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by hyko 6y ago
Oh man. I feel strongly that you should be able to disagree with people and still be friends with them, so it sucks that you feel your views are isolating you. I guess I never thought of HN as a social network. You’ve got way higher karma t
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by hyko 6y ago
Why are you surprised? It’s the mainstream view, and people are looking for unity because the countermeasures that are being attempted rely on it to varying degrees. No authority I’m aware of ever suggested this was a “doomsday” virus by th
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by hyko 6y ago
Not necessary, as my point was the headline is grossly misleading; the Nobel prize-winning scientist explicitly refutes the claim in the first part of that sentence.
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by hyko 6y ago
Headline: “Nobel prize-winning scientist: the Covid-19 epidemic was never exponential” TFA: “After around a two week exponential growth of cases (and, subsequently, deaths)...”
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by hyko 6y ago
Stimulus money flowing into assets and supporting their prices. i.e. The Cantillon Effect.
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by hyko 6y ago
The “lockdown” is a Fabian strategy; one of the goals is to preserve our ability to stage an economic comeback after the health crisis has been resolved. In the near term, the economy is toast no matter what we do (short of a well oiled con
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by hyko 6y ago
Globally, there were estimated to be 3.3 billion employed people in 2018: https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/publication/world-e... That’s more than the entire global population was in 1964. So it’
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by hyko 6y ago
“Historically automation has replaced the jobs requiring the least skill with fewer jobs that required more skill” This is a compelling narrative, but it’s not true. Technological unemployment has not historically accompanied increased leve
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by hyko 6y ago
Sorry, perhaps I have misunderstood. What I thought you meant was that it would be more efficient to create a UBI for everyone now, rather than pay people via the payrolls of shuttered companies. I’m assuming you meant financially efficient
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by hyko 6y ago
That’s a fair point, I was conflating it with a negative income tax when I said that. You’re right, there are advocates for UBI that would maintain all social programs too.
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by hyko 6y ago
Not even proponents of UBI pretend that it’s the end of human labor. The original idea is that you replace all welfare programmes with one payment. If you remove human labor from the economy, you’re facing a 50-60% fall in GDP overnight, un
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by hyko 6y ago
An historic day. Here’s Bill Hill advocating a single space after the period back in the early 2000’s: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SA3NsdPNbZY
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by hyko 6y ago
He absolutely is on record suggesting that injecting disinfectant would be a promising area of research, no summary required: “I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute! And is there a way we can do something by
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by hyko 6y ago
Easily the worst U.S. president in history. I mean, say what you like about James Buchanan but I’m pretty certain he never suggested anyone INJECT THEMSELVES WITH DISINFECTANT!
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by hyko 7y ago
Deal. The world will drive on the right hand side, and convert to using BS 1363 electrical plugs. See, we’re making progress already! :D
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by hyko 7y ago
Yeah, I guess what I envisage would be a very minimal federal government, rather than a central point of failure for decisions about every aspect of people’s lives. Very hard to get agreement at that scale though, as you say.
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by hyko 7y ago
Good points. I think the regulatory equivalent of TCP/IP is probably some form federalism. There are many regional examples of this, to varying degrees. You want the minimum set of laws to provide the conditions for local human flouris
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by hyko 7y ago
Public Health England’s all-cause mortality surveillance suggests not, at least in that country: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
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by hyko 7y ago
It’s Time to Think. This is a complex question, and the answer is not “we are a weak and lazy civilisation, if only we’d build build build instead”. We’ve put the world’s mask factories where it made the most economic sense, and anyone will
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by hyko 7y ago
The failure of Lidl in Norway due to vested interests is an argument for one world government. Maybe if we had one government we’d finally be able to settle on one electrical plug, which side of the road to drive on etc. etc. Imagine if e
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by hyko 7y ago
Some of the activity lost in the months of lockdown is just deferred, and so is projected to take place when restrictions are lifted again.
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Ask HN: What’s the incentive to mark yourself as COVID-19 positive?
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by hyko 7y ago
It doesn’t matter what your personal threat model is: these videoconferencing apps have become de facto critical infrastructure for many countries almost overnight with no scrutiny and a joke security posture, because the IRL channels they
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by hyko 7y ago
I think we’re probably at the point where it doesn’t matter what your personal threat model is: your insecurity affects everyone, so nobody has the luxury of not caring about it (much like vaccination against disease). It is a matter of col
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by hyko 7y ago
They were making requests to IPs in China long before Feb 2020. At the time I assumed they’d been hacked, but in retrospect it seems like this was just how their organisation is distributed. Needless to say, I have decided not to endorse th
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by hyko 7y ago
Talent is also luck. Everything is luck.
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by hyko 7y ago
This is BS. You can be aware of existential threats, and respond to them appropriately without feeling the slightest bit anxious or paranoid. It's called planning. The personal founder experience related here has value, but trying to c
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by hyko 7y ago
These two responses are not equal, as every claim made by anyone should fall into category 1 until proven otherwise. Response 2 admits the possibility of better theories about the world being possible, while refusing to do the actual scienc
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by hyko 7y ago
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it” -Warren Buffet They didn’t even bother to build up a reputation; hard to see how they’re going to build respect for people’s privacy and security into their culture now.
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by hyko 7y ago
There’s no law that I’m aware of prohibiting April fool’s jokes. If you can stomach other people’s disapproval, you can fill your boots without fear of government intervention. Your willingness to support the lockdown is no doubt based on t

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