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I'm always fascinated by this obsession with having right-brained people design environments for left brain people. Don't get me wrong. It has plenty of upsides to it, but yes you get this other impractical aspect. I'm prett
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The ridiculously biased nature of the paper was readily apparent when opening it. I've followed ketogenic diets in the past, but was also a vegan for 3 years, and a vegetarian for 5. I'm super open-minded and results based when
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Modern hunter-gatherers in AFRICA. Do you think the Inuit, or hunter-gatherers in northern Europe or Asia were getting 50% of their calories from non-animal sources? You know the answer is absolutely not. I don't want to get into an a
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This is what they do in Europe. I'm not particularly thrilled with public health authorities using coercion. It would solve my needs, sure, but I just think it's counterproductive in the long term. The most effective way to guara
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I deeply appreciate your thoughtful response here. I don't disagree with your points on bad actors either. It should be noted that my positive test in Feb 21 was digitally recorded, reported to the state of Colorado as well as my coun
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Most governments in the EU allow proof of prior infection as a substitute for vaccination for a green pass. Your assumption that people are so stupid that they would purposely get infected instead of getting vaccinated is speculative, and d
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As a person who was infected in February 2021, before I was eligible to get vaccinated, we now know that there was minimal to zero medical benefit to me getting this vaccine. I had a family tragedy with the vaccine in May that I commented o
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If you're going to quote the trolley problem at me, you need to explain to me the benefit of the vaccine for this age group. Risk of the virus for this age group is tiny. The primary rationale for vaccinating children originally was
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We use this extensively as probably half of the Python programmers on HN do. It's great, but there are plenty of alternatives out there as well, especially for performance. Our specific use case is IO limited so it's perfect f
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Are you really accepting CCP virus counts? How gullible can people be to believe anything from a totalitarian government? We are talking about a nation that has reported zero cases for months at a time when no other nation on the planet
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This is an excellent comment regarding how unsustainable these practices are. School closures and even the isolation tactics when a asymptomatic child test positive are completely unsustainable. They are deeply punishing to the working
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Vaccination can be a hardship if it causes adverse events. The long-term negative health effects of COVID infection in children are isolated to the high risk comorbidity group, including COVID induced myocarditis. Healthy kids who contra
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I'm going to challenge you on a specific point: If it required a Herculean effort to prevent the health care system collapsing, why didn't Sweden's healthcare system collapse? Why didn't Florida's health care sys
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I refer to these excessively risk averse people as "branch covidians". It's dumb, corny, and not that funny, but it helps me appropriately pity them instead of being angry at them. Isolation can foster a negative feedback lo
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I'm guessing you're trying to be funny with the fanboy comments that add nothing to the conversation. I will choose not to respond to that. Regarding your moral assertion that a person who dies in a car accident should never be c
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> I also would catch my mind "frozen" in some thought, like "why can't the government just print all the money it needs?". Usually the next second you'd move to "ah, because inflation", but in that
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This is common sense, except to the foolish activists who believe everything Rousseau ever wrote.
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Just ask me if I read the article, or state that you don't think I did. I did read it by the way, and my main complaint is with the title being designed to use innuendo to draw clicks. I consider it beneath the dignity of any good pu
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I'm not a fan boy. I have endless criticism of Tesla, especially on the service front. And let's not even get into the build quality issues, particularly with the body panels. I'm a fan boy of truth, reason, logic, and indi
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All Teslas are equipped with FSD hardware. The upgrade turns on the FSD software. Hardware or not, you don't have FSD unless you pay for it.
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It's EXACTLY like that in a Tesla. Even when your hands are on the wheel, you still get nagged to tug on it constantly. Autopilot is not a groundbreaking feature at all. It's just like the Audi Q5 (my wife owns one, and I end u
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Autopilot is a free feature on Teslas, and is a simple lane assist system, akin to cruise control. It is not Full Self Driving. FSD is an expensive upgrade, and is supposed to do things like stop at lights. Driver was on autopilot, which e
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You're being downvoted, but you're right. I used to work in defense/intel, and then spent a lot of time at a large Federal consulting firm, where I learned just how insanely wasteful these agencies are on software projects.
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The friction to stop paying rent was essentially zero. A 1 page form with no verification. The friction to get reimbursed, depending on where you are, was very high, and in the case of my sister's situation, required cooperation of t
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This. See another comment I made discussing my sister's experience. The childish, dorm-roomy attitude of landlords being "big faceless corporations" is wholly inaccurate and distorted. The same group also has this view that
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> Individually, no. As a class, yes. Elevating group identity over individuals is the root of some of the most evil activities in human history. It should be noted that individual human beings who moved to a new home and chose to rent t
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My sister manages a large portfolio of properties in Virginia and North Carolina in her role as a director at a medium-sized property management firm. The reality for her company, and many landlords, is that it was extremely easy for a dead
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Agreed. I think we also have to come to grips with the fact that there is a significant portion of the population of first-world nations who desperately WANT a crisis so that they don't have to acknowledge that their lives are miserabl
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Agreed. Growing up, I spent a lot of time on boats. The county I grew up in was primarily a fishing/crabbing economy. Autopilot on boats is like this. It maintains a compass heading. At no point does it steer you around obstacles o
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Unfortunately, the entire thread is people who don't understand that Autopilot and Full Self Driving are not the same thing. Autopilot comes with the vehicle, and is simply a lane-assist system. It explicitly tells you it will not br

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