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b0sk··on Covid Subcommittee Releases Dr. Fauci's Transcript, Highlights Key Takeaways
This feels like Rand Paul wrote it.
b0sk··on Covid Subcommittee Releases Dr. Fauci's Transcript, Highlights Key Takeaways
The article doesn't conflict with what I stated. It's a probabilistic estimate based on the prior that COVID spread like flu. The further you go the less your chances of catching. Because you can't convey probability effectively to public (you confuse them), you convey an arbitrary number.
b0sk··on Covid Subcommittee Releases Dr. Fauci's Transcript, Highlights Key Takeaways
And what the general population doesn't get about public health officials is they are only concerned with "how to save lives", "how to stop the spread" and "how to not overwhelm the health system".

Given the choice of widespread admittance of children to hospitals vs inconveniencing them with masks, they'd always choose the latter option. With the benefit of hindsight, there are always things to blame but this investigation is a hackjob.

b0sk··on Covid Subcommittee Releases Dr. Fauci's Transcript, Highlights Key Takeaways
Given that there were absolutely no widespread studies at that point, they had to go on priors. And the 6 ft guidelines was based on the belief that if COVID spread mainly through droplets (which was the most likely theory at that point). The children aspect was again based on limited information available at that point.

With all the data now, we see that COVID affected older and less healthier population. They had no idea at that point, conclusively so always erred on the side of caution. All this house investigation is a Republican witch-hunt.

b0sk··on Does diversity make teams work better?
it should essentially be what you want as a partner. Not too similar, not too dissimilar.
b0sk··on Elon Musk's leadership beginning to splinter Tesla loyalists as car sales drop
uh what? He openly supported Ron DeSantis and plays tech support to characters like Ian-Miles Cheong, LibsOfTikTok and catturd2. His likes and replies are to mainly anti-Trans and pro replacement theory. He's definitely a hard right character.
b0sk··on Tesla releases Q1 2024 deliveries: disastrous results
Yes. I am a Y owner and in for a 2nd EV. But waiting until Rivian R2.
b0sk··on Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy Raising Another $500M to Buy More Bitcoin
You should see the tweets of these guys. Not only they expect it to always go up, they think this is still in early stages and the price of 1 BTC could go to millions of USD.
b0sk··on "Never, ever, no matter what, go to a timeshare presentation"
That's exactly the SOP. They are the nicest when they are selling the POS timeshare but the moment they know you aren't going to budge, their true colors show and they can be utter jerks. It makes sense - the commission is their livelihood but it's cathartic to see their day ruined.
b0sk··on Helix 23.10 Highlights
Check out joshuto - https://github.com/kamiyaa/joshuto

also written in Rust

b0sk··on Tesla Earnings Slide 37%
I bought a Model Y. It's solid. But my next car won't be a Tesla
b0sk··on Twitter no longer serves as a trustful source of information
Why not? The previous twitter:

Tweets from blue-checked Reuters/AP - 99% True

Tweets from blue-checked accounts - maybe true, but verify

Tweets from regular accounts - probably untrue, verify

Now the blue-check is a big Elon simp, mostly a right-winger and pushing some sort of scam. It's pretty much a 4chan clone

b0sk··on Vitalik Buterin reveals X account hack was caused by SIM-swap attack
Trust us with all your money!!!
b0sk··on Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints
Braking doesn't increase range. Rather the natural foot off pedal regen braking increases range. If you physically slam on brakes, I'm sure that doesn't help range.
b0sk··on Ask HN: Why do functional programmers hate loops (for, while, etc.)?
Looping constructs - How it is done. Functional - What is done.

The latter is declarative and more expressive and when you compose these pieces, you express your code at a higher level of abstraction as a whole. Maintainability, fewer scope for bugs etc.

b0sk··on U.S. Supreme Court curbs affirmative action in university admissions
I mean, in a vacuum, it makes no sense but in this case, I agree with KBJ's dissent. In a country with a historical baggage like US, something like this is needed.
b0sk··on Submarine expert tried to dissuade OceanGate CEO, from taking customers in Titan
Move fast and break things
b0sk··on Volvo Cars Adopts Tesla's NACS Port in the United States, Canada and Mexico
that’s not the experience most of the drivers desire
b0sk··on Volvo Cars Adopts Tesla's NACS Port in the United States, Canada and Mexico
CCS is done.
b0sk··on Turning Joe Rogan down was the right thing to do
Not against gish-galloping. This is not a "scientific" dispute where there's 95% agreement and they disagree on the 5%. This is homeopathy cures cancer vs an oncologist.
b0sk··on SEC Accuses Binance of Mishandling Funds and Lying to Regulators
I wonder if SBF provided them some evidence/hints. CZ was one of the reasons that accelerated FTX's demise.
b0sk··on Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue
RFK Jr doesn't believe in any vaccine, often citing the debunked paper that links autism with vaccines. Yea not even vaccines for polio, mmr etc.
b0sk··on Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights
I think Tesla solved this problem.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_eu/GUID-3DFFB07... "Note If regenerative braking is aggressively slowing Model Y (such as when your foot is completely off the accelerator pedal at highway speeds), the brake lights turn on to alert others that you are slowing down."

b0sk··on The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement
It was entirely a grift, a reverse robinhood that shifted swaths of money from retail investors to a select few.
b0sk··on Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candidate begins
Yea, if there's suddenly no evolution in the universe.
b0sk··on Twitter succumbs to Erdoğan’s pressure, silences key voices on election eve
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/13/23722574/welcome-to-hell

The previous regime at Twitter actually stood up to Erdogan.

b0sk··on Founders’ Email to Clubhouse Employees
> The world needs what Clubhouse is building

No

b0sk··on SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
That 2029 timeline seems a tad aggressive - https://www.npr.org/2022/03/17/1087167893/elon-musk-mars-202....
b0sk··on Fox News, Dominion Voting Systems reach $787,500,000 settlement
This is hacker news, but I find it appalling that there's surprisingly less noise about the organized effort to subvert democracy overnight. If Trump had succeeded, do you really think there'd be any meaningful elections in the future? My hope is the most hackers are outraged but don't comment here.
b0sk··on Tesla’s EV Market Share Is Dropping Fast
Charging network is also a big reason why people buy Teslas. According to Marques Brownlee, the third party chargers fail around half the time and it's a ridiculously bad number.

If they make the charging network robust and equally reliable as Teslas supercharger, it'll be game on.

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