Ha! Only on HN will a golem gray you down for wanting to give a guy's library a test. And I'm getting ready to do a PR in the next few days to help him out!
JD is distilled in TN, but there are other fine KY bourbons that will do just fine. And Cocaine Mitch better promote his states distilleries along with all the other fine business located down there in KY.
It's not 4/1 where I'm sitting, and this paper looks somewhat legit on first skim.
Anyway, here's a story: My college roommate was a force of nature. So one weekend night I'm feeling a big cold coming on and I want to stay in and rest.
He was having none of that, so he goes to the kitchen and gets a spoon and a bottle of vodka and proceeds to snort a spoonful up both nostrils. It was horrifying. Then he gives the spoon to me.
I don't know how exactly, but he convinced me to do the same. It wasn't pleasant, but within a few hours and along with a few gin and tonics, there was no runny nose, no sore throat or headache.
I've done this several times over the years and when it works, it works well. Am I recommending this? Hell no, don't do it!
> He was having none of that, so he goes to the kitchen and gets a spoon and a bottle of vodka and proceeds to snort a spoonful up both nostrils. It was horrifying. Then he gives the spoon to me. I don't know how exactly, but he convinced me to do the same.
Cool story, thanks for sharing.
> Am I recommending this? Hell no, don't do it!
Alcohol fumes are also useful for treating tuberculosis and pneumonia. I don't recommend the spoon method, it's much gentler to use an evaporation chamber.
Give me a break...twice. The guy who ingested fish tank cleaner was a tried and true moron. And when you have a crisis of this extent you do what you have to do and relax the, ah, formalisms a little.
"Tolerating scientific fraud" is not. This doctor has previously come very close to scientific fraud. That means that for us to trust him again, his work needs to be impeccable. It isn't.
This potential treatment is promising enough that it is worthy of study, and in lieu of better solutions, administering to patients. These are drugs that have a known safety record for human use. But if you stop and think this is any form of "cure", you are deceiving yourself and endangering lives. It's pretty clear that chloroquine/azithromycin probably doesn't make COVID-19 any worse (in general). But it's not clear yet that it's actually a good treatment, and if we stop the search now, that is to our own detriment.
- the couple who ingested fish tank cleaner were, first and foremost, people.
- when you have a crisis like this, doing what you have to do involves doing things as clearly as possible to extract the most information you can from limited data and report it honestly and completely. That is not what's happened here.
If by positive impact you mean most enjoyable, then:
The Godfather, Mario Puzo (Film good, Novel excellent)
Anna Karenin, Leo Tolstoy (Best novelist ever IMO)
Rendezvous With Rama Series, Arthur Clarke (Great)
Replay, Ken Grimley? (Cool story)
So it's hard to say that Ford is the best company to make trucks. A slightly lower bar might be, is Ford the best company that has actually made a truck?
This is a very good write up. I've set up countless git servers in the day and have never really had the need for a UI, but I am intrigued by the description of gitweb.
On that note however, I would encourage anyone with a passing interest in an scm gui to check out fossil-scm. I'm helping a colleague with a project and that's what he is using. Really incredible piece of software with a lot of possibilities.
That money didn't just appear in his account. He has it simply because he can look ahead given the current situation. I'm glad he's giving his opinion. We should take it seriously.
Why is it easier? It seems to me easier to take any position when you have no influence and nobody is going to take your advice. Even if small, there is a chance that if he is wrong and people think he is right, (or vice versa) there could be negative consequences for him, without any particular bound.
I'm not disagreeing with you. However, it's just easier for Bill Gates to say that we should crater the US/world economy than, say, a waitress or a bartender or anyone living closer to the financial edge.
BTW, you really should not be using Perl 4 anymore.
Well, I'm disagreeing with you and I don't use Perl at all any more, I switched to VBA.
Who is saying we should "crater the economy" depends on your opinion of what will crater the economy, but all sorts of people are demanding things that someone thinks will crater the economy. That's what happens in a crisis, things seem crazy so people start talking about radical actions.
It's not difficult for some random person to say something that is going to have no personal or collective consequence. Gates may be insulated, but his comments have the potential to influence people who might in turn affect him.
I think it's a fairly simple proposition. Anyone who suggests that nations suspend across the board business operations beyond what is "reasonable", let's say beyond 4/5, is suggesting that we should "crater the economy" because that is what will happen. It's already happening.
And I'm still agreeing with you that Gates does indeed have a great deal of influence and should be very mindful of the human damage this cratering of the economy is going to have. Perhaps he should not comment publicly? But that's his right to do so.
Anyway, I disagree with Bill Gates on this. We need to get everything back up to speed again and still remain vigilant in protecting ourselves from this contagion.
Sure, but that's an objection you could register to everything Bill Gates ever proposes, and a lot of other people besides.
It's the equivalent of wandering around whispering 'remember, thou art mortal' to people. Wealth insulates people from the consequences of their actions. Good point, duly noted.
