False. We’re a bunch of mostly self centered individualist who don’t like being told what to do and don’t trust facts, ideas, opinions, or people that contradict our preconceived notions.
I haven't been in ages, but the "SXSW Crud" used to be a common concept. Too much booze, lack of sleep, lots of handshaking, + cold and flu. It knocked me out hard 2 years in a row. After that I started getting the flu shot yearly and avoiding physical touching at events. Hosting SXSW during this inevitable pandemic is a terrible terrible idea.
In the US, you can get the flu shot at Wall-Greens. No doctor visit necessary. Insurance usually covers the entire cost, but I think it’s pretty cheap otherwise.
I’m not for stopping the world, but Coronavirus gets brushed off as no big deal a lot online. I feel like the big issue will be Coronavirus bogarting medical resources. Pneumonia in a healthy individual is treatable given proper treatment and resources, but if everyone has pneumonia, then we have a resource problem.
Additionally, a lot of people care for the very young and the very old, and they’re not comforted with the sentiment, “well, if you’re healthy you’ll live,”
I believe the hope is the smart technically minded people on HN might have some insight or way to innovate solutions to at least mitigate climate change. Unfortunately, the best we can come up with this thread are UX critiques. I think it just illustrates how daunting of a problem climate change really is.
Not all actors are participating in online conversations in good faith. Meaning, a big part of the problem are trolls and propagandist antagonizing and encouraging division. Part of the solution has to be stopping them.
Years ago I ran a side project that went viral. It grew to 60k visitors a day and my monthly cloud expenses were around $1,500. I cannot fathom a scenario where you get a surprise $100k bill from a viral hit. Anytime my project went down due to scaling, it was painful. You don’t get many chances at going viral.
“How much do you floss?” In no way implies they think you floss often. It’s actually the reverse. For example, if someone ask “How much do you shower?” It’s a not so subtle hint that you stink, not that they think you shower often.
Last year I deleted my Reddit account. Now I just browse r/all. facepalm But at least I don’t spend hours commenting. We won’t discuss Hacker News habits.
I deleted my social media accounts (save Hacker News) a few years ago. I’m so happy without them, I’d probably have to be paid to join a new one. Been there. Done that.
I wouldn’t doubt that hacker news has its share of fake accounts, shills, and propagandist. Just like the rest of social media, people are being manipulated by special interests with lots of money.
It sounds like you’re describing “helicopter parenting” on the playground as a means of creating independent adults. I feel quite the opposite. Independent kids become independent adults. Kids need to be given the freedom to fail, to fall, skin their knee, make their own friends, solve their own problems, without parental interference.
I agree we should put the breaks on urban sprawl, but the US is already spread out. I mean what’s more feasible: Have all current suburbanites sell their house, move downtown, and have their old property leveled OR get them driving an EV?
That’s great, because our children will have no preconceived notions of a world with plentiful drinking water, food, and a variety of different species. To them it’ll just be normal, and they won’t know how bad our generation fucked them. It’s all about perspective. /s