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New comment by chub500 in "Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’"

chub500 — Mon, 31 May 2021 02:46:12 +0000

Reading the article it wasn't clear to me why exactly they couldn't sell elsewhere cheaper. That seems to be an important detail. Is there some fine print stating if you're 'caught' selling cheaper elsewhere you lose the buy button? This wasn't clear to me from the article.

New comment by chub500 in "A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate"

chub500 — Fri, 14 May 2021 01:58:06 +0000

Not to detract from your sarcasm but the conservation of energy only holds true in flat spacetime. So I guess you don't 'believe' in curved spacetime? That makes you a flat spacetimer I guess...

New comment by chub500 in "Launch Your App: Why We Don’t Use Docker (We Don’t Need It)"

chub500 — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 21:31:53 +0000

Docker takes advantage of various linux sandboxing features. On a linux bare metal host it's just a combination of namespaces and resource constraints (cgroups) whereas on other platforms it will have to be the above within a bonafide VM running a linux kernel. The general rule is that linux maintains backward compatability even in ABI so as long as the host kernel is the same or newer than the image requirements it should just work. Things wont work for example if your image requires iouring (a brand new syscall interface) but your host OS is running 4.x (doesn't map iouring syscalls to anything).

New comment by chub500 in "Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age"

chub500 — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 11:52:16 +0000

I just watched an interesting Veritasium on this aspect of aging: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QRt7LjqJ45k

New comment by chub500 in "Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out"

chub500 — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 23:25:04 +0000

I had never heard this before. Do you have a source? It seems to me the more informed in virology people are the more they seem to think the 'leak' is the most likely scenario.

New comment by chub500 in "Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge"

chub500 — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 22:08:45 +0000

I've had a fairly long-term side project working on git for chronological data (data is a cause and effect DAG), know of anybody doing that?

New comment by chub500 in "The Global Population Crisis That Never Was"

chub500 — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 14:22:39 +0000

Worst? You mean _highest_? These people will be caring for your kids in their nursing home.

New comment by chub500 in "The Victims of the Eviction Moratorium"

chub500 — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 01:39:06 +0000

Abraham buys land in Genesis: "For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place." Gen 23:9. Private property contract law is nothing new. My thought is how many of these landlords will end up turning to more nefarious means to make ends meet? It seems when the legal system fails people inevitably turn to vigilantism.

New comment by chub500 in "The Hermeneutical Imperative"

chub500 — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:23:16 +0000

I have to say, hermeneutics is something our western culture has become catastrophically bad at. When the failure of postmodernism became apparent (truths unfortunately must be shared to take any corporate action in society), we seem to have reverted directly back into a Nietzschian nihilism, every group only exists as a means to power. This has begun to erode traditional modernist western ideals which the postmodernists seemed to allow: offensive speech isn't necessarily wrong, interpretation and truth are two sides to the same coin, etc.

New comment by chub500 in "Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning 'Stop the Steal'"

chub500 — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 23:43:13 +0000

My perspective as a conservative:

1. These companies have every right to legally censor those they disagree with.

2. By exercising that right they put themselves at risk of being regulated more stringently (as utilities for example) when they demonstrate inelasticity in consumer choice.

3. I'd rather them not be treated as utilities because that hampers competition and thus impedes efficiency.

4. Your statement above is a farcical caricature of conservative ideology. Every product/service deserves a debate on what regulation is appropriate but as a society regulation only exists because bad actors necessitated its creation. No one wants car seats for their 8 year olds - we'd much rather be trusted to do the right thing.

New comment by chub500 in "Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store"

chub500 — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 14:09:55 +0000

I'm not the OP but I know several voters who seem to match the OP's sentiment:

1. Abortion is simply the legally sanctioned killing of helpless human beings. I know _many_ single issue voters who begrudgingly voted for trump because of this.

2. Climate change denialism is pretty much anti common sense. Anyone who completely ignores the issue stinks of corruption.

New comment by chub500 in "Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year"

chub500 — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 21:37:43 +0000

Connecticut

How hot can a sauna safely get? (2010)

chub500 — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 18:28:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-10912578

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25400314

Points: 1

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New comment by chub500 in "FDA Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for First Covid-19 Vaccine"

chub500 — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 04:07:08 +0000

By that same logic why wait for any studies on the vaccine at all? Why not just start administering it as soon as it's developed (en masse)?

The rigor is to give the public confidence that we're better off getting the vaccine than not.

New comment by chub500 in "Ask HN: What evidence would convince you of intelligent extra-terrestrial life?"

chub500 — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 13:32:33 +0000

The existence of God does not preclude the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. Even the Bible itself references intelligent non-human beings in Genesis. Read the Space Trilogy by CS Lewis.

New comment by chub500 in "Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit Covid after vaccination"

chub500 — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 03:57:24 +0000

Not sure why this is being downvoted. I think your logic is sound. Typically vaccinations don't work this way though. AFAIK contagion is proportional to viral load which is inversely proportional to immune response (via some complex function over time from initial infection).

New comment by chub500 in "Wonders, Not Miracles"

chub500 — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:57:00 +0000

Unfortunately the biggest questions surrounding public policy inevitably fall into realms science can't answer for us.

How far do we go to resuscitate these victims of tragedy? How far do we go as a society to punish wrongdoing? When does institutionalization become dehumanizing? For that matter - what is a disorder versus simply a difference in human beings?

As a doctor, this author should know these are questions her field cannot answer and this overt humanism is just so arrogant.

New comment by chub500 in "Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging"

chub500 — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 01:34:55 +0000

Yes I grew up around there. Intercourse is close to Paradise.

New comment by chub500 in "The Uniqueness of Mammals"

chub500 — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 17:08:41 +0000

I think the frustrating thing about this article is that every single observation has obvious exceptions. The thesis "mammals are unique" could just as easily be antithesized by the chosen evidence.

This taxonomical difficulty has always fascinated me. I give biologists the benefit of the doubt that they have solid evidence for their categorization but in the back of my mind I've always been curious about this. Why would these unique features exist in other lineages? Perhaps the space of diversity in behaviors is smallish to the point that random overlap occurs? Maybe it's purely definitional and the actual behaviors are distinct between say mammals and birds?

Or maybe my problem is that I failed my 7th grade taxonomy exam catastrophically and have never quite gotten over that :)

New comment by chub500 in "The Last Children of Down Syndrome"

chub500 — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:23:37 +0000

My parents were manipulated into having prenatal disability tests because of my mom's low amniotic fluid during my sister's pregnancy. Tests came back positive and the doctors recommended abortion. My parents were horrified, being pro-life. They endured a traumatic next few months and a premature delivery. That was 1989. My sister was fine but it left my parents with enduring resentment of doctors to this day.

My abortion "policy" has been that it should be illegal to knowingly put an unborn fetus in jeopardy (unless the mother's life is at risk of course) as soon as the pregnancy is known beyond reasonable doubt. I can't imagine any other policy that doesn't dance with eugenics.

I think that the government's prerogative should be facilitating adoption for the baby and mitigating the "unavoidable" inequity to the mother biology has put upon her.

I understand many disagree with the above, I only ask that you keep an open mind as I also try to do about one of the trickiest moral quandaries in the present age.