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nibsfive··on US Mortality Monitoring – Deaths, Excess, Z-Scores, State Map
That's accurate of other countries. Excess death outside of 75+ people who had a few more years left is zero.
nibsfive··on Ask HN: Help, I'm in a pivotal negotiation and I'm not sure what to do
In general, ignore any whims of the other side. Just flat out ignore. Assert what's reasonable. Decide your walk away point. Anchor high and make sure whatever their first ask is you have a thoughtful but firm negative response to.
nibsfive··on Facebook Helped the FBI Hack a Child Predator via 0-Day in Tails (2020)
This is a really fascinating and challenging story. Highly recommend reading it if anyone comes here to get the TL/DR.
nibsfive··on Ask HN: What is your “this-should-be-just-blogpost-not-a-book ”?
Deep Work
nibsfive··on NIH will invest $1B to investigate 'long Covid'
Yeah it seems like it may reset the hyperinflammatory state.
nibsfive··on NIH will invest $1B to investigate 'long Covid'
It's pretty much "were you on a ventilator or diagnosed with ARDS" and "are you over 80". There's long covid cases outside those criteria, but with superdosing Nicotinic Acid and 3-6 months almost all seem to resolve.
nibsfive··on Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing
Google is by far the most privacy respecting data company on earth. Between this, not using Gmail, not operating in China for ethical reasons, it's not clear what more people could want. Don't use it if it doesn't work for you, but it's clearly being handled thoughtfully.
nibsfive··on Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed
I can't stand this pseudo Charlie Munger stuff. As a CEO, I have become 20x more efficient at making good enough decisions. I could wait for perfect decisions, but our competitors would ship and wed run out of money. It's such a weird meta interpretation it's so hard to translate to complex knowledge work, and if it doesn't translate to that it seems to work only in your head.
nibsfive··on SolarWinds CEO blames intern for password leak
As a 20 person startup we have a KMS with only two authorized users. Seems like SolarWinds tried pretty hard to be hacked.
nibsfive··on Silicon Valley’s Safe Space
Wall Street Journal has been weirdly objective in comparison.
nibsfive··on South Africa Halts Use of AstraZeneca Vaccine
https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2021...
nibsfive··on South Africa Halts Use of AstraZeneca Vaccine
False. It prevents 50% of cases, 83% of medical intervention and 100% of hospitalizations. Halting it is delusional perfectionism.
nibsfive··on Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine provides minimal protection against SA virus variant
Minimal and "no one hospitalized regardless of age" may be simultaneously true, but I personally value the latter more. I'm not trying to exterminate covid, personally, just not be permanently harmed by it.
nibsfive··on The Mystery of India's Plummeting Covid-19 Cases
We've reached endemicity. Every country give or take is going down all at once.
nibsfive··on The world is full of wasted motion
Kids are irreversible, marriage is highly reversible.
nibsfive··on Coronavirus is in the air – there’s too much focus on surfaces
Yes, rounds to totally pointless. Don't be indoors with people is >90% of the risk.
nibsfive··on SpaceX violated launch license in Starship test, triggering an FAA probe
It will be end times if the government can't get out of the way of progress.
nibsfive··on Covid: Argentina imposes new tax on wealthiest
Almost everyone with money has already left Argentina because of the socialist death spiral. If this happened in the US everyone in the 0.1% would move assets somewhere else, the way companies do.
nibsfive··on Raising a pre-seed and Canadian angels are anal about safes
Work with americans.

Credentials: raised $3M on SAFEs in two weeks from US investors. Canadian investors offered $250k on $750k with a board seat lmao.

nibsfive··on In China’s New Age Communes, Burned-Out Millennials Go Back to Nature
Picturing CCP officials being disturbed by this because it's the wrong interpretation of "communism".
nibsfive··on Target's Official GitHub Organization
Target has an enormous engineering organization. On par with major banks.
nibsfive··on Why China's economy is less healthy than it looks
It's also a huge anti metric for giving an incentive to inflate your currency. Up and to the right.
nibsfive··on Ask HN: Are we ready to take our lives back?
Was going to ask this, where I am it's illegal to go outside unless for groceries or doctor.
nibsfive··on Retail traders have done absurdly well in the last year, and it's not clear why
The more people you enfranchise, like democracy, the more values shift. This is the new normal.
nibsfive··on Could giant SPACs be next?
It's more an indication of how (irrationally) intent companies are on staying private well into their days as a global empire.
nibsfive··on Five million vaccinated Britons told to carry on 'as if you have the virus'
Almost everyone vaccinated has sterilizing immunity once it builds, so the main thing is the immunity lag time. The Dakota's reached herd immunity around 60% serological (only 12% test confirmed). So based on your numbers, May in UK would be basically normal.
nibsfive··on The Viral Vasectomy: Covid's Silver Lining – Peter Watts' Blog
They are arguing for the world at large which to me is driven by self referential hate rather than any particulars.
nibsfive··on The Viral Vasectomy: Covid's Silver Lining – Peter Watts' Blog
Might be the most vile and toxic thing I've ever read. Covid appears to make men sterile, and that is good? It takes another level of self loathing to wish sterility on other people.
nibsfive··on Covid-19 Has Nearly Wiped Out the Flu–How Do We Keep It from Coming Back?
As a result of capital being dumped into vaccines, Moderna and others already have formulas for a universal flu vaccine. I read also that mRNA can be delivered by pill. DARPA has a plan to solve future pandemics in 60 days usi g a combination of those and other technologies. We have the technology, pending regulatory success, to Amazon Prime people vaccine pills via drone that address all flus, covid or many other things. Pretty amazing.
nibsfive··on The Apgar Score helped decrease the infant mortality rate
Yes. It happens after birth. The paediatric nurse takes a look based on the checklist and ranks the baby out of 10. Our kid was an 8 but required NICU for the 2 they were missing. But if it's even lower they can immediately intervene, etc.
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