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They tend to stagnate after the founder leaves.

Would SpaceX even exist if this law had been in place? Serious question. Let's think this through.

Also what if it had been in place during the dotcom boom and bust?

Mob: She's a witch!

Accused: Hold on. Let me explain. Some frogs hibernate and it was merely awaking after...

You: Just apologize. You were holding a frog that reanimated. Whether you intended to appear a witch or not, the mob thinks you are. That's what matters. So just bend to their demands and all will be well. The mob won't grow in power with yet another victim. Certainly they will never come for me. I'm an ally. Educate yourself. Be better.

It's really at a Twitter mob level of financial understanding. Which is to say it only understands to the degree that it generates outrage.

People also seem to have forgotten that stock can, and often does, go down.

Why don't they recognize natural immunity? Is there any reason not to?

How so? I have a hard time seeing how that could be, but I may be missing a counterintuitive answer.

I had to go completely cold turkey for months before I was able to break away from diet soda.

My #1 tip: Do not have it in the house. If it's there, your body will find its way to it and will perpetuate the habit, the addiction, the cravings.

A lot of people on HN downvote for disagreement, which I think creates a chilling effect, reinforces groupthink and results in a warped view of reality. For what it's worth, I try to balance that out by upvoting gray'd out comments that are sincere or well argued regardless of whether I personally agree with the statement or not. One of the things I appreciate about HN is seeing positions that challenge my existing ideas.

It'd be interesting to see what would happen if facebook and twitter were down for a week or month.

There's a joke in here about the conflation of the data all throughout the pandemic and how there's been a failure to differentiate between with Covid and from Covid.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/covid-hos...

Revealed preferences don't match that rhetoric.

- People are not migrating North in droves. They are not preparing in any way.

- Nuclear energy, the only realistic solution to climate change, is not being supported. It's actually being retired early in many cases and replaced with coal of all things.

- Property prices on the coastline are going up. President Obama, who has access to the best information and experts, bought a huge property on the Martha's Vineyard coast in 2019.

- There is little to no push to improve the water supply in preparation for droughts, not even in California.

Yea, given that, it may already be priced in...

"The bears eat around 90 pounds of fish, berries, small mammals, and vegetation each day to pack on the pounds necessary to survive months of winter hibernation."

90 pounds a day!

Anyone have an idea of what percentage is fish vs berries vs mammals vs vegetation and have an estimate on how many calories that would be?

It varies a lot though. Some of their stuff lasts a long time and some of it falls apart when you move.

If it was called the Trump Vaccine and he was mandating it, this whole thing would be flipped. It's that simple.

It has been tribal from the start and still is. We all know this is how things work at this point. It's not as based in science or rational arguments as it is based on motivated reasoning and confirmation bias.

From heroes to zeroes in less than a year.

Even though many of them got Covid while being heroes and acquired natural immunity, which is more protective than the vaccine alone, they are now fired and shamed and discarded. Without unemployment for not complying with an unnecessary requirement. Again, those with natural immunity, who are now fired, are more protected than those with the vaccine alone. Many who complied felt forced and bullied into it. Let that all sink in and imagine yourself in these positions. This is a form of cruel and unusual punishment.

It reminds me of the "permanent record" threat from teachers.

Mark Cuban's response is interesting:

Brian, this is "Regulation via Litigation". They aren't capable of working through this themselves and are afraid of making mistakes in doing so. They they leave it to the lawyers. Just the people you don't want impacting the new technologies. You have to go on the offensive

https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1435454959441620995

This study is really just "smoking linked to higher risk".

They did report that physical distancing increased in villages that were given masks, so that may explain it. Unfortunately they didn't untangle that effect? How do we know to what degree it was the masks vs increased distancing?

It's gone beyond proposal to actually happening in some places. There are some scary examples coming out of Australia.

https://youtu.be/XOKPtYdDh20?t=232

https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/14330657788032655...

That's well argued and gives me pause. Anyone have a good counterargument?

I don't know if that was the intention or not, but that is precisely the outcome of SF policies.

Get vaccinated, stay home if sick and most importantly lose weight. Losing weight will not only improve Covid outcomes drastically, but most of our other main health issues and hospital burden.

> Covid-19 death rates 10 times higher in countries where most adults are overweight

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/04/health/obesity-covid-deat...

Digg was still relatively niche. Reddit is on a whole other scale. Did anyone over 40 even know of digg? Plus they committed suicide.

Except users don't switch because of network effects. None of the twitter, reddit, youtube alternatives have managed to put even a dent in them.

I agree "never" is too gloom and doom, but otherwise it's a realistic point of view. Covid is endemic and we should start treating it as such.

Acting as though we're going to eradicate it any day now is nonsensical. We'd need a global solution, a solution to animal reservoirs and a vaccine that isn't leaky. If and when we have a solution, then we should implement it. In the meantime, let's face it: It's endemic and it's time to go back to normal. Everyone, in the US at least, can get the vaccine if they want to reduce their risk.

The author of Dilbert, a comic popular because of its insight, has zero knowledge or insight? Good luck defending that assertion, let alone the rest of your claim.