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by ardy42 6y ago
> Coffee consumption was actually one of the questions that I was asked when my therapist first suspected that I had ADHD. I used to drink 5+ cups per day (especially workdays) while feeling fairly little effect from it. Did you get a bi
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by ardy42 6y ago
I'm like the OP. The distinction I make is: 1) A tough project can be engrossing. Getting started is always tough, but after that it's relatively easy to keep up momentum. 2) Menial tasks are not engrossing and are usually quick
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by ardy42 6y ago
The OP mainly concerns the First Amendment, but the recent controversies around lying and free speech have not involved government attempts to stifle lies. IMO, it's not possible for there to be a workable legal ban against lying in g
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Worth noting even its creators say JCL is the worst language ever invented. I don't dispute that, but I'd kinda like to hear the specifics of their reasoning. I've never actually used JCL, but I'm willing to cut it
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by ardy42 6y ago
> As long as stuff doesn't fade for 50 years, are artists bothered? After you're dead, nobody is going to come and complain at you for using a non-durable choice of pigment. I'm sure many artists aren't creating for w
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Based on the facebook video, it's not as strongly tinting as either ultramarine or cobalt blue, and it's close enough to cobalt blue in hue that I don't see what the point is unless it's less expensive than what is
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by ardy42 6y ago
> An honest question from someone who hasn't used Windows since the early 2010s: as developers, what's the draw? Corporate standards? Also, if you're in enterprise land, there could be some weird tool you need to use (or
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YInMn, the First New Blue Pigment in Two Centuries(hyperallergic.com)
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by ardy42 6y ago
> * What purpose does the Jury serve in 2021? Made sense in the 18th century, doesn't now. Look at Oracle v Google, 12 totally qualified people made that decision (spoiler, they weren't) I'm speculating, but I think the id
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Or maybe governments don't always follow the law. That's a possibility too. It is, but I think it's way more common for people to be broadly ignorant of the law and legal concepts except a few little bits about some righ
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> It's a private company. They can do that if they want. > What I find more interesting is that when that same argument is used in other situations, such a small businesses deciding to open during the lockdown, it is routinel
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by ardy42 6y ago
> There is no "the left". This is a shibboleth that you have created. He did use the "the left" in a kind of shibboleth-y way, but I think you actually mean "straw man" here.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> However... I've noticed a difference between HN and the likes of Facebook or Twitter. As far as I can tell, HN mods focus more on how you say something rather than what you say. If you're civil, respectful, and on-topic you&#
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It’s not a far left paper, centrist at most. It’s not like they’re calling for workers to seize the means of production. In this case, I'm sure pretty sure "far left" has nothing to do with policy, and actually translate
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Far left paper repackages DNC talking points into a hit piece about someone's facebook posts 3-years ago and pretends it's news. Obviously you affiliate with Republicans (as did I until relatively recently). Why do you feel
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by ardy42 6y ago
It looks like it's ~2.75 stars now.
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> Hi, I made it change every minute, instead of every 10 minutes. Please refresh to see the changes. Shouldn't that be configurable? It seems like "catches your attention very frequently like a distraction" is actually no
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by ardy42 6y ago
> 1) The Kenosha shooting was self defense. We'll see about that when he goes to trial. > And if you arbitrarily lump things together, you can probably find an arbitrary number of victims. Which is what you're doing. Why a
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Apparently the dividing line between pro- and anti-gun isn't left versus right, but pro- versus anti- state-monopoly-on-force. If you think it's a good thing for only cops and the military to have guns, you probably think tha
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by ardy42 6y ago
> 1) Because there was just a single "capitol incident", and several BLM riots. No, there wasn't just a single incident. Just to give some examples off the top of my head: large groups of III%ers participated in both the
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The art of dictatorship is strange, and requires much better understanding than just "evil takes over private ownership". Also, dictators have no need to own anything (at least domestically). They already have the power, s
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Anyone can buy a domain and redirect it anywhere. This is an extremely embarrassing comment for the level of discussion I expected from HN. Exactly. Has everyone forgotten whitehouse.com? In the 90s it was a porn site.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Are you serious? BLM murdered an 8 year old black girl in atlanta You're claiming BLM is about murdering black kids? Are you serious? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/atlanta-mayor-8-year-
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by ardy42 6y ago
> 12-19 people have died due to BLM "protests", and over 700 officers injured. So BLM riots have had a worse impact. Your statement is dense with issues: 1. You're comparing a single "protest" to a protest movem
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by ardy42 6y ago
>>> But what would someone get out of paying ppl to dislike whitehouse videos ? >> Propaganda. > But how do you know this is happening for this video though? It's still the answer to the question you asked, whether
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It seems obvious there would be plenty of "legitimate" dislikes coming, as probably a lot of people who followed this YouTube channel in the past 4 years were Trump supporters, and now the channel features Biden. Trump suppor
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by ardy42 6y ago
> But what would someone get out of paying ppl to dislike whitehouse videos ? Propaganda.
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> people who do nothing but dislike videos >> dislikes driven by social media posts calling for users to add dislikes > this is not spam. Also how you think youtube knows if a certain user is disliking because they read a so
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by ardy42 6y ago
> As a Canadian engineer, I've always found what exactly a UK engineer is somewhat murky. Growing up, if someone told me their father was an engineer I would never think working class. I've lived in Germany too and having an en
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The licence to attend provided by Fisher’s approach feels liberating – particularly for millennials whose inability to imagine alternatives to neoliberalism arises in part from their having never known anything else. Fisher’s writing m

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