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New comment by bvoq in "Does Acetaminophen During Pregnancy Increase Autism Risk? A Look at the Evidence"

bvoq — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:50:55 +0000

Reasoning from first-principles:

Autism is a neurological disorder where you have more island neurons than long reaching connected neurons.

Vaccines can't cross the blood brain barrier, thereby they can't cause autism. Simply ruled out. Acetaminophen on the other hand is a drug that numbs the brain. It can at least feasibly have an influence.

Next, let's think about painkillers. They numb pain. Pain is linked to far reaching memories and connections. Again, plausible.

Sometimes a crazy man says something true.

New comment by bvoq in "The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy"

bvoq — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 08:04:17 +0000

Management thinking they are again better than ChatGPT lol. News flash: ChatGPT is also good at high level thinking.

New comment by bvoq in "Apple Vision Pro available for pre-order"

bvoq — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 14:32:19 +0000

I would like to buy one for my company without prescription glasses. For employees with vision impairment, contact lenses are the preferred option. Do contact lenses work with the apple vision pro? Does anyone know this?

New comment by bvoq in "Largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up"

bvoq — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:40:24 +0000

I actually think the Russian people are too nice and tolerant. Too many Russians choose to ignore what's happening, they are too nice to their leaders.

New comment by bvoq in "Ask HN: Is AI safety simply the thought police?"

bvoq — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:39:19 +0000

I think you’re missing out on 3: making us addicted and controllable sheep.

New comment by bvoq in "Sam Altman on X: "we are pausing new ChatGPT Plus sign-ups for a bit""

bvoq — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 13:14:41 +0000

This so much. This is the exact reason why some countries are failing and some are not.

New comment by bvoq in "Google/IAC/Expedia (2019)"

bvoq — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 11:12:45 +0000

The main problem is bad people, people who put shareholder value above all else. However, another big problem is good people leaving when bad things happen. At some point only bad people remain at a company and this will be the fait of Google at some point.

New comment by bvoq in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

bvoq — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 21:14:08 +0000

Why do you not move YC into a more immigration friendly country?

New comment by bvoq in "Craig Murray seeks UN protection in Switzerland against British persecution"

bvoq — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:30:16 +0000

The UK is closer to South Africa than to Europe. It's corruption ridden to the top and 1 in 5 children live in food poverty despite it being the 5th richest country. The mismanagement of law and order is so obvious. Birmingham went bust, privatisation spurred energy bills, etc.

New comment by bvoq in "Takkyu-bin: Luggage forwarding in Japan"

bvoq — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 07:15:31 +0000

We have a similar thing in Switzerland but it’s not only done by the Hotel but mostly by the train organisation SBB. Someone will pick up your luggage from your home (costs about 50$) or you can deposit it at your local train station (30$). Then on the day of your flight you don’t need to worry about your luggage and on your flight back you can specify to which train station or home they should deliver your suitcase. https://www.sbb.ch/en/station-services/before-your-journey/l...

New comment by bvoq in "The Fall of Babylon is a warning to AI unicorns"

bvoq — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 03:11:51 +0000

Good! They are the worst private health care I ever had. Public health care was better in the UK.

New comment by bvoq in "Nvidia, one of tech's hottest companies, is fine with remote work"

bvoq — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 13:40:38 +0000

At least I can afford a house with heating outside of London, lol.

New comment by bvoq in "Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?"

bvoq — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:29:27 +0000

I would honestly compress the photos. You don’t need ultra hd pictures for your memories.

New comment by bvoq in "Ask HN: Who is using the D language and likes/doesn't like it? Why?"

bvoq — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 17:41:43 +0000

I absolutely love D’s contracts with pre and postconditions. These I can simulate in other languages however. The invariant is where D really shines imo. Also the fact that you can overwrite the r value constructor, move constructor and cooy constructor are great ideas and the static function support is also good!

New comment by bvoq in "Ask HN: What is the best way to build a desktop app in Windows in 2023?"

bvoq — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 03:09:38 +0000

Flutter is not a bad choice if you want to build a cross platform app.

New comment by bvoq in "Edsger Dijkstra’s One-Day Workweek"

bvoq — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 07:40:34 +0000

Alternative title: Edsger Dijkstra’s work-from-home workweek.

New comment by bvoq in "Remote Work to Wipe Out $800B from Office Values, McKinsey Says"

bvoq — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 16:31:37 +0000

Let’s fucking gooo

New comment by bvoq in "Apple Says It Will Exit the UK Market If Government Passes Online Safety Bill"

bvoq — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 08:12:44 +0000

Good. They don’t need tech anyway.

New comment by bvoq in "Apple wants rights to the image of apples in Switzerland"

bvoq — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:23:47 +0000

Free money for Swiss farmers is what I see here lol

New comment by bvoq in "Can we create a thread for some of the best materials on CS available online?"

bvoq — Sat, 27 May 2023 08:04:56 +0000

The digital design and computer architecture course from Onur Mutlu is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5Q2soXY2Zi-EImKxYYY1...