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Man, this thread really bringing out the worst of Hackernews and its so disappointing but unfortunately not surprising to see the complete lack of capacity for
by n0us 6y ago
Man, this thread really bringing out the worst of Hackernews and its so disappointing but unfortunately not surprising to see the complete lack of capacity for empathy from some of the other heavily downvoted commenters. Almost everyone who participates on this site is well educated and fortunate enough to understand that people have been putting their lives on the line for months on end to help people through this crisis.
They did not sign up for this an in most cases probably don't really have a choice but to keep working. Health care has always been known as a high stress field, but the last year has completely changed everything even for the people not directly working with Covid patients. Hospitals in America continue to treat employees horrendously while the executives hide out and rake in the big bucks. Maybe a small minority of nurses are earning this "5-10k" but there are probably not as many as you would think. Not everyone can just leave home and everything else behind and work 5-12s in a week.
- jorblumesea 6y agoHN users are generally well compensated and largely disconnected from the trials and tribulations of many healthcare workers and normal people. Tech is a bubble in many ways. The disconnect between tech, tech salaries and "how the other half lives" has always shocked me. People who have never worked in a restaurant legitimately questioning why waiters need to make a living wage and why they don't just join a coding bootcamp.
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- liveoneggs 6y agoyeah it's easy to see from these comments how theranos got funded
- jonsno56 6y agoAnd juicero. “But it makes economic sense!!”
- troughway 6y ago>Man, this thread really bringing out the worst of Hackernews and its so disappointing but unfortunately not surprising to see the complete lack of capacity for empathy from some of the other heavily downvoted commenters. Now you know.
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- bleepblorp 6y ago> Man, this thread really bringing out the worst of Hackernews and its so disappointing but unfortunately not surprising to see the complete lack of capacity for empathy from some of the other heavily downvoted commenters. That's an improvement over the usual HN COVID-19 threads, where 'it's just a hoax-flu, bro, stop spreading fear' usually gets upvoted and posts pointing out the dangers of SARS-CoV-2--and of SARS-CoV-2 disinformation--are downvoted, flagged, or removed. The most generous interpretation is that HN has a severe Dunning-Kruger problem. The more likely explanation is that HN is host to a lot of people who are completely incapable of empathy and are unable to protect themselves from disinformation in areas outside of their own expertise. This doesn't say much for HN or the tech sector in general. . . A contagious biological virus is not conceptually different from the Morris Worm. If there was a neo-Morris Worm loose on the Internet, those of us on the sysadmin-side of the IT house would take all reasonable measures to protect our systems from it. Indeed, failing to do so would be negligent. Failing to take protective measures (social distancing, masks, WFH) against SARS-CoV-2 is no different from putting unpatched systems directly on the internet while a worm is active. It's so clearly negligent that no one whatsoever should advocate for it.
- shalmanese 6y ago> The most generous interpretation is that HN has a severe Dunning-Kruger problem. The more likely explanation is that HN is host to a lot of people who are completely incapable of empathy and are unable to protect themselves from disinformation in areas outside of their own expertise. It's one of the weird quirks of living in our modern hyper partisan environment that how much you believe political correctness is a problem on college campuses is correlated with what you think the IFR of an infectious disease is. Beliefs come as a package now, independent of the evidence of each individual portion of the package.
- shuntress 6y agoThe two package options are "Alternative Facts" and "Reality"
- gruez 6y ago>That's an improvement over the usual HN COVID-19 threads, where 'it's just a hoax-flu, bro, stop spreading fear' usually gets upvoted and posts pointing out the dangers of SARS-CoV-2--and of SARS-CoV-2 disinformation--are downvoted, flagged, or removed. Is this something that's happening within the last few weeks, or a few months ago when the pandemic was just starting? I find the former extremely hard to believe.
- segmondy 6y agoWell said, especially sad to see this from the same folks that burnout because they are dealing with a code base with no unit test and told not to rewrite.
- TomSwirly 6y agoSome of the worst MAGAs I ever met were computer programmers.