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by floor2 4y ago
>sell a new product to help solve the mess that one of their previous products created That's gotta describe like 75% of US healthcare budget, right? Red Dye #40, BPA, preservatives, emulsifiers, PFAS -> ADHD, Anxiety, Depression
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by floor2 4y ago
> age appropriate leadership roles This fallacy is so common, but so obviously illogical. By definition, "leadership" roles require a larger number of "followers". Corporate structures are inevitably pyramid shaped, w
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by floor2 4y ago
There is no such "contempt". You're misunderstanding the world view of middle-America. Their motivations, however misplaced and due to misunderstandings, are about fairness, justice and functioning government. The simple trut
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by floor2 4y ago
Note- this is not providing citations because this is not true. The law is clear that discrimination based on gender or sex is illegal. Enforcement of this law is rare if the victims are male.
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by floor2 4y ago
Bit of an aside, but I genuinely laughed out loud at a youtube link being used as your source. I know it's against the guidelines to comment on quality of HN going downhill, so I won't. But if I could...
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by floor2 4y ago
This is such a weird thing to say, I'm kinda fascinated by it. I once had a life-saving surgery, which was a relatively new procedure and that I felt could sort of reasonably be called a "miracle surgery" (to make an analogy
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by floor2 4y ago
Please don't troll or make bad-faith arguments on HN. This post contains two instances of moving the goalposts and using extreme language for strawman attacks. People are pointing out that moderation is often biased and that the power
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by floor2 4y ago
That much-repeated factoid is the result of sloppy, clickbait reporting of a lousy survey. People were asked "If you had a sudden $500 expense, how would you pay for it?" with options like ["cash", "checking account
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by floor2 4y ago
Sure. But this is a pointless thing to complain about. OP could have given a long, complex nuanced statement to appease pedants like "Due to climate change making warm weather and lack of snow in January far more likely than in the pas
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by floor2 4y ago
Except in this case, the person they murdered was holding that gun in self-defense from the actual criminal. Millions of Americans have some sort of weapon for self-defense. That might be a gun in their home. That might be pepper-spray in t
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by floor2 4y ago
It's hard to know exactly what you meant with this single snarky sentence, but it does make me think about how a global scale culture handles nuanced spectrums. To me, it seems obvious and intuitive that "fake it till you make it&
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by floor2 4y ago
Fun fact, animals don't produce B12. Historically meat contained B12 because animals got it from drinking water and eating food that had the microorganisms which do produce it, but in contemporary industrial scale agriculture, where an
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by floor2 4y ago
> "Stuff I made up and then assigned arbitrary value to" This pretty well summarizes all of crypto.
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by floor2 4y ago
Maybe I just need anti-depressants, but how does everyone else just carry on with the absurd hypocrisy in the world? Elon says he's going to tweak Twitter moderation from "ban" to "don't spread, but don't delet
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by floor2 4y ago
Wait until you see the photos of what goes on inside meat packing plants. Just kidding, you won't. The political power of the meat industry is so significant in government that they actually made it a felony to record and publish what
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by floor2 4y ago
This is why it's frustrating that America has no right-wing political party. Every freshman-level economics 101 course when discussing the basic mechanisms required to have a functioning free market has "no monopolies, no cartels,
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by floor2 4y ago
As always, the linguistic and cultural divide between US and UK is significant in what "middle class" means. At no point in American history was "2 weeks of holiday abroad" a norm for middle class Americans. In 1990, onl
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by floor2 4y ago
This argument has never made any sense. It's literal survivorship bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias You're saying "If you survive getting covid without serious injuries once, then you&
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by floor2 4y ago
Making the statistically best choice is still the best choice even if you get an undesired outcome. Good poker players can lose all their chips at the table to an unlucky draw and walk away knowing that they made the right play and that the
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by floor2 4y ago
Note the large box at the top of your linked article warning readers: > Editor's Note: Readers are alerted that the conclusions reported in this manuscript are currently under dispute. The journal is investigating the issue. You bas
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by floor2 4y ago
> who says how much complying with labor laws costs? Basic accounting? If you used to pay $X for something and a new tax goes into effect that makes it $X * 5% tax, you can hide that into the overall price or be transparent to your custo
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by floor2 4y ago
Bit of an aside, but how long are we going to keep doing this calling out the parent-child company dynamic in every single headline for Alphabet and Meta? It makes sense for the first few weeks or months after a rebrand, merger or acquisiti
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by floor2 4y ago
Then you've read some terribly misleading, romanticized false version of history. Hunter-gatherer lives should not be romanticized as being desirable. They were (and are, in the few places they still exist) incredibly hard, dangerous a
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by floor2 4y ago
Ya, it's been an interesting thing to see play out over the past few years. People figured out that Congress was too hopelessly corrupt and beholden to oil sheikhs and fossil fuel multinational corporations to pass any meaningful legis
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by floor2 4y ago
My experience is that 99% of the people who hate Atlas Shrugged never read the book, they just heard that the people they hate like it, so they hate it. I don't even really understand why people map it onto politics in the way they do.
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by floor2 4y ago
That's one heck of a stretch, essentially anti-American propaganda. The US was one of a dozen countries which supported Syrian citizens standing up for human rights against a murderous dictator's violent suppression of the Arab Sp
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by floor2 4y ago
The motivation is what matters for the folks calling it Orwellian. If someone is deleting their posts because the facts don't align to the worldview of a religion, a political party, a corporation or some other powerful group, many peo
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by floor2 4y ago
I think you probably have some fundamental cause & effect arrows backwards here. Specifically, every single tech recruiter and tech executive is doing everything they can to increase the diversity of their company. The fact that you&#x2
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by floor2 4y ago
One challenge is that so many Americans live in climates that humans don't really belong in, and thus rely on air conditioned cars & buildings. 29 million people live in Texas, 22 million in Florida, 7 million in Arizona, 5 million
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by floor2 4y ago
> that uncle that claim to be three-seventh Scottish Bit of an aside, but I find it odd how hostile people are to Americans retaining any connection to their European ancestry. If I tell people I'm half-Indian and half-Persian nobod

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