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shoto_ioon Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia

Why not use Reader Mode? I love it and use it as often as I can

shoto_ioon Fakelish – Fake English word generator

Reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29002776

shoto_ioon Fe – An emerging smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain

I don't get it. People have been sending messages before the internet as well?

shoto_ioon Fe – An emerging smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain

Yes, thanks. I actually saw this tweet. I think he has a point. Has he not?

I know people who get a loan on their stock portfolio. For that they need to apply for the loan at their bank. This takes time and could be denied. But, if you get it you have a nice lever to play with (basically re-invest in stocks).

The principle is exactly the same with DeFi, isn't it?

shoto_ioon Fe – An emerging smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain

So borrowing and lending is no real world use case?

EDIT: This is genuine question. I want to understand if this is considered a real world use case or not.

shoto_ioon Ask HN: Best self-starter resources to learn web design?

Anything by Adam Wathan is a great way to start.

shoto_ioon Will We Ever Get Rid of Covid-19?

No :) I think that's actually what YOU are saying. You are comparing two virii that we could not observe for long in the wild (The Tigers) with some cat (Sars2). I think we have good evidence after 2 years that Sars2 is much more similar Sars1 and MERS - just from a KPI perspective.

shoto_ioon How we became weekly

But isn't 4 where the randomness comes in?

shoto_ioon How to rest well

no need to be sorry about :) I always jump to the discussions first before reading the article.

shoto_ioon Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

That's not a strategy, that's wishful thinking. We have a vaccination rate of not even 70%. AND: forgot to booster the old and still don’t manage to booster them effectively. That's a huge failure. Every manager would get fired for this.

And then add to this that we have reduced capacities in hospitals compared to last year...

shoto_ioon How we became weekly

I have often reflected about this. To me, it feels like that the week is not as "artificial" as claimed in the article. Working 6 days feels like the maximum before a full day of rest is needed for the body and the mind. It's just a feeling though...

shoto_ioon Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

Yes, and if they had boostered the old in September/ October we would not be in this situation.

Now, everyone wants to get a booster and many old people I know need to wait until December or January to get a booster.

It’s the worst case that could have happened, because politicians didn’t do their job

shoto_ioon Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

This is not logical. More infections in the younger age groups would have boosted the defense systems of many while keeping lethalities low. This would have helped tremendously.

shoto_ioon Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

It’s absurd to believe that this will actually do anything additional to reduce infections on the short term. People don’t get infected while shopping. This is just meant to pressure the unvaccinated to get vaccinated which might help next year.

Unvaccinated people will just meet privately at home and get infected. It’s just the wrong move at the worst possible time.

shoto_ioon Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

Probably not much. All KPIs are heading down now anyways, just look into the RKI dashboard [1]. Doing a quick math exercise underscores this: 70% are vaccinated, 6 million had it (at least, the number is probably higher), so in total 80-85% of the population already had it or is vaccinated by now. Numbers should go down now from now, which they actually start to do, if you look in the dashboard.

[1] https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...

shoto_ioon Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

As a double vaccinated German, I am very disappointed and angry about this move.

Our politicians have failed to prepare the country for the Winter (who could have known...). We lack a basic strategy how to cope with Covid.

And now they try to fix this by dividing the country in two. This will have no effect whatsoever on the infections, it will just continue to drive a divide that is already existing and will make anti-vaxxers even more convinced that this is a big conspiracy.

shoto_ioon YC Rookie Mistakes: Fundraising [video]

Same with any relationship I guess:

- others wanting you will make you hot

- not returning calls will make you hot

- occasionally showing-up and being super nice will make you extra hot!

shoto_ioon Will We Ever Get Rid of Covid-19?

Because there is a reason they have been given the same name. They belong to the same family of virii. There are studies showing that exposure to one CoV induces immunity to the other.

Here is just one paper around that topic: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34273512/

shoto_ioon Will We Ever Get Rid of Covid-19?

I think we will get rid of Covid-19, which is the disease. It will be just another common cold virus.

But, "no", we will never get rid of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus).

shoto_ioon Will We Ever Get Rid of Covid-19?

"Lockdowns have worked".

Depends on how you define "have worked". If you optimize for just variable (COVID infections), then yes, they have worked. Until now.

If you look at the entire system, they have failed miserably.

shoto_ioon Will We Ever Get Rid of Covid-19?

"Zero evidence", "Wishful thinking". No Sir. Just common sense.

They 4 other CoV have been studied extensively and there are also theories about their origins. You are taking very different types of virii and compare them with a Corona Virus, which makes no sense at all.

The question you need to answer: Why should this CoV be so different than the 4 others we know?

Btw: Common colds can be very deadly if your immune system is weak or not familiar with them. Just go and ask some native Americans back in the 1640s.

shoto_ioon Will We Ever Get Rid of Covid-19?

Yes.

We already have 4 other Corona Viril endemic in the human population. They probably all started out super deadly in a pandemic. This one will be endemic soon, too (1-2 years I assume).

shoto_ioon How the ancient Romans managed their toilets

Germanic are strict? What about Sauna and FKK culture then?

I think its just the Anglosaxons :)

shoto_ioon Samsara S-1

Read this thread carefully and you’ll understand. It’s marketing genius.

I wouldn’t have remember the name of the company. But thanks to you and your fellows here I will. I can even tell a story around it.

shoto_ioon Don't soften feedback

I’m feed up with feedback. It’s probably because I have worked in companies with regular 360 and performance reviews.

It has somehow numbed me down to the point that I think: why should I care? What’s the thing with this obsession to become better and better all the f-ing time?

shoto_ioon Plunge in lithium-ion battery costs

Side note: this is from March 2021.

shoto_ioon It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but customers are losing

Star Trek new season got canceled just recently, because Paramount pulled it off Netflix. It was due to start coming days. Now people have ti wait until 2022 and get the then available paramount subscription on top of Netflix, Disney, and A+.

Who is willing to do that? I bet many people will opt for illegal downloads again.

shoto_ioon Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory

Yeah, I agree. But Occam’s razor rarely makes a good enough story…

shoto_ioon Decentralized Woo Hoo

That’s exactly my point. Who would have thought about that?