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by firasd 6y ago
For me this boils down to what I was saying at the time ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23130220 ), that we hear a lot about what Elon Musk thinks about whether the factory is safe, and what the county thinks, but I wo
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Workers at re-opened Tesla plant test positive for coronavirus(sfgate.com)
14 points by firasd 6y ago|5 comments
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by firasd 6y ago
I’d like to know what Tesla factory workers think. It’s seeming clear to me from various polls that at most 20% of Americans think ‘oh everything is fine let’s go back to work and school tomorrow.’ So opinions on social distancing are not a
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by firasd 6y ago
Making literal what I suspected: Elon’s ‘Free America’ posturing was about keeping his factory running. All the polls I’ve seen show that less than 20% of people believe everything is safe. The only ‘open up now’ constituency in America (be
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by firasd 6y ago
Related: "The respiratory distress appears to include an important vascular insult that potentially mandates a different treatment approach than customarily applied for ARDS." https://twitter.com/jama_current/
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by firasd 7y ago
No, it's the other way around--I was talking about online communities that are primed to say vacuously negative things about Musk. I'm saying I never quite agree with the gratuitous pile-ons, but sometimes there are legit issues w
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by firasd 7y ago
I guess this shows that I spend too much time on twitter but there are big conflicts on there about things he does all the time; and he is very polarizing, with legions of fans and detractors. Short sellers and left wing types are big subcu
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by firasd 7y ago
The situation with Elon is kinda complicated. I almost never side with his haters (short-sellers, Brooklyn socialists etc) but there’s no doubt he does some objectionable things from time to time. Long before the more recent controversies I
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by firasd 7y ago
You might find this thread interesting (“There's a growing body of data to strongly suggest #COVID19 predisposes to both venous and arterial thromboembolism due to excessive inflammation, hypoxia, immobilization and diffuse intravascul
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by firasd 7y ago
The problem with 'low risk / high upside' is that it can apply to anything. We can try lemonade since it has low risk and high upside. But at some point we have to start wondering if we should all be obsessed with lemonade ri
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by firasd 7y ago
When the Covid crisis is over, one of the strangest sub- plots will have been the fracas around Hydroxychloroquine. Starting from medical practitioners worldwide adopting its usage in a ‘cargo cult’ way, mimicking what other doctors were do
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by firasd 7y ago
Yup. It is apparently well known among medical practitioners here.
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by firasd 7y ago
Here in India a Doctor has already died after taking this and having a cardiac issue (which is one of the potential complications): https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/coronavirus-in-india-g... I think people re
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by firasd 7y ago
Hi all, this page basically processes a list of experts on Twitter and finds what they are engaging with (likes, replies, quote tweets, retweets). Let me know what you think! If it seems useful to people I'm considering adding the top
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Show HN: Coronavirus updates based on tweets from experts(flockpath.com)
6 points by firasd 7y ago|1 comments
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by firasd 7y ago
I always feel like 'Catch 22' is underrated as a reference point for bonkers situations, including current US politics. It is very lengthy though, so that explains why it's not so widely read. The movie 'Brazil' tre
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by firasd 7y ago
Has anyone actually been locked out of Gmail because of a google cloud bill? I don't think they are connected in the sense that your Gmail/Youtube/Android etc account will stop working if you don't pay. Same with Amazon
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by firasd 7y ago
I think the fact that he cites work on a 'private social platform' is significant. Even if you set aside broader trends in consumer apps and just look at FB itself, this trend is inevitable given the way statuses--a prominent part
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by firasd 7y ago
It's been a great decade for horror. I think Oculus (2013) was the first movie to genuinely scare me. Other favorites: The Babadook (2014), The Witch (2015), Get Out (2017), Hereditary (2018), Us (2019).
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by firasd 7y ago
Yeah. Interesting article about that: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/opinion/covington-twitter...
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by firasd 7y ago
Yes. I think a lot of liberal activism regarding Facebook is an attempt at 'working the refs'. The other side does it too -- before FB shut down the 'trending topics' section, there were many allegations of anti-conserva
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by firasd 7y ago
His whole deal is about the 2016 election. While it exposed legitimate issues, I suspect a lot of anti-Zuck/'techlash' sentiment will die down if a Dem is elected next year. In fact I suspect even now the Techlash is overstat
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by firasd 7y ago
I don't think this is a fair comparison. WeWork is guilty of projecting too optimistically. Enron was engaged in massive accounting fraud, booking potential future revenues in this quarter's numbers, etc.
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by firasd 7y ago
This sounds a bit like the Aadhaar system here in India (I can open a bank account without filling out any new forms, just using a finger print reader).. I would say be careful what you wish for; this lays the grounds for a surveillance sta
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by firasd 7y ago
I found this great NASA imaging tool. You can see that all of Punjab is on fire https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#z:6;c:77.5,28.8;d:... Further reading on crop stubble burning: https://www.news18.com
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'Everybody Is Freaking Out': CA law aimed at Uber might harm freelance writers(hollywoodreporter.com)
2 points by firasd 7y ago|0 comments
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by firasd 7y ago
What if a lot of this culture war stuff is happening in the US because of geographic clustering? I'm not sure why a couple hundred twitter-addicted people from Portland/Seattle/SF get to pontificate all the time about who or
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by firasd 7y ago
Seems like you and the article agree with me here (the consequences are financial, not imprisonment for the average NBA player.) And if financial consequences count as a free speech issue to you, then you agree with me that free speech isn&
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by firasd 7y ago
China is not threatening to arrest and try basketball players in the US. Their main threat is loss of financial income to the NBA.
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by firasd 7y ago
I see this often (including an accompanying XKCD cartoon[1]) and don't agree with it. It may be a good summary of the first amendment in the US constitution but "judicial imprisonment" doesn't define the boundaries of fr

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