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I apologize. It is difficult to tell when to refute praise of evil (Saddam, NK) and when to avoid starting a political flamewar. I'll just disengage since it leads to unpleasant toxicity, you're right.

Just shows how politics have divided us. No one seems to be thinking independently and that includes myself - I try but often the first reaction is otherwise.

You can despise someone deeply, but if they are citing facts, reason, logic, etc - have no association, they stand on their own. Doesn't matter who uttered it.

I see your point, and that's a valid concern. I wonder how much damage public PR does to investors - who are supposed to be highly informed and not be pursued by public hype.

May be its just easier to pronounce Pfizer than BioNTech?

Not everything needs to be distilled down to nationalistic undertones.

I am getting sick of this kind of discussion permeating on HN - It is extremely juvenile and damaging to the spirit of HN. In this regard, Reddit seems to be a lot better. Go on any vaccine related thread and there is absolutely none of this. There is so much more global cooperation observed on Reddit than on HN.

Obviously, option A. Improves the morale instantly.

I have the complete opposite view: it’s such a naive thing to say we don’t want wars - ofcourse no one wants wars. Spending on defense and being prepared isn’t going to war, it’s preventing it in the first place.

On the other side of the fence: Your own shitty framework owns your code, it locks you into this custom frankenstine thing that is a ball of mud that also smells bad. No one wants to look at it, it brings the best developers to their knees and the docs are impossible to relate to. One dude knows how it works and the tech debt is deep.

I'll take a Django project instead, thank you very much.

This is an age old discussion about appropriate abstraction.

I wonder if the person you're replying to is correct in but in a different way.

Since text files and excel sheets are "outdated", we don't stack them up against bloated webapp that Asana is.

What if, really, excel sheet can just work? Its like we get so wound up in existing status-quo, we get narrow vision and forget the larger domain space for solving problems.

It's like the guy that ran a bunch of ETL jobs on a Macbook Air faster than a Hadoop cluster. KISS is beautiful sometimes and eye-opening. When someone brings up a ridiculous "outdated" idea, I try to keep an open mind. May be... just maybe we're wrong about all this?

I think it just takes a really powerful single AGI that can convince other humans, impersonate them, do things that is super-human level and we can't even conceive it or imagine it (think how far a chimp is from AWS load balancer documentation), think 10,000,000 times smarter than any tactic or possibility we can currently imagine and then we're in for a ride.

It is actually quite terrifying to imagine yourself as sub-human. Equally, it is terrifying to think about super-human capabilities.