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by beebmam 4y ago
Contrarianism gets clicks and large visibility. Doesn't matter the topic. Many people have built their livelihoods on it.
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by beebmam 4y ago
Wealth is redistributed all the time, it's called taxation.
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by beebmam 4y ago
So what should we do about it? Let another oligarch buy it and operate it? Why not nationalize it? Then at least the US constitution would apply, your first amendment rights would be protected, and it would truly be a public space.
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by beebmam 4y ago
It's quite simple to sharpen your own razors or shaving blades, I've been doing it for years.
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by beebmam 4y ago
>Those 150k tons are for heating people's homes. This is a misrepresentation: natural gas is used for a variety of purposes, with industry and home use approximately tied, varying by EU country. Germany for example, uses more natura
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by beebmam 4y ago
I've never had the application crash, not even once. The only problem I've had with it being slow is when it opens Office apps inside of it. It's been flawless otherwise, leaps and bounds ahead of Zoom and Slack.
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by beebmam 4y ago
Agree with all of your points. It is also worth examining how monetization changes the kinds of videos that get created, and the way content creators cater to their audiences for maximum engagement.
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by beebmam 4y ago
It's a demonstrable fact that Carbon Dioxide as a % of the Earth's atmosphere is increasing, and virtually all serious models predict that it will have a significant impact on the planet's average temperature and other charac
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by beebmam 4y ago
The less I interacted with teachers, the better I did. Children can differ so much in how they learn best.
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by beebmam 4y ago
I've seen enough of my friends get seriously injured on their bikes by vehicles. No thanks. I'm not riding my bike again on streets until my city starts protecting cyclists. (I'm in the US)
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by beebmam 4y ago
> Cancer is easily explained from an evolutionary optimization perspective Anything that "easily explains" cancer should be thrown right out as unscientific. Cancer is many diseases, many of which are profoundly different from
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by beebmam 4y ago
The export ban applies to China only. Source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-says-us-has-impose...
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by beebmam 4y ago
People in the US vote for politicians out of spite and animus towards the other party, not because they endorse their own party or politicians.
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by beebmam 4y ago
>Because Japan is so culturally homogeneous I think they'd have a very easy time picking an outgroup to blame for problems. The US is the opposite, and its diversity doesn't stop them from doing it. Often, fully justified too,
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by beebmam 4y ago
It's on a deck AND the individuals who present. If you sent someone a slide deck and nothing else, virtually no one is going to raise funding on just that.
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by beebmam 4y ago
What is the problem with wanting to be paid for your labor?
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by beebmam 4y ago
The problem isn't the algorithm. The problem is Monetization and the incentives it creates. Been saying this for a decade.
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by beebmam 4y ago
Are you arguing that religious institutions are apolitical?
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by beebmam 4y ago
Against the variants at the time: the mRNA vaccines were highly effective against symptomatic infection for those variants. The virus mutated, and the messaging did as well. It was very clear from virtually every source I saw that Omicron d
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by beebmam 4y ago
It seems to me that science has been political since it first came into existence, even before we had a well-defined scientific method. Science is political because the organizations and institutions that fund/support science decide wh
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by beebmam 4y ago
Correlation is not causation. There are many, many reasons why opioids are used.
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by beebmam 4y ago
In my humble opinion, children should be prevented from browsing much of the horrific content and/or pornographic content on the internet, and I think it is worth thinking about how to prevent it.
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by beebmam 4y ago
A technology which leaves the door open for exploitation will certainly be exploited by someone. In a self-governing society, people would turn their backs on the most exploitable technology; in the actual world, I just don't see that
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by beebmam 4y ago
Or just increase property tax across the board. An increase in property tax will drive housing prices downwards.
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by beebmam 4y ago
What specifically is BS in the video? Could you be specific?
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by beebmam 4y ago
> Perhaps this is why things keep getting reinvented all the time This is a good thing, in my opinion. Not only does reinventing something give a new generation an opportunity to learn how to design, but it also gives that new generation
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by beebmam 4y ago
Does SQLite still not support remote connections? Without that, it's hard for me to take it seriously for most RDBMS use cases.
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by beebmam 4y ago
The people of the world, much less just the US, have a sincere interest in preventing terrorism. The functional elimination of Al Qaeda and ISIS are both two things people should be celebrating. Many countries are responsible for their elim
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by beebmam 4y ago
> People want their bubbles. We’re all here on HN for that exact purpose. 100% disagree. I'm here to find ideas I disagree with and tell people how they're wrong. I'm not looking for an agreeable experience here. I'm
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by beebmam 4y ago
A million names? Can you point me to evidence that this terrorist watch list is this large?

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