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by apatters 6y ago
If digitally induced dopamine spikes are a concern, why isn't porn at the forefront of the discussion? Erectile dysfunction has roughly doubled in young men over the past decade and some research attributes it to online porn. https:&#
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It's exactly how South Korea and many other countries developed (and continue to develop) as well. The difference here is that China is positioning itself as a political rival to the United States. America is under no obligation to hel
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When these studies talk about the value of "close" relationships, they tend to point to properties like respect, trust, and emotional intimacy. Basically the relationship characteristics that someone with a secure attachment style
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A quick trip down the rabbit hole (and my package manager) after reading this article revealed that the author of links has also produced links2 and xlinks2, which support very limited formatting (like showing text in a few different sizes)
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Sure the town square has had value throughout history. But no one ever lived their entire life in it until now. They spent most of their time outside the town square with their friends and family. It's a weird accident of information c
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Quote seems fairly accurate to me if you just replace "Hacker News" with "Users of Hacker News." It's a forum that's populated heavily with Silicon Valley tech liberals (basically fairly left leaning with a lib
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I disagree strenuously and I believe the piece will be damaging to the intellectual future of your students. The title is "Seeking Truth" but the author doesn't appear to be doing that. A more accurate title would be "De
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I think what Substack is doing is really exciting, but it remains to be seen how large this phenomenon will become. I heard on a CNBC interview that there are only about 30 writers who make a living income from Substack right now (don'
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As usual there is nuance to this story which the incendiary popular media failed to capture, because it doesn't bait clicks. Early on the WHO's biggest concern was that panic buying would lead to mask shortages for health care wor
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Neither the NYT nor academic journals are a legitimately useful source of COVID-19 information for a layperson. The NYT's coverage has been full of scaremongering and speculation and the world would probably have been better off withou
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I don't know about that. In the context of history's broad arc I think you can come up with some adjectives that describe the post-WW2 era in broad terms. Liberal, open, globalized, emancipatory, diverse, individualist, capitalist
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Thanks for the response, I had not seen that post from pg and I didn't realize that comments can be manually deleted upon request. I definitely appreciate the idea of there being a community interest in both the creation and archive of
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Could HN consider allowing users to delete their own old posts? We live in a very different world than the one that existed when HN first launched. Self-censorship and careful pruning of old posts is now a necessity for participating in pub
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It's undoubtedly more dangerous to be critical of the mainstream narrative now than it was 10-20 years ago. There's an alt right author called Vox Day (and I'm a little afraid to be referencing him here) who makes the followi
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This realization is what motivated me to start participating in charity over the past few years. There has never been as much empty virtue signalling by privileged people as there is today. They declare the deck chairs on the Titanic to be
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by apatters 6y ago
To attract antitrust scrutiny in the US you don't need to be a monopoly. You need something economists call "market power." A firm has market power when they are able to raise their prices with impunity because consumers are
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by apatters 6y ago
This feels like a good time to celebrate how I uninstalled Chromium from the last device I was using it on last week. 100% Firefox now! DuckDuckGo gets about 75% of my searches nowadays with the rest going to Google. Still using Maps, GSuit
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You do an incredible job with Hacker News! For those of us interested in the subject matter I feel this place is in the top 5 sites on the Internet. The irony here is that while Hacker News is not growth-driven and that's surely part o
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Why don't we just tell it like it is? The majority of comments here reflect the fact that Reddit is a garbage site run by a garbage company. Used to be great, more garbage every day. They leverage network effect to abuse their users an
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There have been studies which have found that the virus can aerosolize, but it hasn't been established that infectious spread occurs this way. For example, it could be that viral concentrations in an aerosolized form aren't enough
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Hopefully this doesn't come across as pedantic but airborne transmission of COVID-19 is rare. Not ruled out completely but not the main way it is spread. In the initial Chinese study of 75K they said there was zero airborne transmissio
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There was definitely no malice or intent to mislead by health authorities in this regard and the claim that there was has always struck me as a bizarre result of selective reporting. You can go back a few months and the WHO went on record p
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How are people able to read this? I get a screen that demands I disable my ad blocker. The exact same article is available without demands here (at least when I accessed it through Google): https://www.mercurynews.com/2020&#
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Both of these comments are spreading misinformation about "herd immunity." Any amount of immunity or resistance within the population will reduce the effective reproduction rate of the virus. This effect becomes more significant a
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You don't know your LTV, churn rate, or even if you have product market fit at the beginning so paid acquisition is sort a gamble. I think YC soundly advises that you get your initial customers in ways that are less scaleable and get t
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There's nothing marginalized about the American government, it's the biggest and most powerful government in the world and it has an unfathomably huge budget. I haven't seen a free market in America in decades. Free markets c
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Why does the federal government miss the ball Every. Single. Time? Twitter censoring conservatives wouldn't be a big deal if Twitter had more competitors. America keeps on saying it's committed to free and open markets. Why doesn&
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Exactly this. These are facts that have never changed and were known from day one: 1. Because the virus is spread mainly through droplets, the risk goes down if you keep your distance from other people. 2. Because the virus is spread
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> A timeline creates a space, but in a shared timeline, whether it's a Twitter hashtag or a comments section on a small blog, the space is made by spamming your narrative more often. Why isn't this solved fairly easily via a di
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> I've spent an insane number of hours wondering why being alive is a good thing. Still not sure I have an answer. You're not alone, the existentialist/nihilist position is that there is no good answer to this question, an

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