Hacker News: ckarmann

New comment by ckarmann in "The worst programmer I know"

ckarmann — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 23:00:00 +0000

Interesting way to prevent your awesome colleague from being poached by competitors.

New comment by ckarmann in "Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials"

ckarmann — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 22:24:40 +0000

I am just speculating, but in many diseases like rabies and chickenpox you can give the vaccine after exposure to help the immune system fight the infection. It's because the period between exposure and symptoms is quite long, often more than a month for rabies for example.

HIV can stay in the body for years before developing AIDS. So you can actually recruit people that have been tested positive recently and have not developed the disease.

New comment by ckarmann in "Britain's largest 'Sea Dragon' discovered in UK's smallest county"

ckarmann — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:01:36 +0000

I don't know but these fossils are often very fragile and can even collapse under their own weight when unearthed. There is little chance something like this would have survived centuries.

New comment by ckarmann in "James Webb is fully deployed"

ckarmann — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 05:34:44 +0000

Exactly this. Just google "infrared images of space", it's all false colors but still incredible pictures.

Are there more surviving ancient writings in Greek or Latin?

ckarmann — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 17:38:08 +0000

Article URL: https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2021/09/25/are-there-more-surviving-ancient-writings-in-greek-or-latin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28662809

Points: 117

# Comments: 118

New comment by ckarmann in "Google engineer who criticized company in viral comics on why he finally quit"

ckarmann — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:51:49 +0000

> They likely were, and think of me what you like but I've noticed the same with most Americans I've known.

I am probably misunderstanding what you say, but Cornet has grown up in France, and is probably very aware that health care cost in the US is not a normal thing since he comes from a country where it is considerably cheaper if not free.

His naiveté was about the nature of Google and how he thought a giant corporation basing their revenue on ads and collecting information could be a positive force in the world and not abuse its power. It seems to me his gripe is about the hypocrisy, which in a sense make it even harder to fix the company: if people denies the company ethics problems, you can be sure they are not going to get better.

Twitter in that sense has never promised to not be evil. You can't be naive about its ethics because you just have to doom-scroll the app for an hour to feel bad about it.

The Origin of the Nazi Salute

ckarmann — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:44:41 +0000

Article URL: https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2021/07/04/the-real-origin-of-the-nazi-salute/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27731340

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Addiction treatment had failed. Could brain surgery save him?

ckarmann — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:28:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/06/18/deep-brain-stimulation-addiction/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27552047

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ckarmann in "The Awful German Language (1880)"

ckarmann — Mon, 17 May 2021 04:35:45 +0000

Trying to translate in French, I came up first with "Il eût fallu qu'elle eût été surveillée", but mostly because of morphological similarity (it's almost the same amount of verbs, right?). It's also just a more literary form of the simpler "Il aurait fallu qu'elle soit surveillée".

That being said, I have trouble to parse the original english sentence so I may be missing subtleties.

New comment by ckarmann in "Against Hickelism"

ckarmann — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 04:04:41 +0000

Japan was never a colony, and Vietnam was a french colony for several generations. You are not getting your examples right.

New comment by ckarmann in "New HIV vaccine with a 97% antibody response rate in phase I human trials"

ckarmann — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:31:30 +0000

Google (if you're not a work) "Anilingus".

World Map Generator

ckarmann — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 20:18:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.worldmapgenerator.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26287777

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A.I. Brings These Historical Figures in Paintings to Life

ckarmann — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 02:10:00 +0000

Article URL: https://mossandfog.com/see-how-a-i-brings-these-historical-figures-in-paintings-to-life/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26073051

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How can I become a fossil?

ckarmann — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 03:50:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180215-how-does-fossilisation-happen

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25868113

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ckarmann in "ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville"

ckarmann — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 01:55:18 +0000

Obviously the primary intent was not loss of life. But there are multiple possible intents, one being obviously to instill fear: "We didn't kill you this time, but we totally could have". Imagine living in the area now.

Anyway, it's better to wait for more information than to speculate.

16 days to die at Pearl Harbor

ckarmann — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 18:01:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/16-days-to-die-at-pearl-harbor-families-werent-told-about-sailors-trapped-inside-sunken-battleship/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25537942

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

What If Covid-19 Measures Killed Flu Season?

ckarmann — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 19:03:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-15/what-if-covid-19-measures-killed-flu-season

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25433712

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Leap second hiatus

ckarmann — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 03:24:17 +0000

Article URL: https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/133823.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25145870

Points: 183

# Comments: 113

New comment by ckarmann in "Body found in Canada identified as neo-nazi spam king"

ckarmann — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 03:02:34 +0000

No known ancestor of Hitler is Jewish. His paternal grandfather is unknown, and that led some people to speculate that he was Jewish.

Hitler had his minions try to clear that up to dispel the rumours, but nobody could find the real father. They concluded of course that he was a pure Aryan.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Hitler#Biological_father

New comment by ckarmann in "Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists"

ckarmann — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:32:52 +0000

I don't think this one has a specific name. There are a lot of unnamed craters on Mars, even much bigger than this one. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_craters_on_Mars