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Lillard is heartbroken when she meets anti-vaccine activists. “Of course, I’m concerned about any place where there’s no vaccine,” she said. “I think it’s crimi

Lillard is heartbroken when she meets anti-vaccine activists. “Of course, I’m concerned about any place where there’s no vaccine,” she said. “I think it’s criminal that they don’t have it for other people and I would just do anything to prevent somebody from having to go through what I have. I mean, my mother, if she had the vaccine available, I would have had it in a heartbeat.” I am amazed by the risk assessment of others when the consequences are beyond painful.

dang 9y ago
I realize you maybe didn't mean it this way, but anti-anti-vaxxer is one of the most offtopic directions a thread like this could go. Predictable, generic tangents are the information death of HN discussion. I almost wrote 'heat death' but I suppose heat is one thing they don't lack. Such things overwhelm the intellectually curious things HN exists for, and this article is quite interesting.
- minxomat 9y ago
  It actually isn't (off topic) , since it's a key theme of the article.
  - dang 9y ago
    That's a fair point, of course, but in HN's context it's secondary. What's primary is to avoid reproducing the same thing for the thousandth time, which is what happens with generic discussions. Those aren't interesting. What's interesting is the unpredictable. You can measure HN's quality by how good it is at giving meaningful diffs.
- protomyth 9y ago
  No, I didn’t mean to take it in an anti-intellectual direction, but the whole article is an ode to vaccination and the danger when everyone else has gotten the vaccine and you didn’t using folks that didn’t have the opportunity to be vaccinated and now live on a thread neglected by those who still should care. This isn’t an engineering article, it’s a warning. I’m not sure the put down response was warranted.
  - SAI_Peregrinus 9y ago
    He wrote "anti-anti-vaxer". IE turning it into a flamefest against anti-vax fraudsters.
    - DonHopkins 9y ago
      I know an anti-VAXer who went to DECUS and announced "If you're not playing with 36 bits, you're not playing with a full DEC!" Those PDP-10ers really know how to piss off the VAXers. But as dang points out, this predictable, generic tangent is pointless now that the world has moved on to 64 bits.
  - dang 9y ago
    > the whole article is an ode to vaccination and the danger I disagree. The interesting part is the iron lungs and the people. That's not as subjective as it sounds, if you define 'interesting' to include 'not having been seen a whole lot already'.

dang 9y ago

I realize you maybe didn't mean it this way, but anti-anti-vaxxer is one of the most offtopic directions a thread like this could go. Predictable, generic tangents are the information death of HN discussion. I almost wrote 'heat death' but I suppose heat is one thing they don't lack. Such things overwhelm the intellectually curious things HN exists for, and this article is quite interesting.

minxomat 9y ago
It actually isn't (off topic) , since it's a key theme of the article.
- dang 9y ago
  That's a fair point, of course, but in HN's context it's secondary. What's primary is to avoid reproducing the same thing for the thousandth time, which is what happens with generic discussions. Those aren't interesting. What's interesting is the unpredictable. You can measure HN's quality by how good it is at giving meaningful diffs.
protomyth 9y ago
No, I didn’t mean to take it in an anti-intellectual direction, but the whole article is an ode to vaccination and the danger when everyone else has gotten the vaccine and you didn’t using folks that didn’t have the opportunity to be vaccinated and now live on a thread neglected by those who still should care. This isn’t an engineering article, it’s a warning. I’m not sure the put down response was warranted.
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y ago
  He wrote "anti-anti-vaxer". IE turning it into a flamefest against anti-vax fraudsters.
  - DonHopkins 9y ago
    I know an anti-VAXer who went to DECUS and announced "If you're not playing with 36 bits, you're not playing with a full DEC!" Those PDP-10ers really know how to piss off the VAXers. But as dang points out, this predictable, generic tangent is pointless now that the world has moved on to 64 bits.
- dang 9y ago
  > the whole article is an ode to vaccination and the danger I disagree. The interesting part is the iron lungs and the people. That's not as subjective as it sounds, if you define 'interesting' to include 'not having been seen a whole lot already'.