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e9on Will Alphabet’s Unionization Effort Spread to Other Big Tech Companies?

Now it will be easier to do that. With unions you only need to bribe several people who are already political by nature(who else would want to run the union?).

e9on Our Response to the Violence in Washington

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter

e9on Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering?

How many times a year do they have to wake up in the middle of the night to fix something broken?

e9on Tesla Short Sellers Lost $38B in 2020 as Stock Surged

What broker are you using? Most won’t allow you to do too much leverage on options.

e9on Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety is far from enough

On top of facing the rear they can attach industrial spring to absorb the shock of the fast deceleration/collision

e9on Coinbase Pro Disables Margin Trading

It’s about controlling risk. Think of 2007/2008 bank collapse when they played with fire and were leveraged 30 to 1.

e9on Zuckerberg defends not suspending ex-Trump aide Bannon from Facebook: recording

There are plenty of officials on Twitter openly wished that Trump died when he got coronavirus. Both situations are disgusting but neither are real threats.

e9on Drug Themes in Science Fiction, by Robert Silverberg (1974) [pdf]

I disagree actually, there is strong resurgence of psychedelic movement(hence decriminalization of shrooms, etc in various parts of the country)

e9on No country on Earth is taking the 2 degree climate target seriously

It's not out of the realm of possibilities. Imagine some country being constantly bombarded by earthquakes, tsunamis and other destructive environmental changes to the point where people can't live normally. They will definitely rebel and try to take over land that doesn't have these issues. Much like what happened in ancient times, climate changes led to inhabitable areas and provoked wars between civilizations for land.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/climate-wars-conflict...

e9on Are Indians more immune to Covid-19?

In all those countries they extensively use Hydroxychloroquine which is anti malaria drug and super important especially in Africa. Indian government is very open in using it for covid-19: https://www.newsweek.com/india-promotes-hydroxychloroquine-d... As well as many African countries: https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/djibouti-treating-... https://www.theafricareport.com/26726/coronavirus-recovery-r...

can provide more sources if requested (or just google it)...

e9on In San Francisco, Virus Is Contained but Schools Are Still Closed

I’ve never seen children in SF so I guess not a big loss to the society?

e9on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020 – Show and tell

Thanks, I’ll check it out. What’s better about wheel?

e9on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020 – Show and tell

You need an account and request approval for trading options but don’t think you need to put any money. Not sure about wheel, I’ll have to take a look.

e9on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020 – Show and tell

That’s fair. I use robinhood to get odds on option trades and mostly trade on Schwab, I hate Schwab interface though but I trust them to protect my money and trades more than robinhood.

e9on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020 – Show and tell

I sell puts a week out at the strike price where I have about 90% chance of winning(Robinhood provides the odds). Obviously you get it wrong sometimes so you have to buy the shares so I always trade on stocks that I don’t mind owning. If I buy the shares then I sell call option a week out at the strike price equal or higher than what I paid to buy shares and it usually comes back up within a month or so.

e9on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020 – Show and tell

Trading options on Robinhood

e9on Spotify Is Defending Alex Jones' Appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience”

Where do you draw the line? What about music that encourages misogyny, prostitution and violence? Should this also be banned from Spotify? Or is that ok? Who decides?

e9on Ask HN: Why don’t we treat cyber warfare as an act of war?

Probably same reason we don’t treat social media as tobacco companies and same reason psychological abuse is treated differently than physical abuse.

e9on San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.

Yeah it’s weird. I haven’t seen for rent signs before but now I see them on every single building but rents are same. It probably means landlords are basically charging too much and making too much money and not paying enough in taxes(1-2% tax increase per year is probably nothing compared to increases in rent prices)

e9on The Big Vitamin D Mistake (2017)

Everyone is unique and until we know more about genetics there will not be rules that will "nail it down for everyone" anytime soon until. A good example is coffee. You can find articles that say coffee is good and just as many articles saying coffee is bad. The answer is:

- If you have gene that will metabolize caffeine fast then you reap health benefits of antioxidants in the coffee and it's good for you

- If you don't have gene that metabolizes caffeine fast then caffeine will linger in your system and cause all sorts of problems and therefore coffee is bad for you

At this age there is no other option except for testing and seeing what works on you and maybe see what your parents did.

e9on How Much Vitamin D Is Too Much? A Case Report and Review of the Literature

I used to run ultra marathons, when you push your body to the limit like this, you do run into limits and deficiencies, not chronically but during hours of running and this extra overdosing does help the body function better

e9on How Much Vitamin D Is Too Much? A Case Report and Review of the Literature

If you do strenuous workouts frequently then this helps you recover faster and workout longer. If you are just couch potato then it’s actually detrimental and you can develop all sorts of problems including peripheral neuropathy.

e9on How Much Vitamin D Is Too Much? A Case Report and Review of the Literature

I did that every day and started to have muscle pains and weakness after a while. After doing some research and experimentations, turns out you also need to take magnesium if that happens.

e9on How Much Vitamin D Is Too Much? A Case Report and Review of the Literature

I do that. I drink at least one 5-hour energy drink per day. I feel less depressed when I do that, but don’t try this at home without consulting doctor. I experiment with myself a lot and know my limits.

e9on Hootsuite CEO terminating contract with ICE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_refugee_children_...

https://www.globaldetentionproject.org/countries/asia-pacifi...

https://www.ucanews.com/news/caged-like-animals-inside-bangk...

e9on U.S. bans WeChat, TikTok, citing national security reasons

Android yes but it’s not going to be that simple to install it on iOS

e9on Twitter Suspends Chinese Virologist Acc Who Claimed Coronavirus Was Made in Lab

This person has real credentials, she co-authored paper on COVID-19 that was published in Nature magazine: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2342-5

e9on Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo

Fair, but nothing is disconnected in this world. Your company could be serving some unethical company that does really bad things and at this moment you would invoke same reasoning people who work at FB about like "someone would be doing it anyways" or "there is no way to do this kind of due diligence" or "we just do X and not responsible for Y". It's not at the same scale but you get what I mean, no one is pure.

e9on Facebook removes QAnon conspiracy group with 200k members

Can you give me an example of crazy conspiracy theory that some of your highly educated friends succumbed? Just curious, thanks.