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by istjohn 5y ago
Well, yeah. There's no system that will defeat rubber hose exploits.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Electric vehicles are far simpler mechanically, so I expect they will last much longer.
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by istjohn 5y ago
There are people in this thread who have had people close to them die from Lyme disease complications, and the article describes the experience of an avid runner who has been sidelined by the disease.
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by istjohn 5y ago
You're oversimplifying the issue which is described in some detail in the article. Yes, the antivax movement is killing thousands of people with their opposition to COVID vaccines, but that doesn't mean every vaccine ever studied
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by istjohn 5y ago
The problem is that the treatments we currently have for Lyme disease only provide temporary relief for a sizeable minority of sufferers.
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by istjohn 5y ago
I think you're shortselling the critics. See the quote from the article in my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210290
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by istjohn 5y ago
As the article describes, the story is more complicated than that: > Despite its shortcomings, Lymerix was initially popular. By July 2000, more than one million doses had been distributed. But safety concerns eventually sank the vaccin
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by istjohn 5y ago
The article states there is a 36 hour barrier. Do you have a source?
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by istjohn 5y ago
The bacteria migrates throughout the body over time, including into the brain and spine, so it's easier to eliminate when treated promptly.
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by istjohn 5y ago
The article states that Lyme disease is only transmitted if the tic latches on for over 36 hours. The bacteria is latent in the tic's gut until blood is ingested, at which point it takes 36 hours for the bacteria to multiply and migrat
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by istjohn 5y ago
Geofoam is expanded polystyrene.
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by istjohn 5y ago
The whole point of a jury trial is for the jury to decide what they believe are the facts from the evidence, testimony, and arguments provided by the lawyers on both sides. You are essentially proposing that we kneecap juries by taking the
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by istjohn 5y ago
I imagine it also greatly improves the air quality for anyone down wind from the treatment plants.
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by istjohn 5y ago
https://archive.is/99DDj
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by istjohn 5y ago
Why wouldn't we want to learn from our mistakes? Ignoring past mistakes is a recipe to repeat them. German students are taught about the Holocaust for the same reason.
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by istjohn 5y ago
No one is allowed to use language like "shove it up your ass" here on Hackernews, either. For good reason. Respectful discourse is most important precisely when debate touches on hot button issues.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Wow. That's very dissapointing. Choosing to look the other way when someone uses sexist language is not a principled stand. We are all responsible for cultivating a culture in software development that is inclusive. That means holding
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by istjohn 5y ago
”Learnings" is the one that gets my goat.
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by istjohn 5y ago
If you find this interesting, you will probably also enjoy this TED talk from Suzanne Simard on how trees communicate. She also was in an interesting Fresh Air segment recently. https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_
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by istjohn 5y ago
I don't want to say your wrong about your own experience, but I think sometimes SRS can subjectively feel very unproductive even when it's working great because of the way it constantly surfaces material at the edge of your knowle
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by istjohn 5y ago
We can do both. We don't have to choose between welcoming the many highly skilled professionals who want to work here, and welcoming the asylum seekers and economic refugees who are fleeing violence or poverty and eager to build a bett
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by istjohn 5y ago
> Maybe the solution should be to work on the big problem that is male-female resentment. Male-female resentment is not the reason fertility rates around the globe have fallen precipitously over the past century. That's a bizarre id
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by istjohn 5y ago
Interesting, never heard of that before. If I can ask, why do you use Infinity Search over Duck Duck Go?
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by istjohn 5y ago
It could be a natural monopoly if Google is able to use their user's click traffic to out-manuever SEO spam and their competition is unable to reach the necessary scale to obtain sufficient volume of user click traffic to compete with
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by istjohn 5y ago
> The border police’s role now seems to be to prepare meals for immigrants rather than turning them back Nations like ours with low birth rates and aging workforces depend on immigrants to maintain vibrant economies. The alternative is t
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by istjohn 5y ago
But the overall rate of GA fatalities is much higher than for motorcycling.
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by istjohn 5y ago
The media also insisted masks were useless for the general public. The media demonstrated a real inability to critically evaluate the statements authority figures feed to them over the past year.
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by istjohn 5y ago
Really? I've found Vim slows to a crawl on multi-GB files. Maybe that's changed recently or it was down to the plug-ins I was using?
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by istjohn 5y ago
Opposition to welfare is not racist per se. But it has been used by politicians and pundits in the US as a dog whistle to drive a racial wedge between white and Black Americans. It's not explicit, and that's the point [0]. 0. htt
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by istjohn 5y ago
I think you could argue that the opposite is true. Much classism in America is actually racism. For example, opposition to welfare programs have often been motivated by racist tropes like welfare queens. The truth is that racism and classis

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