[foob4r]

Almost makes you wonder if balajis has a personal gripe with vox or recode or Ezra or Kara.

Balaji is a crypto bro and epitome of technocrats who thinks just because they are (rich|famous|networked), they are experts on everything. Fact of the matter is, Balaji doesn't know any more about Covid than what is reported. He's using hindsight bias to claim that media reported was false.

[dang]

Please keep personal attacks off HN, regardless of whom you're attacking. Maybe you don't owe crypto bros better, but you owe this community better if you're posting here. Your comment would be fine with just the last two sentences.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[icelancer]

>> Balaji is a crypto bro and epitome of technocrats who thinks just because they are (rich|famous|networked), they are experts on everything. Fact of the matter is, Balaji doesn't know any more about Covid than what is reported. He's using hindsight bias to claim that media reported was false.

This is definitely not correct.

Balaji taught bioinformatics at Stanford and has published papers in the fields of clinical/microbial genomics.

As for hindsight bias, Balaji was promoting the use of masks very early.

[buboard]

Whatever. Thanks to him i knew about Coronavirus and warned everyone back in February.

You re making the exact same remarks that tech hating journos did

If you re claiming the journos knew something he didnt, then it means they criminally misreported it

[foob4r]

> criminally misreported it

What law dictates that?