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That's really interesting! Did the hospital or staff seem to have trouble keeping up with patients?

History can tell us about historical vaccines, not new ones, especially mRNA vaccines.

FYI, here is an article from The Atlantic describing just that from 2015.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/emergency...

It may not be the norm, but how unusual was it?

Thank you for this needed comment. ER wait times were a problem before Covid. I've experienced waiting in an ER with a loved one who was convulsing, it was extremely scary and sobering to see how long we waited (about an hour or so). This was before covid.

Emergency Rooms were scary and full before Covid!

And what about unknown long-haul effects from newly developed vaccines? Are we permitted to be concerned about those?

What about distinguishing between long term efficiency and short term efficiency?

Decentralized systems tend to be more efficient in the long term. Centralized systems tend to be more efficient in the short term.

I think this may be true-ish??

There seems to be a recursive aspect to this. Accusations of racism are used to silence (censor) voices.

From the article:

Charges of “racism,” for instance, are primarily deployed against the political opponents of upwardly-mobile, highly-educated progressive white people. Even to the point of branding prominent black or brown dissenters as race-traitors (despite the reality that, on average, blacks and Hispanics tend to be significantly more socially conservative and religious than whites).

Delivering it closer does provide more power. Some of the power is lost to heat as the electricity travels through the traces on the motherboard.

What!? NPR's website contains articles with false time stamps. Are you ok with this? Why does the conspiracy theorist angle matter at all?

Knowing when an article was written is a useful piece of information that is being destroyed by these always evolving articles. It might not be full on Orwell yet, but these always-mutating-articles are opening the door to an Orwellian future.

We need to be able to go back and look at the past unfiltered and unmodified.

A hypothesis: We are all narrative building, all of the time. It's what humans do.

I can't really tell if that is 100% true, but I think it might be. I think confirmation bias could be looked at through this lens. We have an internal story that makes sense to us, and we tend to give more weight to data that fits our internal story (narrative) and discard the rest.

I don't know really, I'm more thinking out loud here than trying to present The Truth.

Why people are so quick to blame to blame anti-vaxxers? The United States has millions of immigrants and visitors from other countries. Some go through official channels which require vaccinations, many do not.

According to the CDC, Measles is brought into the US by international travel:

  Measles cases in the U.S. originate from international travel. Make sure you and your loved ones are protected against measles before international travel. [0]

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/measles/plan-for-travel.html

When docker first arrived, people were confused about how to use it. I remember seeing lots of people putting an ssh daemon in their containers!?! I like the s6-overlay approach, it's pragmatic.

I haven't been using containers as much lately, but I wonder if s6-overlay's approach could be used to justify including a database into the container with an application. Is that a good idea?

I hope you can avoid becoming bitter. I've struggled with this myself. I appreciate your other response in this thread too. There is some real wisdom to avoiding politics in certain situations. However, if we never talk about things, how does anything get resolved? How divided will we become?

I'm not too surprised that you find conservative arguments unconvincing. In general, purely based on reasoning, I find liberal arguments to be a bit better (on average). Sometimes, they are a lot better. The question for me, is how much weight to put on reasoning. How much value does reasoning have? My personal experience is that reasoning works well for writing software or fixing a bug. It doesn't work as well when I try to use it to decide how I should run my life. In fact, my own reasoning has led me into the pits of hell. That changed my perspective, quite a bit!

I truly hope that you and your friends and coworkers can keep peace and good will towards each other.

do you have any trouble running shell scripts? I would suppose that the #! line at the top of the script would save you from problems in most cases.

What about bash one liners?

I had a bad experience with Ubuntu's (Debian's) dash shell many years ago and I've (lazily) just stuck with bash since then.

I don't know what it means. I can tell you that as I've become more conservative, I've been less able to express myself freely. I started off life as a liberal and spent most of my adult life not affiliated with a political party. Until recently, I felt like I could pretty much share my thoughts more or less freely.

Socially speaking, I would say that conservatives were generally fair game to make fun of or put down in some way most of the time. Sometimes it would be making fun of rednecks or hillbillies or maybe the Amish. Luddites were fair game to be made fun of. Oftentimes it was less about humor and put downs, but more about moral superiority. This was just my experience, and I'm sure other liberal/progressive/whatever people are struggling to feel accepted in their conservative social circle.

Now that I'm conservative, I talk a lot less about what I think in mixed company. It's simply too risky.

I wish I could find a "slam dunk" source that stated what the current threshold recommended by the CDC, but I can't quite find it. I've personally read many sources that talked about using cycle counts above 30 over the past year.

Some more discussion on this topic was on HN yesterday [0]

also, from last August:

  One solution would be to adjust the cycle threshold used now to decide that a patient is infected. Most tests set the limit at 40, a few at 37. This means that you are positive for the coronavirus if the test process required up to 40 cycles, or 37, to detect the virus. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27972195

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testin...

> but I wonder how much is simply lack of interest in understanding others.

Talk about assuming the worst about people! Let me present an alternate theory: The "blue tribe" is surprised by a "red tribe" reaction more than the "red tribe" is surprised by the "blue tribe".

I read about a study in the lead up to the 2016 election. Conservatives were asked to voice liberal opinions and vice versa. The conservatives were able to voice opposing viewpoints significantly better than those who leaned left wing.

This blog came up while searching for a source on that research and has some other information you might find useful. I can relate to the author's feeling of frustration very well! [0]

[0] https://ricochet.com/76902/archives/conservatives-understand...

I posted this comment in good faith. I would appreciate feedback rather than downvotes.

That figure seems questionable.

1) high cycle PCR tests tend to produce false positives. [0]

2) recently (maybe now?) the CDC was recommending that the cycle count be lowered for vaccinated individuals (break through cases). [1]

If unvaccinated individuals are being tested to a different standard, that would seem to muddy the waters, wouldn't it?

[0] https://medicine.yale.edu/labmed/sections/virology/COVID-19%...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210623005911/https://www.cdc.g...

I think these kinds of questions are very personal. I had a close family member who couldn't walk. She didn't make her inability to walk a part of her identity, it was just something annoying she had to put up with. I doubt she would have been upset about gaining the ability to walk.

The only time I've heard these types of questions are around people who are deaf. I suspect that the issue is a complex one of language and community. My understanding is that (some?) deaf people consider sign language their primary language, not the native tongue of their country.

It's too bad that the hn downvoters are hitting your post so hard, this could be a useful, informative discussion. It's hard to talk about this kind of thing without crossing political correctness boundaries though.

my point is that there is inconsistency between popular descriptions of jan6 and the charges.

If jan6 was as bad as many say it was, then we should expect to see not only serious indictments, but also convictions.

> Pizzagate was a crafted phenomenon

Maybe. The emails that kicked off pizzagate don't seem to be crafted to me.

> the realtor found a handkerchief (I think it has a map that seems pizza-related. Is it yorus?

The emails were using coded language around pizza. These emails spawned pizzagate.

if they "violently and successfully interrupted a core democratic process", why do you think the charges being levied against these terrorists are so light?

Why no charges of insurrection?

> The risk of covid and the vaccination are now sufficiently well understood that being anti vaxx is just nonsensical.

What process do you use to evaluate how well risks are understood by experts?

From the article:

> It’s important to note childhood vaccines for polio, measles, mumps, rubella and smallpox aren’t leaky; they are considered “perfect” vaccines.

All of the risks you just described exists in every home with electrical outlets.

Subjective? What about the hundred flowers campaign?

> ... a period from 1956 to 1957 in the People's Republic of China during which the Communist Party of China (CPC) encouraged citizens to express openly their opinions of the communist party.

followed by

> Citizens were rounded up in waves by the hundred of thousands, publicly criticized, and condemned to prison camps for re-education through labor, or even execution.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign

I really love hearing about your personal experiences with this, and I think a lot of other people do too.

if it were low power electronics you were powering, I would suggest taking the battery to 14.4v and using some diodes to drop the voltage down a little bit. There would be some power dissipation in the diodes and that would increase with current, so it's probably not a great solution.

It might not be that bad to run the motor out of spec a bit. It sounds like you have a good solution. Did you consider putting the lead acid battery in a towable floatation device of some sort?

Can you tell us more about what kind of vehicles you are building? Are they big enough for people? I'd love to hear more about your experiences around this!

> ... and form your own opinion around this

I think this is the bottom line, it is up to each of us to do our own due diligence and to come to our own conclusions. Labeling something a conspiracy theory is more about controlling what people think than anything else.

"Don't think this or you will be ridiculed"