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New comment by egdod in "Chinese scientists destroyed proof of virus in December?"

egdod — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:25:52 +0000

Is it racist to call food in a style that originated from China "Chinese food"?

New comment by egdod in "Chinese scientists destroyed proof of virus in December?"

egdod — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:11:35 +0000

It's not racist to call it the Chinese coronavirus.

New comment by egdod in "Chinese scientists destroyed proof of virus in December?"

egdod — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:11:00 +0000

No, it is worse. Some idiot on Facebook with a conspiracy theory isn't in the same league as the propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party.

New comment by egdod in "United hides cheapest flights from passengers affected by Coronavirus"

egdod — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 01:40:24 +0000

I’m not sure what the hubbub is about that. The US President’s job description is literally to put America first.

New comment by egdod in "Man who stockpiled hand sanitizer donates it all ahead of investigation"

egdod — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 01:37:35 +0000

Housing, food, water, Internet access, cell phones... all more or less essential goods in the modern world. How dare anyone expect to be paid for them?

New comment by egdod in "The Milk Situation"

egdod — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 04:11:03 +0000

Water doesn’t actively try to give itself to be drunk. Is it ok to consume?

The Constitution isn’t suspended because of coronavirus

egdod — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 04:05:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-constitution-isnt-suspended-because-of-coronovirus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22581169

Points: 11

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New comment by egdod in "South Korea's drive-through testing for coronavirus"

egdod — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:45:44 +0000

What kind of cartoon villain do you think he is??

New comment by egdod in "Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]"

egdod — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 02:31:44 +0000

Contempt of court is a thing.

New comment by egdod in "NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships"

egdod — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 20:35:50 +0000

Except that people become contagious before they have symptoms, and we don’t really have a good testing regimen.

New comment by egdod in "IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties"

egdod — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:49:51 +0000

Are you quoting from the Abstract or something? The claims are what matters.

New comment by egdod in "U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days"

egdod — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:27:05 +0000

Sure, but I’m not obliged to give any deference to improper purposes like delegitimization of the President.

New comment by egdod in "U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days"

egdod — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 06:02:12 +0000

They're wrong, for purposes of American presidential elections anyway.

New comment by egdod in "U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days"

egdod — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 03:58:23 +0000

Anarchism? Hardly. It's one of the handful of intentionally anti-populist features of the Constitution, along with the existence of the Senate.

He did win. The only way to say he lost is by focusing on a measure that everyone agrees isn't the one that matters.

New comment by egdod in "Ask HN: Is there anywhere as intellectually curious as kuro5hin used to be?"

egdod — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 03:53:24 +0000

> like Rusty of kuro5hin found out the hard way, poor guy.

What happened? I haven't even thought about kuro5hin in many years.

New comment by egdod in "Ask HN: I am going to Vegas on Friday, how should I think about my risks"

egdod — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 03:20:00 +0000

Skip it. A casino is probably only a little bit less bad than a cruise ship.

New comment by egdod in "Startups threatened by iOS 14’s new features"

egdod — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 23:07:48 +0000

Patents provide one way of stopping this kind of predation, but everybody hates patents so we have to pretend otherwise.

New comment by egdod in "Saturn's largest moon may be the only place beyond Earth where humans could live"

egdod — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:49:50 +0000

> Just because there aren't any humans there, doesn't mean it doesn't already belong to someone.

There isn't anyone there, human or otherwise.

> And just because we are able to take over a moon, doesn't mean we have the right to.

Sure it does.

New comment by egdod in "Saturn's largest moon may be the only place beyond Earth where humans could live"

egdod — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:48:04 +0000

A random asteroid impact could end the human species next month. If we spread to other worlds, our chances of survival go way up.

New comment by egdod in "What is the unique value proposition of selling honey?"

egdod — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:38:16 +0000

Even if the prices were the same, the public doesn't give a shit how a company treats its workers. The whole premise is flawed.