumstances in this pandemic and like I tried to say I don't want to pass judgement.

If you didn't lie I cannot see in any way how you did anything wrong. I read that you did from your follow-up post calling other people Karen's.

Not that it matters, but I did get vaccinated the very first day it was open for me where I live.

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by farrarstan »

dang wrote: post #210

The submitted title was "Y Combinator kicks out Paul Biggar over a tweet". That is inaccurate, so in keeping with the HN guidelines (" Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ), I've replaced the title with the tweet text. That's the standard thing we do with titles, when people post Twitter links. Much as I'd love to,…

Just shut up about it dork, not hatd

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by Nicksil »

etxm wrote: post #398
slumpt_ wrote: post #301

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“petty drama” speaks volumes. Edit:Please, downvote. Just reinforces my point. What is wrong with this community, jfc

> “petty drama” speaks volumes Big time agree here. The comment was substantive and succinct. Saying it was “petty drama” in the top comment sets a tone for the convo.

>Saying it was “petty drama” in the top comment sets a tone for the convo.

Top comment is the top comment because it was voted to the top. One doesn't say anything in a top comment; one says something in a comment which may become the top comment.

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by slumpt_ »

neonological wrote: post #361
slumpt_ wrote: post #301

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“petty drama” speaks volumes. Edit:Please, downvote. Just reinforces my point. What is wrong with this community, jfc

Any post that challenges dang will likely get voted down. This is normal given his position and it's the price of admission (see my other reply to his post). People also rarely vote on how substantive your post is but on whether they agree with it or not. It's not in the spirit of HN to do this but you really can't control human behavior and people do this without being fully aware of it. Due to how human voting beha…

It's good it wasn't deleted, but disappointing that he winds up editorializing it with his quip.

I've come to not expect much more from HackerNews. Sometimes http://n-gate.com/ is the best summary one can ask for.

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by azinman2 »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #308
mbgerring wrote: post #274

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So just so everyone has the full context: Oakland opened up its vaccination sites to more people on a shorter timeline than the rest of the state, in certain ZIP codes with disproportionately poor residents, in order to get vaccines to those disproportionately poor residents. I know this because this is how several of my friends who live in West Oakland got vaccinated ahead of the eligibility opening up in the rest o…

Agree. Really not tooting my own horn but I qualified very early for the vaccine because I am a “farm worker” and while I really do work at a farm and all employees qualified early, I’m actually a robotics engineer with no necessary contact between me and those that tend the fields. I have an isolated office and I work alone. I felt that if I ever decided to get the shot because of my employment as a “farm worker”, t…

Here’s the thing: public officials created procedures with estimates based upon who qualifies. If you qualified and didn’t take it, you actually created inefficiencies in the system, and slowed down rollout.

Source: friend in high up gov in CA

Re: LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

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Post by grzm »

neonological wrote: post #361
slumpt_ wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“petty drama” speaks volumes. Edit:Please, downvote. Just reinforces my point. What is wrong with this community, jfc

Any post that challenges dang will likely get voted down. This is normal given his position and it's the price of admission (see my other reply to his post). People also rarely vote on how substantive your post is but on whether they agree with it or not. It's not in the spirit of HN to do this but you really can't control human behavior and people do this without being fully aware of it. Due to how human voting beha…

> "Any post that challenges dang will likely get voted down."

While this may be the case, the comment you reply to is a particularly poor example on which to hang this comment. It's a snarky, insubstantive insinuation, regardless of whom it's in response to, and was edited to complain about downvotes.

> "Still it's sorta good that this post wasn't outright deleted."

It's likely it wasn't flagged and removed because it was in response to 'dang, as he is generally leaves responses to his comments in place even when they're quite bad, even if he doesn't follow-up with a reply in what I take to be added transparency.

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