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nicc··on Study of over 1m people finds association between lifespan and blood iron levels
Someone wants to sell his supplements, uh?

Title is: "Multivariate genomic scan implicates novel loci and haem metabolism in human ageing".

nicc··on Coronavirus doctor's diary: Why are people remaining ill for so long?
Nice try.
nicc··on WebTorrent Desktop 0.23
Seems like you're exaggerating and overly bitter, for some reason.

I'll just move on, this is nothing.

nicc··on WebTorrent Desktop 0.23
Did I miss something..?
nicc··on Global CO2 Emissions in 2019
Wrong website for saying this.

You'll be cancelled and flagged (and so will I). COULD NOT AGREE MORE!

I also want to see what happens after in 2020 the whole world has stopped. Let's how many degrees the temperature lowers even with most factories and economical activity gone for months.

nicc··on GitHub was down
Many reasons, including your hosting provider going down.

At that point you'd have to create and manage a cluster.

You have to update servers, etc. etc. and if you count the hours is many times more than working locally and wait a couple of hours until technicians at GitHub fix the problem for you.

nicc··on GitHub was down
People are advocating hosting their own Git repos, but wouldn't those go down, too, and wreck the day even more?

Or, are you guys all devops geniuses better than those who work at GitHub?

nicc··on Soup.io Will Be Discontinued
> I'm fairly confident I could reduce their server costs to below their revenue in a matter of days or weeks.

> I couldn't afford to put in the time for free, but surely there are others who can.

OK.

nicc··on Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines
And even more insane is how people can completely disregard common sense and their own opinion and blindly obey an idea that sounds far-fetched to them just to placate easily-offended people—even if it's just copy/paste (which it isn't, if anything because people will need to re-learn an API).
nicc··on Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines
With all the actual problems in the world, it's amazing how much energy gets wasted on idiotic stuff like this.

There are actual concentration camps in China TODAY.

So sad.

nicc··on What Does 1GB of Mobile Data Cost in Every Country?
This seems to be grossly miscalculated--at least for Italy.

No idea how these prices are calculated, but when I was still in Italy, I paid $15/mo. and only had 2GB. In contrast, here in Poland I pay $6/mo. and I get 20GB.

Also, I've never seen an infographic as confusing as this one.

Extremely bad job all around.

nicc··on The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks
Uhhhh, no.
nicc··on The yuan has been one of the world’s most stable major currencies
Thank God you're here to save the day!
nicc··on Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants
After "fight fire with fire", through awful virtue signalling comes "fight racism with racism".

Nice move, Uber!

nicc··on Switzerland's lockdown has sharply reduced the cases of Covid-19
What about this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-anti...

Also, you picked 5%, but in your article they also say it's almost 15% in some areas. You're not spreading lies now, right?

nicc··on Switzerland's lockdown has sharply reduced the cases of Covid-19
That was my plan, yes. World leaders constantly monitor my HN comments for ideas on how to handle this.
nicc··on Switzerland's lockdown has sharply reduced the cases of Covid-19
I don't understand why people keep wasting time with this.

Governments are both not doing widespread testing to see how many people have the virus, and taking draconian measures to contain its spread.

From what we know, 90% of the population already could already have it. Every time I read of somebody testing a big group of people a huge percentage has it, but the virus is so mild that they didn't even know—since it caused no symptoms.

Looks like there are many other diseases and problems that cause dozen of times more deaths, so either there's a reason why this is getting special treatment, or it's just a complete loss of common sense here, in my opinion.

nicc··on Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes
I don't know, but I've seen what they do, so if this can force cities to arrest them and make punishmenta harsher, it's most welcome.
nicc··on Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes
I thought it was, the other day?
nicc··on Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes
So, you beat up old ladies and burn stores to do that?

I don't think anyone wants police killing people, but this is crazy and useless.

Also, was there not a pandemic where people were being chased eith drones to social distance? What happened to that?

nicc··on Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes
I hope it's Antifa (a terrorist organization), and not regular kids that go out and beat up old ladies.
nicc··on Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes
All true.
nicc··on Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes
I didn't write I don't like it, mostly think being more neutral and removing political statements might be better.

As for the Police, that was one guy. What percentage of cops kill innocent people, vs. save you from the bad guys (I was saved by cops twice, for instance). Also looks like the guy is going to be held at a higher standard and will get a harsh punishment. Is looting and burning down stores that in many cases represent people's life savings the correct way to solve the problem?

As you see, we could be talking about your chat, and we're talking about violence and depressing things like a store owner saving money for 20 years only to see it burn down by Antifa.

nicc··on Show HN: Basic.css – Classless CSS Starter File
WOW! This is awesome.

Congratulations on releasing this!

nicc··on Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes
Gives out pretty negative feelings to me.

A sad emojii with a face mask is pretty depressing, and even worse if you see the mask as political.

Black lives matter is destroying cities across the USA.

I'm sure it's just me, but I wonder if anyone else sees this?

nicc··on Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
> why not unilaterally label all of it with: "may contain lies, omissions and half-truths"?

Even if Twitter's motive was to help its users, that's just common sense. Does Twitter have such a low opinion of its users that it needs to treat them like 5-year-olds?

nicc··on Coronavirus: 'Baffling' observations from the front line
> However, to suggest that the lungs are not being absolutely ravaged by the virus infecting, replicating and rupturing lung cells is ludicrous

I was talking about permanent damage. I actually read my comment again, and that isn't really clear.

Doctors in Italy are saying that ventilators were thought to be useful because people complained that they couldn't breath, but now they're saying that it's not the lungs that aren't working, but it's oxygen that is not carried out in the blood, and that ventilators can actually cause permanent damage in many cases.

I'm not a doctor, so I just base everything on what the (supposed?) experts are saying. As far as I know they might very well say that on TV because there aren't enough ventilators, no idea.

nicc··on Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr
Everything I've read points to kids thinking that sex is not sex without a facial, gangbangs are normal, and women are objects.

I got particularly sad when I read about that Australian 16-year-old that has to shit in a bag for the rest of her life because she and her friends wanted to re-enact a rought-sex gangbang they saw on PornHub.

I also don't think porn explains what and where a clitoris is, or maybe we're watching different kinds of porn.

nicc··on Equal pay in 1896: The trail-blazing women of Kew Gardens
Who has argued against gender equality..?
nicc··on Equal pay in 1896: The trail-blazing women of Kew Gardens
Forget it.

The mob has flagged all dissident comments. It's over.

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