<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: nickthemagicman</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickthemagicman</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:48:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nickthemagicman" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nickthemagicman in "Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"A single data scientist amongst a department of data scientists,  who did actual, illegal stuff, and is being charged for that."<p>"par for the course"<p>We have different measures of normalcy or different news sources.</p>
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<p>This article is trying to drive an artificial wedge between wisdom and innovation when there is none.<p>Both are valuable to people.<p>(regardless of age, sex, race, status, etc)</p>
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<p>That's an oddly false dichotomy</p>
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<p>Yeah now that vaccines are being shown to have rapidly waning immunity and minimal resistance to new strains I wonder what the permanent lockdown states end game is.</p>
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<p>>>Until then, Senator X has zero bearing on my everyday life<p>Where have you been the past two years?</p>
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<p>Florida and Texas seem to be doing just fine.</p>
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<p>If the governments start locking down again Conservative states will see house prices rise.</p>
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<p> 30ish% fatality rate of small pox.<p>I think Black Plague was like 60% fatality rate and killed so many people that it's theorized it paved the way for the enlightenment by disrupting entrenched economic stratification.<p>Covid is essentially the flu compared to a real historical pandemic.<p>There were not any 'black plague' deniers.</p>
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<p>Holy cow have been rabbit holing on all morning on this.<p>I've had to fight my zen garden conditioning the whole time but I have to admit this looks good.<p>Thanks for the link!</p>
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<p>Isn't regular code, low code?<p>Like isn't a turing complete language proven to be the highest level one can go to be able to do anything required  with code?<p>Everything past that reduces the amount of code but also reduces the number of things the code can do and at some point in the code reduction, it's just a declarative language?<p>Its all shades of gray between imperative/functionsl and declarative.</p>
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<p>The problem with this logic is that even before money you had to survive and youre under the spell of 'some' activity to survive.<p>Money just abstracts hunting all day...to sitting in an office all day doing mental or creative work.<p>The real problem imo is that money allows the rich to accumulate the wealth to a massive extent while the poor have 60 to 80 hours a week.</p>
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<p>I don't know what to think about this style of CSS.<p>I was taught to use classes semantically and style from there.<p>A navbar would be a .navbar class for example and that would be styled in the stylesheet.<p>Istead of a bunch of classes in the html to define the styles for the navbar.<p>I'm old school though and this may be the better more modern  way?</p>
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<p>If I walk into a room of people with the black plague, I'm concerned about every single person in that room giving me the disease not just the people of my age bracket.<p>That's the chance of infection.<p>This same idea is used in mask policy and is used with herd immunity calculations and all over epidemiology to be honest.<p>I'm really sorry that you have to do mental gymnastics to shoehorn this subject into your narrative.<p>Have a good day!</p>
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<p>I think you may be wrong.<p>All age groups are equally INFECTIOUS once they have the disease, but are not equally able to BE INFECTED , otherwise people under 55 wouldn't have to wear masks. We wear the mask to protect others right? No matter what our age is.<p>So why would you reduce the population size to just an age slice?<p>The same assumption is made when calculating herd immunity. They use the entire populations infectiousness because chance to transmit doesn't change with age but chance to be infected does..<p>But you DO limit by age group on the infection side because that individuals chance of contracting it from the general population, is based on age/immune system .</p>
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<p>chance of infection * chance of some complication<p>Its a very simple intuitive calculation that is used widely throughout epidemiology.<p>It feels like, with Covid,  people try to add on unnecessary calculations or ignore important factors  to shoehorn the numbers to fit a narrative.</p>
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<p>SAME. Those sites provided me with negative value.</p>
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<p>Yeah that's exactly the calculation were looking for.<p>Do you want me to run the numbers for a person under 18?<p>Trust me it will be drastically less chance of BP from covid than the vaccine.<p>We would never consider the idea... that an IV drug users chance of getting AIDS
.. is the same chance as the rest of the population.<p>Yet for some reason people are okay with the idea that  a healthy 18 year old has the same chance of negative outcomes from covid as an UNhealthy 75 year old. And that the response should be commensurate.<p>Very strange to me how we don't differentiate population and lifestyle adjustments to covid statistics.<p>VERY strange.</p>
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<p>Unless it's a case of date rape or something.<p>One of Dahmer's victims got away and was so drugged that the cops returned him to Dahmer who proceeded to eat him.</p>
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<p>The problem is that it is federal overreach. I'm fine with doing it on a state by state basis, but this has no business being in the purview of the federal govt.</p>
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<p>> 19 Bells Palsy per 100 000 vaccine(from paper provided) = 0.00019<p>> Bells Palsy from COVID in the general poulation<p>7 million (infected 50 year olds) * .08% (of BP from the paper) = 5600 / 350 million(us population) = 0.000016<p>Looks like your chances are significantly better NOT getting the vaccine. And it just gets dramatically worse the younger age groups you look at.<p>This is assuming the vaccine affects every age group similarly which there is conveniently no data on that I could find. But according to the news media it does affect everyone the same.<p>References:<p><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/fullarticle/2781368" rel="nofollow">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/fullarti...</a><p><a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1254271/us-total-number-of-covid-cases-by-age-group/" rel="nofollow">https://www.statista.com/statistics/1254271/us-total-number-...</a></p>
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