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by chownie 3y ago
HN is only safe and nontoxic when the subject is something the commenters are insulated from. Even then it only appears so to those commenters, any thread talking about healthcare, legal rights etc etc has the same festering underbelly of h
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by chownie 3y ago
Being patronising comes naturally to some people, don't worry about it too much.
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by chownie 3y ago
Given others are giving their Wikipedia edit stories I'll do mine. I am not usually a Wiki editor for context, so I was editing from an IP without an account. I was reading the page for a weaponry used by civilians when I noticed someo
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by chownie 3y ago
Important to note the co-founder has been desperately trying to usurp Wikipedia essentially since it became popular, his opinions on the site should be taken with a heavy pinch of salt.
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by chownie 3y ago
The two genders, male and political.
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by chownie 3y ago
How well does it stand up to the other great life outcome predictor, post code?
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by chownie 3y ago
This seems unfairly aggressive. GP asked what the downside is to preventatively taking l-arganine as a supplement, your quote addresses only whether it's required. In short, you can't test your own blood so you don't know whe
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by chownie 3y ago
Is that link correct? It appears to point to an empty page
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by chownie 3y ago
Recent history has taught us that the upside to popular gun ownerships are vanishingly thin compared to the thick wedge of accidental deaths and mass shootings. The ability to ruin someone's life should be restricted behind more than a
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by chownie 3y ago
Misunderstanding of Botox procedure aside ("duck" lips being filler rather than Botox), is this just not a restatement of the toupee fallacy?
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by chownie 3y ago
> Therapy is a scam and no doctor can explain how or why anti-depressants work (also why they have people "try" many before finding the "right one for you"). We also don't know the mechanism behind how anaesthesi
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by chownie 3y ago
Is that not what it does?
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by chownie 3y ago
The problem was never any site architecture issues. No one used Voat because it was a link aggregator for shrieking hatred and people uncivil enough to get banned from any platform with etiquette rules.
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by chownie 3y ago
There's a third option in which Elon gives up Twitter to less emotional management who will hopefully undo some of the platform destructive choices he took. There's a reason people don't use Voat, reading blue badge twitter i
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by chownie 3y ago
Counterpoint: I listened to my doctors for 8 years and took the medication they advised, didn't help me one bit. Getting off SSRIs, changing my work situation and enjoying some LSD made a much bigger positive difference than endless s
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by chownie 3y ago
Unclear on why the other comment was flagged, I'll pull just the facts through to this one. > It's office space that's situated conveniently close to Parliament, and isn't just used by conservative think tanks. For ex
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by chownie 3y ago
The LGB alliance are a weird one to mention, they have basically no grassroots members at all -- they popped up out of nowhere a few years ago, the average LGBT person in the UK doesn't know they exist at all. They perform no advocacy
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by chownie 3y ago
You can emulate commute fatigue by standing next to your nearest busy street to absorb the noise pollution for 45 minutes before and after the working day. You can't emulate the lack of commute fatigue while working at the office. So
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by chownie 3y ago
Only a couple boards on 4chan update quickly, the vast majority contain threads which stand for months at a time.
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by chownie 3y ago
BBC articles are not deleted, even if the subject was considered "wrong" it would still be on the site -- albeit in the archive for a very small number (<15) specific articles which were found to either be defamatory or broke e
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by chownie 3y ago
Modals are almost always atrocious experiences for screen reader users though, so not sure if that tradeup is worth it.
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by chownie 3y ago
Glass doesn't block UV A so that might not be the case, don't know in particular which type of UV rays the mushrooms need to produce vitamin D however.
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by chownie 3y ago
> If I ski at a resort without a ticket, did the resort lose money? If I jump over a turnstile to get on the subway, did the city lose money? If I sneak into a music festival, did the artist lose money? They're all theft of services
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by chownie 3y ago
It's not theft for the simple reason that the video producer isn't deprived of anything. If I rewatch the same video a million times can I bankrupt that creator? If I sit five other people in the room with me while I watch does th
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by chownie 3y ago
I wear masks in the sun because I use a topical medication which induces photosensitivity in my skin. This isn't an ivory tower you're looking down on people from, it's a highchair.
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by chownie 3y ago
Isn't the conclusion here just begging the question? By the nature of number ranges there are infinitely many more wrong answers available to calculators performing addition and yet a simple ripple carry adder still promptly produces t
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by chownie 3y ago
I just managed to get a hallucination within 30 seconds. "Give me some YouTube creators who focus on tutorials for the Godot game engine" It returns a list of 7 creators, one of the creators it provides in the list doesn't ex
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by chownie 3y ago
The linked comment is a reiteration of the same thought in more words, it still makes the odd assertion against "random chance", you didn't even really give a reason except "it must be so"
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by chownie 3y ago
I'm confused, "random chance" ...? If you're giving it words from a sentence it is literally the baseline functionality of the text generator to choose the most likely next token, IE to recreate the most likely sentence
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by chownie 3y ago
I'd rather work with lazy people than bullies, YMMV.

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