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Ryan Kemper
Personal blog · ryankemper.io/postprogrammingpolitics
Ryan Kemper's personal blog at ryankemper.io covers programming and politics. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's 2020 post arguing for ending COVID lockdown, including its economic-damage section and age-based fatality figures. Comments cite it as a source or dispute its reasoning.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
About Me I’m a software / site reliability engineer based out of Santa Barbara, California. This blog will serve as a centralized place for me to publish articles about my thoughts on engineering, as well as specific “war stories” I’ve accumulated from my time in the industry, along with other unrel
What Hacker News says?
https://www.ryankemper.io/post/2020-02-29-debugging/ Like many in tech, I made a blog when it was time for me to find a new job. And in typical fashion I paid for an overpriced .io domain instead of the equivalent .xyz or .dev. The blog only has one post and will probably only have one post for the foreseeable future (until I leave for my next job, I imagine). I think there are parts of the above article that could…
Comment linking /post/2020-02-29-debugging/
on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted A case for ending lockdown as a story · 159 points
HN discussionIn the "Debunking the claim that it’s “just the economy”" section of the original post [0], the author is arguing that "economic damage leads to lives lost". But the kind of economic damage this causes doesn't have to. The reason it does is a result of the policy decisions our governments make. The author references a study from LSE [1a], saying: > Their analysis focuses on the UK, but they conclude that maintaining…
Comment linking /post/2020-04-29-the_case_for_ending_lockdown/
on “A case for ending lockdown”Submitted Debugging Fundamentals as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> So you are telling me, that you write an article with misstakes and think you should be the person making statements because you are able to write an article? Yes, I am a person that makes and is currently making mistakes. > And you also think, that politicians are doing an economycal suicide just because they like it? I analyzed the "game theory" of this a bit here: https://www.ryankemper.io/post/2020-04-29-the_c…
Comment linking /post/2020-04-29-the_case_for_ending_lockdown/
on “A case for ending lockdown”If it's not obvious, I wrote this. The intent is to be a fairly comprehensive coverage of what we know about COVID-19 and what it means for our policy. Note that the article is written from a US-based perspective although I suspect it's relevant to a broader audience. In general, I believe that the case against lockdown has been highly stigmatized and thus many people have not been exposed to a convincing argument o…
Comment linking /post/2020-04-29-the_case_for_ending_lockdown/
on “A case for ending lockdown”Location: Santa Barbara, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Chef, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Prometheus, Python, Ruby Résumé/CV: https://github.com/ryankemper/resume_public/blob/master/Resume_RyanKemper_Scrubbed.pdf Email: ryankemper.cs@gmail.com Desired Role: Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Backend Engineer, etc I've got strong experience operating Kubernetes/Ch…
Comment linking /post/2020-02-29-debugging/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2020)”The study linked in the OP estimates a median .27% IFR across all populations. The following numbers are from several month old seroprevalence studies so take them with a grain of salt but: https://www.ryankemper.io/post/2020-04-29-the_case_for_endin... Pegs the 50-59 age range around the median IFR. Whereas the >70 mortality is where things really start falling off of a cliff. BTW my point was never “your chance of…
Comment linking /post/2020-04-29-the_case_for_ending_lockdown/
on “Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seroprevalence data [pdf]”It would be more accurate to call it authoritarian as opposed to fascist (I just learned about the distinction the other day). Not sure if it's faux pas to drop a link in a different thread than the original submission, but my thoughts on the "shelter-in-place" orders are captured here: https://www.ryankemper.io/post/2020-04-29-the_case_for_endin... A few select pieces: > There is an ironic parallel to the concept o…
Comment linking /post/2020-04-29-the_case_for_ending_lockdown/
on “Elon Musk calls US shelter-in-place orders fascist, un-American”