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barbacoa··on Balcony solar panels – one-year results
If you live near fracking Wells they have byproduct natural gas that is basically throw away cheap since it's difficult to transport without those unpopular pipelines.
barbacoa··on Judge orders FDA to hasten FOIA release of Pfizer vaccine docs
To be fair I never said causation nor meant to imply any. Perhaps correlation would have been a better word than linked.

My original point meaning being FDA probably does not want these records released because it could shine a unflattering light on how our pharmaceutical industry operates.

barbacoa··on Judge orders FDA to hasten FOIA release of Pfizer vaccine docs
The number of doses given is redacted which makes any kind of numerical analysis impossible.
barbacoa··on Judge orders FDA to hasten FOIA release of Pfizer vaccine docs
Please explain what part of that comment is false? I'll break down the claims and let you point out the false one.

*This document was produced by Pfizer and submitted to the FDA.

*This document was released by the FDA due to FOIA

*This document shows that 1223 deaths are linked to the Pfizer vaccine in the first 90 days.

barbacoa··on Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer
Depends a lot on the problem, for medium probably between 15-30 min for most. I have interviewed at FAANG companies for software roles and done the whole on-site leet coding gauntlet. Did about an hour a night for a week total prep. I can solve their problems, what gets me is when I finished early and they ask more academic follow up questions. Like getting backed into a corner and having to admit I have no idea what big-O notation is.
barbacoa··on Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer
As a non-software engineer who codes as a hobby but has no real software career experience I find leet coding challenges to not be particularly difficult or frustrating.

Can someone with better understanding explain the negative sentiment around leet coding. Are most SWE just mediocre at coding or is there just some fundamental difference between leet coding and the skills needed to be a SWE?

barbacoa··on Ask HN: How to Move on from Google?
Getting off Gmail was not nearly as painful as I feared when it came time for me to cross that bridge. You can forward emails to a new provider so you can slowly transition.
barbacoa··on Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checkers admit they were wrong
The NYT is using a near identical defense in an ongoing libel lawsuit from James O'Keefe.
barbacoa··on TSMC in Japan: Things to know about its chip factory plans
And all those automotive grade semiconductor chips that car companies are desperate for are in the order of 60nm.
barbacoa··on The Bay Area has become a large declining tech company
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/us/california-population-drop...

California experienced a population decline in 2021, the first in its history as a state. That may be what GP was referring.

barbacoa··on Pfizer pushes back FDA submission for pediatric Covid vaccine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...

Some of my verbage was off but from the article:

"boys aged 12 to 15, with no underlying medical conditions, are four to six times more likely to be diagnosed with vaccine-related myocarditis than ending up in hospital with Covid"

"About 86% of the boys affected required some hospital care"

barbacoa··on Pfizer pushes back FDA submission for pediatric Covid vaccine
Not just children under 4. There is a study going around that found 12-15 year olds are ~5X more likely to be hospitalized due to vaccine induced myocarditis than hospitalized due to covid.
barbacoa··on About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
Organized religion may be fading away but faith based beliefs aren't changing. The same primordial need that religion fills is being filled today by political tribalism.
barbacoa··on Pfizer CEO says fourth vaccine shot may eventually be needed
The FDA was forced to release the adverse reaction report that Pfizer sent due to losing a FOIA lawsuit

https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarke...

It is claims in Pfizer's own documents that in the first 90 days 42,086 adverse reactions were logged, of which 25,379 were medically confirmed. Pfizer reported that these resulted in 1223 deaths.

This was Dec through Feb 2020 before wide scale roll out. We don't know how many doses were given out since that number is redacted by the FDA.

barbacoa··on Pfizer CEO says fourth vaccine shot may eventually be needed
Pfizer had to ask for legal immunity because their own data showed their vaccine was linked to 1200 deaths in the first 90 days alone.
barbacoa··on FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger
It's surprising the US gov would take action to stop this. One one hand yes, this isn't great for the industry. But on the other it would mean that ARM will become an American owned company which gives the US government enormous new tech war leverage against China.
barbacoa··on Expanding our private information policy to include media
>Per capita

If you rank by total murders Chicago comes in an easy first. Comparing a very large city like Chicago to comparatively smaller cities blurs the numbers when you are talking per capita.

For example St Louis is a small inner city surrounded by numerous suburbs cities that have much lower crime rates. Those low crime suburbs don't get counted into the per capita rate. Chicago is large enough of a city that both the high crime and low crime areas all get counted together.

barbacoa··on Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters
>How does the moral calculous work for Americans? Genuinely curious. Is it “something bad is being done to me, I am therefore justified to use any means necessary” kind of thing, or there is something else/more?

In the USA there is what in known as the castle doctrine. If someone tries to break into your home you may defend your home no different than a lord defending a castle. Pouring boiling oil on their soldiers scaling your walls ... Or more appropriately the modern equivalent action with your AR-15.

Texas goes one step further, they allow you to use force to protect your property from nightime theft or criminal mischief. It's not about retaliation, it's a matter of protecting what is your property.

barbacoa··on Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters
>what else can I google for you?

I don't think asking for clarification was an unreasonable ask. Too many people today use emotional charged rewordings to describe things. It's honestly hard at times to know what people are referring to anymore.

barbacoa··on After 20 Years of Failure, Kill the TSA
Just like how the seat cushion doubles as a flotation maybe arm rests should dispense 8 in knifes. Not much advantage to sneaking a weapon on a plane if everyone else has one too.
barbacoa··on The $1.5B Mammoth Solar Farm Will Be the Largest in the US
Something people always forget when factoring solar is the cost of having the standby natural gas plant capacity that has to be ready to take over that 1 GW when the sun stops shining. Having a plant sit idle isn't much cheaper than having it running.
barbacoa··on Liberal Hypocrisy Is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. – NYT Opinion
Democrats have become a coalition party of the cultural and economic elites as well as the subsidized poor. Republicans tend to be the party of the working class.
barbacoa··on The Patriot Act Has Threatened Freedom for 20 Years
When the Patriot Act was sunset it was replaced with the even more Orwellian sounding USA Freedom Act, which on face value includes better safeguards. It's hard to know if that has improved matters as we have little insight into the government's legal interpretations or real world application of the written law.

Even without these two laws it's likely government spying would go on unchanged, a large amount of the domestic surveillance is done under the 2008 FISA amendment. For example, the NSA Prism project where they have direct access to the user data of major big tech companies in the USA, that's authorized under the 2008 FISA amendment not Patriot Act.

barbacoa··on Fossil fuels doomed in New York as regulator blocks new gas power plants
Fracking will continue as they are mainly after the oil. The by product natural gas will simply be sent to burn off towers instead of being used to cheaply power people's homes.
barbacoa··on YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
>that was claimed. It's been thoroughly disputed.

And you will always find news articles telling you not to believe your lying eyes. Sadly most Americans have grown a default assumption that the media is lying to you, which at least in this case is true. Reading the first hand emails gives a very different impression.

"The scope of work should also include organization of a visit of widely recognized and influential current and/or former US policy-makers to Ukraine in November aiming to conduct meetings with and bring positive signal/message and support on Nikolay’s issue to the Ukrainian top officials above with the ultimate purpose to close down for any cases/pursuits against Nikolay [Burisma founder] in Ukraine."

https://thenewamerican.com/assets/sites/2/251024_1.jpg

It's very difficult to read that email and not come to the conclusion that Hunter was being paid to ask his dad to shut down the investigation into Burisma. Especially since later emails indicate that Joe Biden ultimately did meet with Burisma execs.

>but if your concern does not cross party lines then it's no concern of mine.

Make no mistakes I would love to see any elected official that engages in corruption -- Republican or Democrat -- dragged to prison.

While there are a large number of who are just using this to play political gotcha, it is going too far to accuse anyone concerned about this scandal.

barbacoa··on YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
The whole central claim that started this was the allegations that Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to fire the prosecutor investigating the company that was paying Hunter for his "services". If it's true that foreign interests were bribing the vice president of the USA though payments to his son in order to change American policy then that is indeed a staggering level of corruption. For comparison the president of South Korea was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a comparable scheme.
barbacoa··on Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021
Maya is notable because a region that once supported a large population quickly underwent large scale depopulation for reasons that are not clear to us today. This wasn't a matter of one nation collapsing only to absorbed by another. We're talking about a population in the millions to 10s of millions that just faded away. All of this occurred pre-Columbian.

>That's like saying the Roman and Carthaginian empires both fell around the same time, and thus were part of the same event.

Not trying to say they were caused by the same event but it does seem to be a trend that Native America had issues sustaining permanent population centers like you saw in other parts of the world.

barbacoa··on California ports among world’s least efficient, ranking shows
I wish people would stop citing politifacts articles as if there were something other than partisan editorials.

From their own "fact check":

"Industry experts said the rules certainly impact the availability of drivers and trucks, but acknowledged that many other issues are impacting the movement of goods through U.S. ports."

Their paragraph contradicts their own conclusion.

barbacoa··on Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021
The population decline of the Mayans happened around the same time. This decline was steep enough to be called a collapse. There has been much discussion as to the cause.
barbacoa··on Harmful gender stereotypes kick in early–and may be keeping girls away from STEM
People have done studies on other primates and found they mirror the same gender toy preferences that we see with humans.

http://www.yerkes.emory.edu/about/news/developmental_cogniti...

I don't understand why people totally discount evolutionary biology. Eons ago our ancient primates ancestors were eaten by snakes. Today we are still hard wired to fear them.

Likewise long ago women who didn't have the disposition to care for children had fewer children survive. Thus women are evolutionary tuned for the traits needed for caring of children.

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