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by gigatree 2y ago
I realized a long time ago that lack of information isn’t the problem. We’re basically living in a Brave New World now; most people are too distracted to realize they’re being poisoned and would only accept it if the very institutions doing
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by gigatree 2y ago
Have you considered that those experts might have perverse incentives? It’s not a secret that the very regulators whose job it is to make sure we don’t eat poison are the same people who sell the food. But sure feel free to “trust the exper
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by gigatree 2y ago
He could have a more balanced view for himself but that wouldn’t change the reality that he’s describing for everyone else (which is probably also shared by a large portion of the other gender).
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by gigatree 2y ago
That’s assuming there’s something to do or people to talk to outside. For most people (in the US at least) everything outside needs to be accessed by car and then where do you go? Hard to talk to strangers at a coffee shop. Might have luck
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by gigatree 2y ago
Has anyone asked why so many companies seem to care so much about the appearance of DEI? And all at the same time? I know there’s cultural shifts towards that sort of thing, probably to fill the void left by religion, but does that explain
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by gigatree 2y ago
Japan, Vietnam, France, Italy, etc. would beg to differ. But they also don’t spray their wheat with roundup so it’s probably better to stay away from carbs in the US just on that basis.
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by gigatree 2y ago
Was thinking of the tax credit, but yeah that makes sense (assuming that the post-ACA unsubsidized price of a plan is lower than its pre-ACA price).
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by gigatree 2y ago
Stupid question but does that mean the “discount” comes from tax dollars? i.e. medical costs are spread out more but we’re also collectively spending more of our income on it?
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by gigatree 2y ago
What do you mean a well written email could see your domain terminated? An email to who?
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by gigatree 2y ago
You have an argument for formaldehyde, but “over your life more aluminum ends up in your stomach than you get injected into your bloodstream as a newborn” is pretty weak logic
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by gigatree 2y ago
It’s completely factual to say that newborns are being injected with aluminum & pharmaceutical companies are legally invulnerable to what happens as a result of that. But I’m sure this comment will be flagged regardless because this is
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by gigatree 2y ago
You’re fortunate. At least in a lot of the US people live insular lives and only rarely run into people at the grocery store.
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by gigatree 2y ago
The problem is that an overwhelming amount of the left label statements not meant to be hateful as hateful, specifically: “there are two genders”. Everything has been reduced to “hate”, to the point that it actively muddies the waters wrt a
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by gigatree 2y ago
And what if you just espouse the normal view that all of history & 97% of people currently on earth hold?
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by gigatree 2y ago
This is incredible! There’s just something so different about “live” TV compared to a bunch of videos you scroll through. Everything has been about control and overabundance, but there’s so much value in not having to always decide, of just
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by gigatree 2y ago
I think it’s less about not knowing what a bookmark is and more about just having a more direct way to access it, where it’s more high-level than just in a tab. There’s just something mentally different about opening a program from your doc
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by gigatree 2y ago
> Personally I would start pulling everything out of Florida I can right now (investments, physical assets, etc.) and write everything off that remains, pending revision. Isn’t that a bit hyperbolic?
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by gigatree 2y ago
Do you mean that for like a specific person’s made up god, or would you replace “your God” with “a God, an entity, or a mind of some kind”. Because in that case I assume those two points wouldn’t apply, right?
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by gigatree 2y ago
> It's frustrating as hell that so many of our teaching problems have obvious answers that are in many ways better for the students anyways, but those answers just aren't systemically or economically feasible. Maybe they'l
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by gigatree 2y ago
> However, these types of comparative analyses failed because most of my students were not developed enough as writers to analyze the subtleties of meaning or evaluate style. “It makes my writing look fancy,” one PhD student protested wh
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by gigatree 2y ago
that can’t be true, we were assured that their vague worldview about “doing things that benefit humanity” based on “just being a good person” would be strong enough to overpower the urge to dominate and profit immensely.
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by gigatree 2y ago
not anyonymous, that’s Matt Maroon
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by gigatree 2y ago
The creator’s Twitter looks sketchy - a couple months old, handful of ChatGPT posts, then this.
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by gigatree 2y ago
That’s a mistake I see too many people make. They try to solve a problem and build a product from afar, using their imagination or trying to copy an existing product without having personal relationships with people having that problem (or
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by gigatree 2y ago
Is the best person for any position (especially one with tremendous implications for the future of humanity) someone with his character?
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by gigatree 2y ago
As foolish as it is to think that bad people would create good laws, or that good laws don’t get used towards bad ends, it’s even more foolish to think that laws could ever be a replacement for good people. If everyone was good to each othe
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by gigatree 2y ago
Sounds like Mr. Smith never owned a house
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by gigatree 2y ago
From what I’ve seen, Tailwind Labs isn’t a fan of collaborating with other companies - no knock on them just seems like they don’t feel the need to
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by gigatree 3y ago
Is there a guide somewhere about how someone’s supposed to create open source software without monetizing it? Or is it just the VC money that makes it not real open source? I’ve seen this sentiment a lot, especially from OSS veterans like r
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by gigatree 3y ago
It stayed at #1 for most of the day. Naively, I quit my job to work on it full time. Pretty sure it’s also what got me a YC & Sequoia interview. Alas, making something HN viewers find cool != PMF… at least not yet.

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