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by marvin 5y ago
I don't think 99% of Hacker News is in favor of requiring covid vaccination in order to perform everyday activities. It probably a double-digit percentage, but there's plenty of debate. I for one am generally speaking against both
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Wonder if we’ll have bailouts for the banks or homeowners if interest rates go up. I’m not confident the answer is no.
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by marvin 5y ago
Also, as a Norwegian, risks related to refinancing in the case of a falling interest rate don't exist. Mortgages are floating-rate by default. If you enter a fixed interest rate contract, you are on the hook for the entire interest dif
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by marvin 5y ago
When I had it, my doctor said that if I was a professional athlete, the standard outcome would be to just consider the current season lost and switch focus to getting well again in time for the next. I was relatively useless for two weeks a
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by marvin 5y ago
I read somewhere that the inverters in most newly-produced Teslas are capable of doing this already, from a hardware perspective. Might have been one of Munroe’s teardowns. No official word on why it isn’t supported yet.
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by marvin 5y ago
It depends. A friend of mine has been working for Microsoft in Ireland for a few years, and immigration to the US (green card track, two years if employed, I think) for him was practically a formality.
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by marvin 5y ago
Pumped hydroelectric storage is an obvious choice for the countries that have the geography, in effect meaning that most of the infrastructure for doing it is already in place. Hydroelectric reservoirs allow storing energy more or less inde
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by marvin 5y ago
I agree that there's merit to some of your points. But at the same time, some of this borders on the tautological when it comes to the challenges of our time. On a personal level, I find this story to be more of a funny (tragic?) anecd
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by marvin 5y ago
I was banned from the biggest national (Norway) Facebook discussion group on the pandemic for posting a comment reasoning about mask usage and whether the official guidelines might be factually incorrect. That's far into propaganda a
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Is this system guaranteed to not run into some sort of deadlock situation if your neighbor also has one of these installed?
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"Kills only 0.2%" (as long as healthcare is available) is a killer feature, so to speak. It hits right where it's bad enough to cause serious damage, while being subtle enough that you need some analytical thinking to underst
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by marvin 5y ago
Calling someone a "whiny bitch" is a personal attack that's completely unrelated to the discission. If you have to do that, can you do it in a different forum please?
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by marvin 5y ago
Isn't distributed collusion just collusion by another name? I keep hearing the argument that you can't trick the law by technological means. This seems to be an attempt at doing that.
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This isn't quite what you're talking about, but a full-scale IQ test like the WAIS tests a lot more than just the "what is the next symbol in the sequence" kind of IQ test that is associated with Mensa and others. It con
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You could draw the conclusion that most experienced Silicon Valley folks saw it coming.
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The rebuild sounds like a fun project involving some online service that detects a song based on a snippet. This was probably not available when 100 gigabytes was very impressive, though.
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by marvin 5y ago
This is a very uncharitable response. GP wants a legitimate discussion that doesn't have an obvious/well-known/established answer at this point.
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by marvin 5y ago
The population of skeptics might have changed during the last six months. You could be debating right now with someone who was strongly in favor of quarantine measures in 2020.
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by marvin 5y ago
Does anyone have a summary of the current science regarding the third vaccine shot for covid? I had the impression that the safety effect for someone in good health under 45 was neglible, although with a significant decrease in risk of catc
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There are also explicitly self-launch capable electric gliders such as the Jonker JS-3, with much greater battery capacity.
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by marvin 5y ago
I remember I heard Elon Musk criticize this game in an interview once, ~"my kids aren't allowed to play computer games anymore; they play a game called cookies or something, you literally just click on a cookie, it's the dumb
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by marvin 5y ago
Not sure if this is the kind of reply you're hoping for, but I've been super encouraged by the defensive stance that Scandinavian authorities took with regards to the AstraZeneca and J&J vaccines once observations of rare side
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by marvin 5y ago
> Or is everyone just 100% convinced that nothing could possibly go wrong at this point What would be an example of something going wrong? Are you thinking that a sub-optimal outcome might occur ("the pandemic lasted 4 months longer
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by marvin 5y ago
This will eventually blow over. People getting infected with a variant that the vaccine does not prevent infection against, will still develop their immune reaction for that variant. At some point in the future there will once again be a ba
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by marvin 5y ago
That's a very interesting proposition that looks completely insane to my European eyes, but I can certainly understand the philosophy behind it. So the premise is that if using kill-switches becomes common among criminals, we can expec
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by marvin 5y ago
Is there any credible science indicating that "Earth turns into Venus" is even remotely possible if we were to deliberately put all our efforts into triggering it? I've never heard this scenario from anyone who has spent any
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How would a more violent arrest have solved anything?
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Can't speak for the US, but e.g. generally Norwegian teachers aren't allowed to wear masks at work. Unless things have happened behind the scenes that I'm not aware of, this is under threat of being fired, although I doubt an
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I saw an HN comment once, purporting to come from a NASA engineer that quit over disillusionment from being certain that the sky crane maneuver would never work.
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by marvin 5y ago
I'll make a minor contribution to the discussion by mentioning the Culture ship normally referred to as the Mistake Not..., which is shorthand for "Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Ter

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