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1helloworld1 | 4 years ago | on: I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case

Yeah, lie to the public for the greater good. If lying gets more people to wear masks and get vaccinated, and can prevent thousands of deaths, so be it. What's wrong with lying?

1helloworld1 | 4 years ago | on: I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case

Your assumption is that everyone is just as rational as you. Scientific agencies should just give out the exact probability numbers and let people decide for themselves. That's not how the world works. Our brains just cannot intuitively grasp probabilities (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-our-brains-do...). Presenting the precise and most accurate information to the public without any embellishment sounds great in theory, but it doesn't work in practice.

1helloworld1 | 4 years ago | on: Wikipedia's ivermectin talk page shows editors' mayhem

Do you know what else stops viruses from replicating in-vitro? Bleach, alcohol, baking soda, hydrochloric acid, probably even concentrated sugar and salt solutions. In-vitro results don't really prove anything. Is there a double blind study that proves effectiveness In Vivo?

1helloworld1 | 4 years ago | on: Uber prices seem to increase when phone battery is low

Lets not turn hackernews into a fake news dissemination service, and upvote some guy's unproven assertion just because you hate uber. With the millions of rides Uber makes, what are the coincidences of this guy's battery being low and surge price happening at same time?

1helloworld1 | 4 years ago | on: End of the line for Uber?

I don't know why seemingly knowledgeable people like the author keep spewing bullshit about drivers losing money. I live in an immigrant community in NYC. Pretty much every other person in this community is a Uber driver. Some are very industrious and do not mind working long hours or working on weekends. Making more than 100k per year (after all expenses) is not unheard of.

1helloworld1 | 4 years ago | on: Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads

Let's not forget that Aleksandr Kogan - the guy who harvested the Cambridge Analytica data was a research associate at Cambridge. Can facebook trust all the researchers at NYU? Can't one of them just leak and sell the scraped data? There are no guarantees that the scraped data will be used for just academic purposes. Facebook probably doesn't want another data-leak fiasco.

1helloworld1 | 4 years ago | on: US home prices surge 17% in May, fastest in 17 years

Money is just one factor. I can think of tons of other factors - low interest rates, relatively rich city people moving from smaller apartments to houses to escape Covid, low supply because of construction halts during Covid, high price of lumber (which is slowly coming down).

1helloworld1 | 4 years ago | on: Stanford law student who made fun of the federalist able to graduate after all

The Federalist Society ideals involve "checking federal power, protecting individual liberty and interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning". If they truly cared about protecting individual liberty, they wouldn't have complained about one person's satire. They making a big fuss about it is quite antithetical to their organization's ideals.

1helloworld1 | 4 years ago | on: Is Dogecoin Capped?

Game theoretically, you want to be the hoarder. Let others spend and you reap the rewards of a deflationary asset. In effect, people will still try to hoard as much as possible, and only spend when absolutely necessary.

1helloworld1 | 4 years ago | on: Square: Bitcoin Is Key to an Abundant, Clean Energy Future

This seems like an extreme case of cognitive dissonance. People who hold bitcoin (or are somehow vested in it) are trying really hard to rationalize the energy costs associated with bitcoin. But there is no way to avoid physics. Energy - no matter how it's produced- is lost as heat while mining bitcoins.

1helloworld1 | 5 years ago | on: Why the United States has the best research universities

American universities attract the best students from all over the world. For example - at Tandon School of Engineering about 80 percent of graduate students hail from foreign countries - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/education/edlife/american... American academic STEM research is sustained by the constant flow of the best students from all over the world who are willing to spend 12 hours a day for 4-6 years for a meager grad student stipend. Some are actually even willing to pay for the privilege.

1helloworld1 | 5 years ago | on: Against Alcohol

Did you actually read the article? Quoted directly from that article - "Unfortunately, there is no proof that alcohol actually causes better health".
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