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natchy··on US throws out millions of doses of Covid vaccine as world goes wanting
Getting the president of a country to push other countries to take the vaccine is next level go-to-market strategy.

> some profit.

Ha! We’re talking 10s of billions.

Personally, I’m waiting for the Monsanto vaccine before I take it.

natchy··on US throws out millions of doses of Covid vaccine as world goes wanting
> Biden has vowed to vaccinate 70% of the world in the next year

Imagine the profits Pfizer is going to have. Hell of a quarter.

natchy··on How to Evaluate Startup Offers
Qualtrics gave engineers RSUs in 2015 when they were still private.
natchy··on Super Mario 64 has been ported to iOS
Same. Couldn’t view the link and won’t be installing an app I have no intention of using.
natchy··on YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
> rationalist and never believe conspiracy theories

That’s irrational to NEVER believe them. How do you know what is or isn’t a conspiracy theory? Whether it was fact checked by our overlords?

natchy··on Tesla Sues for Defamation over Social Media Posts
Maybe Tesla was actually innocent and they are counting on the Streisand effect. It’s a stretch.
natchy··on Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends
I’ve never seems a timeline-view calendar in the terminal like here: https://github.com/SitanHuang/ledg

What libraries were used to do that? I don’t see a package.json

natchy··on Lessons Learned from Two Years as a Data Scientist
That’s just a client though, right? They write JavaScript too for clients.

It’s probably production level services, not just projects.

natchy··on Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013)
The vilest? Not even. That was a mild 4chan thread.
natchy··on Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (2013)
Facebook/Instagram?
natchy··on NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings
> even offered $100 to get the vaccine

Must be one hell of a pandemic if that is a greater incentive than immunity.

natchy··on NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings
It wouldn’t be inconsistent to advocate for voter ID laws and let minorities disagree.

His point was not speaking for minorities.

natchy··on NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings
> a free, readily available vaccine

Nothing is free. How much did pharma companies make from the vaccine? I don’t know the answer.

natchy··on Square Banking
This isn’t a brutalist site just because it has little color.
natchy··on Square Banking
Square is a public company. Not a startup by any means.
natchy··on San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge
> both sides

There’s not only 2 sides.

I stopped reading any news or social media (outside HN or stocks) since New Years. I don’t feel on a side anymore.

natchy··on San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge
You used the term “homeless” after saying you hate it?
natchy··on Gas shortage: Gov. Cooper declares state of emergency for NC
Nobody mentioned cars.

This little 125cc motorcycle get 125-150 mpg. Tops out at 55mph.

https://powersports.honda.com/street/minimoto/trail125-abs

natchy··on The Animal Is Tired
Related, I was just talking about why middle/high school years seem to last longer than now. The variety of the time spent was probably a factor (Playing in the band one day, focusing on decathlon another). Life is monotonous these days.
natchy··on New evidence that British workplaces are losing viewpoint diversity
From the article:

> We asked whether it is “fair or unfair for people who say grossly offensive things to be at risk of losing their livelihoods?” Nationally, 48 percent believe it is “fair,” but this figure rises to 65 percent for social democrat-aligned Labour voters, compared with 39 percent for right-leaning Conservative voters.

Meaning right leaning are more likely to live and let live.

natchy··on Artist faked being a billionaire to photograph New York City’s best views
> this is a huge argument

What was the argument. I didn’t see an argument. That fact that expensive apartments exist?

> let them pay in blood for the privilege

Why? Follow this thread of envy and it ends at a guillotine for anyone with wealth.

natchy··on An open letter to Jason and David
So she admitted that political climate at work contributed to her emotional/medical leave?

Sounds like she would be more fulfilled at a non-profit.

Sounds like she was spinning her wheels doing things that don’t necessarily make the company money, was bound to have conflict with management.

natchy··on The Tamagotchi Cemetery
> There is a new Pokemon game coming out called "Pokemon Snap" where apparently the whole game consists of traveling through the game world and taking photos of Pokemon

At first I thought you were joking as if we were in the 90s again with this tamagotchi thread. People were equally confused by the original Pokémon snap, they said the exact same thing as you. Originally, kids were disappointed that the first 3D Pokémon game was a photography game, but it ended up being a memorable hit.

I played the hell out of that when I was 9 years old.

natchy··on Job descriptions should show a salary or salary range
So it’s not “empowerment”. It’s equal outcomes. It’s not “leveling the playing field”, it’s removing the playing field. If that’s your goal whatever, but dressing it up behind platitudes is dishonest.
natchy··on Job descriptions should show a salary or salary range
> The measures she proposes would likely raise wages for everyone

Then it’s not realistic. How can companies afford to raise their highest expense?

This will put a cap on skilled negotiators since it creates a fixed range.

Call it a “benefit”. I could see how it “benefits” more workers, but I wouldn’t call it “empowering”.

It does make good negotiators more powerless.

natchy··on Job descriptions should show a salary or salary range
How does this empower women? Sounds like lowering the bar for everyone.

The author even said she’s likely to undervalue her own worth. This proposal is a business straight up telling them their worth. Opposite of empowering. She wants prices listed like a McDonalds drive thru. She wants it easy.

Real empowerment would be teaching women how to properly negotiate a salary.

It’s not empowering to stay in t-ball.

natchy··on India may build new coal plants due to low cost despite climate change
If they don’t want to do it themselves then some of our billionaires will be happy to invest and own huge portions of the upside.
natchy··on India may build new coal plants due to low cost despite climate change
> This is a colonialist policy

nations can’t even do some kind of sanction to promote clean tech without some social justice moralisms? It’s so tiresome.

The plane is going down. First class goes down with coach.

natchy··on Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public
> Competition is good for consumers

On the whole, yes, but not for all consumers.

If some people lived near a beautiful meadow and river, and everyone else lived in the desert, then competition (e.g. opening up a direct train to the meadow) would hurt the ones living in the meadow.

natchy··on The Ponzi Career
> For example, if Elon Musk succeeds in landing the first person on Mars, his coin price should theoretically go up. And if, in contrast, he makes a racial slur during a press conference, his coin price should theoretically go down.

Yes, and when people are making emotional/ideological financial decisions, I’ll buy the dip.

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