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If 100% of the population was vaccinated, 100% of the hospitalization and deaths would be of vaccinated people. Can you see how your argument is so very stupid?

Edit: post limited, so I’m going to dump this here and not further engage in refuting such inane idiocy:

> Full dose vaccination reduced the need for ICU admission by 49.7% (95% CI = 17-70) and mortality by 56.5% (95% CI = 20-77).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36129790/

EVERY study shows that vaccination is extremely effective in reducing hospitalization and mortality.

It is dead obvious that you have never travelled. The problem with the power grid is that it barely exists. The problem is that the final mile is a fucked-up mess of barely-functioning hacks. The problem is that it is utterly unreliable. The problem is that there isn’t even capacity for everyone in the neighbourhood to run all their kettles simultaneously, so good fucking luck plugging in cars. You are utterly clueless about conditions on the ground. Good day, I’m done trying to get you to understand what it’s like in rural/small town/poor neighbourhoods in poor countries.

Again, what is your point? My claim is that ICE vehicles will continue to be used for many decades in countries with large impoverished populations, because the electrical infrastructure will not support EVs. They don’t even have reliable electricity for their homes; they are not going to be able to charge their vehicles. Further, poor citizens in poor countries can’t even afford to keep their old, used vehicles in good repair, let alone purchase expensive new vehicles.

No idea what counterpoint you’re trying to make. Whatever it is, it certainly isn’t applicable to the lives of people living in poor third-world communities.

I feel that one of the big flaws in our tax system is that while the growth rate of wealth rises exponentially, taxation does not. Taxation should be used to change the exponential growth curve to a linear one.

Smart money says to wait a few more months before buying a Tesla — the price is likely to drop again. Especially likely if everyone waits a few months more…

I’m not sure what your point is. Working lower-class Mexicans can’t afford a new vehicle, much less a bunch of solar panels as well. They are not going to transition to EVs within your lifetime.

WRT ICE vehicles no longer being manufactured: ain’t happening. Purchasing or licensing an ICE vehicle may become a reality in some (wealthy) countries. It is not happening in third-world countries, eg. Mexico. Simple fact is that the utilities infrastructure is not there.

Walking through any working-class neighbourhood shows it, even in relatively modern cities like Puerto Vallarta, let alone looking at any of the small towns scattered across the nation. As’ anyone living in a small town along the popular Costa Alegre: brown-outs and black-outs are common. There is no capacity whatsoever to start hooking up charging stations for the population.

I jumped to macOS 20-odd years ago, mostly out of frustration with the build quality of Windows laptops and the endless PITA experience of Windows itself. Figured the resale value of Apple laptops made it a minimal risk.

Bought a Lenovo laptop the other year and installed Ubuntu. Thoroughly meh experience there, really disappointed. But then I found KDE, and it’s my main dev environment now.

If Lenovo could come out with a laptop with the build quality of Mac, running a KDE environment integrated with their new Lenovo phone, I think they’d stand a very good chance of going head-to-head with Apple.

> Yeah. I worked on her quite a bit.

That’s a hell of a thing. It sounds coercive, if not non-consensual. You convinced her, she did not convince herself; you worked on her quite a bit.

To me, it looks like a problem of it costing too much to live, such that a couple can’t afford to get hitched and have a kid.

You convinced her, she did not convince herself?

> if we start differentiating AI and non-AI, it'll only blur the boundaries between real and reel life even more

That’s ChatGPT talk. By definition, differentiating sharpens the boundaries.

I have never understood the claim that seatbelts are uncomfortable. Are y’all cinching them down so hard it cuts off blood flow? At any reasonable tension, it exerts no more pressure than one’s underpants.

13 billion doses administered. If they were one-thousandth as dangerous as you claim, we’d see a helluva lot more problems than we do. But we don’t. You’re jus plain wrong.

The risk from catching sars-cov-2 was/is way higher than the risk from vaccination. This is proven by the fact that some 13 billion doses have been administered with little harm, while some 700 million infections have caused 7 million deaths. You have drawn the wrong conclusions and made incorrect decisions based on your ineptitude. You are Dunning-Kruger instantiated.

But if they didn’t publish these scare articles with a well-buried disclaimer, scare-mongers wouldn’t be able to build fantastical claims from whole cloth!

It’s a shame dang doesn’t nuke these disinformation agents from orbit.

Gotcha, thx.

But have you actually had the flu? I ask, because most people say “oh, I had the flu” when in actuality they just had a common cold.

The flu, the real flu, knocks you on the ass so hard that you actively start considering that death is a possibility and that heading over to the hospital would be a good idea.

I’ve had the flu perhaps twice. Once as a child, once in my early 50s. The latter completely recalibrated my understanding of illness.

What makes this better?

IMO it’s because Tim Cook isn’t an asshole, and Steve Jobs was. If you brought something substandard to Jobs, you’d regret it with every fibre of your being. I simply can’t imagine Cook berating anyone so severely that they’re reduced to a crying puddle of shame and self-loathing.

Jobs was a shitty boss, but by god he got what he wanted.

A large part of the problem is that most of the touch device UI is “discoverable.” There is no indication-or reason to believe—that a long press might do something different than a tap, or that a swipe might reveal an option (or that a swipe in the other direction will reveal a different option), etc etc. it is all extremely opaque, not entirely consistent between applications, and completely different between OSes.

It is not posted on Ask HN.

You are a long-term user of HN. Why did you not use the “Ask HN” convention that you know you’re supposed to use?

Well worth reading John’s blog! He’s quite the character!

And then there are the people who sell phone/tablet devices, and child-oriented apps and games through their walled-garden stores — and at the same time have banned the devices for their own children.

And then there are the one or two users who ask the most goddamnably stupid questions at least once a day. “Why don’t people like walking barefoot in snow?” “Can cannibalism be an ethical source of meat?” “Should we build a wall around Fiji to save it from flooding?” I’m making those up, but the reality is that their questions are equally stupid.

Or information about OP, who by his post history has obviously dedicated his HN life to FUD.

Being late is disrespectful of the people you are supposed to be meeting. Do not expect them to respect you.

You write “Ask HN: How to Reflect the Ball at an Angle?” Which is, I note, something you will have seen every day on HN. Hell, there’s even an “Ask” link at the top of the page that shows you endless examples of how to write your question.