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Someone tell me why this is newsworthy and should even be on HN? It's a family member sitting in the galley observing the trial from what I'm reading here. He is refusing to disclose his relationship to Holmes when the media asks.

Edit: Love how someone flagged my comment when I'm asking a legitimate question. Rather than flag the comment, respond with an answer as to why this belongs in HN.
This is a false dilemma. It is a dishonest position to take. I can only hope you're doing it with well intentions. But the reality of the matter is that 100 million Americans had covid by now, which means they have antibodies that are superior to those derived from vaccination. See the sources above.

The "community" is not entitled to set rules to "minimize those costs." That's some Orwellian dictatorial nonsense. It would justify all kinds of evil. And it has justified all kinds of evil throughout history when sides were drawn this way and one side dehumanized the other.

We don't think this way in America because we remember history, our own and the rest of the world's. We have experience. And there are those of us who are still old enough to remember.

Edit for sources higher up the conv tree:

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a large Israeli study that some scientists wish came with a “Don’t try this at home” label.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-...
Don't they have a lower probability of catching it so it does have a serious impact
The torrent file is 32Mb. That's really big for a torrent file, and it made my deluge client choke.
America has a 1st Amendment protecting freedom of speech, and politicians should not try to bully any bookseller to stop selling books they think spread misinformation.
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I'm not sure if there is much of a point to this story. A guy shows up at the trial and tells all kinds of lies to reporters about who he is and why he's there. That doesn't seem to have much relevance to or impact on the trial itself.

On the other hand, it's mildly amusing that there's more lying being added to the Theranos story.
> If anyone wants to increases taxes even 1%, I want there to be a big fight about it. Serious demands in to budget efficiency and transparency. If it passes, I want to know there is scrutiny over the taking of my dollars.

One can imagine it should apply for both increases and decreases. "What programs will no longer be funded and why?", etc
Ask HN: 250MM Acquisition Instead of $10MM?
I'm finishing development of the flagship product for my new sole-founder fully-bootstrapped startup in the USA (no outside funding). I currently have enough knowledge about business, relationships, accounting, etc. to take this startup to an acquisition valuation of around $10MM USD in 5 years. In other words, I can sit and write down all of the detailed steps that I would execute over the next 5 years in order to make that happen. I can do that because I have enough knowledge and indirect experience to come up with those steps by thinking really hard. This knowledge and experience comes from running an ongoing small software engineering consultancy with a revenue of a few million per year. Actually identifying and then executing the steps for a $10MM valuation will be a challenge for me, but I believe with high confidence I have the capability to do so.

But here's the thing: I think someone else could take the same product and write down the steps to turn it into a $100MM or $250MM acquisition instead of a $10M acquisition. Same starting point - very different ending. And I predict, very different steps.

ASSUME that it's a successful product that COULD result in a $250MM acquisition. My problem is three-fold:

Problem 0: I'd like to perform the steps necessary for a $250MM acquisition;

Problem 1: I don't know (and can't derive by thinking really hard) the steps necessary to make that happen;

Problem 2: I don't know the subject areas to study and learn in order to be able to derive the steps for Problem #1.

This is a problem of education, not a problem of intelligence or capability.

So, I would like to Ask HN: What specific subjects should I learn that would lead me down the right path? Which of these subjects should I do a deep-dive, and which should I do a shallow-dive? Please help me solve problem #2 so that I can solve problem #1 myself, so that I can then execute and solve Problem #0 myself. (Any non-trivial suggestions for Problem #1 are also welcomed)

Also, am I even asking the right questions in this post? Am I correct to focus on education, or should I focus on something else such as building new kinds of relationships (if so what kind)? What sorts of questions should I be asking instead of the ones in this post (and what are the answers to those questions)?

Thanks in advance to all that reply!
I think it is very likely that vaccinated people are contracting COVID-19 less than unvaccinated people, but because most testing is done on symptomatic people, and the vaccine is known to reduce symptoms, the sampling bias is likely overstating the effect.
In the cases where you need to go over 99F, Fahrenheit does not need a full digit. You only need two thin segments for the "1." Or you can double it up with the negative sign.

It's big enough of a deal that most appliances don't include the extra digit. Whether it be for design aesthetics or additional manufacturing cost.

It's big enough of a deal that the article's author complained about not being able to set their thermostat to a comfortable level.

> I started writing this because of a thermostat in Australia that didn’t use decimal points in Celsius. It was never a comfortable temperature inside.

And 0.5C may not seem like a big difference, but if people could comfortably set their appliances 0.5C degrees lower it could save a lot of energy.
Anchovy paste too.
From seeing all the things about Elizabeth Holmes, it seems that this is someone who is an ongoing danger to society. She is a complete psychopath who takes advantage of every human emotion and predisposition to benefit herself without any thought of what damage she is causing others. Every action of hers seems so calculating (similar to Ted Buddy from what I have read). I hope she gets a very long prison sentence.
Incredible claim.

Science is a process we employ to learn more about the world.

It is not a solution to all the world's ills. Science informs, then people make decisions on that information.

Denying that controversial decisions are being made by people which impact our freedoms and insisting that science prescribes any given policy at all - much less only a single one! - is the type of thinking which terrifies those on the sidelines.

You appear as a zealot.
I’m in my early 40s, and was in the same boat as you in my early thirties but in a different large American city.

First, you can absolutely afford a $2m home, let’s not pretend otherwise.

Second, I bought at 31, and 10 years later I pay far less for my mortgage than it would cost to rent a similar place AND my hone went up in value despite buying at the peak of the last bubble!

Here’s the advice I’d give, but if you want to live in your are for the next 15 years or more. If you don’t want to be there for the long run then it’s more complicated.
It's really hard to take you seriously when you are trying to equate a vaccine passport with locking everyone in monitored, isolated, government-run housing pods.

> There's no need for a "sacrifice of individual liberty for safety."

We sacrifice individual liberty for safety every day. People who aren't licensed to drive don't get behind the wheel, and if they do and get caught, the punishments are stiff.

> Implementing these passports will cause something even worse than some covid spread to happen. A two-tiered society where one segment of society is viewed as unhealthy, unclean, even dangerous.

If you are choosing not to get vaccinated[0], then you are dangerous. You are literally a hazard to public health. You are easy incubation grounds for new virus variants that can evade the protection of the vaccines we have now. You are selfishly pushing the consequences of a possible infection on your family and friends, and on the doctors and nurses who may have to treat you. All because you've decided to politicize a vaccine. A vaccine, for crying out loud! It's absurd.

> Time for YOU, reader, to say no and realize that these passports are just about control. They don't care about your health. It's about power. Think critically about the system being built. It's about the control.

I mean, sure, there are a lot of things in this world that are more about control than their stated purpose. Public school curricula, airport security, organized religion. The list goes on. And sure, I bet some people get their rocks off telling people they can or can't go to their favorite bar or restaurant because of their health care choices. But the bottom line is that we're not getting out of this pandemic without mass vaccination or natural immunity. And the time it'll take us to get to natural immunity will involve years of orders of magnitude more deaths, the constant overloading of our heath care system, and doctors and nurses quitting en masse as they cease to be able to deal with it all anymore.

Even if we accept for a moment that no one in power cares about public health, I think it's safe to accept that they do care about the economy, because that's how they continue to line their pockets. The economy doesn't look so good in places where people don't care about trying to beat back the pandemic.

[0] Even though this isn't a thing, I absolutely support the idea of a "post-infection immunity card". We should define what level of antibodies conveys enough immunity, and give people antibody tests and issue them cards if their antibody counts qualify. Those cards should be accepted wherever proof of vaccination is accepted.
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Thanks for sharing this! I spent almost an hour going thru the site. I saw all the Debt and Treasury data but didnt see anything on the Fed Balance sheet. Does anyone have good data on what the Fed owns on their balance sheet (e.g., from QE[n] and POMO)?
If it wasn't retroactive to the date of announcement, though, then it could trigger a mass sell-off of stock before whatever date it actually takes effect, which could have economy-destabilizing consequences.

What does seem wrong to me is not that it's retroactive to 9/13, but rather that it applies to all gains realized after 9/13 even if the majority of the actual gain occurred before 9/13. So if you've been holding a stock for 10 years, you now get to pay the new tax on the entire 10-year history of gains, not just the gains from this year.

It seems weird and unfair that the new tax disproportionately affects people who have been holding their assets for a long time, compared to those who buy and sell frequently.

Couldn't they have made a rule where you could independently calculate how much of your gain was pre-9/13 vs. post-9/13 and pay the two different rates on the different portions?
> The war was a direct response to 9/11, they're directly related, just like vaccines and mandates are a direct response to COVID. The country was ripped in two back then two, you just didn't hear about it as much.

I understand the point you’re trying to make, but I still disagree. I was in high school when 9/11 happened, I remember it well. There was a period of time, I will admit it was on the order of 48-96 hours, where this country was as united as I’ve ever experienced. COVID could have had that same effect, us as country(wo)men against the world. It didn’t. From the jump it was politics. I’m sure you remember Harris and Biden saying they wouldn’t get a vaccine when Trump was president. It’s political all the way down.
Isn't the example difficult to parse only because it's unfamiliar to you? As someone who has never used zig, I feel like 5 minutes of study would make this line easy to read.
Not necessarily. Like I said in other posts, wherever vaccination requirements existed we have protocols for sharing proof of antibodies. That's all that needs to happen. If you work in a hospital or want to dorm in a college, go ahead and submit your proof of antibodies.

But mandating it across the board and taking away people's opportunity to put bread on the table if they don't comply? That's not a sacrifice of some marginal amout of individual liberty - that is a declaration of war on liberty itself. The reason I say this is because it's not hard to think logically about where systems around vaccine passports will take us. A two-tiered society in which one side of tens of millions is forced out of society, ostracized, and dehumanized.

For no reason, considering we're already looking at the majority of Americans having antibodies one way or another soon. The 100 million who had past covid have superior antibodies already. Time for us to stop allowing this converastion to be framed around someone getting or not getting the vaccination.
I would like to see a graph of average second hand prices of different abandoned products over time. Mark the interesting points like apple not supporting the next version of the OS or blocking app downloads. Perhaps an income estimate of the average user at the interesting points could also be included and/or sales figures of still supported versions.
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Regardless of climate change, media outlets like NPR propagate this anxiety to young people.
No, all the enablers are danger to society.
Pretty interesting point about greater productivity coming from superior division of labour in a city. Each person creates more time to focus on their specialised work by paying other specialists to deal with their household problems (plumbing etc).
Most smokers are unable to quit. Most fat people are unable to lose weight. I worry that most civilizations are unable to cut carbon emissions.
German retail distributor https://www.techspot.com/news/90718-amd-smashing-intel-retai...

" full 85 percent of processors sold by Mindfactory in May 2021 were from AMD, leaving just 15 percent of the pie for Intel."
>Because it's a terrible policy prescription.

And the government is ignoring the same science they are asking us to follow. It’s no wonder people are revolting. Although I am vaccinated I did take a antibody test before I did so and wouldn’t have if I had the natural antibodies. It’s almost the same lie they tell when they call this a vaccine- it’s really not. I really understand why people are pissed and I will fully support them in any way I can.
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It's not just young people. I'm 56 and I'm going through a pretty serious personal existential crisis w.r.t. climate change. I think even the people who are worried about it don't realize quite how serious the situation is. I used to feel pretty confident that all of the really bad shit would not happen until after I was dead. I'm not nearly so confident any more. I now think there is a significant chance that I could live to see massive famines and the concomitant collapse of technological civilization. I've been losing quite a bit of sleep over it for a while now.
IMO the new thing in this report is the emphasis on the likelihood of multi-region simultaneous crop failure - the "expert panel elicitation".

That should feed into agricultural policy, and possibly into funding for research on heat-, drought-, and flood-tolerant varieties of key grain crops. More funding might also be put into staying on top of crop disease outbreaks, no matter where they appear in the world.

With luck it feeds into funding for artificial meat and dairy, and puts an end to our brutal use of intelligent animals. (Disclosure: I work in the meat industry. Cattle/hogs/chickens are not the only animals brutally used.)

I doubt an average member of the public has heard of Chatham House, but they are well known and respected in policy-making circles.
This is why I try to plot a proper graph of times from any "optimization" I see in a PR. Too many times I see people making this assumption for example, and even if they're right they usually forget to take the width of the gaussian into account (i.e. wow your speedup is 5% of a standard deviation!)
Normally the hackers post the leak because they weren't paid off. In this case they just plain doxxed people for harassment purposes (however benevolent the purposes are perceived) and had the gumption to list "harassment and doxing websites" as part of the reasoning. It's not the typical hack scenario.

Not that Epik is a great host. It's god awful and used by many horrible sites (but probably mostly clueless and harmless ones by absolute numbers which is part of the problem). Just normally the hackers are aware they are black hat hacking for profit not posting how they are self proclaimed white hat hacking for free.
Lots of people still get options that expire pretty soon after leaving a company, right? So unless you want to be stuck at one company, you have to exercise.
I also think it's intended by the people actually paying for development of the phone hardware and OS. Also iOS being fully proprietary and even the open parts of Android being effectively developed by a privileged group of Google engineers with zero community input for project direction does not help...

The involved parties want to sell you cloud services(hello Google!), to have you use up mobile data & calls/SMS (hello operators! ) and ideally to throw the phone away after a year or two (hello manufacturers).

And all they need to do is build a device OS combo that needlessly peddles data via cloud somewhere on the internet, has not data card slot and can't talk directly to similar device on the table next to it...
I'm with you. I don't know of such a thing.

But luckily I differ from you in that I'm a type-A personality, and slow, relaxed work bothers me. I want the high-speed high-stakes atmosphere.

I recognise that I'm not a normal person in this regard, which is why I say I am lucky.
My guess is that it is because Theranos came out of Stanford, was a Silicon Valley darling for a bit. I know that PG had said "people like Elizabeth Holmes are actually rarer there than in the rest of the business world, or in politics." which I would agree with but SV does give such people a leverage factor that they can't get in the rest of world. I'm fairly certain Elizabeth Holmes couldn't have achieved the level of bizarre impact she had anywhere else but Palo Alto. I also have a genuine fear that her Svengali defense is going to succeed and that will harm all women entrepreneurs in a deep and consequential way.
The change in climate is what drives the propagation from outlets like NPR.
This is a good thing. Climate anxiety is the emotional response that might actually get people to act on the climate issue. Why are you framing this like a problem?
>and tells all kinds of lies to reporters about who he is and why he's there

And also asking reporters' takes on Elizabeth Holmes, and then trying to "correct" them by saying that everyone just copypastes the initial story, and no one has told the real truth behind Theranos (implying that Elizabeth is innocent and gets blamed unfairly).

Keep in mind, those weren't random reporters, those were reporters who were lining up to be juries on the trial. I think it is pretty newsworthy that one of the accused parties' family members decided to mislead potential juries under a fake identity outside of the courthouse.
$48k is $4k monthly; $60k is $5k. While you certainly can pay that much, you don't have to. Take this $2k listing:
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/d/san-francisco-apartme... Or this $3k one: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/d/san-francisco-861-pos...
Medicate and Punish: For Boys, Schools Have Little to Offer
Its true that social media is addictive, and also that companies intentionally design it to be so, but everyone bears some responsibility on that - from the companies, to the users, to the engineers working on it, to online authors referencing it/promoting it, etc, etc. So even if we argue about who gets what percentage of blame, it doesn't really change anything. We may convince 10-20 people in the comments section, but thats not really a solution. We need to contribute on a social media de-addiction guide or something.. :)
Of course natural immunity doesn’t count, that would mean the mandates are about health, and they are not.
A defendant's father in law who happens to be a hotel magnate lying to a bunch of reporters at her trial trying to sway coverage is most definitely newsworthy. It doesn't need to have an impact on the trial to be newsworthy.
Don't get distracted by the click bait title. Effect size should be captured by statistical significance (larger effects are less likely to happen by chance). Author is really complaining that the original study didn't report enough data to check their analysis or do alternative analysis methods. Better title for article would be "Hard to peer review when you don't share the data"
Apple's new iPhone 13 lineup and everything else announced today
Nope. You’ve wasted $400 and that’s a fact.
Young people with no faith in their government? Rock and roll. Fuck the system!
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… and got booed at his own rally when he encouraged people to get the vaccine. American politics is now a 100% tail-wagging-the-dog situation.
Or young people can just think for themselves regardless of media outlets?

What's your point?
Ask HN: How do you become blockchain developer
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I have been very curious to learn about how can you become a blockchain developer and what skills do you need
It would seem that, as the writer and enforcer of regulation and other such things, it's the government that decides. In "free societies," perhaps that equates to democratic control, but again, that's clearly distinct from "the market."
That linked forum discussion does not exactly make Epik look good.

The first post from someone not employed by Epik is someone from Nigeria asking if they can buy a .US domain.

An Epik staff member tells them that .US are restricted to those with US contact information (which is almost correct--you need to be a US citizen, resident, organization, or a foreign entity with a bona fide presence in the US).

Then the Epik CEO answers that post suggesting how to circumvent the .US rules:

> However, just use the free WHOIS privacy proxy. Problem solved. You will need to keep the privacy on in this case.

That won't actually work because (as the Epik staff member points out in another reply to the Nigerian post) .US does not allow WHOIS privacy proxies.
Eh, they're failing on more issues than just climate change. I think many people realize the rampant hypocrisy and political games that both sides play. It seems the ruling class grant themselves more and more power and privilege while imposing ever increasing restrictions on the population at large.