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New comment by hyperliner in "One universal antiviral to rule them all?"

hyperliner — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:08:32 +0000

What is the “current” scientifically approved and unbiased understanding about the negative effects of the COVID vaccines?

There seems to be a lot of information, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and information hiding at least in the perception, if not in reality.

I cannot imagine what society at large will have to deal with or what the reaction will be for or against an “everything” therapy, given what happened with Covid.

New comment by hyperliner in "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"

hyperliner — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:03:32 +0000

Not if it’s libel or slander, both which are generically defamation.

New comment by hyperliner in "Republican governors oppose 10-year moratorium on state AI laws in GOP tax bill"

hyperliner — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:21:35 +0000

This sounds like “You are a manager who doesn’t see the value in training typists” or “You are a refrigerator seller who doesn’t see the value in training icemen.”

New comment by hyperliner in "US pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls expanding social media vetting"

hyperliner — Tue, 27 May 2025 18:35:52 +0000

“Present in the US” also has caveats at the border. A border is defined specifically in the law, which is 100 miles.

A citizen of another country is not allowed to open carry at the border just because they showed up, for example. Similarly, there is no universal right to get a student visa.

New comment by hyperliner in "US pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls expanding social media vetting"

hyperliner — Tue, 27 May 2025 18:32:48 +0000

This is incorrect.

There is specific distinction between citizens and persons.

Habeas Corpus applies to persons. But there is no right that applies to every person in the world that would give them a right to get a student visa to a US university.

New comment by hyperliner in "Googler... ex-Googler"

hyperliner — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 05:07:35 +0000

Even those in “upper management” are cogs.

New comment by hyperliner in "Googler... ex-Googler"

hyperliner — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 05:06:46 +0000

If you do only the minimum necessary to not get fired, then wouldn’t you be the person that needs to be fired the next time the the budget is cut, since you are the lowest ROI of all, all other things equal?

New comment by hyperliner in "If we had the best product engineering organization, what would it look like?"

hyperliner — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:32:48 +0000

Related: Amazon kicked out Oracle from the company.

Somewhere along the same timeline, the operational recommendation for teams was to not use relational databases.

https://www.theregister.com/2019/10/16/amazon_ditches_oracle...

New comment by hyperliner in "Should more of us be moving to live near friends?"

hyperliner — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 07:56:33 +0000

Two good ones:

“The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-f...

“More than half of Americans live within an hour of extended family” https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/05/18/more-than...

New comment by hyperliner in "Insects rely on sounds made by distressed vegetation to guide reproduction"

hyperliner — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:49:48 +0000

The scientific consensus is that, given that plants don’t have a nervous system, that they can’t process sensory input that is integrated and that produces some experience, coupled with the lack of subjective experience and the chemistry-based explanations for observed behaviors (such as following light etc), under the current definition of “consciousness”, plants are not conscious.

New comment by hyperliner in "Rackspace Spot – Rackspace – Pricing Page"

hyperliner — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 23:51:09 +0000

Who is using Rackspace Cloud today and why?

I am not talking of managed services, but infrastructure services.

This feels like a Japanese soldier in the jungle still shooting left over ammo after the war has been over for more than 10 years.

New comment by hyperliner in "Jaywalking legalized in New York City"

hyperliner — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:42:02 +0000

Video referenced above:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0PUgbArgXJA

New comment by hyperliner in "Deep space radio signal reaches Earth after 8B years"

hyperliner — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:24:45 +0000

This is fascinating. For a lay person, what is a good book to understand this? Or blog?

Edit: found this below to start

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_radio_burst#FRB_220610

New comment by hyperliner in "Why Americans Stopped Moving"

hyperliner — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 03:13:33 +0000

This isn’t what “life was like for someone born in the early 1950s.”

This is what life was like for privileged white men born in the early 1950s.

New comment by hyperliner in "X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum"

hyperliner — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 09:53:07 +0000

Unemployment insurance is a form of insurance in US that pays you if you lose your job due to layoffs and other conditions. It is paid by you so it is not “welfare.” It is managed by each state independently and has some rules. For example, if you lose you job today and “don’t claim” unemployment insurance for two weeks, those two weeks are not paid out to you (this is in Texas). Every week, you must show that you are “actively” looking for a job. You may lose the benefit if you are not, or if a job is available but you decide not to take it. You must report on your efforts to find a job (interviews etc), and must attend some state class about looking for work.

Most states’ unemployment insurance covers up to a maximum benefit per week, and a maximum number of weeks. When I lost my job once, I was paid $325 per week.

New comment by hyperliner in "Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows"

hyperliner — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 00:41:23 +0000

Given how much you liked hanging with ants, I recommend you try spiders in a garden. Look for a spider web where one is hanging, toss a small piece of debris that breaks a little of the web, and watch in awe how they repair it.

New comment by hyperliner in "Lynn Conway has died"

hyperliner — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:41:28 +0000

But it eventually happened, which is a good thing. Society does not always change fast enough.

New comment by hyperliner in "Llama3 implemented from scratch"

hyperliner — Mon, 20 May 2024 01:09:59 +0000

I didn’t not find it off putting. I found it quirky and less boring.

New comment by hyperliner in "'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant"

hyperliner — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 12:21:31 +0000

There are way too many people here that can’t pass the opportunity to exercise selective outrage.

And yes, the culture of decency died a long time ago.

New comment by hyperliner in "Knowledge Graph Reasoning Based on Attention GCN"

hyperliner — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 19:41:47 +0000

As an ignorant person but one who has been trying to figure out if KGs are superseded by LLMs, is there a source you can think of to figure out if both have a place in an architecture, or if LLMs are sufficient? What sort of use cases require both?