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by cowpig 6y ago
Like everything else in life, blanket rules don't hold up to the messy reality of the real world. "Free speech" doesn't mean you should enable people to say literally anything. At the extreme: direct credible physical th
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by cowpig 6y ago
Why is this downvoted? It appears to be true[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAX#Components
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by cowpig 6y ago
Starting the comment with "assuming this is the real reason" seems disingenuous in a post that seems to be supportive of the author. But that it's repeated again in the 3rd paragraph, and that the final paragraph then mention
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by cowpig 7y ago
The article says RPS was ruled a game of skill, but the wager was ruled invalid because the amount was excessive.
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by cowpig 7y ago
That's mentioned in the article
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by cowpig 7y ago
> Most specialist doctors here treated covid in 'what the heck are people worried about, just another flu, right' fashion till maybe 2 weeks ago. I consider statements about what "most specialist doctors" were doing,
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by cowpig 7y ago
That is the HN-equivalent of the same thing. I've heard multiple doctors tell me their worst patients are the smartest ones, because they're used to thinking for themselves and then make dangerous modifications to their advice wit
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by cowpig 7y ago
Supposing for a second that you're right, you still need the average upvoter/downvoter to be able to tell the difference between the opinions of world-class experts and convincing but baseless speculation for the whole system not
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by cowpig 7y ago
Sure, but those people know a bunch of things we don't, and are not speculating on an internet message board for thousands of random people to read.
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by cowpig 7y ago
Speculating about how the virus works on the internet, especially in the confident kind of tone I'm seeing in this comment section, leads people to take that speculation as fact, repeat it, and then you have misinformation spreading on
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by cowpig 7y ago
There's no evidence to suggest that people who recover from COVID-19 have "only dead blood cells" that can "just be replaced". There is a bunch of evidence that it can cause scarring in peoples' lungs, and it&#
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by cowpig 7y ago
There's so much blind speculation in this comment section. The kind that's intriguing and fun when it's about engineering/math/whatever, but dangerous when it's about the health effects of an ongoing pandemic.
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by cowpig 7y ago
I don't understand this reasoning. I could point to all kinds of wrongdoing by corporations. Does that means corporations shouldn't exist?
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by cowpig 7y ago
This is dangerously false (we don't yet know what the long-term effects of COVID-19 will be). How do I flag this for moderator removal?
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by cowpig 7y ago
That's funny, I just read the article you linked from a month. It mostly says that it'll take a ton of investment and immediate action because COVID-19 will become a pandemic. That all seems correct in hindsight. And why do you th
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by cowpig 7y ago
> the rich spend their younger days talking about deregulation and free-markets [citation needed] > when there's real need to take action I don't understand. What are you suggesting, exactly? What action? > they always fa
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by cowpig 7y ago
I believe the parent comment was saying that AdTech companies were selling peoples' identities to use for fake comments on the FCC website (to, presumably, Comcast/Verizon/etc)
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by cowpig 7y ago
Honestly, I really want tech workers to unionize and push for companies to install ethics committees. Particularly at Facebook and Google -- tech workers should unionize there not because they need better work conditions but because otherwi
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A Boy and His Atom(en.wikipedia.org)
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by cowpig 7y ago
Ben Thompson talks a lot about networks and platforms in his blog, and it's always from the perspective of the capitalist: here's a great way to capture value and make a profit. When he does consider the perspective of the user or
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by cowpig 7y ago
I think you mean "condemned"? To condone is to (often implicitly) approve of something that is ethically or morally dubious.
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by cowpig 7y ago
Why is a duopoly like Visa/Mastercard allowed to make acquisitions in its own space?
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by cowpig 7y ago
I've been ripped off by taxis twice in Bogota, though never in any other city and never one of these boogeyman "millionaire rides" The first time was my very first taxi in Colombia: I arrived at the airport and naively though
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by cowpig 7y ago
As someone whose business is based in Colombia and has lived here for two years, this article and the comments section are totally out of touch. In Colombia, the ride-sharing app market is competitive. I personally prefer EasyTaxi and Beat
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by cowpig 7y ago
The title of the article states that milk producers are "going bankrupt," but then cites the rising costs of raw milk, which seems like a good thing for a milk producer. So I look up the company on wikipedia and Borden Dairy is
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by cowpig 7y ago
I'd be interested to hear from those that wrote up the regulations. I assume, for example, that there was a good reason phosphates were banned. But that there has not been an effective replacement is certainly something worth talking a
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by cowpig 7y ago
What exactly is "deceptive walking"? I've never heard this phrase before reading it in the abstract
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by cowpig 7y ago
> Yes, this is just standard bureaucracy and it's Skip's fault, as people are saying. This does not match with my experience. Bureaucracies, like human being, vary greatly. I was able to incorporate in Colombia at the departmen
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by cowpig 7y ago
So apparently this is using data from the Dept of Education, but I wasn't able to find anything about their methodology on the site that the paper referenced[1] (footnote #22 says that's the data they're using). I am curious
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by cowpig 7y ago
You're right! 2012 is definitely too late... it feels weird to be old enough that things I vividly remember happened ~15 years ago

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