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hitchhiker999 commented on YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation reuters.com/article/us-he... · Posted by u/finphil

bosswipe · 5 years ago

It is important to remember in these censorship discussions that it has never in human history been so easy and cheap to create content seen by millions of people than it is right now. Before the web if you wanted to spread medical misinformation widely you probably needed millions of dollars to promote and distribute your ideas yourself. In that sense you were much more censored in the past than you are today even if all the social media companies ban you.

hitchhiker999 · 5 years ago

It's also important to remember that we've never had such a powerful, established and fully centralized media.

The tech and the reach they have would give any dictator a chubby.

Power corrupts.

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hitchhiker999 commented on YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation reuters.com/article/us-he... · Posted by u/finphil

arminiusreturns · 5 years ago

You know, I'm sort of thankful for the increase in private/public company censorship, because they are doing it so poorly and with such bad timing that I think it's starting to create a kickback effect where more people are waking up to the issues... so I am hoping it causes a pendulum swing back the other direction. (though that's hope, I'm not sure how likely it is).

It's interesting to see how servile so many hn'ers are about censorship though.

hitchhiker999 · 5 years ago

Fingers crossed.

hitchhiker999 commented on Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety newscientist.com/article/... · Posted by u/ingve

loxs · 5 years ago

Exactly how it works for me. I tried meditation and my anxiety became much worse. Somehow the meditation itself unlocks many more things to worry about.

Conversely, I found out that doing things that are exactly the opposite (of mindfulness) do great for me to not worry that much: Play computer games, go to "pointless" parties, "waste" some money... and of course, physical activity.

Meditation centers my mind squarely at the things that I worry about the most (and I don't have great influence on): politics, diseases (like getting cancer), what people think of me, etc.

hitchhiker999 · 5 years ago

.. many would strongly advise against avoiding those emotions, and possibly getting help / ideas / guidance on how best to defuse their affect on you.

There's a significant difference between understanding the political horrors, or knowing that cancer is a problem - versus being terrified of thinking about these realities.

hitchhiker999 commented on Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have Covid antibodies 6sqft.com/new-york-covid-... · Posted by u/kgwgk

sjg007 · 5 years ago

Is this antibody test specific for covid-19 or would it be positive on other coronaviruses? That's a real concern since the other 4 coronaviruses are endemic.

hitchhiker999 · 5 years ago

What's terrifying is with all these professional analysts in here, yours is the first comment I've seen that asks this obvious question.

hitchhiker999 commented on Show HN: Covid-19 Treatment Dashboard quiverquant.com/covidtrea... · Posted by u/greatwave1

deweller · 5 years ago

I noticed that this study is not on the list:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04264533

What is the criteria for choosing studies that show on this list?

hitchhiker999 · 5 years ago

First thing I checked, sadly missing considering the amount of medical field data on it coming out of China/East.

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hitchhiker999 commented on Ask HN: Is RSS dead? · Posted by u/totaldude87

jlelse · 6 years ago

This seems to be a question regularly popping up. My answer: it's not dead. I, and I think many other people, still use RSS.

My reply to a similar question on HN: https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2019/12/do-you-still-use-rss/

hitchhiker999 · 6 years ago

I got to this article via RSS. Using Start.me to organize a lovely page full of feeds.

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hitchhiker999 commented on Download WireGuard for Windows pre-alpha for testing lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail... · Posted by u/dtamhk

hitchhiker999 · 6 years ago

We've needed a solution like this for almost a decade. Thank you, thank you. Love the minimalist vibe to it, gets the job done, transparent + reduction in complexity for user = safety.

Would you ever consider creating a mesh network manager (to replace horrors like Hamachi)? It could allow people to generate the keys conveniently/safely and connect servers/clients in a distributed, non-centralized manner easily.

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