banads

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by banads 6y ago
Fear is a powerful motivator.
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>Most other cultures place way more importance on family than we do in the west, in many even today, kids continue living with their parents until marriage. Hunter gatherer and agricultural societies often have labor segregated by gender
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>I can only think of three environments where making friends is "built-in": school, work, and church You left out the military, but those are merely the few institutional walls that society has most oppressively forced upon us.
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There are endless other "built-in opportunities" out there for socialization, and remote work gives the freedom to choose them for yourself rather than being forced into an arbitrary office for the majority of your life.
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>I never realized how many people relied on work and school to reduce contact with their family until this pandemic started. Perhaps its less malicious than you make it sound. Isn't it pretty unprecedented in human history for famil
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>Some brains are neurologically misconfigured and prone to chemical depletion or lack receptors for it (ex: serotonin or dopamine). Readers: please be aware at best the science on this statement is hypothetical, at worst it's a mark
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Subtle creeping influence is often more effective is the long term than just an all once take over
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Maybe if HN got a couple billion more users...
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Yep, being able to voice one's feelings, even if they are negative or erroneous, is crucial to mental health. It wasn't until Dr. King began exposing/revealing the violent hatred of southern white supremacists to the public c
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by banads 6y ago
The number of people living in poverty has increased since 1950, while the rate of people living in poverty has decreased. If we're too busy patting ourselves on the back about the latter, we become blind to the existential threat pose
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It's not cynical, it's historical: "All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of
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And yet, there are more people living in poverty than the entire global population in 1950.
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People are typically more afraid of dying than getting sick. For many, it's more difficult to justify a global depression which runs the risk of reaping more destruction than the virus itself based on a bunch of people getting sick, co
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>I think in 99% of cases it's just a feeling The stock market is generally governed by two feelings: confidence and fear. Often times those feelings are outwardly feigned for one's own self interest
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That may be what your ECON101 text book says, but its plainly obvious that's not the case in reality.
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>If you're not interested in getting as many papers/citations/awards in whatever way you can then you may be in the wrong game. Or rather it could be that the game itself is whats wrong, leading to a reproducibility cris
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Yes of course if it had not been excerpted and retitled as "Anti-diversity memo", people would have been less primed to have a knee jerk reaction, or to even click the link in the first place. >How does the fact that people cri
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What percentage of people publicly criticizing the memo and attacking Damore do you think actually read it in full? Worth noting the first couple outlets (Vice, Gizmodo) did not post the full memo when they dropped the story.
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Can you explain what this means?
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And also assume anything you say can/will be purposefully taken out of context and twisted in order to create rage click bait to satisfy someone's ideological crusade, or to generate revenue for a dying industry which is incentivi
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Now is a terrible time to be gloating about such things.
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What precisely do you mean by "political"? Aren't there often major political/partisan conflicts about the appointment of justices?
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"We hang the petty thieves, and appoint the great ones to public office" -Aesop
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Seems like that could be mostly automated
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We are in agreement. Doctors advice should definitely not be unquestionable. In fact, there are a number of studies which show iatrogenesis as being one of the leading causes of death in the US.
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>>shouldn't my doctor morally and by default be suggesting the best treatment for what I have? >Shouldn't programmers by default be suggesting the best algorithm/programming language/design patterns for the prob
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It's not complicated at all, except for those who wish to cover up responsibility for how unprepared we have been. >There is not a sufficient supply of face masks for everyone on the planet. Anyone purchasing face masks for themselv
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Why don't you try to steel man the argument, instead of straw manning it?
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The value comes from the robot producing things for much lower costs than the human, eventually paying for itself many times over.
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Johns Hopkins research has shown a single dose having clinically significant improvement in depression for at least 6 months in 80% of participants; such results are unprecedented in psychiatry: https://youtu.be/81-v8ePXPd4

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