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You aren't going to find a well-informed answer on a forum for software engineers.

by yen223 5y ago

kortilla 5y ago
Good thing this isn’t a forum for software engineers.
- CodeGlitch 5y ago
  I was hoping to hear from bio hackers
  - DoreenMichele 5y ago
    I'm a biohacker. I have no idea how concerned you should be. I've been staying out of such conversations. I have enough trouble getting taken seriously. Biohackers aren't omniscient. This really sounds like you are hoping to hear from con artists and charlatans just to get some kind of reassurance. I don't think that's a good thing to hope for, much less ask for.
    - News-Dog 5y ago
      As I posted here > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29366087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29366087 It's a crap-shoot, We and other infection able animals are mere in vevo 'petri dishes' for the RNA which is highly mutable. 'An infinite number of Monkeys, with an infinite number of typewriters', So it is a Chance and Probability game. Infinite Monkey theorem - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem Ribonucleic acid (RNA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA The hypothesis that 'as viruses mutate they become more infectious but less deadly', and wildfires will burn themselves out, only work when there is limited fuel, i.e. small communities with limited travel, hence the lock-down/lock-out option is prudent at this time.
pedalpete 5y ago
That was my initial reaction when I saw the post, but then I realized how often very knowledgeable and level-headed people share and discuss very deep topics on HN. It's possible there has been less of this as HN has grown in the last few years, (I'm more than a decade old on here), but there are definitely people who understand this topic very deeply. Even software engineers. People who don't get all they know from 30 second news snippets.

You aren't going to find a well-informed answer on a forum for software engineers.

by yen223 5y ago

You aren't going to find a well-informed answer on a forum for software engineers.

kortilla 5y ago

Good thing this isn’t a forum for software engineers.

CodeGlitch 5y ago
I was hoping to hear from bio hackers
- DoreenMichele 5y ago
  I'm a biohacker. I have no idea how concerned you should be. I've been staying out of such conversations. I have enough trouble getting taken seriously. Biohackers aren't omniscient. This really sounds like you are hoping to hear from con artists and charlatans just to get some kind of reassurance. I don't think that's a good thing to hope for, much less ask for.
  - News-Dog 5y ago
    As I posted here > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29366087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29366087 It's a crap-shoot, We and other infection able animals are mere in vevo 'petri dishes' for the RNA which is highly mutable. 'An infinite number of Monkeys, with an infinite number of typewriters', So it is a Chance and Probability game. Infinite Monkey theorem - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem Ribonucleic acid (RNA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA The hypothesis that 'as viruses mutate they become more infectious but less deadly', and wildfires will burn themselves out, only work when there is limited fuel, i.e. small communities with limited travel, hence the lock-down/lock-out option is prudent at this time.

pedalpete 5y ago

That was my initial reaction when I saw the post, but then I realized how often very knowledgeable and level-headed people share and discuss very deep topics on HN. It's possible there has been less of this as HN has grown in the last few years, (I'm more than a decade old on here), but there are definitely people who understand this topic very deeply. Even software engineers. People who don't get all they know from 30 second news snippets.