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It's unfortunate we didn't get more facts from the interviewee on how exactly it's too late. The interview felt more like a complaint about politics and less about the dire situation of humanity.

Malthusian takes like this are incorrect. I'd like to see where you were informed how "more births are decidedly unhelpful."

Most car - pedestrian crashes in the USA never end up with the driver at fault. Not sure this will change when cars are autonomous.

The reason these people are homeless a lot of the times is because they lack housing. Drug usage and crime are a side-effect of this [1].

Denser housing -> Better (frequent, reliable) public transport -> more people use it -> More people want to live in denser housing -> More denser housing is developed -> less homeless.

This is the formula for how Manhattan, brooklyn, and queens were developed by real estate companies. Builders wanted to be near public transport because they knew they could build large apartment buildings and get a bunch of money in rent because a bunch of people wanted to live near public transport so they could get places quickly and reliably.

[1]: Also if we legalized all drugs people wouldn't be forced to turn to criminal organizations. We already do this with alcohol.

Unfortunately, in the U.S. this is not true.

The ebikes aren't dangerous, the cars that hit them are. I think that's an important distinction.

Or as written by George Pólya in How To Solve It

  1. See
  2. Plan
  3. Do
  4. Check

Category Theory really helped me in building a framework for finding similarities in problems. Which, after all, is the basis for creativity in general. Can’t solve a problem if you don’t know what questions to ask in the first place.

And the same can’t be true for making percentages seem small and insignificant? What exactly are you trying to prove?

This is not a 1 in a million event. There are studies like my comment above that back this statement whole heartedly. This is a virus with proven neuroinvasive potential that affects large swaths of otherwise incredibly healthy people.

You can't compare these supposed 1 in a million events to something like doing perf testing on a 64 node raspberry pi kubernetes cluster.

Do you only care about people if an event is statistically significant?

No. People (extraordinarily healthy people) are suffering pulmonary embolisms (and thus hospitalized) weeks after they have been cleared from the virus. There is a very, very, very long tail to this disease outside of the initial 2 - 4 weeks of being sick.

I totally forgot polls existed on HN. Wow.

Edit: It’s amazing what you forget after 10 years on a website.