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robertpellonion Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States

Yeah, Wikipedia is sure going to be an unbiased reliable source for heavily polarizing government information being massively censored by every other media outlet.

robertpellonion Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States

There are several good archive sites. Try sending a link to one of them to a friend on Facebook Messenger..

robertpellonion Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States

That's not the actual Q poster, it's the community. Read the actual drops, there are several good archives.

robertpellonion Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States

Sorry to tell you but he was either the best President we've ever had or part of a Deep State plot to start WW3. Go read all the Q stuff. It's not a conspiracy or a cult, the media is actually lying. The real question is whether it is all part of a plan to create enough division to go to war.

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I don't believe Bill Gates had anything to do with the virus, he was just naively trying to do good for the world and manages to get himself in trouble because of it.

robertpellonion Launch HN: Block porn images using AI(NSFW Filter v1.3)

I love this idea. Can't wait for it to be in a chip for phones. Will really help the world.

robertpellonion Ask HN: Game-Based Exercise?

Dance dance revolution

robertpellonion Usefulness of Ivermectin in Covid-19 Illness

I wish this got upvoted, it is very interesting.

robertpellonion 600 Covid-19 cases, 0 deaths with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, zinc sulfate

They overdosed is my guess. The woman reported they each took "a spoonful" in soda. A teaspoon is 4 grams. An overdose is 2 grams. I don't know why this isn't reported anywhere.

It was probably the right chemical, as far as I can tell there isn't an aquarium specific formulation, Chloroquine Phosphate is Chloroquine Phosphate. You could just as easily overdose on the prescription if you downed a handful of pills.

I'm upset they didn't report this correctly because now people can still die from an overdose and people who might have had access to the aquarium chemical might have saved themselves with proper dosage.

robertpellonion Hydroxychloroquine causes viral load reduction in Covid-19 patients

I hope this makes it on the front page. This might be a real solution to a large portion of the problem given that it is readily available, easy to manufacture, and prevents infection with less side effects than regular chloroquine. Large amounts of the population could be prescribed this as a prophylactic and prevent much of the spread from occurring even in high risk occupations. I would love to see the telehealth system used to send prescriptions for this to pharmacies everywhere for at risk workers.

robertpellonion India Could Be Next Virus Hotspot with an ‘Avalanche’ of Cases

Chloroquine being OTC there may be beneficial, I am eager to see more data on its efficacy.

robertpellonion Understanding SARS-CoV-2 and the drugs that might lessen its power

Camostat is mentioned.

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I like this tweet. I was just thinking earlier today that I wish they offered a larger model with a button so that I could upgrade my parents' phones. I don't think they will like the gestures.

robertpellonion Can Facebook Be Fixed? Should It Be?

Yes, minus follower counts and the ability to see followers/follows. There is no practical reason I can see to have those features. I consider Facebook to be a useful public utility like a modern white pages and I wish the design was just a little different.

robertpellonion Can Facebook Be Fixed? Should It Be?

IMO there is very little need for the friends mechanism on Facebook. I think you should just add people you are interested in, and they add you if they are interested in you, and there should be no confirmation whether you were added or not. That way there is less of the toxic clique behavior possible where you unfriend or refuse to friend someone, no popularity contest or friend counts, and the current behavior of seeing friend-only posts would still function if you mutually added each other. The way it is designed seems to me to invite drama and is a big problem. Please change it, Mark!

robertpellonion Germ-Killing Brands Now Want to Sell You Germs

Great read, thanks.

robertpellonion Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

https://nathanwailes.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MTOVT/overvie...

This is my friend's wiki which also deserves some attention I think.

robertpellonion Psychedelics could be the new class of antidepressant

What happened to Shulgin's new class of antidepressants he was working on?

robertpellonion E-Cigarette Maker Juul Labs Is Raising $1.2B

As someone who smoked cigarettes and then quit by switching to vaping and weaning myself off, I can give anecdotal firsthand testimony that quitting vaping was much easier than quitting cigarettes. It's hard to say if some new vapers would have been smokers or not, and I agree that really none of it should be legal. But while any nicotine is legal, my personal experience gives me the opinion that vaping is a product which does indeed provide harm reduction.

robertpellonion E-Cigarette Maker Juul Labs Is Raising $1.2B

For those who don't know, Juul is the inventor of the "salted nicotine" vaping trend which makes the nicotine spike much faster in the bloodstream than earlier vape juice, which is more like cigarettes. They have a patent but it appears to be ignored by the vape industry as "nicotine salts" are widely available (added benzoic acid). The nicotine level is also much higher, allowing for lower wattage devices and smaller vape clouds, and a harsher hit that more closely resembles smoking. I think this technology is great if it can reduce the harm of smoking and get people off of cigarettes.

robertpellonion Bye HN: Existentially-rational, self-termination

I lived in a parking lot for 3 years. I wish I would have just gotten a basic job in order to get an apartment to stabilize my mental health and bootstrap to something better. It really takes a toll on your emotions and ability to think clearly to not have any stability.

robertpellonion Are There Any Tetris Games for Mac?

Not Tetris but maybe relevant (my game): https://bobsgame.itch.io/bobs-game-puzzle-game

Source: https://github.com/bobsgame/bobsgame

robertpellonion Dan Gilbert to Lead Detroit's Super Bowl-Type Bid for Amazon HQ2

Detroit was built on an industry so large that nothing has matched it since in scale.

I think that to restore Detroit to its former glory is not really possible because there is no industry big enough to support it, nor is Detroit necessarily the best area to put that industry if it existed.

It just so happened that Henry Ford was born here and transformed a small trading town into a huge manufacturing hub by chance of his business growing so large at the right time.

robertpellonion Washington man facing prison after foraging for wild psilocybin mushrooms

It will be good for society when there is more automation.

robertpellonion Washington man facing prison after foraging for wild psilocybin mushrooms

Having delusional cult leaders talking about the fractal universe and how we are all the same and how everything would be fixed if we just gave up our ego is bad for society.