ok well if its the entire point of sharepoint I can conclude that tags suck and go read something else because, well, sharepoint.

hah someone did this to me, developed their rooks while I took over the center and dismissed the guy, I got destroyed. obviously I still live in blunderville but man I learned a lesson that game.

Narrator: The two commenters had played against each other.

One tactic is to leave the rook on the wing where the opponent castles and advance the rook pawn, trying to trade it away.

Of course you can also do this if you just castle on the opposite side from your opponent. But the point is that you can also use this technique with the Bongcloud.

Unfortunately at this stage of the pandemic, most peoples minds are made up about everything. There's enough refusenics that the virus will find a reservoir to do its mutating thing, so I think no matter what sensible people say its just a moot point.

can some mod do something about this user "dang"? he seems to crapflood every discussion I try to read with these stupid judgemental comments and never contributes to the discussions, doesn't hacker news employ moderators of any sort? I know I'm a new user and don't have enough "karma" or whatever to downvote but this guy is one of the most irritating and useless commenters I've ever seen, and that comes from someone who has used reddit and slashdot for quite a bit.

I'm one of the moderators here (and currently the only one who posts publicly as a mod). Sorry that wasn't clear.

If it helps at all, the comments you're complaining about are even more tedious to write than they are to read.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

not sure if that's some in-joke copy-pasta, but dang IS a mod, here.

haha yeah, I'm not going to "reach out" to a serial killer unless I have 50 layers of anonymous proxies to "reach out" through.

I think there can absolutely be incompetent governments, like say an idiot country that puts a game show host in office.

What is the threshold for a government to be incompetent? It seems the government operations and day to day activities change very little based on the president.

In the USA we're just predisposed to elect bad people, a significant segment of the voting public think electing a game show host is a good move, this sort of voting population will have effects at all levels.

Some of that is dictated at a system level. Because states have different primary dates, many states are left with limited, if any, choice for who to put on the general ballot because so many drop out. The voter turn out for primaries is abysmal, so it could be considered "significant" depending on how you want to look at it, but the percentage number could be as low as single digits out of the overall population.

Then you have the game mentality that you have to pick the candidate with the most chance of winning that still shares some of your views, or that the polling shows your higher pick will lose. Ranked choice could really help here.

By the time you get to the general election it's basically a choice between a shit sandwich and a shit sandwich without the bread.

I don't disagree. I will add that the "system level" is itself legislated by elected officials. Its an interesting thing, like a series of games where the winner gets to redefine rules for the next match in the series. At some point the game can become rigged.

I think its ok, I'd start with hypotheses and when I can, I would test them, and in the absense of a spare planet and mammalian species as your test tube, the only thing I can think of as a proxy for the proverbial test tube would be what statistics we can find.

I thought it was well worth the read and he left no uncertainty about the uncertainty of his test results.

there are plenty of resources available to read up on smart contracts that can be had, you don't have to help anybody really.

I've had plenty of flu shots and never got a VAERS handout but I got a handout for the covid shot, I'm betting VAERS saw lots of use with the covid shot that wasn't common with other vaccines, so that has to influence the numbers.

From a gov't website:

"A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given."

I guess if you see more coverups than the average person does then you'll probably form different opinions than the average person.

Also, the "freedom marches" include many Q types I'm sure, and if folks think the Q types are reasonable people, well you know...