ikeyany

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by ikeyany 6y ago
> Given the push to eliminate virtually all traditional norms associated with sexual activity I wonder if this is actually true. I also wonder what your idea of being less 'traditional' means. Having multiple partners, but goin
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Reminds me of those people who swear off meat to reduce animal suffering, or people who swear off junk food in order to live healthier—it's all just a cynical ruse to feel superior. /s
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Define "technology". Anything invented after the year 1800? 1900? 1980?
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Why do they say Congress is ready to take on this challenge? Congress hasn't passed a thing yet.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
So how was working at Dunder Mifflin?
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by ikeyany 6y ago
The implication is that society has the incorrect values.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Society values teaching quite a bit actually. People pay thousands upon thousands for private schools, tutors, and specialized classes. It's the citizenry that we deem worthless. That's why there's no money in public educat
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by ikeyany 6y ago
> The upshot is that many of the country’s best and brightest are either exerting their talents trying to beat each other out in a zero-sum trading game, or exploiting legal and behavioral loopholes to part investors from their money.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
I used to think Noah Smith's articles missed the bigger picture, but for the last several years he has been right on the money. Every student in a good school should read this before graduating.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
I would love to see an interactive map of Zircon, similar to the one of the (older) Linux kernel - https://makelinux.github.io/kernel/map/
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by ikeyany 6y ago
HN has been seeing an increase in these types of posts lately.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
They still lied, which was the original point. Even if they lied for what they believed to be good reasons.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
It is actually true. The surgeon general literally said: "Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus"
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by ikeyany 6y ago
You more or less described the United States. I'm not sure if that should be comforting to you or disturbing to me.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
I think "early web" here refers to the popular technology used between 1995-2005.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
It's still very common in the embedded and IoT space. One such challenge is low-power/low-overhead encryption.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
How do we live in a free market? Corporations get bailed out all the time for poor business decisions.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
You mean how after the Cambridge Analytica scandal when he testified in front of Congress? And how literally nothing came from that?
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by ikeyany 6y ago
The future of education is relevant to intellectual curiosity.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
There are massive disparities. If you're an upper-middle class parent, you are primarily concerned with getting your kids in nice schools, as one's life trajectory in the US correlates very strongly with the kind of schools one
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by ikeyany 6y ago
I'm curious about the true total cost of pensions for jobs like teachers and cops.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Signaling is synonymous with social proof in this context.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Whatever funding goes to military displays at sporting events can be cut for once. We never had flyovers and 7th-inning-stretch-salutes-to-heroes 20 years ago.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
I was referring to the notion of "bullshit jobs", optimizing for leanness, and neglecting societal safety nets.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
> fragile ... the word is fragile. We've built an insanely fragile economy. Take a look. There's been no war. 100% of the (not so great) US infrastructure that was there before SARS-COV-2 is still there. We've lost about
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by ikeyany 6y ago
A far less cruel alternative would be to expand sick leave and to detatch health care from employment.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Did you read the very next paragraph in the article after what I quoted? The claims were based on bogus evidence. Not everyone who disagrees with you has "hate" in them.
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by ikeyany 6y ago
So their only paragraph on it, > Artificial intelligence software, recently developed by TAE with help from Google, should keep the fusion fuel stable even at the 3-billion-degree temperatures needed in a commercial-scale power plant. “
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by ikeyany 6y ago
> The opposition to mail voting is anchored by Republicans in states that don't offer wide access to mail voting already. The president has made it clear that despite voting by mail himself multiple times, he does not support wide
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by ikeyany 6y ago
Possibly worried about the money and status bump from having Facebook on their resume. But having on your resume that you left Facebook because of this would be the biggest status bump of all.

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