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> "This is the figure, and it shows really clearly, that when you look at myocarditis just in this group, men under the age of 40, it is crystal clear, pfizer dose 2, pfizer dose 3, moderna dose 1, moderna dose 2, have rates of myocarditis greater than the rate of myocarditis post SARS-CoV-2 infection"

- Vinay Prasad MD MPH ( https://youtu.be/NR_ZVzrTeYk?t=47 )

Source used by the video author from nature.com: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0.pdf

If you want something more professional you can look to the Affinity products which have a very reasonable one time fee:

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

I personally like Affinity Designer and have designed quite a few things with it. They are behind illustrator on features, I can't deny that, but I've been able to find answers to everything I needed.

Also they have solid developers working on the app. Check out this technical explanation of performance improvements to their rendering pipleline:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfxzknVK_0

For a photoshop replacement, however, I would say Krita hands down. Again, its not as polished as photoshop, but I prefer it over Photoshop at this point even with all its rough edges. I really need to make a video or something about how to set it up and use it correctly but I think its got a lot more going for it.

I rather liked the near campy look of some of those puppets. I thought it helped create subtle nostalgia for the original trilogy.

Bingo. Effectively the only message I can take away here is that some organization funded "science" to prove their product is better than their competitor's.

Which is not news to me... nor science for that matter.

Yeah, don't bother with too much technical reading without practicing whats inside. It won't get you that far. Its much better to slog through problems yourself. As an example, following directions from GPS reduces the spatial comprehension because it diminishes your experience of navigating through a space.

A big part of why memory works the way it does is because experiences are what get processed and catalogued when you sleep. If that experience is lacking, i.e. simply reading by itself, then the only thing you get are the words-"memes" running through your brain. What you need is that lived physical experience to be imprinted into memory.

Circular dependency?

I tried it for a short time, but given the ubiquitousness of vi/vim, I just couldn't get myself to commit. I want to keep my muscle memory intact for when I have to ssh into a remote computer somewhere. Which, I guess what I'm saying is, it looks like I'll be attending mass this Sunday.

I've gotten a lot of productivity out of todo lists.

I've tried Cal Newport's calendaring system as well, which is more or less a bullet journal + timeline and I thought it was somewhat helpful, but in the end it was too tedious.

The thing that doesn't work for me is that If I don't finish something within a timeframe, its not worth context switching. Other times it made no sense to take on a task at a specific time.

Sometimes its just better to have a simple list and wing the rest of it. Don't overcomplicate your life if you don't have to.

Based on what one of the engineers of edison were saying, if they could acquire more than a "drop of blood" for analysis, they would have been able to get more accurate results.

You might be able to consider that a pivot, since she had been saying "drop of blood" the whole time.

It was Holmes' unwavering attitude to imitate Steve Jobs that got in the way of her decisions, and I think more than a pivot of product, that a pivot away from this ideology could have saved Theranos. Willingness to give up on perfect design in order to acquire a working engineered product could have made a world of a difference.

Thanks for the write up, just wanted to note that I read through all of this. I get what you're saying about the meta now, clearly I didn't fully understand why that was bad thing.

Speaking of meta though, I have to say, I still stand by my initial thought that an alternate rating mechanic is at least worth exploring, as the upvote/downvote feels like a system from an earlier era before anyone realized how large its social impact could be. I'd be interested to know what the ideal system that promotes a healthy convergence to the center (rather than one that increases polarization) would look like.

I can't deny the effects of great moderation/cultivation, that they are the most important part, but being a technologist I still want to see what happens when the variables are tweaked.

Only the initial downvoting commenter would have to reveal his name. Then others can just bolster the downvote which harms the rating of the original comment, sort of like a "let him without sin be the first to throw the stone" situation. Then others can join in if they agree. And that might hurt if they're throwing stones at us but at least we get to see where the stones are coming from. Currently we dont, we just get stoned and dont know why.

Thanks for sharing, this is a really interesting thought and its very close to one I had based on this thread, with the one difference being that instead of letting others decide what kind of comment one makes, we should really lean into thinking of commenting as a sort of game and let the user decides what kind of comment they are making, by letting them choose to attack/defend/support a position.

We've seen how the upvote/downvote w/ranking systems play, I'm not a big fan of what reddit has become lately, and I wonder where HN would be without great moderators. At the very least it would be refreshing to see how alternative mechanics lead to different communities.

Sort of related is this thought, Wikipedia is an MMORPG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_an_MMOR...

My opinion is downvotes should require a reason for downvote. Upvotes imply aggreement of the original post therefore do not need further explanation.

Getting in the weeds here, but then if others agree with the downvote rationale, they can upvote the downvote which can be used as some metric. This already happens on HN and reddit - people downvote all the time then provide a reason, but not all people provide a reason for their disagreement, allowing for useless downvotes that dont help the community in any way - for example an "ad hominem" downvote. What this means is that disagreeing opinions are allowed attacks without any risk of retaliation, and in what game is that ever fair?

> From a population health standpoint it's clearly not a viable alternative to vaccination

But from a sociological standpoint there's a strong case for its inclusion.

The reason there even is a divide in politics is because people lean towards one style of thinking. To either stay cautious and follow historical precedence, or to believe change is needed and want to move on from it.

Vaccines are the new and most likely to be effective solution, but we don't know its long term side effects simply because it hasn't been around long enough. Ivermectin on the other hand has been around and has been used for many illnesses on many creatures, including people and horses, successfully and may potentially be effective against Covid for which the risks outweigh potential death.

Some people, due to how they think, will never be getting the vaccine short of being strapped in a chair and shot. And that's a good thing, the diversity of thinking patterns is what keeps our species alive. Disparaging them and labeling them as idiots for refusing it, then trying to force feed it to them is bordering on what we should expect of a dystopian government.

Again, its a good thing that some people are unwilling to try new things, it keeps things balanced, but what that also means is they will never be getting vaccinated until there is more evidence. Look further than the simple math of herd immunity, factor in the fact that we aren't cattle to be vaccinated by some statistician, that we all have individual rights and different modalities of making decisions, and suddenly the solution of using vaccination _along with_ alternative drug treatments should make way more sense than trying to replicate some statistical analysis. Vaccinate as many people as possible and for those more cautious with new things, provide treatments that show some promise for which long term effects are known.

But like you said, this whole thing is so politically motivated, I dont see either side giving up any ground.

In terms of agree/disagree, I'd want to add that unrationalized downvotes is not very useful to readers.

Someone anonymously disagrees with a statement - but why?

Upvotes, on the other hand, makes sense inherently. Someone agrees to the statement, which is rationalized by itself.

Just adding to what dsr_ is saying, narcissists project confidence without actual success because their version of reality supports their correctness.

Narcissism/NPD is a result of the mind not being able to accept information that disproves their elevated sense of self worth. Anything that proves them wrong therefore is discarded before it can be processed internally. So when they speak with confidence, its because nothing in their reality can disprove what they are saying, even if what you're saying is true to our shared reality.

Most footwear is fast fashion. People throw out shoes well ahead of them being worn out. I appreciate all the natural materials for this purpose, because at least they biodegrade better, which may have something to do with being worn out faster.

Is no one going to mention Rust? If HN is good at predicting trends, then we're about to see a lot more Rust in a few years.

That's straight up censorship.

> irrationally motivated

This 100%. Once you've interacted with one of these people, you realize how completely insane they have to be to spend as much time as they do doing what they do. All they want is internet power. In real life, they would be that crazy guy in the neighborhood who never shuts up that people just learn to ignore because they know the man doesn't speak with any rationality. Online, they become gods.

If free speech is to be free, then godly reputation internet people should not be allowed to accumulate power, because the personality required to seek it by itself speaks volumes of how opinionated, undemocratic, authoritarian, and morally challenged they are.

This article isn't about "you" though. Its about the average joe who does. All the censorship and radicalism we're seeing in real life is because of these wierdos who do nothing but spend their entire existence commenting and accumulating internet reputation - then turning it around to silence any opinions that disagrees with them.

I’ve always wondered if two Morse code experts could talk to each other in beeps.

Thanks for sharing. It's like a beautiful poem about a teenager with identity issues. Except its about Pacaso's denial of being a timeshare company.

Just use the free ones. There are some that are better than Helvetica, just like there are cars cheaper and faster than a Ferrari without the brand name.

  The entire family is like a bunch of Darwin's finches. 

More like Darwin's finches if designed by H.G. Giger. Cant say that I'd recommend googling "sparidae teeth".

I couldn't agree more. Company culture should be one of the top primary metrics used to value an investment. Forget all the business school lingo, all the numbers, and all the bullet points. CEO's buyback stocks, and accountants cook the books all the time. There's always room for fudging with numbers and metrics and how you present them, so all that "math" is really just misdirection. What is presented really doesn't matter, because at the end of the day the goal is always to present the company in good light. No ones gonna say "we had a bad quarter, we don't have a plan, and lost our lead in the marketplace, so please give us more funding".

What can't be faked is the experience their employees - the team so to speak - have working there. And if the team at large doesn't get along, doesn't believe in what they are working for, well, lets just say they aren't gonna win any championships.

Not if you buy dogecoins with your unemployment check.

In a dystopian world, where algorithms judge everyone by some arbitrary metric, you get to decide which algorithm will choose your fate. Which one will it be?

Honestly, I see a stronger argument for teaching programming like a basic subject, alongside english and math, even if the student has no intention of ever using it. As in everyone really should learn to code, regardless of what it does to the job market. There's a lot of really simple concepts that translate well into real life.

More important than inbox zero is to unsubscribe from every mailing list. Its all just manipulation at the end of the day. Worst offender I had was facebook. Took way too many unsubscribes because of the countless categories of emails to unsubscribe from.