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> One thing you can count on, though: You will usually get a downvote on Hacker News if you deviate from the mainstream. Previously you were in a discussion wi
by chimprich 6y ago
> One thing you can count on, though: You will usually get a downvote on Hacker News if you deviate from the mainstream.
Previously you were in a discussion with me arguing with great confidence that the virus outbreak would be a distant memory in two months. I just looked it up; it was 61 days ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22434499 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22434499
You were using terms like "chicken littles" then. I'm all for reading different viewpoints, but if you're going to throw around insults like "doomer", you're not likely to get a civilised discussion going.
- lurquer 6y agoWell, don’t known about your neck of the woods, but things are opening up here in two days. So, so I was a few days off in my estimate. Statistically insignificant deaths, no overwhelmed hospitals, no body bags in the hallways or rationing of ventilators. No millions of deaths now any other of the nonsense being predicted here two months ago. The talk now, as evidenced by the front page, is other topics... stimulus checks and the like. Are things as you feared two months ago?