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by brenden2 6y ago
Japan has pretty low rates of obesity and heart disease, that might be related to the low death rate from the virus.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Looks like a collection of tweets with a few ads mixed in. Not sure what I'm supposed to learn from this. What works for e-celebs doesn't necessarily work for most folks.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Yes, the industry will survive. You can skip the article.
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by brenden2 6y ago
I don't use Windows, and the only Microsoft product I have installed is VS Code (with telemetry explicitly disabled), but in spite of that about 10% of all the blocked DNS requests according to my pi-hole are to Microsoft's teleme
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by brenden2 6y ago
Yes, but what people pay attention to are the conclusions, not the facts.
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by brenden2 6y ago
That's why everyone need to learn to separate fact and opinions. Ignore the conclusions, instead look at the data. Critical thinking skills are in short supply. The news is pretty bad in that it's mostly opinions pretending to be
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by brenden2 6y ago
Firefox (or OSs) should add a feature that randomly makes requests to a bunch of unrelated websites just to mess up their data collection and render it useless. This can only work if it's widely deployed.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Those numbers don't include secondary diseases like obesity, heart disease, cancer (and other pollution related effects), etc. You can also argue based on the comorbidity data that automobile use has contributed to the death rate from
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by brenden2 6y ago
Strictly speaking there is a cure (ban cars), but it's not something that's likely to ever happen because of the cultural importance of automobiles.
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by brenden2 6y ago
I'm way more scared of cars than the virus. There's no cure for automobiles, but at least there's hope of a vaccine at some point in the future.
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by brenden2 6y ago
I don't have any money left for gambling.
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by brenden2 6y ago
I can't even imagine what it's like to have so much money that you can spend time working on things like this which are so incredibly unlikely to ever become useful. Congrats and I hope you guys discover a great product some day.
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by brenden2 6y ago
I too grew up in a poor household, and it may be part of the reason why I'm reluctant. I wouldn't want to put someone else through what I had to go through.
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by brenden2 6y ago
It's more like a pyramid, where the people at the top of the pyramid go farther up the more people you add to the bottom. The size of the whole pyramid increases over time, and some people might move up or down a few levels, but the ma
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by brenden2 6y ago
To the contrary, my mom desperately wants me to have kids because that's something that would give her life meaning.
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by brenden2 6y ago
What's "innovation" these days? More ads? An iPhone with 5 cameras? A new SaaS product that's a glorified spreadsheet/database?
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by brenden2 6y ago
I agree, but it's politically incorrect to acknowledge the fact that it's ok to not breed, and it's also ok to not want kids.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Most per-capita growth is just inflation. Additionally, metrics like CPI don't include inflation of assets like real estate, even though the utility of a home doesn't change over time without some kind of upgrades. Real estate in
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by brenden2 6y ago
Where do you think the growth comes from? More people at the bottom push up everyone at the top.
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by brenden2 6y ago
The Ponzi scheme that is the economy is not going to work unless there are lots of new entrants. We either need a) lots of births or b) lots of immigration. I don't know about other people, but the idea of trying to have a child is unf
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by brenden2 6y ago
I've banned Google from my life, and everyone else should too.
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by brenden2 6y ago
There's this strange belief a lot of people have that leaders care about regular folks. They don't, they only care about themselves, and the system as it is is what got them where they are. Thus, they are incentivized to keep thin
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by brenden2 6y ago
You might argue that very intelligent people actively avoid celebrity status.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Not so much "genuine", but rather celebrity polymath. There are plenty of polymaths who have no interest in fame and fortune, and simply keep to themselves.
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by brenden2 6y ago
This is a good point, and it's something I have often come across with various experts. Some take it to an extreme and assume everyone else is dumb and they're the only one who knows what's good for them. I'm not sure wh
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by brenden2 6y ago
It's a shame that HN has become full doomer. The virus is nowhere near as bad as the clickbait factories want you to believe because fear is such a good profit generator for them.
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by brenden2 6y ago
It's not just Twitter, it also includes HN and any other system that encourages crowd-sourced curation.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Video games are pretty fun though. They are quite mentally stimulating, and you can play with friends. I take multiple walks every day (I have a dog), but I also live in a 500 sqft rental apartment in Manhattan which limits the kind of acti
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by brenden2 6y ago
FWIW I have been spending a lot of time playing games because, well, there's not much else to do.
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by brenden2 6y ago
I lost faith in all the major media outlets. I used to hold NYT in high esteem, also Bloomberg, but they have been publishing stuff that borders on nonsense lately (because it gets clicks). Unfortunately the left vs. right tribal stuff seem

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