thelean12

> the leading scientists in the human nutrition field were extremely aggressive in crushing all dissenting voices

The problem is now you're too aggressive in the other direction. You seem to have to dissent, regardless of the study design or funding.

Incorrect, and you're starting to fly off the rails here.

It's fine to critique studies and findings. It's not okay to say that you or your facebook friends know better and can substitute your own thoughts on a subject. That is how we get Covid deniers or vaccine conspiracy theories or the million other misinformation issues we have right now.

Your anti-science vibe is terrifying.

Be very careful about how you word stuff like this, even if at the end of the day it's just healthy skepticism. It's the same vibe that gives power to conspiracy theories.

Since I'm getting downvoted to oblivion I feel compelled to respond: I never said to assume that.

Of course. So what?

The current alternative to scientific studies (with their varying degrees of bias and flaws) are Facebook-esque anecdotes about rednecks eating bacon that apparently are so compelling that they get upvoted to the top of HN.

This view is really bad.

The only logical thing to do is to follow current scientific consensus the best we can. Adjust ourselves as those views adjust.

Anything else is just pure ego saying that you know better than experts. Random examples where you were "right" or the scientific consensus was "wrong" are irrelevant.

Edit: I'm just saying that the scientific method is the best tool we have for this kind of stuff, even with the bias and flaws of the studies. It's miles and miles better than Facebook-esque anecdotes about rednecks eating bacon.

God, Covid has severely hurt my friendships. It's hard to even think about "schedules" or anything until the summer -- over a year with minimal friendship contacts.

Video calls don't work for me, and everything is closed in SF. It's hard to explain, but video calls just don't seem real to me. It does very little to energize me in my friendships. I don't know how people do it.

Half my friends have taken the opportunity to move away, so they're gone for good except for a few times a year that we travel to each other after Covid. The other half I'm desperately hoping things naturally get back to pre-covid friendship levels.

AFAIK, people don't really steal stock radios anymore. Or at least, it's not very common.

Your trunk should also be empty of anything valuable. There's no reason to keep much back there overnight. I guess thieves could steal my tire chains and donut right now, but that hardly seems worth the trouble.

The best and only important deterrent is to not have anything to steal, especially in plain view. If everyone did this then theft from parked cars would drop to zero, and break-ins to near zero.

Smash and grabbers don't care about alarms. They'll be gone in a few seconds anyway.

Since I've lived in US cities, yes. Almost daily do I hear a car alarm.

Probably just a factor of:

1. More cars around me in the city than in the small town I came from.

2. More things that can set off the alarms (loud motorcycles being a big one).

Anyone with a car alarm enabled in a city is just straight up rude and inconsiderate. I can't imagine the mindset involved for someone to put a device outside someone's bedroom window that will somewhat randomly start blasting loud sounds at all hours of the night.

I'd support legislation making it illegal. Why are car alarms exempt from noise ordinances?

Well at least false positives are much better than false negatives.

HN has always had horrible UX and no desire to fix it. This tracks and does not excuse the original site at all.

Parlor was created in response to hate moderation on other platforms.

It's not too far off to say "Parlor was created as a space for hate". Only used for hate is obviously wrong, but that doesn't change much.

> Firing on a mob is risky as hell and not morally clear.

Why do people jump to the most extreme side of things in discussions now a days?

There are many many many ways to disperse of a crowd that doesn't involve firing live rounds at a crowd. In fact: they were able to do it later!

Tear gas, flash bangs, barricades, rubber bullets. None of these were used until well after they made it inside.

Why are so many people applauding their customer service? You can't even call them after 3pm PT.

I joined a long time ago when I was broke and they were one of the few online banks I found with no minimum balance or fees and had a good network of ATMs near me.

Then they stopped allowing me to send checks, so I had to open an account with another bank just so I can have checks when I need them.

Then in the few times I needed support, I couldn't get it. One time I tried to buy a car and was having trouble with the payment. I tried to call them and it turns out that their support phone line closes at 3pm PT! How is that acceptable?

I'm glad they're shutting down, because it'll get me to actually fully switch over to another bank, which I expect to be a lot of effort.

Says who? Information about emergency issues are often spread on mobile phones.

Is that different to you than, for example, releasing a change to a product to everyone and observing the change in metrics?

That's at least a principled stance, which I can appreciate.

I still disagree, though. It seems like the only logical way to get out of your thought process would be to create software and then never update or change anything. Either that or have every user sign a waiver saying that the product could change in the future and that might impact them psychologically.

After all, why is it different when you're making a change without A/B testing it? Surely every change has some hypothesis attached to it. Does it only matter to you when developers observe the metrics changing?

Those outcomes are likely on any A/B test. Just because you don't measure it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

I never understood why those in the tech industry were upset about that.

They were doing A/B tests and were tracking sentiment. So what? How is that different than running an A/B test and tracking any other dimension?

People were asking questions like "how many people died because facebook was manipulating their emotions?". What? Why can't we say that about any change ever? It seemed to only matter to people when they started looking at sentiment.

This is misinformation: http://reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-covid-vaccine-causin...

Honestly this whole poll post should be shut down. The amount of misinformation being shared is astounding.

Then you should contact the medical board or whatever the German equivalent is and tell them about this "reputable" doctor. They'd at least lose their license, and for good reason.

Someone just replied saying that they "fundamentally don't care" if they spread the virus because "we'll all die of stupid things". They deleted it or a mod removed it.

Are these the people downvoting me?

Skip the queue for what? Did they get the vaccine already before it was approved?

This is likely complete misinformation. Why is there so much misinformation on HN today?

> I’ve taken only 1 flu shot. As someone in mid-20s, I have low risk and honestly would prefer getting the flu to injecting myself with a vaccine. So I’ve elected to stop getting flu shots and take the risk.

This is a very selfish take. Unless you're living your life without any human interaction, then you're contributing to the spread of the flu and soon to be covid which impacts people who are at risk.

Having Covid already is probably a fine excuse to not get the vaccine. We'll know soon enough how much immunity it gives you, but it seems to give plenty for now.

But unless it wasn't clear: I'm pissed at the massive amount of people saying they won't take the vaccine because of conspiracy theories. Not even the HN can escape them, apparently. I literally just saw and commented on someone spouting one in this thread just 20 minutes into the thread. And I got downvoted for calling them out, even when they agreed and took it down.

And then thinking that this vaccine which has been properly trialed and not rushed is going to somehow be worse than, for example, 1 in 1000 people in the UK already dead. Seriously?

So yeah, I'm going to shame people.

People saying "NO" or "I WILL WAIT" should be ashamed of themselves for falling for misinformation and harming the rest of us.

(Unless people are confused and saying "I will wait" when in fact they're going to be forced to wait until their turn comes around)

Do you realize how horrible it is to disseminate conspiracy theories that you heard from a "friend" who heard it from "a doctor"?

You're part of the problem.