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by bdhe 1y ago
> One example: many skeptics ask the question “if vaccines are so safe then why are they immune to lawsuits?”. This is a very reasonable question for people to ask! I hear this point cited and I googled it and it took me like 3 seconds t
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by bdhe 1y ago
How are others processing this horrific backsliding in scientific trust, literacy, and straight up lack of compassion for the most vulnerable in the US? Folks can surely see the connection between dropping vaccination rates and the rise of
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by bdhe 1y ago
Horrifying how illiberal vast swathes of the US and also parts of HN have become in a very short few years.
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by bdhe 1y ago
I wonder what Peter Thiel and Matt Danzeisen think about this?
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by bdhe 1y ago
> Just absurd. What's worse - Kim Davis's personal life doesn't read like someone who "respects traditional marriage". From wikipedia: > Davis has been married four times to three husbands. The first three mar
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by bdhe 1y ago
Wow, the xenophobia is getting pretty blatant.
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by bdhe 1y ago
Ah, you mean some people actually want small as in "L'état, c'est moi!" - the smallest government there is?
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by bdhe 1y ago
I'm trying to "steel man" the points of view of someone who is a big Kennedy supporter and also a small government conservative. Is there any coherent world view where something like this is NOT condemned as excessive governm
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by bdhe 1y ago
I think it matters a great deal! If that result comes at the expense of - let's say - progress fighting climate change because Elon also ended up defunding and destabilizing a lot of science with the same instincts that got him to proc
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by bdhe 1y ago
> There's always something to learn from everyone. Elon reiterated one thing frequently - "We have to get to Mars soon because I don't want to be dead before it happens" I understand the idea of learning from everyone
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Ask HN: Why is the sender chat box always on the right?
5 points by bdhe 1y ago|9 comments
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by bdhe 1y ago
Hey, you didn't answer my question about whether you read the indictment or not
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by bdhe 1y ago
Wait, all your links are from opindia From wikipedia - OpIndia is an Indian far-right[2] news website known for frequently publishing misinformation.[11][12][28] Founded in December 2014,[18] the website has published fake news and Islamoph
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by bdhe 1y ago
> Despite extradition treaty Canada has become a safe harbor of terrorists and refused to extradite terrorists even after repeated requests by India. This seems troubling. Can you share some examples of this? > Canada has not provided
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Ask HN: Useful tips, tricks, and mindset changes navigating frothy organizations
1 points by bdhe 2y ago|0 comments
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by bdhe 2y ago
It is reasonable that things got bad on Dec 12 2000, but I contend that things have gotten worse (at least from a liberal PoV). I don't know understand the goal of projecting it as always being bad. I think that hides nuances or detail
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by bdhe 2y ago
You raise fair points but I think the guardrails of US democracy are coming off in a way we haven't seen before (such as how Nixon resigned under threat of impeachment but the SCOTUS ruled that the President is mostly sort of a king as
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by bdhe 2y ago
Au contraire, I'm trying to find persuasive literature from the right that helps me understand things better. My understanding of the abortion debate was that it was wholesale manufactured by Southern Baptists to generate a cultural ra
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by bdhe 2y ago
> Do you remember the Iran-Contra scandal? I know of the scandal. I don't think it compares to the pardon of 1500+ people - that feels unprecedented. Or maybe it isn't. That's what I'm trying to understand. George W B
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Ask HN: Good articles or books to understand the current zeitgeist?
11 points by bdhe 2y ago|16 comments
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by bdhe 3y ago
If you refer to Trump, when people say idiot, I don't think they refer to his intelligence in the sense of appealing to people's base instincts - he clearly has good political intelligence. It refers to his understanding of subjec
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by bdhe 3y ago
To compare US elections to Russian or Syrian elections is both incredibly naive and dangerous. In one country, you have a leading political opponent having stolen classified docs treated with kid gloves; in the other, you have political opp
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by bdhe 3y ago
I'm not sure I see the connection between Google search integrity and Youtube choosing to or not choosing to host a video from a conspiracy theorist who thinks that "Wi-Fi opens your blood brain barrier" and whose candidacy i
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by bdhe 3y ago
This might be a great article, but it is important to note that this comes from a company founded by Deepak Chopra, who is a famous figure and undoubtedly has done some good work but is a deeply flawed person, perhaps a charlatan really. h
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by bdhe 3y ago
Forget about Mars, what about spending that $44B to lobby the government to end poverty for children in the US, feels like a noble cause. Senators and Congressmen/women are bribed, excuse me, lobbied, for peanuts (< millions).
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by bdhe 4y ago
Funny how that works. How is Apple's ad platform doing these days? Does anyone know?
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by bdhe 4y ago
I think you're conflating two things - positive signaling (i.e., I want a Tesla because I want to be cool) and consumer choice (i.e., I would've bought a Tesla but I don't want to anymore because of how Elon Musk has behaved)
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by bdhe 4y ago
> As if these fans really know who Elon is as a person anyways. ProTip: if you haven't actually met and interacted with a person, then you really know nothing about a person beyond hearsay. What's on the screen ain't real
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by bdhe 4y ago
No, sadly there is a decidedly right-wing mind virus around how SBF is treated with kid gloves because he heavily donated to democrats. Ignoring that he also donated to Republicans. This is all part of that narrative - substantiated or othe
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Ask HN: What are Larry Page and Sergey Brin working on these days?
38 points by bdhe 4y ago|11 comments

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