electrondood

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by electrondood 6y ago
I think most Americans have already judged for themselves. https://www.ipsos.com/en/american-reaction-pro-trump-mob-ass...
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by electrondood 6y ago
Oooh, are we playing that QAnon game?
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by electrondood 6y ago
> If someone went through CS, expect to see a different caliber of work for the same task. I disagree. See: hordes of new CS graduates that feel they are completely unprepared for an entry-level software engineering job, or their intervi
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by electrondood 6y ago
There's no law against a police officer stating a request in an authoritative voice, fishing to see if you'll just go ahead and comply. It's on us to clarify whether that's a request or a lawful order.
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by electrondood 6y ago
This is the most succinct expression I've ever seen of the only counterargument you need.
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by electrondood 6y ago
The claim "I have nothing to hide so I don't care," is actually the claim that privacy is not intrinsically valuable. I think you can absolutely use an intensive action to show that lesser ones are objectionable. "If pri
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by electrondood 6y ago
Sunshine only works as a disinfectant when there isn't a massive coordinated artificial amplification of disinformation. It assumes that people are rational actors, and have good critical thinking skills, and care to apply those skills
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by electrondood 6y ago
What are you thinking of as "ultra-left"? The only actual radicalization I've seen in the last decade has been "ultra-right," militias, normalization of anti-immigrant and anti-minority sentiment, hyper-nationalism,
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by electrondood 6y ago
Facts aren't lies, and facts are definitely not opinions. Hate speech absolutely exists. Rights end when they infringe on the rights of others.
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by electrondood 6y ago
I think a two-pronged approach is needed, though it's hard to educate the "ear" when it only wants to hear information confirming it's existing position.
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by electrondood 6y ago
This is really interesting... I recently discovered my anxiety 100% vanished if I had a protein shake for breakfast, instead of fasting all day. For me I think it was a neurotransmitter deficiency from not having sufficient precursor amino
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by electrondood 6y ago
It's fascinating to me that a company that became such a huge impact in the computer gaming industry started in, and kept a dev office in Oakhurst.
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by electrondood 6y ago
No, it's the deficiency of vitamin D that makes a runaway immune response possible, which is what typically kills people with COVID.
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by electrondood 6y ago
Right-handedness doesn't attenuate immune response, which happens to be what puts COVID patients in the hospital.
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by electrondood 6y ago
Vitamin D attenuates immune response. What kills people in the hospital is basically a runaway immune reaction. If you're low in vitamin D, you're more likely to have a severe immune response to COVID that requires hospitalization
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by electrondood 6y ago
Or conservatives: https://www.psypost.org/2019/05/underlying-psychological-tra...
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by electrondood 6y ago
Media reaction was to an advance, not-yet-reviewed draft of that study. Your comments are a textbook ad hominem attack.
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by electrondood 6y ago
Curiosity about a topic is not the same as an intention to engage in that topic in real life. This is why privacy matters. Because you cannot trust the people who collect information about you to interpret that information correctly. You al
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by electrondood 6y ago
I used to go to sleep when I was 12 listening to Eruption, Mean Streets, Take Your Whiskey Home, etc. fantasizing about being the guy playing those riffs and solos. They should re-issue those "Who the f*ck is Eddive Van Halen?" sh
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by electrondood 6y ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=hericium+erinaceus+NOT...
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by electrondood 6y ago
It's basically an exploration of the elusive quality of Quality, which Apple is obsessive about.
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by electrondood 6y ago
Cool, so your existing Oculus device is guaranteed to be an expensive brick 2 years from now if you value privacy in any way.
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by electrondood 6y ago
Making a lot of expensive bricks just like that.
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Ask HN: What's the job market look like during Covid?
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by electrondood 6y ago
Had a PM ask why we were taking so long to build a future-proof platform when this other team over here built an emergency project in 3 weeks. Had to explain that that project was held together with duct tape, not one bit of it was reusable