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by jacobgkau 10mo ago
> Whole generations aren't being addicted to and made impotent by porn. They literally are. Mostly men, though, so you might not really get it. > There is an increase in ED prescriptions among young people but there's no evi
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by jacobgkau 10mo ago
> Well, no, violating a binding legal agreement is illegal. Not touching the rest of this thread's arguments, but that isn't really true. Breaking ToS, or any other contract, is not "illegal"-- it's not a crime.
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by jacobgkau 10mo ago
Parental control software has existed for decades. It hasn't worked. Over 70% of teenagers <18 today have watched porn [1]. We all know (many from experience) that kids easily get around whatever restrictions adults put on their com
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by jacobgkau 10mo ago
To be honest, the first moment I saw the page, it did seem to give my eyes a negative reaction, but after reading a few of the results, it started to look fine pretty quickly.
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by jacobgkau 10mo ago
That would be easier if both GPU and display manufacturers weren't eschewing newer DisplayPort versions for older versions with DSC (which is not lossless despite its subjective claims of being "visually lossless"), while b
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by jacobgkau 10mo ago
Loaded in about one second for me (in regular Firefox with uBlock Origin installed, and Diversion running on my network).
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
> "Fixing" that by marking our system as down or degraded whenever a dependent system was down led to the status indicator being not green regularly, causing us to unfairly develop a reputation as unreliable (most broken depend
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
Nobody was talking about only their own lifetime here. Even invoking that is off-topic pessimism ("you're going to die before stuff gets better").
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
I noticed this outage last night (Cloudflare 500s on a few unrelated websites). As usual, when I went to Cloudflare's status page, nothing about the outage was present; the only thing there was a notice about the pre-planned maintenanc
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
I'm guessing you don't manage any production web servers? robots.txt isn't even respected by all of the American companies. Chinese ones (which often also use what are essentially botnets in Latin American and the rest of the
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
What you're describing is more like someone who doesn't know computer science principles hacking on code, manually. Part of the definition of "vibe coding" is that AI agents (of questionable quality) did the actual work.
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
I feel like Hacker News commenters love to make analogies more than average people in your average space, though. You can't come across a biology/health topic on here without someone chiming in with "it's like if X was c
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
I guess I'm not necessarily saying they're secretly working on it now, but I'm responding to your "I don't get why they went for the rush" with "it doesn't seem like they really went for the rush&quot
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
That's a great point and an easy way to visualize it as an outsider, but it's not necessarily that simple. For one thing, the iPad (market-leading tablet) and the iPhone (market-leading pocket touchscreen device) were not their fi
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
If I understand correctly, you're just basing that statement on climate change or war destroying us before we can do any better than Voyager, right? Because if we don't assume the destruction of humanity or the complete removal of
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
> Moreover, every approved drug is tested 'double blind' exactly because the placebo effect has such a big biasing effect on subjectively appreciated outcomes. Only when ruling out pure placebo effect, a drug can be approved. P
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
How you acknowledge serious side effects some people have, sweep them aside with "but some people don't," and act like getting children on lifelong medication won't result in them having adult-relevant side effects once
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
No, they shared a personal story about how they think it worked, ignoring the data saying it likely didn't.
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
It sounds very much like you planted a seed with your "great deal of emphasis on talking about feelings."
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
Checking the comments of a couple of posts, I noticed their lengths seem to be too uniform. E.g. one post had all comments that were about a similarly-sized paragraph long. Another had a little more variety, but almost all comments were at
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
I'd be more interested in where your 7-year-old even learned phrases like "I feel like I shouldn't be on Earth anymore."
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
A drug can have real effects while being no better than a placebo for doing something specific (what they're supposed to do).
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
> Also you should try your SSRI prescription. They really aren't very strong drugs. You might get mild relief or if you're like me and the majority of people you will see no effect whatsoever. It's worth a try anyway. Some
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
> It's too early to say. Obviously the idea is to get her off it if possible. You understand that the people who sold you that drug have a vested interest in making sure it's not possible and/or that you & she think it
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
Because 7 years old is borderline too young to even make a depression diagnosis, and that kid's going to have his brain chemistry altered and essentially be addicted to a drug that he'll have to pay for for the rest of his life.
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
No it doesn't. It doesn't contain the word "placebo." Can you quote where it "explicitly mentions" what you're saying it does?
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
Because the problem's not a "neurochemistry issue" (that theory's been debunked and the "chemicals" in play have never been known), and the solution is "no better than placebo."
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
> The crew chief of the 191 maintenance incident died by suicide before he could testify. To be clear, a crew chief (Earl Russell Marshall) did. But he wasn't directly involved in maintenance of the specific DC-10 that crashed. Or
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
Had you tried a placebo without knowing that it was a placebo? No? Then your story's irrelevant to whether the medication's working (yes, even on you) any better than a placebo would.
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by jacobgkau 11mo ago
Your anecdote has nothing to do with whether it's better than a placebo or not.

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