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by beaner 5y ago
Funny cuz this article describes a whole country starting to find "normal people use cases" for crypto.
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by beaner 5y ago
Google: "what percentage of nigerians have cell phones" Answer: "While Nigeria's mobile penetration rate is lower than developed markets, it is higher than the average across sub-Saharan Africa, standing at around 50% as
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by beaner 5y ago
Great, let's just be consistent and take this perspective when it comes to voter ID laws, too.
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by beaner 5y ago
I think you should do it the other way, and give small simple compliments as soon as you notice them. When you do, it comes off as natural and unplanned, and therefore confident and enthusiastic. Holding onto a compliment can alter your del
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by beaner 5y ago
It's evidence, not certainty.
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by beaner 5y ago
> This person that I worked for always resented that I made about the same income without a degree. How do you know this was the reason, or even that they resented you at all?
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by beaner 5y ago
By this reasoning you could call critical race theory a conspiracy and say it "contributed to real death" through the 2020 summer protests and riots.
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by beaner 5y ago
You mentioned this twice. "Contributed to real death." What do you mean specifically? Don't just use it as a scare quote. It's not a good enough justification anyway.
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by beaner 5y ago
Okay. But this is still an actual congressional testimony for public consumption by our elected officials. By what reasoning should we not be allowed to see it?
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by beaner 5y ago
> They also point out that the reports disproportionately come from the area immediately surrounding US military testing/training facilities. Is that because the observers are disproportionately likely to be near US military testing
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by beaner 5y ago
Isn't the Covid rate in kids exceptionally low? Closing offices only barely slowed the rate of progress in adults but closing schools helped children, who are less at risk, a lot?
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by beaner 5y ago
This sounds like a perverse incentive [0]. If you reward impoverished people for having children, it is not unlikely that the net result will simply be more children birthed into poverty. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by beaner 5y ago
I think this is a strange zero-sum way of interpreting things. It assumes tax income is fixed in some way, and that some not being taxed means others always get taxed more. That's false.
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by beaner 5y ago
Why wouldn't it be allowed? If my investments into my Roth IRA performed so we'll i became a billionaire, I wouldn't want to be treated differently. And I wouldn't want my mom or my neighbor to either. They essentially g
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by beaner 5y ago
> First, the vast majority of people who insisted on the lab leak theory did it to deflect blame and target China as a scapegoat I don't think this describes a lot of people. On the contrary, this seems to be an assumption by people
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by beaner 5y ago
If there are antibodies for it does that mean your body naturally fights and defeats it, like the cold? Or does it stick around until detected?
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by beaner 5y ago
Does toxoplasmosis come up in a standard blood panel, or do you have to suspect it and test for it specifically?
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by beaner 5y ago
"It worked for me, so it must be working for most others."
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by beaner 5y ago
If you read the essay, the anecdote is just an anchor for some lucid thoughts on today's culture and how people treat each other on and off the internet. It's worth a read.
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by beaner 5y ago
ITT: people who believe it's undeniably true that this has happened everywhere else, who also believe that it is impossible that it's happened here in the US.
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by beaner 5y ago
I don't get it.
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by beaner 5y ago
By making a subsequent product that was incredibly relevant to the times and which everyone wanted?
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by beaner 5y ago
All consumer banks are 3rd parties, they just share a common protocol, the federal reserve. In El Salvador you could use any wallet you want, it doesn't have to be Strike, so it's the same thing. But actually it's not the sam
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by beaner 5y ago
All I've been hearing on HN for the last 6 years is how so many things are inherently political, that to not act is to condone, and that organizations should be made to take a stand by their employees/students/passers-by. Why
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by beaner 5y ago
"Try to damage Ycombinator"... How?
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by beaner 5y ago
Maybe the problem is the internet. Without that, critical infrastructure would not be susceptible to cyberattack.
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by beaner 5y ago
Isn't that the point that the person you're responding to is trying to make? That the diversity head was wrong to make such a generalization?
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by beaner 5y ago
Probably because it mostly contains rehashed opinion and conjecture and almost nothing of substance. I don't know why people would bother flagging something like this though, threads as content-less generally die on their own without m
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by beaner 5y ago
This doesn't read as a particularly intelligent thread. There are no interesting insights here, at least not anything that's new and hasn't already been debated/debunked/pushed back on, before. Seems like one of tho
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by beaner 5y ago
Wrong. The things it does get wrong have more impact. Russiagate is just one prior example. It was patently false from the outset, but led to mass delusions, promotions of fake news propagandists to the point that they are now embedded with

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