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North Korea Imposes Lockdown on Pyongyang to Fight ‘Recurrent Flu’

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61 pointsbookofjoe22 comments

I assumed that they'd had multiple waves of covid already, but I suppose being so isolated to everyone but China, it's possible they could only just now be getting the first substantial wave.

They generally had traders bribing their way backwards and forwards to China all the time and at least a steady trickle of foreign tourists, so it seemed unlikely they wouldn't get it. But it does say in the article they had shut their border in the pandemic so maybe they clamped down hard on unofficial China visits. I hear it's easier to get over to China in the winter as the river separating the countries freezes over. Maybe traders have been making it over in more recent months and brought the latest covid back.

i guess its not hard to do taking into account how the regime works. Also having people sick and not having medicine available can lead to lots of deaths.

...when they don't care about justification anymore.

This is not very relevant to tech / hacking, but is instead just world news... Let's keep HN focused, and not let it end up like the front page of reddit, etc

I emphatically disagree. HN is one of the best places I've found on the entire internet to get a pulse on the future. You have SME's on almost every subject imaginable that populate this sub. I've seen things coming down the pipe anywhere from a week to 2-4 months before the news really broke by reading through the comments here. That's INVALUABLE to me.

From the guidelines for acceptable posts: >"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

I'm not sure why you think world news / geopolitics / epidemiology / public interventions is something unworthy of inspiring intellectual curiosity?

I agree with you. HN has a certain degree of self control built in and dang's all seeing eye helps bring people back in-line. Only recently, Dan hauled me up for being a bit of a tosser and I apologised.

There are world renowned experts on many subjects that hang around here and the likes of me who aren't. I too have a wide range of interests and they extend way beyond IT. It's great when a big hitter sidles on in and gives some insights from the front lines.

This is probably the only forum that I have seen discussion relating to SARS-CoV-2 that has been close to useful or at least somewhat civil, err not a complete flamewar, OK slightly civil.

>You have SME's on almost every subject imaginable that populate this sub.

And they keep their mouths shut because this place suffers from the same problem as Reddit where anyone with a deep understanding and nuanced view gets their comments down-voted into oblivion by the hordes of people who know just enough to sound like they know what they're talking about but not enough to actually know what they're talking about and who don't understand the nuanced take. Communities that vote on what opinions are rightthink and wrongthink all have this problem.

I first learned of Covid about 3.5 months before most of the rest of the world here on HN. Seriously.

Oh yeah, I believe you. I bought my first masks in late December, and more again in January.

I agree. It feels a lot like the internet and in particular Usenet was before the floodgates opened. It was a select community of mainly academics and people with a strong interest and it was very common too see big names going head to head (the big Linus vs Tanenbaum discussion on kernel design as a particular example). It was an amazing place.

Hacker News feels like it stems from that era even though it doesn't. It's just very well moderated and just enough under the radar to avoid being heavily politicized. I think the excellent moderation and the community shaped by it makes all the difference.

The top article at the moment is about D&D rules. Is that ok?

https://news.ycombinator.com/#:~:text=%7C%20hide%20%7C-,37%C....

Yes.

where does HN have a rule that requires submissions to be about tech or hacking

There isn't a rule. The comment you're replying to just shares the author's preferences. If you like their way of thinking, then maybe you'll think about that when you're about to hit the submit button on something not related to tech or hacking. If you don't like their way of thinking, then maybe you'll submit the top post from r/politics every morning. It's up to you.

I will say that I haven't enjoyed the political discussions on HN. They get too heated, too quickly. But, I simply don't participate much in those. I'm not upset if other people enjoy them.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

They are probably referring to the off-topic part of the guidelines. This article is something that will be very likely in the TV news.

Everything is a system

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