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phroobster | 4 years ago | on: Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines

I’ve already been diagnosed with covid and it was fine, a little worse than an average cold. Why should I take a vaccine and risk side effects for a disease with a 99.9% survival rate, when I’m not even bothered by it? Doesn’t make sense to me.

phroobster | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Am I working too hard?

>There may also be a moral hazard - by investing my own time into my work, I disadvantage others who are not willing or able to do so, by seeming even more productive than my baseline.

Lol at calling this a moral hazard. By your logic any positive thing you ever do in life will disadvantage others who are not doing it and therefore appear worse in comparison. Let’s not have a race to the bottom just to seem like the nicest person possible.

phroobster | 4 years ago | on: New evidence that British workplaces are losing viewpoint diversity

I am so tired of constantly hearing about politics at my workplace. Politics have already made their way into the tv shows, music, video games, and online forums that I enjoy. At least let me disconnect from that outrage-fuel at work. It also affects team cohesion. I can easily collaborate with just about anyone when I don’t know their political beliefs. As soon as I find out someone holds opposing views on a topic I feel strongly about, I can’t help but dread my interactions with them. I would strongly prefer to not know what my coworkers think about (most) non-work related topics.

phroobster | 5 years ago | on: The WHO-China search for the origins of the coronavirus

A never before seen coronavirus was found just miles away from one of only two BSL-4 laboratories in all of China, which also happens to publish gain of function research on coronaviruses. I find it amusing that anyone can claim a lab accident origin is “crazy”.

phroobster | 5 years ago | on: Why don't companies pay 50x engineers 50x?

Lots of pushback in this thread against the idea of 10x, 50x, etc. engineers. If we’re just measuring performance relative to the average software developer then I don’t see why they wouldn’t exist. I’ve met developers who solve problems that the average developer would simply never solve no matter how much time they threw at it. You could make the argument that they are “infinityx” engineers, as silly as that might sound.

phroobster | 5 years ago | on: On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward [pdf]

>do you think the distribution of bitcoin will be somewhat equitable as we approach 2140

I don’t see why the distribution of anything would be “equitable”, outside of a communist utopia/dystopia. These days that word is mostly used by people exploiting the empathy of others to gain power for themselves.

phroobster | 5 years ago | on: Bitcoin Is Time

Someone reading an econ101 textbook and immediately deciding that Bitcoin is unnecessary is an amusing example of Dunning-Kruger :)

phroobster | 5 years ago | on: My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies

Considering America’s obsession with diversity, I find it hard to believe that she would have an easier time in Europe or anywhere else in the world. In America she would receive countless offers purely as a diversity hire. That’s not to say she wouldn’t deserve the offers based on merit, but Silicon Valley has decided that pure ability is less important to hiring than race and gender. That gives her an enormous advantage over white and asian males.

phroobster | 5 years ago | on: Facebook removes misinformation related to Oregon wildfires

You are essentially arguing against “innocent until proven guilty” and implying it’s okay for a global corporation to take a public stance against a minor before his court case is even finished. Deleting only the content suggesting he might be innocent will significantly affect public opinion, regardless of the final outcome of the case. If it turns out he is innocent then this is going to be the Nicholas Sandmann situation all over again.
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