cm2012

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by cm2012 1y ago
Here is a longer version of my thinking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44714407
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by cm2012 1y ago
You are doing the thing from the comic! https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah
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by cm2012 1y ago
Ads are a necessary matching method in capitalism, there is no better alternative unfortunately.
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by cm2012 1y ago
Thats a common fallacy because we tend to care about issues that are 50/50 or divisive. Most opinions are not divisive but thus dont get attention.
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by cm2012 1y ago
It's just a statistical correlation. Who loves porn demographically? 1) Men. 2) Men age 18-40 in particular. 3) No evidence for this but in my experience tech people tend to like porn more than others for whatever reason. So a survey o
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by cm2012 1y ago
No i awkwardly phrased it. Im saying that demographic (also the majority here on HN) loves porn more than any other demographic.
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by cm2012 1y ago
Obviously you wouldn't want to do this to any revenue generating code, but when just mucking around on prototypes this seems fine.
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by cm2012 1y ago
All polling has problems like this, but YouGov has the same methodology for everything and usually gets within a margin of error of +-8. Even if they have an especially bad sample, the UK probably really does support the law. Think about ho
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by cm2012 1y ago
Man, I would pay money to see the (anonymized) trends on an adult website. Fascinating view into such an under studied area of humanity nature. I bet the porn tubes have data that sociologists could write papers on.
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by cm2012 1y ago
I have seen data from an AI call center that shows 70% of users never suspected they spoke to an AI
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by cm2012 1y ago
Here is the same guy on NPR. https://www.npr.org/2025/07/29/nx-s1-5478643/war-scholar-dis... He is also the Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at West Point, he is a real subject matter expert. I could also
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by cm2012 1y ago
People who actually study this stuff say otherwise https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/im-a-war-scholar-there-is-no-gen...
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by cm2012 1y ago
Ulysses Grant, hero of the Civil war for the Union, said, "War is cruelty and cannot be refined." But evil is up to you.
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by cm2012 1y ago
I try very hard to find credible primary and secondary sources of what's true on the ground. For Gaza, but also for Ukraine, Myanmar, Sudan, I am basically a nerd about conflict zones. From all of my research, I believe the IDF gets a
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by cm2012 1y ago
UN peace keepers were assigned to southern Lebanon after the 2006 war. They didnt do anything as Hezbollah remilitarized heavily. Israel cannot trust external peacekeepers.
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by cm2012 1y ago
I am in full support of Israel's actions in Gaza, but think Israel is completely out of line and breaking the law with their settlers actions in the West Bank.
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by cm2012 1y ago
That's true now in Gaza, sure. But before 10/7, 85%+ of Gazans were in favor of killing Israeli civilians in Israel as a general policy.
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by cm2012 1y ago
Thats what Im saying - the ideal "review platform for the public good" is impossible in real life for a variety of reasons.
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by cm2012 1y ago
The Cambodia - Thailand conflict is more like Gaza pre-10/7. Cambodia shot some rockets, killed some innocent Thai, and Thailand responded with overwhelming firepower. Same as when Gaza used to shoot rockets and kill civilians, then ge
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by cm2012 1y ago
This is the number one demand of Palestinians and the Iran axis in general.
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by cm2012 1y ago
Americans just do the quick math for their locale for taxes, not nearly the same thing as opaque medical fees.
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by cm2012 1y ago
One could certainly argue about methods, but on October 8th, what options did Israel have except invasion of Gaza?
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by cm2012 1y ago
Same for ads - allow in general but make laws for privacy and harmful products.
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by cm2012 1y ago
You can very easily reach the opposite conclusion too. See https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/im-a-war-scholar-there-is-no-gen...
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by cm2012 1y ago
If you're looking for a popular vote on whether what's taking place in Gaza is a genocide, you would get very different votes in different places. For instance, in the USA, less than 40% agree with that take. Here is a pretty reas
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by cm2012 1y ago
It works fine but not at high scale. Just the math of lifting the heavy weight up is hard. Some non-profits (like Oxfam) are very against it as a purely anti-western reflex.
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by cm2012 1y ago
Its pretty unbelievable to see openly anti semitic comments like this on HN. Replace "Jew" with "Black" or "Indian" and its obvious how discriminatory this comment is (if it is not glaring already).
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by cm2012 1y ago
I think one could very easily argue there is no genocide in Gaza, so this doesnt work.
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by cm2012 1y ago
They've hard coded this out now but that's such a funny find.
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My Theory: Advertising is a lot like capitalism itself
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