LurkingPenguin

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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> You are essentially saying "hey just let it happen no vaccination needed". I neither stated nor implied this. Please don't lie about or distort what other people have posted. This post is about a study which found most C
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> Your proposal is to fire fat people from their jobs because they pose a risk to.... others? Responses like this are sadly typical. What is your aim? To shoot down a legitimate discussion of risk factors like obesity and poor cardiovasc
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> A study estimated that nearly two-thirds of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S. could be attributed to obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and heart failure. > This research further highlights the burden of heart and metabolic diseas
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
I've hired and fired, both in management roles and for my own business. The problem with the parent poster's incentives, even if he was willing to accept just one, is that they're not thoughtful and consistent. On one hand, t
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> As a shareholder, you own the company including its problems. You don't get to complain like a customer, you did not buy any product or service from them, it's the other way around. Huh? So shareholders who literally own a pi
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> ...react to competitors... In this case, there were no competitors. The parent poster indicated that he was leaving to start his own thing. Nobody was offering him a high-paying job where he would work only 32 hours a week, have 6+ wee
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
I don't find many of Fareed's arguments supporting the "this will be very good for the economy" to be very convincing. Instead, they sound like a desperate attempt to put a positive spin on an economy that is clearly sic
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> The employer should be ahead of the employee anticipating needs and reacting to broader market trends. In the case of the parent comment, be ahead of the employee how? "Good news, Steve. We're giving you a $50,000/year r
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> if you are going to talking about Chinese government policies, at least be accurate. Chinese government is not going to bail out Evergrande. Where did I say the Chinese government was going to bail out Evergrande? The people making pur
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Coming soon: a 50 RMB tax on each livestream sale for "common prosperity". And by "common prosperity" I mean bail out Evergrande .
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
People cringe at the crypto guys but what they're doing is nothing compared to what [ Hitler/Pol Pot/Joseph Stalin/Idi Amin/Muammar Gaddafi/Saddam Hussein/Ivan the Terrible ] did.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
We should be exploring all promising avenues of treatment, recognizing that not every avenue will prove effective or suitable for every person. Incidentally, there is movement on the psilocybin front[1], so I don't think there's
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
It's really hard to use much of what Zuck says for reasonable analysis. Examples: > I care about this existing, not just virtual and augmented reality existing, but it getting built out in a way that really advances the state of hu
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> When one group believes in big government and the other believes in small government in contradictory and circumstantial ways, there's no reconciliation. Well good news: both the left and the right believe in big government. The b
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Defending the civil and human rights of mentally disabled and addicted people does not require that you permit them to defecate in public, take drugs in public, harangue and harass passersby, aggressively panhandle, and engage in theft. In
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> This is the real corruption here. No way to make a thorough clean-up of 16 billion liters of toxic waste water with that amount of money, let alone compensate the victims. Do you think this is justice? Do you think this agreement didn&
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
I live abroad and have traveled extensively (I've spent time on every continent except Antarctica). The US has plenty of problems and IMO is experiencing significant decline but if you ever get a chance, spend some time in countries th
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Not to worry about Chevron, because they did not give a single cent of the 9.5B$ to the Ecuador government, or indigenous communities who got toxic waste dumped in their drinking water, or Ecuadorians who discovered oil pools on their
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
I don't follow. Chevron might be a rotten company, but multiple courts in countries that aren't banana republics have found convincing the evidence that Donziger engaged in illegal behavior to procure a verdict against it in Ecuad
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> That's not a real court. That's one of those joke courts... Right. It's not like the courts in Ecuador, which are "real" courts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Ecuador
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Why should the public do anything about this? A US court found that the $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron in Ecuador was procured by fraud, bribery, and racketeering. From Wikipedia: > In 2018, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in T
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> And if they can do their jobs remotely, why can't an equally skilled engineer in a country with a cost of living 1/10th of the "rich countries" do the same? I'm an American expat and one of the things that I qu
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> ...and I have a feeling that the nay-sayers from ROC might be concerned about losing political significance with their western trade partners. This. I live in Taiwan, and while I love the country and hope that it never falls to the CCP
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> This Zappos article is like the whole catalog of rich people problems in a nutshell: drugs, parasitic relationships, arrests, and dumb accidents. Not all "rich people" have these problems. You just don't tend to hear abo
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Every material thing you own can weigh you down. Material things can also bring you...pleasure (to use your own word). Of course, there's a balance and it's horses for courses, but I think a lot of people would feel that limi
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Incidentally, there was another post on HN earlier written by a truck driver and he believes it's more complicated. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29022124
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
When did the sexual dysfunction begin? During treatment, immediately after or was there a delay between the time you stopped taking the medication and when it began?
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Imagine risking $8,000, watching it go to $5.7 billion a year later, not cashing out and going down as the biggest diamond hands in history. At the very least you could create a commemorative diamond hands NFT collection and walk away with
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> But yes, internal strive you mean that some hardliners suddenly decide to take action. No, I meant that the people in charge (more aptly, the person in charge) would be far more likely to take drastic action if and when it becomes evid
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Were China to invade, they would have done it by now I think, especially in the turmoil of Afghanistan. I believe a big misperception about China attacking Taiwan is that this will be driven by external considerations more than interna

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