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> That is misinformation. While the vaccines are generally safe and effective, they are not "completely" safe. There is a small but real risk of serious side effects, particularly myocarditis which has mainly affected young mal
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> They are instead similar to seasonal flu shots. "Flu shots", aka seasonal flu vaccine. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm It seems that your personal belief of what a vaccine is does not m
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> The death rate is nowhere near 4%. Your own source shows quite clearly that the estimated death rate for >65yo lies between 3.8% and 4.0%. The >65yo cohort is both the one reporting the lowest number of total infections (~18M) an
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> It's extremely simple - that's because the people complaining about masks were not in these concentration camps and were not tortured in secret prisons, while it's them who have to wear masks. You see, that assertion doe
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> Consider that the information you get could be one-sided because the major platforms ban dissenting views (in cooperation with partisan NGOs identifying it). Could you please explain how exactly the recent coup attempt intended to over
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> Mostly because the flu was somehow eradicated at the outset of mass covid testing (...) Perhaps all those basic public health measures implemented to contain and eliminate the spread of air borne diseases such as COVID or the flu is a
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> I agree that reducing the risk constitutes a reward. I don't agree it constitutes a high reward, since the reduction is only marginal. I suggest you review your definition of "marginal". Even the use of low-effecriveness
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> How did you get "high reward" from "only marginally reduce the risks"? Don't you believe that reducing or outright eliminating the chance that a single person you come across to not experience hospitalization o
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> Likewise face masks only marginally reduce the risks of transmission in individual interactions. Even if your personal assertion regarding the effectiveness of facial masks in containing COVID spread had any bearing in reality, don&#x2
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> That is incorrect. Japanese people don't wear masks all the time everywhere. Please stop spreading misinformation. Can you please point out precisely which OP's point you feel classifies as "misinformation"? https:
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> So, let me get this straight: We have a thread about a programming language (Java) (...) No, you really don't. If you read the thread you're commenting on, you'll notice it's about C#. The very first comment of the
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> For context, these might be some of the most broad and assertive challenges ever made on constitutional freedoms. The US has organized, in recent history, concentration camps based on the premise that national security was at stake. Mo
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> I would disagree that there is a side that doesn’t believe in American values. As an outsider, one of the US's core values is democracy and the democratic process. Given the current push to undermine it, and the recent coup attemp
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> There’s nothing selfish about not wearing a mask if vaccines are safe and effective. If you really want to parrot that line, the very least you need to do is get informed about the issue you're trying to discuss. Vaccines are safe
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> Can hardly blame people for talking about modern languages in a discussion about obsolete ones. The point is that the issue does not involve people discussing "modern languages", just mindlessly shoehorning references to Rust
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> The problem is that doesn't tell you anything about JavaScript or Python... except whom is using Stack Overflow. I'd also add that the author also failed to notice that all time series in that graph, with the exception of Pyt
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> I think that's not going to happen because single corporations have no power in choosing wages. The labor market does. The labor market is not a magical entity. It's comprised of companies doing the hiring and people doing th
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> There is no such thing as labor shortage. The conspiracy theory going around reddit is that US companies are complaining about labour shortage to try to get their COVID payroll subsidies pardoned.
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Your citation points out that a McMeal in Denmark costs around 12$ while in the US costs around 10$. Even if you blindly assume that revenue is tied to salaries, are salaries in the US only 20% apart? Your citation also points out that a Mc
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> The other is one most other languages choose which is some kind of cross platform sockets support out of the box with packages filling in more niche cases for performance or usability reasons. Given that Java followed that path and alr
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Thanks for the call out. Here's a helpful link to the announcement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29685628
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> Wrong. The more links, the easier it is to argue that it's a mistake. Automation is hard, you know? Is it wrong though? I mean, if Microsoft's reiterated pattern of license switches is automated, wouldn't this also mean
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> And no, people don't reuse trivial libraries in C, this is not JavaScript. You do realize that tribalist arguments based on absolutely no technical point whatsoever do not make any sense at all, don't you? I mean, who in thei
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> Oh. And we’re still lacking any kind of sockets support. There’s this thing I’m hearing about called the Internet that’s going to be big any day now and might need this. Between libcurl, POCO, or even Qt, does it matter at all that the
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> As always, you have to balance the risk of a crazy trap-setting knifeman attack with the (opportunity) cost of building additional escape routes. A "crazy trap-setting knifeman attack" is not the only scenario that results in
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> Libraries are a pain in C. They really aren't. At all. What exactly are the pain points you experienced with C libraries? > So most C programs use less of them This assertion doesn't hold any water. In all the years I work
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> How would such a trivial library achieve popularity? There is no size limit on how many features could ship with a library. In fact, we live in an age where packages like rimraff report around 50 million downloads per week. But the ori
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> So how many exits are needed for extremely rare circumstances? Keep in mind that the bread and butter of engineering is "extremely rare circumstances". In civil engineering, infrastructure is designed with 100 year floods and
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> When you have someone deliberately setting fires and blocking the escape routes with a knife, you have bigger problems than just one stairwell. The software world is well versed in the concept of a single point of failure, and the impo
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> It's hard translate anecdotes into evidence for things like this without dedicating a bunch of time to it This is how any credibility breaks down. Posting a bug report takes as much time as posting a message on HN. Moreover, if th

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