<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: cguess</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cguess</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:41:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cguess" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cguess in "Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's the same show, Nova just rebranded it in the US. BTW, here's a full video of the BBC version but available everywhere. <a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x223gx8" rel="nofollow">https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x223gx8</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:13:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092674</link><dc:creator>cguess</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092674</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cguess in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>France and England are trying.<p>The problem is money doesn't build supply lines overnight. Nor does it hire experts both locally and globally and get them there. Much of the data collected on patients by USAID can't just be handed over to another government for a myriad of privacy issues. Patients then have to know that their old clinic no longer exists and they have to go to a new one (is it in the same village anymore?). In the meantime viral counts go up, people get sick, infect their partners or newborn children. You can't just "pick it up later" without causing real harm.<p>> or do they not care<p>Do we not? Why can't we care, why is it now someone else's problem because Musk is still mad Mandela was let off of Robin Island?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:18:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086185</link><dc:creator>cguess</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cguess in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is not, at all anymore.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:15:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086132</link><dc:creator>cguess</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cguess in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok... so you have to<p>1. Know you were exposed (many many many people don't know they're HIV+)<p>2. Have the means to go to a clinic within 72 hours<p>3. Have the social capacity to go to the clinic safely (in many parts of Sub Saharan Africa doing so would insult your partner)<p>PEP is an emergency drug, not a prevention at all.</p>
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<p>*PrEP<p>It... was, until Musk dismantled USAID and Congress defunded PEPFAR.<p>So many comments by people who have never stepped foot out the Global North making wild assumptions.</p>
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<p>And clearly only the people in the USA matter.</p>
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<p>We did, Musk has sentenced hundreds of thousands, if not millions, to death by dismantling USAID.</p>
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<p>> but if someone is unwilling to go on PrEP, why would they suddenly be willing to get a vaccine?<p>Because PrEP at even its best and most modern version requires an update every six months for life. If you're well-off and in SF or NYC or London that might be easy, but there's so many externalities such as:<p>- People who misjudge the risk they're at, so don't go on the meds in the first place<p>- People who live in regions where getting to a doctor even every six months is a challenge<p>- The six-month injection is extraordinarily expensive and a life-time treatment, for a disease you don't even have yet.<p>If instead it becomes a once-in-a-lifetime series of shot, like many other vaccines are already, we can start considering a path to extinguishing the disease, not just teaching people to live with it.<p>Then there's the financial savings of a series of three shots once vs a lifetime of them.</p>
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<p>People just need to read the decision, this is specifically discussed...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:51:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48739019</link><dc:creator>cguess</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48739019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48739019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cguess in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you read Roberts's opinion he literally explains the definition of jurisdiction as it stood when the amendment was drafted (he cites three different dictionaries) and cites floor arguments directly from the Congressional record. It's not long, takes about 15 minutes to get through.<p>The rest of the documents are the concurrences (Jackson) and the three, frankly insane, dissents. Thomas's is 90 pages long somehow (I couldn't get through all that one, it's properly crazy).</p>
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<p>Even back then Mike Judge said he had to tone down the absurdity he saw on fact-finding trips to Bay Area. He said no one would believe how absolutely stupid so much of all of it he saw was.</p>
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<p>Just to expand on this:<p>"ye" in "ye Olde mill" is actually just "the" but originally "þe"/"þee". The first printing presses to England were imported from Germany, which never used þ, so printers used something that looked sorta similar, thus "y".<p>"Ye" was a different word, the 2nd person non-formal version of "you" (which was historically formal: see-Shakespeare and how he played with "ye" and "you"). Thorn was on its way out along with "ð" both of which were in Middle English. The sounds didn't leave English, but we merged it into one letter cluster "th" (think "that" and "the", which have different th sounds).</p>
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<p>Even in NYC you could get by pretty much just fine without a phone (a credit or debit card is pretty much required though). The hardest part would be losing contact since expectations of how people organize and meet up are completely mobile phone centric, and plans are almost expected to be modified in real time.</p>
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<p>Personally I hope you can also type to Siri, which is what I'll use WAY more than voice. I work from home and live alone, but even then I don't want to basically be talking to myself all day. I also live in a major urban city and while random people talking to themselves on the sidewalks certainly isn't unheard of it's not a great look, much less on a subway or cafe.</p>
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<p>Don't just limit it to the US, it's going very well in the UK too!</p>
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<p>This one actually certainly is, it just hasn't shown up in court because no one's dumb enough to enforce it.<p>The Constitutional Convention discussed a national language at length in 1789, and adamantly <i>didn't</i> include a language requirement on purpose.</p>
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<p>Again, this is a hiring issue, not a legal one. You want to make it against the law for your boss to hire bad managers?</p>
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<p>This is a hiring issue, not a legal one. The US has no official language, and no language tests, so requiring English in law would be dicey to put it mildly. What if I'm hiring someone specifically to work at a Spanish language news outlet?</p>
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<p>This has been a thing for all tech companies for years.<p>According to what I was told by some FANNG people (I've never worked for them myself) some employees were/are were sent to public speaking classes after being hired specifically to teach socially awkward programmers how to talk on stage, and this is what they teach them, weird hand movements and all.</p>
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<p>And the US having 30,000 (or whatever absurd number) makes the world safer?</p>
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