WhompingWindows

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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
There's a lot happening here, what a wide ranging post! Thanks for stimulating the mind. I'd separate aging research from attempting to solve Alzheimers, PD, cancer, and other maladies. Cancer is ever-present, sorry to say but mos
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
Click bait from all content producers exists to waste our time. The one goal of clickbait is to get you to click so their ads load and they make a few cents. Has anyone seen this trend on YT recently? The videos are much shorter and much mo
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
Came here to suggest Bill Bryson's Short History of Everything. It covers a lot of less top-of-mind concepts, like he delves into air-balloons, artificial cloud making, moss collections, geological history, botany, and all manner of fi
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
This title is pretty click-baity in my opinion. Why doesn't the title contain the words "soybean oil"? It seems bizarre to use the words "most widely consumed cooking oil" without mentioning which one. And referring
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
It seems highly improbable we won't have society in 2050. We're currently in 2022, we've existed alongside nuclear weaponry for 75 years, I doubt the next 28 will see annihilation but I do dread the small chance (maybe 5-10%)
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
I thought about teaching as a career. I'm passionate about science and math, I'm great with kids, I'm a decent teacher...but the stress was insanely high for the compensation and benefits. I was doing entry-level assistant wo
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
Define "successful career in tech" for yourself, then ask if that is what you're doing. For me, I want to put my attention onto helping others, in this case by using computers, data, and statistics. I also put attention onto
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
Death by a thousand paper cuts. As an example, the local breakfast shop. The owner claimed he couldn't find cheap employees anymore, they all left to sit at home on unemployment (his words, not mine). He also bemoaned the additional ti
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
There have been language games since the dawn of time. Our very human speech evolved to allow us to discuss other humans, to gossip, to chat, to play social games like conversation, debate, acting, humor, rapping. Language has been and alwa
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
This is Reddit...this is the Internet...what percentage of these "people" are actually individual humans writing their own beliefs?
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
I think this is poorly argued by the author. "Now that even the poor can afford material goods, let’s denigrate goods while highlighting the remaining luxuries that only the affluent can enjoy and show off to their friends." The a
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Ask HN: MIT Story, Email Only Goes 600 Miles or Less?
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
Pressure treated wood: I see this as an essential material in modern building. Our own house used non-pressure-treated, regular boards for the sill (the walls attach to these sill boards, which are directly on top of the poured foundation,
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
My Own Addition: 14. Those who code for a living make good money. I have a lot of friends who went into various fields, and it seems relative to the number of buttons we press daily, anyone who works on software makes great money. We didn&#
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
Depending on the definition of colonizing, however. Does sending 100 scientists there count as exploration or colonization? I'd be in favor because the discoveries they'd make about the history of life on Mars would radically weak
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
It's not procreation that's our sole purpose on Earth, however. Yes, Darwinian evolution posits that ability to procreate successfully shaped every species. However, I'd argue due to our consciousness, our ability to generate
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
You believe there's nothing worth preserving in human civilization, that's there no purpose to anything humanity does? I'd argue we are biological beings with consciousness, we have the capability of experiencing wonderful th
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
There's no reason to boil these creatures alive. Insert the knife into one key brain region and it's lights out, no more suffering instantly. Chefs can take 3 seconds to end their life with mercy, or they can throw a living creatu
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
I was diagnosed by both my PCP MD and a psychiatrist. Do you think you're more qualified than they are? Have you clinically interviewed me?
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
Well friend, I'm sorry to say your comments were hurtful to me. Do you really think an internet comment I scribbled out in 2 minutes is enough to un-diagnose me? Do you think someone diagnosed with depression by both an MD and a psychi
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
In my opinion, the main crux is this: there are moneyed interests who are motivated to generate mistrust and otherization based on political parties. In the USA, Fox News has a strong incentive to inspire hatred and fear of Democratic polic
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
I think you should clarify that Ivermectin works better in higher-worm-prevalence areas. It's not remotely true that 10% of Americans have undetected worms. The praised study in the post highlights 12.5% as "high" prevalence,
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
You state "let real estate developers build housing. Full Stop." Using your car example, if we allowed auto-makers to do anything they wanted, FULL STOP, well...fuel standards would be much lower and we'd have even more work
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
99% of the time I use corded headphones, it doesn't matter that they're corded. They are simply better in every respect outside of the cord. I've owned at least 5 pairs of mid-range headphones, I loved my Sony studio monitor
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
I was depressed for years due to two things: a bad relationship and bad jobs. Once I moved on from the hoarder ex with 3 un-treated mental health problems, whose clothes literally covered the entire bedroom, floor and bed and all surfaces,
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
Where is the line between objective science and subjective science? Is the work truly science if it is funded and heavily motivated by industry to increase the industry's profits? Or is it advertising and marketing masquerading as scie
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
There's some percentage of cars out there that are vintage vehicles, which owners don't mind spending the money on to keep going, even though they're emitting diesel fumes and are inefficient. There's a love of these mac
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
Scope! You must define the scope of the game from the beginning, and it'll often be the case that your goals far exceed the practical limits of what you can code. This is OK, as long as you know you're dreaming too big, but then y
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
Those polls don't really tell us how their view of temperature changes are affecting their view of policy and climate. If 67% think that, that's basically covering the West and the East, which is the areas covered by storms and fi
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by WhompingWindows 5y ago
Devil's Advocate, since I agree they should just meet virtually... arguably there are maybe 10,000 people globally that decide most things regarding climate change. If those 10,000 people flew to one spot and agreed to enact policies t

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