freewilly1040

15 ms·

91.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
My question is, to what degree is college a training center, and to what degree is it a toll bridge to the middle class? If I get charged $100 to cross a toll bridge in my car to get to my job, I wouldn’t consider myself to have gotten a go
92.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
There's lots written about imposter syndrome probably worth checking out. A good tidbit of advice I have heard for when you feel unqualified or out of place: Ask yourself, do you think the person who invited you / hired you is st
93.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
While I share you disappointment with the FDA for acting so slowly in approving vaccines for children, children are being hospitalized for Covid at only a rate of about 1 per 100K per week, and deaths are extremely rare (0 to 0.03% of cases
94.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
Some especially high prevalence places have indeed peaked within the US: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/louisiana-covid-... (and yes this peaking predates Ida) So while I don't think you can
95.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
Dealing with fraud is a very large part of holding money on other people's behalf, and the suggestion that this wouldn't be Coinbase's problem to detect and mitigate speaks to the ridiculousness of crypto.
96.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
It's in your parent comment: > Granted we're probably way under counting infections in that age group People get tested when they feel sick enough to be worried, there are many very minor and/or asymptomatic cases for whic
97.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
Yes, given a large denominator rare events will happen. So what? The relevant argument with kids and Delta is not about whether it happens to some people, it's whether the risk rates high enough to mobilize large scale, disruptive coun
98.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
> regulated critical parts of the supply chain of raw materials and preproducts I'm unfamiliar with this having happened, but if it did as you say that would definitely support your point. > It then compelled the manufacturers in
99.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
Do any downvoters care to actually explain their reasoning? Wikipedia puts flu deaths during the last pre-pandemic season at 60K in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_influenza_statis...
100.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
Serious breakthrough cases remain rare, delta has not changed this
101.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
The positive case count is not the denominator. The chances of your kid ending up hospitalized with Covid are 287 / 100K, or .29%.
102.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
The government did very little in managing vaccine production other than act as purchaser, how is this an example of them managing a market?
103.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
Permanent layoffs are an unlikely response to a temporary supply disruption, and unemployment aid covers any short term furlough
104.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
A “crash” in chip prices would be good for those buying chips
105.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
My understanding is that the manufacturing process is complex enough that there are not other firms capable of manufacturing these vaccines now.
106.
Tunnels are our Transportation Future(austinvernon.eth.link)
33 points by freewilly1040 5y ago|46 comments
107.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
The fact that the poster is considering selling their house to fund a startup would seem to indicate they do not have a good pile of savings to fall back on.
108.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
It's the charging network, which means you can go (almost) wherever you want in your car and spend only marginally more time fueling than an ICE. Non-Tesla chargers means a fillup takes hours rather than minutes. It's going to tak
109.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
Brokers provide a service that people in most cities happily do themselves for free, and take an extortionate cut. Someone is coming in and doing it better. Why should I be sad?
110.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
Yes. But it’s not a very exciting solution so people keep trying graph db’s.
111.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
Marketing and fraud detection are pretty valid imo. Just inherently hard to scale. I do think there's a valid question of how useful n-hop queries are for an N that is greater than 2 or 3.
112.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
Graph databases have been the great white whale at my org for a number of years. We gave a crack at Janus a while back. It (like a few attempts at Neo4J) failed to deliver on the promise of unlocking queries with more than a hop or two, whi
113.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
What’s the point of this posting this pedantry? Please don’t.
114.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
All of these arguments are of the flavor “git supports —-flag-1%-of-users-know so that works.” But there’s a nontrivial cost to teaching all of your users a non default workflow, which you have to pay for every new person that comes along.
115.
Ask HN: State of Autonomous Vehicles
1 points by freewilly1040 5y ago|0 comments
116.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
Interesting, thank you for the link!
117.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
> wise job selection I.e. choosing companies that have (or eventually get) publicly traded stock that goes up a bunch. There are whole classes of people who sit around all day trying to figure out which companies will grow and succeed an
118.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
Are there really other options besides evacuating the city?
119.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
The article is a great example of blogspam: - Inflammatory title - Low effort content - An invitation to hate on a favorite HN target
120.
by freewilly1040 5y ago
Instagram is terrible but I can defend forcing account creation via app only. It seems likely that such a route would draw a disproportionately large interest from scammers and disproportionately small interest from real customers.

More ›