Hacker News: xlm1717

New comment by xlm1717 in "The Great Suspender has been flagged as malware, removed from Chrome Web Store"

xlm1717 — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 20:23:48 +0000

Thanks for this, at least my tabs aren't totally lost.

New comment by xlm1717 in "QAnon Is Destroying the GOP from Within"

xlm1717 — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:13:18 +0000

People keep believing something that has no ties to reality and reality inevitably snaps back. If you really want to go down the rabbit hole, that may have been the point of QAnon from the start.

New comment by xlm1717 in "Data Scientist Rebekah Jones, Facing Arrest, Turns Herself in to Authorities"

xlm1717 — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:58:02 +0000

Her dashboard still shows the same positive numbers as the state dashboard. The difference is the state dashboard separates numbers by residents and non-residents, while her dashboard combines the numbers.

New comment by xlm1717 in "Florida police raid Covid data whistleblower’s house with guns drawn"

xlm1717 — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 04:26:26 +0000

I don't know why they call her a whistleblower. The data on her covid dashboard is the same as the data on the official state dashboard, and while the state doesn't ask for money on their dashboard, she's taking donations to present the exact same data on her dashboard.

New comment by xlm1717 in "Pfizer chairman: We're not sure if someone can transmit Covid after vaccination"

xlm1717 — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 03:54:56 +0000

So we're right back to "it's not for you it's for the people around you, you selfish asshole"?

New comment by xlm1717 in "Over Half of U.S. Young Adults Now Live with Their Parents"

xlm1717 — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 19:38:10 +0000

I am a man living with my mother. My mother is relatively healthy, she can work, but she cannot afford to live on her own (even before the pandemic), so she lives with me and I pay the rent, and it has been this way for me since my twenties too. I am always extremely hesitant to tell anyone I am living with my mother, and yeah, it puts a freeze on dating to the point that I don't even attempt to date anymore either.

At least being men our dating prospects can actually improve the older we get, and for me I'll be pretty well off financially when I do live on my own, but that's small comfort in the present...

New comment by xlm1717 in "South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'"

xlm1717 — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 22:12:01 +0000

Should've specified that in the original comment, because significant population loss is not doing well.

New comment by xlm1717 in "South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'"

xlm1717 — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:28:52 +0000

Interesting to see you say the SF Bay Area is much better than most of the country, while this article says the Bay Area is experiencing significant population decline:

https://www.publiccommentsf.com/post/u-s-postal-service-data...

New comment by xlm1717 in "South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'"

xlm1717 — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:26:23 +0000

It is a lot more comfortable to not be wearing any mask, that's why health experts like Dr. Fauci wear them only in front of the cameras but take them off when they think the cameras are off.

New comment by xlm1717 in "The Treehouse Is De-Plaformed"

xlm1717 — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 03:41:10 +0000

They used to want your money, now they want [to dictate] your life.

New comment by xlm1717 in "Benford's “law” does not detect voting fraud"

xlm1717 — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:21:23 +0000

One, that's some nice editorializing on the paper title.

Two, Walter R. Mebane, an expert on election fraud, had a response to that paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-analysis/a...

And three, Mebane also released a short paper reviewing the 2020 results: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wmebane/inapB.pdf

tl;dr: There are very minor anomalies in some numbers but either way we have to wait till we get the final numbers in before we can do real analysis.

New comment by xlm1717 in "Tax working from home 'to support vulnerable jobs' – Deutsche Bank"

xlm1717 — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 05:12:05 +0000

They can't help but penalize change. Work from home is a change that is resulting in much lower tax revenue, and they need new income streams to make up for it.

"It argues this is only fair, as those who work from home are saving money and not paying into the system like those who go out to work."

They simply need more people to "pay into the system" again.

New comment by xlm1717 in "Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation"

xlm1717 — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:41:42 +0000

That would be fine if they didn't preferentially apply that call out only to certain groups of people.

New comment by xlm1717 in "Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation"

xlm1717 — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:36:25 +0000

Individually we can do something to fight it. If you can't block the ads, learn to ignore them.

New comment by xlm1717 in "Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S."

xlm1717 — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 01:59:45 +0000

This whole comment thread shows divisions won't be going away anytime soon.

New comment by xlm1717 in "Put not thy trust in Nate Silver"

xlm1717 — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 21:18:08 +0000

Economics is being thrown out in favor of Modern Monetary Theory.

Psychology has a reproducibility crisis.

Epidemiology... isn't doing so well.

And I have no problem throwing out sociology and anthropology.

New comment by xlm1717 in "Walmart Pulls Guns, Ammo Displays in U.S. Stores, Citing Civil Unrest"

xlm1717 — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 17:42:35 +0000

Right, because he's telling his supporters to go out and loot and riot.

New comment by xlm1717 in "It’s dangerous to think humans have a destiny outside Earth"

xlm1717 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:29:45 +0000

How bizarre to try to make space exploration a Republican issue. The author posted stats that 72% of Americans say it's essential for the US to remain a world leader in space exploration. That is definitely higher than the percentage of Americans who are registered Republicans.

Everything has to be politicized these days.

New comment by xlm1717 in "John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an imagined future'"

xlm1717 — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 07:48:07 +0000

I think this is a great interview and I will definitely pick up the book. I think the answer to "What can we learn from cats?" can be to live more like a cat. But to force disinterest in an effort to emulate a cat's apparent disinterest would be a mistake. To live more like a cat cannot mean to simply imitate the cat, that would be another ideology. Instead, it must mean that we have to follow our human nature, just as the cat follows its cat nature.

I agree with John Gray's distrust of all ideology because ultimately ideology is what gives us the illusion that we can ignore our human nature. A cat must follow its cat nature, it has no choice. We as humans have a choice to follow our human nature or to try to bend nature to our will. The problem is that nature will always bend back, efforts to bend it will always be futile. So the ideal solution is to abandon ideology and choose to follow our human nature, to be the humans we are meant to be.

New comment by xlm1717 in "Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims"

xlm1717 — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:29:03 +0000

I think it's not correct. I also think it wasn't correct to deliberately spread a false story about President Trump disrespecting marines, but social media sites didn't take the same precautions with that story.