JohnWhigham

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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
The average PCP is usually also an internist, which is just a fancy term for someone who knows just enough to be able to send you to the right specialists. And since in the US many specialists require a referral, that's all most PCPs a
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
Don't really know how to feel about this kind of future. It's exactly the kind I'm sure many administrators want: they can downsize entire departments, subscribe to a "MIT Physics package", and just hire adjunct TAs
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
I really cannot get my head around people losing their mind that Elon bought Twitter. You realize every other social media company is also run/financed by billionaires too, right?
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
Large amount of blue checkmark journalists live there, simple as that.
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
This is what can be accomplished with a homogeneous society. The US is too multicultural and has too many competing interests (both people and companies) for something like this to even be thought of.
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
I'm unironically thinking about getting DirecTV. I loved channel surfing the movie channels as a teen, found so many good movies I never would have sought out otherwise. I'm sick of all the walled garden bullshit and companies thr
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
I'd argue it started with the PC revolution and the lionization of CEOS in the 80s
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
Ah yes, a platform where one can recede even further into one's own echo chamber! Surely that is the solution to our problems.
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
Suspending the New York Post's account for posting the Hunter Biden laptop story.
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
Lol what? We're social animals. You realize that forums were also social media? Just because the term didn't exist 20 years ago doesn't mean it wasn't a thing.
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
This, holy shit. I only click on a Twitter post like once a month, but every time I have in recent months, I usually X right out of it because of the login prompts. I despise this walled garden bullshit.
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
Fighting for liberty and freedom is an idea so divorced from contemporary society that the age of the founding fathers might as well be mythology. We already have a sizeable portion of the population that wants people that don't agree
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
Yeah I wouldn't be proud of having all those deer given how large of a vector they are for ticks...
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
That thing would be 5x over-budget, take 5+ years to build, there'd be a laundry list of contractors/subcontractors involved, and one of them would eventually leak customer data.
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
What is going on with this company in the past several months? Completely destroying any goodwill they had
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
Turning left at an intersection when there's no dedicated turning lane is known as a New Jersey left because no one in the South does it...and it's fucking infuriating.
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
Nah fuck him. He basically said freedom of speech won't be a factor under his reign. Guarantee he's part of the reason Elon is making this play.
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
I'm appalled that more people aren't pissed the fuck off about the laptop story. It's literal election tampering, but no one gives a shit because it's their side. We really are cheerfully walking ourselves straight into
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
“I don’t want to do what the bread guys and the gas guys and everybody else are doing,” Vultaggio said. “Consumers don’t need another price increase from a guy like me.” Integrity like this is rare in the American business landscape. His
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
Why didn't the free market solve this particular problem? Because consumers don't give a shit. As long as they can still go to Walmart and buy their feed, they don't care.
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
Snap has been on borrowed time for a while. Both Tiktok and FB do what they do only better and with more users.
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
What if ISPs start really inspecting your traffic and then ban you when you start visiting certain sites they don't like? You going to say the same thing then especially when how ingrained the Internet has become in everyday life?
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
Seriously, the weird veneration we have for the founders is very bizarre mainly because once they got in power, they largely acted like any other ruler.
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
And what moral reasons could those possibly be for Wikipedia?
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by JohnWhigham 4y ago
Absolutely. A lot changed with the advent of mobile devices, almost none of it for the better. Don't care if it's not in vogue to say it, lowering the barrier of entry to the Internet was a mistake. It was better when it was gat
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
I can't imagine how boring and bereft of life cities would be if rational HN nerds ran them. Trees? Parks? Where's the return on them? We don't need them!
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Hope you made the right one and stuck with FF. Using a Webkit browser is actively contributing to a disgusting monopoly that doesn't give a fuck about the end users.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
War isn't supposed to be, and never has been, fair.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Your only options are Webkit-based browsers or FF forks that are frequently behind and will probably croak sometime in the future.
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by JohnWhigham 5y ago
You realize all that is coming, right? Health insurance companies would love to adjust your premium on the fly when they see you buy a 6 pack at the store.

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