WaxedChewbacca

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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
If it's the case that I just have a stone-age opinion because I was raised in rural Georgia by evangelicals or something, why not demonstrate understanding of my point, and then go on to explain why it's obsolete? > There'
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
> last 2 years open relationship I'd like to make a counter suggestion that your relationship ended two years ago, but you have not really ended it nor started a new one. There's a very good reason we have a tradition of choosi
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
Moving the goalposts. Issue under discussion is "side effect risk for men under 40 is non trivial".
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
I think it's easy to see that psychedelics, while valuable, aren't exactly a direct key to world peace. Why? Because we won't have peace in the world until we have peace in people. And psychedelics, whatever they do, and I th
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
Let's be perfectly clear. This is incitement to persecute innocent people for the actions of their government, which we are being heavily propagandized into believing are unjustified. But let's set aside for the moment whether the
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
Speaking of getting views whether true or not, here's the Guardian getting money for spreading misinformation: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/ukraine-soldie... They go on to say &quot
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
> those sanctions ARE helping to put an end to this madness It's this part that seems not very well supported. From what I can tell, Russia thought about the probable sanctions quite a lot before starting this course of action, so i
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
I think you have a good notion about not buying Chinese stuff, but that reason doesn't make much sense to me. I've heard people say that the US might have caused the deaths of half a million children in the aftermath of the Iraq i
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
> consumer engagement skyrockets the closer you get to violating community standards "Violation of community standards" often simply consists of having signal, i.e. talking plainly about objectively existent measurable artifact
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
I don't think there's much sense in hating it. It has a real and interesting meaning, but it's just rare to hear anyone provide it. The problem is that understanding it rests on something most people have never even heard of,
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
I second Fastmail. They're simply great.
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
> Your account, if I'm not mistaken, is very much in the latter category. You should be glad that someone cares enough to keep trying to administer medicine. The people who just went away when you made it clear that you were going t
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
Are you being a weasel about the word "ban"? Do you place users in a special status where their comments are hidden by default and they are subject to strict rate limits based on things they say? Yes, of course. And I can't
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
Sorry, but it just doesn't match my experience. I'm male, and got very strong at computers and programming through obsessive self-study. I have two male friends who did the same thing. I know of hundreds of male hackers who did th
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
Sure, I appreciate your view on that. My problem with the current situation is that bricks are being thrown at my head every day on HN, but it's not considered idealogical battling when it's my opponents pulling the trigger. It on
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
> If you want to be not rate limited, you'll have to contact HN. They will fix it for you, but not if you continue past behavior. Oh, I've talked with dang a few times. Are you actually able to point to any bad behavior of mine
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
> show some proof that it's not the users flagging or down voting Not possible to do using any normal means, of course. So, not a very useful hoop to ask somebody to jump through. But I can testify that although I've never been
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
The real problems aren't in tech. The real problems are in people, and they're not easy to fix. But they're even harder to fix given that very few people are interested in the kinds of actions that might help. Like cancer pat
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
Well, another hypothesis is that he's old enough to remember when flying on an airplane resembled a service where the company was trying to ensure that the customer was pleased about it. Like they still do on many non-US airlines.
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
I don't think people understand the trades they're making. They see that one offering seems to do approximately the same stuff as another one, but it only costs half as much, and don't understand that the cheaper offering is
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
Being young is all about lack of perspective, lack of experience about how things can go wrong. I was able to do all kinds of things long before I was able to make good decisions about what I actually should do.
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
Ivermectin is also apparently a potent protease inhibitor. Inhibition of protease sabotages viral replication. Does that change the picture for you?
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
To test, just take the wording you're thinking about using, and substitute in "white male" or whatever, as needed. For example, "only white males need apply." Or if your statement is negative, try something like &qu
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
> But Hangul is great, I wish Thailand would adopt it. What a weird wish. Does Hangul even have ways to write the in-between consonants in Thai like dt or bp? Does Hangul even have the Thai vowel sound ื (which certainly has no unambigu
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
It doesn't matter. It's the same question as whether abolishing due process or the jury system or making encryption illegal would reduce crime. We don't mandate medical procedures because it violates bodily autonomy. Heard of
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
Articles like these tend to flagged, I think, because HN's progressives realize that they are an opportunity to be humble and honest and say "we had good intentions, but something is going terribly wrong" -- and they know the
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
I wouldn't assume that it did. I would focus on its remaining extreme plasticity. It seems likely that you could do an enormous amount of self-cultivation via practices like meditation.
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
In my experience, cold is the absolute worst and last resort. It's almost always better to get in via someone who knows you, because, for example, if a coder at the company everyone regards as highly competent advocates for you and say
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
It happens the same way over and over. Some site will offer discoverability, so writers flock to it, and then the site gradually becomes terrible. The answer is to own your own stuff. Your own domain, your own blog software, etc. Just devel
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by WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
I don't see it as an exception. Are you pronouncing it as "earl"? I pronounce it as U R L. "a you are ell".

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