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All due respect, but this is lunacy. The way the guy reacted then hung up is unconscionable. The WHO is clearly corrupted by China's money.

And the US is still connected to Taiwan and provides them military support. And we have a $250M 'de facto' embassy there.

Honestly, I'm so shocked and dismayed by your comment, that I think I want to stop participating on Hacker News. Your perspective is relativism ad infinitum. This is the thing I fight most against.

This isn't a community for hackers & painters anymore. Eternal Relativism is impossible to win against.

Another way to say this, how does lying tell the truth? I don't understand corporations that decide to lie like this.

I noticed Facebook Messenger does this fun thing where you can open it, start to read a message and then it says "BAM--YOU MUST UPDATE". The fact they intentionally designed it this way makes me want to delete Messenger forever.

My disdain for Pinterest is at unrecoverable levels because of this and the fact they display interesting photos without any details or source listed even if logged in. I often wonder the difference between people that become antagonistic for being forced to signup vs people that are persuaded.

Perhaps this could be justified but at least tip off the fellow agents and law enforcement there that there's two men with machine guns approaching. Instead, the FBI agent watched them exit their vehicle, then he fled the scene, was pulled over and almost shot due to how he was dressed. They put a mask over his head and he disappeared. Luckily no one died.

Low interest rates certainly lead to non-optimal housing development. I completely support massive government funding of energy, nuclear, technology and research.

But I don't support the NY Fed and the bank CEOs controlling the open markets, setting the interest rates and flooding dumb "elite" investors with cheap money so they can build bad systems. Having 1 of 12 FRBs dominate the monetary system is a flawed idea, especially when that 1 is Wall Street. Financial engineering is dangerous and antithetical to real research, development and progress.

Interesting concept. Perhaps we can name this the Swordfish Law: cheap money drives out good ideas.

It’s so extra in its absurdism that I’d rather believe in sinister intent than systemic stupidity.

The delivery address is the smallest possible font hidden behind screens. The endless dinging etc makes no sense. I feel like people designing apps have never actually used them. Or maybe it’s all designed to make one so frustrated as to question the nature of reality.

The world is bad UX which I tend to think is a conspiracy.

For example, the Postmates driver app functions like it was programmed (automated) in a parallel dimension by toddlers in a thousand year future using an analog of Visual Basic. Then ported to iOS and ran via 480 API requests that transverse space, time and logic.

Nothing makes sense, everything’s broken.

Yet an FBI agent can literally encourage the first ISIS attack in the US and it’s covered on 60 Minutes but no one bats an eye. We’re left just to assume this is the only time it’s happened. While the 3rd terrorist arrested months later assumed the FBI agent died in the attack — which is how involved he was.

You’re right, there are more people outside walking in areas than need to be. Walking in areas where there would be less people or none. People sitting on sidewalks, grass areas etc.

TV news says our city streets are empty — but there’s actually babies, old people, lots of people exercising etc etc everywhere. Farmers markets with huge crowds. Non-essential construction workers all over.

Yet there are a lot of people outside because they have no choice. They are working or surviving. And then yesterday at the grocery store, there are people working there without gloves and without masks. And they’re jovial, walking around carefree.

I seen people preparing food and drinks without gloves and touching lids etc.

I don’t think wealthy people walking around is particularly bad but I understand your sentiment. The worse problem is we just have stupid people everywhere and sadly many are in our government, agencies and so-called elite. And some are critical workers.

In general, it’s a great question: why does it take such extreme overhead to run a digital company that’s like Craigslist with better pictures. I understand it’s more than that but it’s still a valid philosophical question to ask it there’s a way to run it with say 1,200 employees? Or maybe there’s not.

It’s analogous to the size of government and this trend of doing less with more.

Craigslist has 50 employees. I know there’s a ton of counter arguments to minimize my point but surely there’s a third way between 50 and 12,000.

Ok but he’s held very intellectual conversations with physicists so I can only infer he has a basic fundamental knowledge — despite the ego and fantastical colorful language.

And I heard about the 3 generations when I was a freshman in HS in AP physics and I wrote a sci-fi story on it. Obviously it’s a widely known problem, I assumed people would understand me.

I’m defending the public sphere, promoting thoughtful ideas and intellectual adventures. Most people still don’t know who Elon Musk is yet it seems like they would. I want the average person to know the great open questions in physics.

Other professionals, hackers and those with PhDs in mathematical physics can contribute something novel and true to the future of understanding physics. No one owns mystery or the right to explore it.

Even if it’s just an artist or mathematician inspiring a physicist to understand an idea that could lead to something unrelated but true. Or public support to increase scientific funding.

I also work with a physicist who probably would criticize my perspective here. He has analyzed and critiqued pseudoscientific claims for national security reasons. So my experience here isn’t non-existent.

And I’m not a software engineer. I was a hacker. I like to reverse engineer things and understand the world through first principles...

Physicists want to forbid people from exploring ‘philosophies of sciences’ in public? You can only discuss official ideas codified by peer review?

And of course it’s one of the main open problems. Obviously people in the community discuss it and it’s widely known. I meant in general, all the people talking sports, politics, business, finance, technology and reality TV, you know 99% of human communication, never ever discuss any ideas interesting in physics. Maybe because the authoritarians motivate normal people to avoid it thus only charlatans and a few science popularizers drive public awareness.

And I meant some of the math and physics he’s describing are true. I’m not saying his theories are true but not all his perspectives on them are unfounded. He’s had highly intellectual conversations with physicists on his podcast. Including Penrose. And Lisi, whom he strongly criticized.

My point is, he doesn’t need a license to talk and the criticism towards new ideas is wrong. Plus we need more cool ideas in the public sphere, right or wrong.

Regardless if he’s wrong, what he’s saying sounds interesting even to a physics PhD I’d imagine.

The scientific community doesn’t know why there’s 3 generations of particles, heck I’ve barely heard anyone in my life even mention the fact. It’s a curious thing and his theory was at least infinitely better than 99% of the content on the Internet.

I don’t really understand what he said (and a paper won’t help me) but it made me think in different ways.

He conceded he may be wrong, that he may be crazy, but he also has a PhD in mathematical physics. A charlatan typically declares he is right, often by divine right or unreasonable skill level. Eric’s just exploring ideas from his perspective.

I think hyper-criticizing him is more dangerous for intellectual thought than him inspiring millions of potential minds with fantastical descriptions that may be wrong. Some of what he’s saying is undoubtedly true.

I know we’re not supposed to refer to downvotes, but I had cancer and I worked in medicine. My points are valid and downvoting them is analogous is to the collectivist groupthink in medicine.

Everything’s not underfunded. It’s a problem of how the bureaucracies and agencies are created.

Here’s a decent comparison between Triller and TikTok-

https://medium.com/the-dopamine-effect/triller-vs-tiktok-dif...

Triller has 27 million users in the US but never heard anyone talk about it.

Cancer’s not one thing but there’s some things you can do to generally improve your odds.

A doctor and an oncologist won’t tell you these things because they’re not even thinking about them. They likely don’t even know how to answer the question “can vitamins help some cancers?” Instead, mine repeated word for word responses about how we get most of our vitamins from a healthy diet. Then said he’d have to look it up.

Ask them about IGF1 levels, fasting, ketogenic diets they mostly won’t know. They simply say there is NOTHING you can do to prevent getting cancer.

It’s the system’s fault, the doctors and surgeons are just human beings who have no incentive to be practical.

I always criticized the idea that “radical technology could exist but the competition buys it up” as a naive conspiracy theory.

It’s pretty remarkable that the government paid for this but somehow the international medical corporation can swoop in, buy the competitor who is threatening their margins, and void the contract.

One of the most absurd consequences of CarPlay is the USB car ports are often 1 amp. So my phone dies faster. Combined with Apple forcing you to use Apple Maps, makes me cynical of basic technology. This is partly what makes it more distracting.

There are super smart people I respect but they accept bad behavior as a form of pragmatism. Like they’ll excuse patent trolls because they’re just working a legal angle and trying to make money like everyone else.

This idea that unethical things are just a consequence of circumstance and survival is flawed. We shouldn’t excuse those aggressively working to increase the surveillance state or corporate profits just because that’s their job —- we can be better than that.

Systems > words

After it’s over, we should investigate everyone at the CDC and related agencies, everyone in past administrations, investigate President Trump and his cabinet, investigate those tied to the corporations who outsourced our abilities to China, and determine why no one could anticipate this.

Why/how there weren’t tests for months. If only we could blame this on one person, then the solution would be easy — but this is a systemic problem.

I was just making what I thought was a clever counter to your endless argument. I have friends who are implicated in conspiracy theories and know well it’s a flawed philosophical system that sustains incompetence.

But set your Google search to 1970-1988, and read the old coronavirus test related papers. Ones of humans, cattle and cats. Then in ~2004 talking about coronavirus testing for SARS.

It seems like they’re at least could be a general test or indicator for all coronaviruses. Even if not, we’ve been fearing mutant coronaviruses for decades, why wouldn’t we get the tests started in November?

Poker players were betting 3-weeks+ ago that WSOP would be shut down and now the world is-

https://twitter.com/dougpolkpoker/status/1233041607131357185...

https://twitter.com/mikemcdonald89/status/123310948568372429...

As Tim Pool said, California is the king of greed. A lot of rich people secretly support him and working class people who have to deal with the societal breakdown that is California politics.

4.5 million people or 32% of the voters in CA voted for President Trump in 2016. Democracies of uneducated masses (on both sides) don’t make any one side intrinsically right. Cue Socrates.

It was Kushner. I live in CA and President Trump isn’t hated here as one would think from the media.

You describe a great motive for one to start an international organized crime ring and incorporate it by an Act of Congress.

I feel like this debate is analogous to the test kits being rejected from 3rd parties, if that’s what happened. We’re lost in bureaucratic technicalities.

Verily was a division of Google X before Alphabet. It’s effectively Google Life Sciences minus the corporate advantages of the Alphabet structure.

Maybe Kushner or the President wanted to encourage Google, or maybe a speechwriter over exaggerated it. Or maybe the President lied. But when the media ultra parses the controversy to make every element the nth degree worse for him, it makes it hard to believe in objectivity at all.

After the crisis, his death should be investigated by an international group.

And those responsible for rebuffing assistance, including those at the CDC or other US agencies that rejected test kits, should be investigated.

Everyone just throws their hands up and says “incompetence” but in the real-world, a huge majority seem to believe in sinister motives. This is based on anecdotal experiences from mostly wealthy/successful people I’ve talked to. I’m a skeptic but way more people are conspiratorial than the media acknowledges.

How the US didn’t have tests in January when people were sounding the alarm, or how we don’t have general Coronavirus tests from decades or years ago is quite confounding.

I generally like the Drudge Report, but his headlines do seem like he’s been effected by the same temptations of cable and online news. It creates this effect where you visit more / watch more news. It makes it very difficult to understand reality.

I wish all this energy and attention could somehow be harnessed into testing 100x more people and making a vaccine. And for us regular people, just do what we can to be safe and go on with our lives.