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by 1996 6y ago
I disagree. > There were leftists among geeks the whole time Clearly a much smaller proportion. > The environmentalism and the desire for justice is a genuinely held belief of many scientific oriented people of a humanist bent Is it n
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by 1996 6y ago
Only partially right. Writing a check she can do very easily, so she gets little social credit for that. Simpler reason: virtue signaling reaches new heights when you can force OTHER people besides yourself in doing things that will give yo
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by 1996 6y ago
> For some reason Hacker News really likes the idea of centralized authority and criminalizing things like math and free association by threat of violence and imprisonment. The new kind of "geek" in the opposite of the traditio
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by 1996 6y ago
> "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" No. You can and should ask as 1) it is at the basis of check and balances 2) it is not an connection that can not be severed if needed. If you a
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by 1996 6y ago
From my bag of citations: "crypto is to millenials what the internet was to boomers"! A few of them got it, but for most people what didn't exist when they were teens is some heresy that threaten society. Yet as usual, societ
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by 1996 6y ago
Potential good reason: not giving it the keys to your kingdom (not letting cloudflare see who is visiting your website)
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by 1996 6y ago
This, so much. Everything I say is always taken as apologism, while I just like my country. If a US born american like his country, it's patriotism. If a China born naturalized american likes both of his countries, it's proof of C
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by 1996 6y ago
> we all know now that it would of been a bad idea No we don't.
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by 1996 6y ago
> I've since turned more cynical and believe that greed is as essential to humanness as empathy, if not more, and without a strong moral code (and fear of being ostracized for breaking it), selfishness wins. It's not the baker
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by 1996 6y ago
> Union contracts are employer specific (and in some cases, facility specific), and if the Tesla factory workers unionized, they could negotiate for stock grants If it was my factory, I would cut the stock grant and fire them all - union
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by 1996 6y ago
Nice try, but working for the government is not for me.
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by 1996 6y ago
Some people want to deploy cool technology to hit the frontpage Other people want to deploy robust, tested and tried solutions, that won't break in mysterious ways, just to make money. I side with the later.
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by 1996 6y ago
Yes, my privacy comes before everything, including my health. When your medical records are leaked (only a question of time) you can't say you weren't warned.
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by 1996 6y ago
> Start writing you state government officials and get your laws changed. I'm lazy. I travel instead. Medical tourism gives me higher quality healthcare. > EVERYTHING You wish. I use tor and have had no social network presence fo
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by 1996 6y ago
Many businesses are moving to digital only. A digital-only business accepting only crypto will avoid taxes AND have it hold appreciate. Personally, I'm waiting for an crypto-based onlyfan: it's the perfect niche: performers will d
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by 1996 6y ago
And on the opposite side, I would love it if I could have hospitals destroy all my records as soon as I leave, because I value my privacy more than their fetishist interest in collecting information that would put google to shame. After try
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by 1996 6y ago
No it's not huge Indians will keep their crypto, and wait for either 1) the supreme court to strike down this law 2) a new government to repeal this law. The cat is out the bag. Politicians in every country like money. They will try to
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by 1996 6y ago
There is more manufacturing capability in China! But both the submarine and the ASB are marvelous creations of the human mind to resist the state overreach. It makes me wonder which technical marvels we are not seeing, and how much bigger C
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by 1996 6y ago
The poor may have some cash, if only $100 in the bank. They certainly have no bonds, stocks, or real estate. If they have no cash and only draw a salary, it will still hit them badly, as salaries are not inflation adjusted, and any pay incr
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by 1996 6y ago
The statement needs to be quantified: not a threat ONLY IN THE SHORT RUN . Yes you don't see it on your graphs right now. But IIRC 20% more money was printed by the fed for covid. Unless you can refute modern economic theory, we still
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by 1996 6y ago
Windows 3.1, released on April 6, 1992 - so only 29 years old. My bad, the 21 years difference must be important (somehow?)
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by 1996 6y ago
wine can also run unmodified windows binaries
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by 1996 6y ago
> The other thing you may experience, especially if you work at one of these places and a friend at work is now a "gazillionare" and you aren't, is that some of your friendships are broken Very true. Wealth is isolating, b
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by 1996 6y ago
I can't believe you are getting downvoted! This is a real risk! Relevant quote: > Under normal conditions, highly virulent strains of the virus are not selected. A highly virulent strain would kill the host before the virus would ha
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by 1996 6y ago
> It seems like 4 months were wasted just getting appointments. That's the NHS "free" healthcare at play. Remember, you get what you pay for!
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by 1996 6y ago
> You really went out of your way to attack me personally and read my past comments. I went to check if you had an history of bias, which you clearly have > Please report. No, I have wasted enough time on you. > I suspect behavior
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by 1996 6y ago
> The difference is that those 450 cases at the tesla plant were easily avoidable, if not for the selfish actions of a powerful egomaniac Evidence required. Without counterfactual, the plant seem safer than the county : 4.5% vs 5% as men
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by 1996 6y ago
> one thing is it’s very hard to get the actual scans. I had to no joke steal my own chest xrays to get a copy. unacceptable. In Asia, you have the personal email and cellphone of your dedicated administrative assistant (you won't e
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by 1996 6y ago
The US healthcare quality is bad, regardless of how much you pay, period. For knee problems, like you I went to SE Asia as a medical tourist. I was provided with a taxi waiting for me at the airport, a translator who stayed with me at all t
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by 1996 6y ago
> Microtubles aren't made from RNA, Yes they are. They are proteins. Proteins are made from DNA->RNA->ribosomal transcription. Also microtubules interact with RNA quite a lot. Check the references: https://pubmed.nc

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