Hacker News: oxymoran

New comment by oxymoran in "Bored Ape Yacht Club Is Racist and Started by Neo-Nazis"

oxymoran — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 20:23:01 +0000

Let me get this straight: So we have been flailing about for years now over micro aggressions and critical race theory calling everything under the sun “white supremacy” but outright, blatant white supremacy has a market cap of $4 billion dollars. And the people calling everything under the sun “white supremacy”, are likely to be the same people that contributed to the $4 billion market cap of legitimate white supremacists(young people are woke and young people buy NFTs. Both being woke and NFTs are trendy. Hence the groups are likely to overlap). Talk about irony.

New comment by oxymoran in "Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone"

oxymoran — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:15:08 +0000

It was always a security risk because google has always been spying on you…nobody is forcing you to buy android phones.

New comment by oxymoran in "On Covid"

oxymoran — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:50:11 +0000

Have you talked to the parents of young children? Because those are exactly the people that are over it. A)kids are at statistically zero risk of covid unless they have cancer or something B) we have all already had covid because little kids are germ factories 3)the vaccines have been available for over a year now so you have had ample time to get one if you want to 4)the masks and lack of social engagement for children is very detrimental to their development.

I was completely on board with the first year or so of all these restrictions. But I am done sacrificing my child’s well being to spare the elderly. If the vaccines work, then why are people still afraid? I believe they work, so I am not afraid. I don’t understand why even the most ardent vaccine evangelists are still cowering in fear if they truly believe in their effectiveness.

The case count has exploded so what? Just think how many people actually have it but never bothered getting tested because it was so mild. The death rate is the same/similar to when we had a fraction of the cases we currently have.

New comment by oxymoran in "On Covid"

oxymoran — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:36:30 +0000

Good lord. I know this is hyperbolic but do you have any idea the affect that 15 years of isolation would have on children? And you are willing to place the well-being of random strangers over your own children? You seem to think that your comment is morally superior, but that idea is abhorrent and evil to the idea of being a parent. You should be ashamed to be a parent.

I would love to see how your children feel about that.

New comment by oxymoran in "On Covid"

oxymoran — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:29:40 +0000

Current logic: There are hospitals that are forcing covid positive staff to work but not letting staff that has had covid already but isn’t vaccinated work.

Similar logic: shutting down nuclear power plants and then complaining that there isn’t enough power.

More similar logic: allowing decades of fuel to build up on the bottom of forests and then expressing befuddlement when wild fires burn out of control.

What’s the common thread here?

New comment by oxymoran in "On Covid"

oxymoran — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:18:22 +0000

A)wasn’t hard to see covid coming, no insider info was needed. 2 years ago I, an insurance adjuster with no inside info, was freaking out about what was happening in China. B)The unwinding of the covid trade has nothing to do with the current stock market implosion. Peloton and Netflix aren’t down because covid is ending. All stocks were inflated because of a decade of quantitative easing and 0% interest rates. Some were further inflated more due to covid. But the money printer has stopped going brrrr and interest rates are going to rise soon which is being priced into the market. Buckle up, we are heading for recession. Also not hard to see if you are paying attention.

New comment by oxymoran in "Ask HN: What to do instead of drinking alcohol?"

oxymoran — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 14:35:49 +0000

Cannabis? Or are you looking for a hobby? How about painting along with old Bob Ross episodes? That’s how I learned to paint landscapes. If you mix it with the cannabis, it’s even more fun;)

New comment by oxymoran in "Is compensation stagnation to blame for the great resignation?"

oxymoran — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 14:13:51 +0000

I didn’t resign because of the pay. I resigned because they never replaced other people that quit, fired, or promoted, so those remaining continued to get more work with no increase in pay. Not that I would have stayed if they even doubled my salary, it was simply an absurd, impossible amount of work and stress and nobody there gave a damn about the toll that it was taking on us. So I found a new job and told my old job to kick rocks. My new job is actually more pay and less work, go figure.

New comment by oxymoran in "French moratorium on prion studies after two cases of fatal brain disease (2021)"

oxymoran — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:13:11 +0000

By that metric, everything just happens though. Humans just happened, we didn’t will ourselves into existence. Human free will cannot be proved and may very well just be an illusion in our perceiving of a cosmic causal chain. Are our “desires” for reproduction any different? Or are they artifacts of our internal calculations of the future? When we are optimistic, we reproduce. When we are pessimistic, we don’t. That seems more like opportunism than free will to me. And that seems very much like what a pathogen would encounter: favorable or unfavorable conditions.

I guess what I am saying is that either you are right and that can be extrapolated all the way up the chain to humanity. Or that you are wrong and you can apply free will all the way down the chain.

New comment by oxymoran in "French moratorium on prion studies after two cases of fatal brain disease (2021)"

oxymoran — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:55:27 +0000

True. But they don’t go away, they persist in nature. So theoretically, the risk continues to grow as they accumulate over time.

New comment by oxymoran in "French moratorium on prion studies after two cases of fatal brain disease (2021)"

oxymoran — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:53:24 +0000

Some people are terrified of spiders. I am terrified of prions.

New comment by oxymoran in "Cannabidiol inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication through induction of host ER stress"

oxymoran — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:46:58 +0000

I have used a Netti pot style device with a very small amount of diluted hydrogen peroxide to treat sinus infections for years. At the recommendation of my doctor.

//sarcasm// But for treating covid that idea is preposterous.

New comment by oxymoran in "Cannabidiol inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication through induction of host ER stress"

oxymoran — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:43:11 +0000

Dispensaries deliver. You can also order CBD online, I highly recommend Lazarus Naturals.

Your internal dilemma seems self imposed. Even if it provides you a placebo effect, so what? And, look, triple vaccinated doesn’t mean much as it relates to catching or transmission of omnicron. Clearly it will protect you from dying but I know dozens of triple vaccinated people that had covid over the past couple weeks. You seem to understand this, which is why you are even considering the CBD. So order it online. Literally no reason not to if it will give you peace of mind.

New comment by oxymoran in "Police in tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’"

oxymoran — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:58:44 +0000

“ Or there’s another resident who was one of 75 people that were given a ticket for simply using the left lane on the interstate”

Hell yes, stay out of the left lane unless you are passing. Everything else is a bit much though.

New comment by oxymoran in "Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work"

oxymoran — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 18:03:43 +0000

My anecdote: It would reduce my willingness to work for others but it certainly would not reduce my willingness to work for myself. And it would allow me to take on entrepreneurial risks that I other wise can’t afford at this place in my life.

New comment by oxymoran in "You people are just vectors of disease to me"

oxymoran — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 13:38:48 +0000

These kids are paying tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars for an education. If the job is too dangerous for grandpa, perhaps he should retire now so that these kids can actually learn AND he can be safe. Instead of, ya know, bilking an extra year of salary.

New comment by oxymoran in "How bad is my gas stove?"

oxymoran — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 13:55:47 +0000

Heat pumps only work on their own in mild climates. Cold climates still require furnace in conjunction with the heat pump. Good luck convincing anyone in the northern United States of getting rid of their furnace or hot water heater. Spouting this sort of head-in-the-clouds, wrong information only weakens your cause.

“WHERE DO HEAT PUMPS WORK BEST? Heat pumps are more common in milder climates, where the temperature does not typically drop below freezing. In colder regions, *they can also be combined with furnaces*for energy-efficient heating on all but the coldest days. When the temperature outside drops too low for the heat pump to operate effectively, the system will instead use the furnace to generate heat. This kind of system is often called a dual fuel system – it is very energy efficient and cost effective.”

https://www.carrier.com/residential/en/us/products/heat-pump...

New comment by oxymoran in "How bad is my gas stove?"

oxymoran — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 13:53:19 +0000

“WHERE DO HEAT PUMPS WORK BEST?

Heat pumps are more common in milder climates, where the temperature does not typically drop below freezing. In colder regions, **they can also be combined with furnaces**for energy-efficient heating on all but the coldest days. When the temperature outside drops too low for the heat pump to operate effectively, the system will instead use the furnace to generate heat. This kind of system is often called a dual fuel system – it is very energy efficient and cost effective.”

https://www.carrier.com/residential/en/us/products/heat-pump...

New comment by oxymoran in "How bad is my gas stove?"

oxymoran — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 13:39:58 +0000

“ the climate community would risk backlash and not be as effective at convincing people to get rid of their furnaces and water heaters”

Is this a thing, wanting to convince people to get rid of furnaces and hot water heaters? Are we replacing them with anything? Seems like an extremely tough sell, especially for people living places that are cold. Take the poor little boy who just died because his “family” forced him to take an ice cold shower in the middle of winter as punishment. This seems like the hairbrained idea of people who don’t experience seasons.

New comment by oxymoran in "How bad is my gas stove?"

oxymoran — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 13:34:02 +0000

Yes the stainless steel tri ply pans on an electric stove are pretty awesome. I haven’t really cooked on a gas stove to compare though. Some people think stainless steel pans are worse/cheaper than non stick, but that is not the case. Chefs use stainless steel all the time and prefer it. But the secret is learning to deglaze the pan to free anything stuck to the bottom of the pan in order to make cleaning magnitudes easier.