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by homefree 1y ago
> The issue at hand isn't perceived bias in universities, it's voting tendencies of people who have higher education. Arguably they go hand in hand, take young people and immerse them in a political/ideological monoculture
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by homefree 1y ago
What is "education"? Is it degrees? There are a lot of problems with this. It's hardly a sign that someone "thinks critically". A lot mediocre students I knew in school stayed on to do more school because they were
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by homefree 1y ago
It's exactly what a partisan reddit midwit would say and they're overrepresented when it comes to Elon Musk hatred. There used to be less of that on HN, my theory is younger accounts that are more politically extreme/lefty ar
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by homefree 1y ago
Oh please - it’s an honest assessment not a personal attack and it’s likely accurate. That you think otherwise says more about you than it does about me. I prefer honest truth to polite fiction. It’s better to attempt to see the world as it
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by homefree 1y ago
My guess of what the author of this blog post looks like is 15-19yrs old & male, probably aspie. Also should probably be a little more careful with risking the CFAA, but they seem really young so I'm guessing that's the main e
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by homefree 1y ago
In SF non profits actively make the problems they’re attempting (in theory) to solve worse, while enriching themselves at (often gratuitous) cost to the tax payer. I understand your argument, but in practice SF would benefit from these shut
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by homefree 1y ago
+1 Europe (especially) and the UK largely don't matter - it's a battle between the US and China, the gap will only grow wider and faster than it already has (and it's already getting really noticeable). I attribute it mostly
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by homefree 1y ago
This is sort of the problem with nonprofits and NGOs generally - they have bad incentives, are easily corrupted, and attract people that don't create any value. It's the communist form of a company and shares similar failures. IMO
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by homefree 1y ago
FWIW I don’t think the same about autism and OCD (at least not to the same extent). There are some similar problems with the soft diagnosis, but there is more going on there imo. They both do have problems with variableness (particularly au
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by homefree 1y ago
I enjoy cigars and notice the positive effect, my fear with the patches or Lucy/zyn is that it not being self limiting seems to lead to people having one in their lip literally every waking minute when they’re not eating.
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by homefree 1y ago
The diagnosis criteria in that consensus is pretty weak imo and part of the subjectivity I’m talking about. They claim there are observable differences, but none of these alone can be used for diagnosis. > The diagnosis of ADHD has been
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by homefree 1y ago
I’m willing to update, but a lot of “science” is bullshit.
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by homefree 1y ago
My criticism is not that the criteria don’t apply or that people don’t think they do - but that most people reading it seem to describe what you’re saying. It seems more like a horoscope to me - everyone can find themselves in the criteria.
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by homefree 1y ago
My hypothesis about this for a long time has been stimulants help everyone be more productive (with some tradeoffs) and ADHD is kind of a weakly differentiated diagnosis that could apply to most people. Probably something like this was lost
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by homefree 1y ago
I'd much rather talk to an AI than have this sort of human discourse.
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by homefree 1y ago
It’s better than that because it includes the content - more akin to searching and putting the result you find in the comments as a guess. The anti AI HN comments are the new anti Bitcoin - your replies are much worse than someone sharing t
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by homefree 1y ago
You’ve been here since 2007, you’re not dumb. Stating it’s “much easier” when it’s obviously not betrays something. We likely agree that doing it without drugs is probably better, but it’s definitely harder and it’s not clear yet how much b
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by homefree 1y ago
My hypothesis is addiction is generally a secondary application of overeating. Getting pleasure from eating a surplus when you’re not hungry is adaptive (or at least was for most of human history). In a lot of ways these other behaviors are
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by homefree 1y ago
Obviously it’s not much easier or the drug wouldn’t be so valuable. People make such a moral crusade of this - the drug works, people will take it. Behavior modification works in theory and fails for most in practice. Even for those that ca
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by homefree 1y ago
It’s like any other field, most suck and it requires effort to find the smart ones.
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by homefree 1y ago
Cocomelon is particularly bad and weaponized intentionally against kid attention: https://www.readtrung.com/p/why-i-love-bluey-and-hate-cocome...
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by homefree 1y ago
That's one criticism I've heard about it actually, but not sure how much it's actually true. Basically that people love Bluey because it appeals more to adults, but that may make it not as good as other shows for child develo
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by homefree 1y ago
There won't be peace when one side has an explicit goal to kill all the Jews, the other side is Jews that don't want to be killed and neither is willing to compromise. You can ignore that underlying moral framing, but it's th
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by homefree 1y ago
I generally don’t think your understanding of the settler issue is accurate, but I’m also not an expert on those details. In general Jews living in west bank communities they created seems fine, I don’t think it’s acceptable for Palestinian
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by homefree 1y ago
Hamas leaves traps in the buildings with explosives when they leave an area to kill Israelis. The IDF has to detonate these traps to make an area safe, this is the cause of most of the destruction. John Spencer talks about the details if yo
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by homefree 1y ago
Basically nothing portrayed by the main stream media / international press on this issue is accurately represented. Most of it is either wildly ignorant or actively hostile (or both). The Free Press, Call Me Back (podcast), and Breakin
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by homefree 1y ago
Yeah I don’t disagree and do the same
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by homefree 1y ago
It's one reason why founders matter so much and why founder led companies often have better outcomes. Intel is in trouble, it's not clear how or if they'll be able to get out of the hole they're in. Their only saving gra
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by homefree 1y ago
In most cases with CCW if you were to actually need to use the weapon you would not have time to chamber a round. Even if you did have time (maybe you should run away?), doing so would draw attention to yourself (and might be fatal). The st
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by homefree 1y ago
If it was in the holster, most people don't teach that the muzzle direction rule applies (since in the holster it's supposed to be inert). A lot of carry methods have the muzzle pointing at things you would not want it pointing at

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