dennis_jeeves

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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
> By all means educate, but don't con yourself that it will matter, in the absence of any other changes. Most people who are not rich do con themself with that belief. Life becomes bearable only if you have a degree of delusion.
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
Schools/universities are institutions for mass indoctrination -Noam Chomsky
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
It is to me, pain is a survival instinct to avoid injury, hence ensuring survival.
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
From one of the posts: >Bezos is on the record for having said "humans are lazy and we need to give them incentives to quit". Keeping aside all other considerations for a moment. Isn't his fundamental observation correct?
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
>I think instead of taking billions of stars we should look at the "alien life" from the aspect of chemistry and biology. I _thought_ that was the underlying assumptions of all these probability figures including Drake's e
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
Why in the world are you being down voted? People who are down voting this post, get a fucking life, really. He has a point, bad food is underrated as the cause of depression, even if you disagreed with him, the least that you can do is to
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
To add to the depression - as they say it's lonely 'up' there. (even if the organization that you founded is doing well financially and well past it's founding stage.)
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
>Neither is right nor wrong; My friend, aren't you being a little too nice, here? How much do we bend backward to accommodate these 'feelers'. IMO option these 'feelers' are children who never grew up and continu
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
Mostly based on the 'science' out there. I probably know about 3 career scientists, I think, which is probably not a good sample. >My understanding is that a lot of problems in science are incentive based, and that would look v
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
LudwigNagasena, to you it may be obvious ( as it was to me). However I discovered ( much to my disappointment) that it is not obvious to career 'scientists'. A fool with a phd is still a fool. What used to the domain of primaril
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
It's also interesting that this year the flu has disappeared ( zero if I heard it right)in some places) because according to the medical lords the mask wearing has had an effect. It's all a modern day version of religion.
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
Also mentioned in an earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517126
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
Here is a feature that I'd like: curate articles by a user. Meaning if I were to, for example subscribe to all articles posted by "bengtan", then I should be able to get a list of posts that he has written, along with posts f
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
Anti-vaxer here, AMA about my anti-vax stand. I will only respond to people who are serious. There is a section of the pro-vax crowd that is indeed scratching their head as to why there are some apparently intelligent people that they know
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
>SciHub is just one instance of the broader problem, which is that governments - even ostensibly democratic ones - don't actually operate in the best interests of the governed. Agreed. This is true for virtually any human endevour.
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
Here we go again. My lord, what a blood thirsty crowd here, baying for the blood of the rich.
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
>World would be a great deal simpler if globally we moved to a Henry George system Yes it would, but you see that will not be popular for many obvious reasons ( less jobs for tax collectors/consultants/auditors etc.) A more non
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
Given that consent can be manufactured, I have a theory on where most of the truly smart people are, they are the ruling rich oligarchs. 'Democracy' is a charade to keep the mobs pacified and given them an illusion of electing the
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
>In the US, we are used to thinking of "crime" as just another political issue. But observing countries like Mexico and South Africa, where gangs and police forces have started to merge, has helped me realize that there are imp
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
>Medical research Lol.
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
I know, It's hard not to be flippant with the crowd over here. (sometimes I wonder what their background is, It looks like it's a bunch where their parents were from a poor socio-economic backgrounds, so that in their view when b
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
>This is what your overlords want. Good to see a healthy dose of reality.
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
>I just hope the Californians moving to Texas don't vote for the same laws that made San Francisco such a hole. History repeats, you can count on it with certainty.
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
>We don’t have the ability to measure health yet. Ok I know what you mean, what you mean is that we don't have a formal definition. But I'd like to believe that a perceptive physician does know when people are unhealthy, i.e th
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
>Re: therapeutic reduction of cholesterol, the results over decades are totally unambiguous: reducing LDL-cholesterol via statins and PCSK9 inhibition reduces cardiovascular disease and prolongs life. And those benefits are also conferre
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
coliveira, you have obviously given this some thought. Any further nuances?
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
> but I think that people who are so virulently dead-set against crypto are IMO usually seething no-coiners who are mistakenly of the belief that they totally missed the boat on potential wealth That certainly is one reason and probably
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
Next: plants will be recognized as sentient beings.
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
>Tariffs aren't imposed to protect the population, but specific well-connected players who lobby for such protections to avoid competition. henvic, you won't convince the dimwits here, I assure you.
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by dennis_jeeves 5y ago
>I appreciate the romance, but those of us who have children leave behind much more than stone walls we built in our 20s. How many children are optimum?

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