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drocer88on Trump’s Truth Social Is Banning Users Who Post About Jan. 6 Hearings

Did the super moderators knock down the votes on this? Doesn't fit "the narrative"?

Not complaining ( which is not permitted by the rules). Just asking.

drocer88on Trump’s Truth Social Is Banning Users Who Post About Jan. 6 Hearings

If you missed it on Truth Social, you can catch it on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, Youtube, CNBC, Twitter, Facebook.

drocer88on 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work

"There are just two seasons in the old Icelandic calendar: [...] summer and winter."

https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2015/10/21/do_you_kn...

drocer88on Robinhood: We are letting go approximately 9% of our full-time employees

https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/HOOD?tab=financials

Those loses look pretty big.

drocer88on User reports indicate problems at Discord

Have the problems the last couple of weeks been tied directly to the Russia/Ukraine war?

drocer88on Prose Painter

Amazing. Very cute. I like the "surreal", "picasso" and "brutalist" interpretations.

drocer88on Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine

Don't browse youtube on the browser you have logged in to google. Use firefox with ublock origin and don't log in to google. Youtube is great without ads. Use chrome for any of those things that you are okay with being tracked. Use archive.is when they bitch about blockers. Use tor browser to see interesting ads not targeted to you.

drocer88on History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II (2020)

Chomsky is likely confused about Washington time and Tokyo time.

drocer88on 82nd Airborne troops begin to arrive in Poland

If this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it just might be, I'd say that they're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations.

drocer88on Cassowary – Run Windows Apps on Linux using a VM as if they were native apps

Not to be confused with Cassowary: an incremental constraint solving toolkit that efficiently solves systems of linear equalities and inequalities. ( https://constraints.cs.washington.edu/cassowary/ )

drocer88on Last-resort cancer therapy holds back disease for more than a decade

Yes ( well, maybe not "all" ). For example, Yescarta® is an FDA approved CAR T-cell therapy for patients with refractory b-cell lymphoma. From https://www.gilead.com/-/media/files/pdfs/medicines/other/ye... : "Before you get YESCARTA, you will get 3 days of chemotherapy to prepare your body". This chemotherapay is "lymphodepleting" ( https://www.yescartahcp.com/large-b-cell-lymphoma ). This chemotherapy decreases the number of T cells.

Gilead just reported a 5 year follow up on their therapy : https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-relea... . " 92% of Patients Alive at Five Years Have Needed No Additional Cancer Treatments; Data Suggestive of a Potential Cure for These Patients "

drocer88on North Korea hacked him, so he took down its internet

"does not" or "should not" ?

drocer88on Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials

https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/factsheets/cdc-msm...

drocer88on The depopulation timebomb facing the West is about to explode

https://archive.is/14RB0

drocer88on Myocarditis Cases Reported After mRNA-Based Covid-19 Vaccination

"Conclusions Men are significantly more susceptible to myocarditis than women. Young men are especially at risk for acquiring myocarditis, while women are affected most commonly at the postmenopausal age. The proportion of hospital admissions caused by myocarditis has an inverse, logarithmic association with age."

from : https://heart.bmj.com/content/99/22/1681

drocer88on AlphaFold-Powered Drug Discovery of a Novel CDK20 Inhibitor

"HCC is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatocellular_carcinoma

drocer88on Ask HN: HN Search has Google Analytics enabled, can it be removed?

Doesn't having google services enhance your search results on google? It's probably too risky to de-google.

drocer88on Ask HN: What are some high signal blogs?

Political Calculations : https://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/

Capital Spectator : https://www.capitalspectator.com/

drocer88on The Gates of Hell

Oklo, Gabon had an underground nuclear reaction for hundreds of thousands years: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph241/zhao1/

drocer88on COVIDtests.gov – Free at-home Covid-19 tests

From the paper: Conclusions: VE of 3 mRNA-1273 doses against infection with delta was high and durable, but VE against omicron infection was lower. VE against omicron infection was particularly low among immunocompromised individuals. No 3-dose recipients were hospitalized for COVID-19.

drocer88on Taiwan likely to be behind online 'water army' interfering in Honduras election

Global Times is a Chinese Communist Party tabloid ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Times )

Honduras recognizes Taiwan ( https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries... )

drocer88on The paradox of the Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) test

Here's an authoritative source on Protein Specific Antigen ( aka KLK3, Kallikrein related peptidase 3 ): https://www.proteinatlas.org/ENSG00000142515-KLK3/tissue

drocer88on Where have all the insects gone?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

drocer88on Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand

Imagine the "metastasis" comments, though.

drocer88on Investors use AI to analyse CEOs’ language patterns and tone

https://www.newtraderu.com/2021/01/31/current-renaissance-te...

"The Renaissance Technologies Medallion Fund has produced some of the greatest returns in the history of the markets. "

drocer88on Self directed IRAs under attack in proposed tax bill

Romney's was in a regular IRA. He delayed taxes. Withdrawals are taxable as regular income. If he was really smart, he would have done it outside his IRA and paid the taxes on the lower capital gains rate.

drocer88on Self directed IRAs under attack in proposed tax bill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/401(k)#History : "Congress [... enacted the ...] Internal Revenue Code Section 401(k) as part of the Revenue Act.[8] This occurred on November 6, 1978."

drocer88on YouTube Bans Ron Paul Institute

What community standards were violated?

drocer88on [dead]

Back now : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

drocer88on How to Live in Airbnbs for the Price of an Apartment Lease

Thanks for the clarification. Mea culpa. That 19% seemed too high.

Note the spreadsheet from Professor Damadoaran : http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pc/datasets/histretSP.xls

The years 2001-2020 inclusive S&P 500 arithmetic average inflation adjusted total return is 6.79% ( =average(o92:o111) ). Which is below the 1928-2020 average return of 8.5%. Inflation might be underestimated. 6.7 is a lot closer to your calculation!