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New comment by protonbob in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

protonbob — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:13:26 +0000

Why not?

New comment by protonbob in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

protonbob — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:15:25 +0000

You could trust them by letting them show you a blood test that showed antigens.

New comment by protonbob in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

protonbob — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:37:35 +0000

A measles vaccine is actually effective at containing the spread. People with natural immunity should not have been required to get a vaccine for something they were already inoculated for and had immunity that was greater than what you could get from the vaccines

New comment by protonbob in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

protonbob — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:44:21 +0000

Yes exactly. They are great for immunocompromised people. Much less so for healthy people. Which is why it should have been an option and not mandatory.

New comment by protonbob in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

protonbob — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:25:41 +0000

We already know that the CDC literally lied about masks not being helpful in the early pandemic in order to protect mask supplies for healthcare workers. We also know that Fauci lied about Gain-of-Function research.

"The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology" -- Fauci, under oath to Congress, May 2021.

NIH's Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak contradicted this in writing five months later, confirming funded experiments had produced findings that met the gain-of-function threshold.

-- https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/nih-eco-health-allian...

If we know that there were deliberate lies were said about certain aspects of the covid pandemic, why should we assume good intent otherwise, especially from a U.S government that is jhighly influenced by well funded lobbyists?

New comment by protonbob in "Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services"

protonbob — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:15:27 +0000

Not massively lowering the chances is universal.

New comment by protonbob in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

protonbob — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:15:01 +0000

Vaccines for respiratory illnesses are bad. Even Fauci admitted so. Why do you assume good intent from the United States government when the FDA is bought and paid for by pharmaceutical companies.There was so much money to be made on specifically covid vaccines. I am not anti vax in general.

New comment by protonbob in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

protonbob — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:13:27 +0000

Natural immunity was just as strong as getting vaccinated though despite what you might have been told.

"All of the included studies found at least statistical equivalence between the protection of full vaccination and natural immunity; and three studies found superiority of natural immunity" --Shenai, Rahme & Noorchashm — Cureus / PubMed, October 2021

New comment by protonbob in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

protonbob — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:26:20 +0000

Yeah what a shame. I never claimed that it didn't lower the chances of side effects.

This is what was claimed.

"You become a dead end to the virus." — Fauci, 2021

This was the reality

"[Vaccines against respiratory viruses produce] decidedly suboptimal protection." — Fauci, Cell Host & Microbe journal article, 2023

"The durability of protection against infection and hence transmission was relatively limited." — Fauci, 2024 congressional testimony

Anybody that questioned the religious dogma that the vaccines were super effective and that healthy people needed to get endless boosters were crucified and in many cases, fired from their jobs for refusing an unnecessary medical procedure.

New comment by protonbob in "Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services"

protonbob — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:12:23 +0000

‘“So even though there are breakthrough infections with vaccinated people, almost always the people are asymptomatic and the level of virus is so low it makes it extremely unlikely — not impossible but very, very low likelihood — that they’re going to transmit it,” Fauci said.‘

Extremely unlikely is a lot stronger than reduced. Calling it breakthrough implies that the norm is prevention. Obviously nothing is 100%.

New comment by protonbob in "Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services"

protonbob — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:43:33 +0000

Yes they did say it would. https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/553773-fauci-...

Also you don’t know anything about me and what media I consume. You can’t quote me on something I didn’t say. They did say it would stop transmission.

New comment by protonbob in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

protonbob — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:24:43 +0000

Not ever hiring juniors and eventually mids is just replacing labor with extra steps.

New comment by protonbob in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

protonbob — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:24:02 +0000

I guess if you think about your teammates as purely inputs and outputs and not people that can improve and contribute in the workplace in other ways.

Z.ai Legacy Plan Migration Notice

protonbob — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:05:37 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.z.ai/devpack/transition

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865588

Points: 4

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New comment by protonbob in "Fuck the cloud (2009)"

protonbob — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:16:04 +0000

That’s still pirating.

New comment by protonbob in "Fuck the cloud (2009)"

protonbob — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:49:44 +0000

How does Jellyfin solve findings Blu-ray copies of old movies? Unless you say you just pirate them? Jellyfin isn’t just for movie pirates.

New comment by protonbob in "MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone"

protonbob — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:58:35 +0000

The phenomenon of google dorks would say otherwise.

New comment by protonbob in "Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'"

protonbob — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:04:33 +0000

You don’t have to completely avoid it, reducing exposure is helpful. It’s not hard to get rid of it in your own home where you probably spend most of your time and eat most of your meals.

New comment by protonbob in "Osaka: Kansai Airport proud to have never lost single piece of luggage (2024)"

protonbob — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:45:32 +0000

> Theft From the Person offences have a crime rate of 8.21 reports per 1,000 people in London, which is 4.69 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 87,224 crime reports logged by Metropolitan Police during the 12-month period ending November 2025.

https://crimerate.co.uk/london

That is more than Chicago.

> In June 2025, there were 631 reported incidents (23.2 per 100,000) – a 49% reduction from the August 2023 peak.

https://counciloncj.org/crime-in-chicago-what-you-need-to-kn...

New comment by protonbob in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

protonbob — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:18:56 +0000

Amoral by what standard? That’s where the conservatism comes in.