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I feel we're jumping the gun a bit by ostracizing antivaxxers when current vaccines don't don't do a whole lot to prevent spread. Vaccine benefits are mostly personal to the recipient, by significantly lowering risk of hospitalization.

With the breakthrough infections observed with Omicron, the justification to enforce vaccination mandates is weaker still.

I know there's work underway to develop new improved vaccines, targeted at more recent variants like delta and omicron. I'm hoping new vaccines will also be demonstrated to significantly lower risk of spreading. Then, I'll feel I can confidently defend measures taken to isolate people who refuse those improved vaccines for the safety of everyone else.

exactly

I like working too! I do work related things on evenings and weekends more often than not. But that time is precious to me as focus time, free of checking in, free of needing to post updates. It's time for reading something long and technical, learning new stuff, or working on code. I'd much rather do that stuff on my own and then have things to share during the next workday.

I don't think I'm in a position to. I'm not management, and I'm not one of the rock star engineers. Those are the people who would have the sway to either encourage or discourage this sort of thing.

I'm not working today but what this brings to mind is a recently hired coworker who apparently is.

My small team has had a nice culture of keeping our work chat mostly confined to our normal working hours, except when some issue comes up that needs attention. This new coworker has lately been shattering that. This person not only posts in the evenings, weekends, and sometimes into the graveyard shift, but does so in a cloying, overeager, performative kind of way.

"while that job was running I took the opportunity to go learn this new skill!"

"I finished this step of the process. Now I'm gonna go do the next one!"

...and updates on what they're doing and their reachability, at all hours.

"I'm going to have dinner because I haven't eaten anything today, but I will have my work computer and work phone with me so feel free to ping me".

Even today, on Christmas morning, there was more from this person in slack, posted after midnight on Christmas Eve.

I do my best to push it out of my mind, but I can't deny this adds a layer of stress for me. I don't want work conversations to stretch into nonworking hours. I don't want this to become part of the culture in my team or company. I don't want to see this kind of behavior become the expectation. I hope nobody ever asks anyone else to be more like this.

Yes, governments must exercise power over media, and force said media to destroy the materials they obtained. The media must learn who is boss here: the government.

I suppose that's tied to people believing that you have some kind of midas touch for turning capital into profit. As long as the people with the capital believe that about you, they will back you with their capital and then have your back.

Mass resignations by police protesting vaccine mandates might provide some interesting data on what effects fewer police can have, both good and bad.

I don't know about a big company, but my answer would be "the companies building decentralized and privacy-friendly tech". The ones pushing toward solutions to the problems now associated with 'big tech'.

wow, bunch of antivaxxers here in hacker news too eh?

No kidding. I liked Southwest, and just flew via Southwest as recently as yesterday. But learning that they have a bunch of antivaxxers among their employees leaves a bad taste. Maybe some other airlines are better in that regard.

The headline on this hacker news entry says "Incriminating". I didn't find that word anywhere in the linked npr article. Is what has been leaked in fact incriminating?

psst, don't tell google, but sometimes I like to click the triple dots next to a search result and copy the url in the popup box to the clipboard to get the url without any of the tracking crap.

(I mostly do this when google's redirect page lags for some reason)

My impression of flagging on hacker news is that it's done for stories that have too many parts "political arguments" and not enough parts "hacker news". I never thought it was about whether the story was considered misinformation.

Also, there's a more direct story here, which isn't marked as flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28644428

The subject line of this hacker news story says that's the intent. I just found 0 occurrences of the string 'discord' on the linked homepage and also its main github repo page. Is the project actually claiming that's its intent?

and, the onion address is for their old service. They haven't redirected it to their new updated service, or published another onion address for their new service.

Link back to thread about this in the earlier protonmail story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28429582

Sad to say, Proton's onion service is for their old version. Proton has recently rolled out a new updated version of their service, and as far as I'm aware they don't offer a Tor onion service for that newer version.

So Proton users who like to connect via Tor onion services have been faced with a choice of either staying on the old version of ProtonMail, or giving up on connecting via a Tor onion service. It definitely leaves the impression that they don't care much about Tor anymore, or that it's at best an afterthought for them.

curious how Airyx devs think about the question of supporting apple silicon arm64, like m1 (or presumably m2 etc later on). Is it an explicit non-goal? A question of having the resources?

I think this way of thinking should lead people to take another look at bikes, perhaps power-assisted electric bikes. Cheap, simple and efficient in comparison to cars. Not to mention all the benefits of cities made for bikes vs cities made for cars.

I think that battle is happening now. This is a good time to push for the kind of digital currencies we want, and against the ones we don't.

Maybe. I'd assume that the encryption used will improve over time, and there will at least be a lag time between a transaction's creation and the day it is cracked, hopefully many years long. This is pretty much the assumption we make about our web browsing over https (albeit the preservation of those encrypted sessions isn't quite so explicit and overt).

You've made the case for the particular category of cryptocurrencies that encrypt transaction details ('privacy coins').

I'm the type who would use this extension, which means I'm also the type who uses firefox instead of chrome...

That sounds like black bar level stuff

This kind of thing makes it really easy to get interested, and stay interested, in decentralization tech.

Once you see things in this light, the new flavor of the month online service just doesn't hold any allure.

My approach has been to make a “politics” friend list, and put people on it when they post political things. Then I share political stuff with that list. So if I haven't seen political stuff from you, you shouldn't see it from me.

For people who just share too much, besides the nuclear option or unfriending or unfollowing, I like the 30 day mute.

You are right, and I made this simplification with full awareness that I was doing so.

On the other hand, I really like the idea of splitting apart the country in a way that frees most of us from a large enough number of the people who are holding us back. I don't think that's possible to do in a fine-grained way. It only makes sense if done for some large contiguous regions. And the states in the southeast who actually did try to break away a few generations ago seems like an obvious way forward with that.

Here is another look at some of the natural regions within the country: [1]

I'm also aware that changing the voting systems we use holds a lot of promise for some of the same underlying problems we're talking about, and am completely open to that as an alternative to, or in addition to, my suggestion to break up the country. But that too seems very difficult politically.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/opinion/sunday/a-new-map-...

yeah, abolition of slavery is a noble cause, obviously, but the rhetoric at that time put a lot of emphasis on the importance of preserving the union, as if that in and of itself was a valuable thing. I propose that it wasn't, and isn't.

Humans are happier if they're grouped together with their own tribe, and not with other neighboring tribes they don't identify with. In this way it's like some of the problems in Africa and the Middle East where the groups there had borders imposed on them that didn't follow this simple principle.

The train of thought I'm on now is: why was keeping the Union together back in the civil war such a great thing?

Now we have this bloc of red states in the South who are backward, racist, intolerant science deniers, and they've managed to get just enough on the winning side of the electoral map to make the advanced, multicultural, cosmopolitan science-respecting blue states' lives miserable.

That chunk of states should be a separate country. Then they can go their own way and the rest of us can carry on without them.

Frankly, those of us on the blue side have a pretty good track record. Not perfect, but pretty good. Then, there is Red America. Let's not kid ourselves with some kind of equivalence: “oh, both sides have this issue”. It's not remotely close.

Sure, Trump is bad and his sycophants in the media are bad. But they are symptoms. The disease is the people who put them there and have been keeping them there, by not holding them to account: Red America.