Hacker News: edoo

New comment by edoo in "India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps"

edoo — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 22:43:44 +0000

China is a shithole fascist country of oppression and slavery, not a race. That you associate a nation state directly with a race, is frankly racist. Maybe you should be canceled, Björn.

New comment by edoo in "Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 'to prevent confusion'"

edoo — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 20:40:09 +0000

That feature screws me all the time. I'll load windows to play a game and try to reboot back into linux, and the update kicks off. I always have to force shutdown and just let it update the next time I start it to play a game.

New comment by edoo in "Trust, Slavery and the African School of Economics"

edoo — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:29:18 +0000

This is very prescient as right now the radical leftists are busy destroying the icons of anti-slavery and black success. Marxist's always destroy the good history when they take control. If you don't know where you are from you can be led anywhere. We'll see slavery again in this country if we forget our past.

New comment by edoo in "Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Design for Great Power Competition"

edoo — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:47:02 +0000

If Russia can win a war with us with 10% of our budget then our entire military industrial complex is a fraud.

New comment by edoo in "The case for declaring armed and fully autonomous drone swarms as WMD"

edoo — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 02:21:58 +0000

Only weapons that are designed to blind. You could use as anti aircraft laser to blind people for miles and technically avoid a violation.

New comment by edoo in "Workman Keyboard Layout (2010)"

edoo — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 05:03:19 +0000

Or get a gyro ball and avoid the wrist problems altogether.

New comment by edoo in "Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?"

edoo — Sat, 23 May 2020 01:40:52 +0000

Jeeva wireless has been on my radar for years now. Wifi at 1/1000th of the normal power. They were supposed to be at market by now with $0.50 transceiver chips. Last I heard they made a cell phone that didn't require batteries. https://www.jeevawireless.com/

New comment by edoo in "Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?"

edoo — Wed, 20 May 2020 15:16:49 +0000

I see irony in all this web functionality.

Back in the 90's if you wanted an ohms law calculator you had to go download a poorly written program from some random website. Network admins started locking down what you could download, run, and install due to security problems. Flash became a hit and they started piling on features in the browser so you could run things dynamically without having to download something.

Fast forward almost 30 years and the browser has become so full featured it is practically a weak OS sandbox that allows you to run just about anything. It was originally being extended to avoid that in the first place, and here we are almost back to square one.

New comment by edoo in "Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study"

edoo — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 01:35:09 +0000

New York is at 1.3 percent positive with new cases flatlining. That fits very squarely with what you'd expect to see based on the surveys. Healthy people aren't dying by any significant number based on New York's own published data. The only other one I've seen is MA that has 97.5% deaths with comorbidity. This is a huge overreaction.

New comment by edoo in "Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study"

edoo — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:44:54 +0000

They knew within a week or two that the lockdowns had no effect. We converged right to the same level as Sweden. That they kept pushing it is insane.

New comment by edoo in "Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study"

edoo — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:32:46 +0000

The serological surveys are showing 50-100x infection rates of those tested. If tested healthy persons are dying at 0.5% that gets you to 0.01%-0.005% death rate in healthy persons. That number is lower than the all cause death rates of 25-34 year olds...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db355-h.pdf

New comment by edoo in "Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study"

edoo — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:22:45 +0000

If you read the federalist papers you'll note that the intention was literal, not to be reinterpreted for the times. That also makes the thousands of gun laws illegal. If you start reinterpreting the constitution that is how you go full banana republic, and everyone knows you never go full banana republic. You are supposed to change the law not reinterpret.

New comment by edoo in "Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study"

edoo — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:06:27 +0000

Quarantining the sick is legal but otherwise the freedom of assembly clause in the 1st amendment does not say "except when there is a pandemic or other fear". If you don't believe that should be the law fine, but since it is law and is incorporated to the states via the 14th amendment it qualifies as illegal.

New comment by edoo in "Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study"

edoo — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:57:07 +0000

According to the New York data, the fatality rate is about 0.5% for tested persons without underlying conditions. Considering the gross selection bias it likely means actual death rates in the healthy population close to that of the flu. It is this data that shows the lockdowns were a complete illegal overreaction. Locking down nursing homes would have fixed most of it.

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-d...

New comment by edoo in "Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020"

edoo — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 04:32:15 +0000

This is just getting started. Everything is so interconnected. Each chunk of the economy that falls away will have a cascade effect that takes weeks or months to knock the next piece out. Once everyone finally heads back to work it will take years to regrow everything to the point it was.

New comment by edoo in "Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients"

edoo — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:49:07 +0000

They should have data already on this. Basically, is the current rather large population of people already taking HQC under representing in the Covid-19 patient data.

New comment by edoo in "Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients"

edoo — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:47:59 +0000

From my understanding it does something to the virus membrane which then allows a high dose of zinc to actually disrupt the virus. I think the antibiotic component is to suppress risk of a secondary infection due to the suppressant effect.

New comment by edoo in "Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients"

edoo — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:39:52 +0000

What a joke. An emulated trial only in patients already requiring oxygen. How about this http://covexit.com/professor-didier-raoult-releases-the-resu...

I'm taking the HQZ cocktail at first diagnosis even if I have to doctor shop.

New comment by edoo in "Ask HN: Could we restructure society so that people don't hate their jobs?"

edoo — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 14:20:21 +0000

The only thing legally allowed in this in country, a hard currency.

New comment by edoo in "Ask HN: Could we restructure society so that people don't hate their jobs?"

edoo — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 23:50:22 +0000

Technology is deflationary. You get more done with less. Prices should be going down not up. The average steel worker now can produce thousands of times the amount of steel than their counterparts could a hundred years ago, yet they work more hours and receive less purchasing power for their time. Most all of this can be traced to regulations, like fiat currency and patent systems. If we had an honest society not based on grift the average person would be able to work a fraction of the time they have to now to make ends meet, which would let them have massively more free time to pursue what they wanted and may not hate doing some drudge work everyday. When I was a kid you could put yourself through college and rent an apartment delivering pizzas a few nights a week. In the 50's you could work a couple days a month to pay the rent. It is the attempts at social planning that drain the tech gains away from people. Ditch the fiat.