bandofthehawk

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by bandofthehawk 4mo ago
Yes, that was kind of my point. Either tobacco is uniquely bad or it can be grouped "along with other drugs". It can't be both.
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by bandofthehawk 4mo ago
> Tobacco, along with other drugs, is uniquely bad. How can it be "uniquely bad" if it's "along with other drugs"?
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by bandofthehawk 4mo ago
I don't think this is true, do you have a source for this? What does it even mean that he constantly marketed himself, is doing lots of shows considered "marketing yourself"?
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by bandofthehawk 4mo ago
> their Ukraine coverage is basically Russia-lite, and extremely anti-Ukrainian This is very surprising to me, I thought they were kind of pro Ukraine biased. I asked an AI and it came back with this: > The New York Times' covera
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by bandofthehawk 4mo ago
Violence is not always counterproductive
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by bandofthehawk 5mo ago
I think that's not true for me and a lot of other people. If I read a specific criticism/review of a movie or book I often make a decision not based on good/bad but based on what the criticism is about. If a movie has slow
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by bandofthehawk 5mo ago
General jargon like foobar is not that far off in meaning from "unfinished software". I think it's possible there's not really a contradiction between the different sources. The "unfinished software" meaning
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by bandofthehawk 5mo ago
I feel the same way, after the first couple of responses, I was just thinking it's blue-green. So I just had to pick randomly. A better interface would have been to just show the final spectrum pic and slide to where you think the sep
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by bandofthehawk 6mo ago
I was thinking along similar lines. If this was purely due to brain signals, I would think the artificial sweetener would also work.
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by bandofthehawk 6mo ago
Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick. A shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
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by bandofthehawk 6mo ago
No one did of course, but it's a common tactic of distraction to try to focus the attention on something else. That way people don't have to experience the discomfort thinking about the negative thing going on in their own society
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by bandofthehawk 6mo ago
Ross Perot comes to mind, but I think he wanted to balance the budget mostly be cutting spending.
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by bandofthehawk 6mo ago
A more fair comparison might be, do you learn as much by reading one full paper vs. in a similar amount of time reading summaries of 3-4 papers, asking questions about details, reading the portions of those papers that you are interested in
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by bandofthehawk 6mo ago
In 2002, there war in Iraq had large popular support, something like 70-80 percent. It took a few years for people to realize it was based on a lie and was a massive mistake. It was also morally reprehensible, but that part is not often d
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by bandofthehawk 6mo ago
Originally "the GNU project" was supposed to be an operating system. That might be what the parent post was referencing.
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by bandofthehawk 6mo ago
120 wpm using mostly thumb and index fingers sounds insane to me. I type using standard touch typing and can only get to about 60 wpm. I've always been a bit of a slow typist. Can I ask how you measured the 120 wpm?
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by bandofthehawk 7mo ago
It would be nice if they included zoomed out pictures as well, is hard to tell what the beaches look like in person from the magnified sand.
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by bandofthehawk 7mo ago
> Antisemitism is at all times high. It's always high, or did you mean at an all time high? How does antisemitism in America today compare to Russia in the 1800s?
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by bandofthehawk 7mo ago
I believe the market in the US selects for urban sprawl because it's usually subsidized by the dense urban core. Suburban areas often don't generate enough tax revenue to support their own infrastructure and services.
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by bandofthehawk 7mo ago
I think this difference mostly disappears if you group Americans by wealth. So wealthy Americans have similar life expectancies to those in other countries. It's really the poor that are most affected by our dystopian healthcare syst
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by bandofthehawk 7mo ago
If the Japanese cashier makes half the amount, but spends only 1/3 on healthcare that still seems to favor Japan
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by bandofthehawk 7mo ago
But prices already have skyrocketed, and insurance execs have already become significantly richer. Why didn't the feedback loops work?
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by bandofthehawk 8mo ago
Obama only tried to close Guantanamo by moving the prisoners to the United States, which is arguably worse than having them in Guantanamo. It would mean that you could hold prisoners in the United States indefinitely without trial. What he
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by bandofthehawk 8mo ago
I still have my original Motorola Droid, I would buy one in a second if they came out with a modern version.
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by bandofthehawk 8mo ago
Doesn't almost every situation have a minimum required codex? Sure, you should be yourself with your friends. But if they are already your friends, then you are likely already interesting enough. I thought the article was more about
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by bandofthehawk 8mo ago
Well said, this was similar to what I was thinking while reading this. Acting in a completely unfiltered way can get you into fights, arrested, or worse.
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by bandofthehawk 8mo ago
> Others are like "Here's a robot I built" and it's cool but not really novel. It might be novel to the student. What I mean is that IMO, science fairs should be more about the students exploring and learning/us
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by bandofthehawk 8mo ago
This seems weird to me, maybe it's a generational thing. Is it really that bad to share a car with someone? You don't have to talk to them the whole time.
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by bandofthehawk 10mo ago
My memory is that Hacker News comments were even more anti-Snowden at the time, but I could be mistaken. I would have thought people here would be very supportive of his whistle blowing, but I think a lot of people on this site unfortunate
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by bandofthehawk 10mo ago
Even in the case of a CRUD app, I think it's not bad to aim for a wow. Like "with this new feature, I'll no longer need to do x, y, and z repetitive tasks, great!"

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