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by jgwil2 5y ago
My original comment suggested simply that the claim that wearing masks around children would harm them requires evidence. But the comment I was responding to here made the claim that the harm caused by masking in front of children is unknow
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But that, along with vaccine mandates, was cited by OP as the only visible reminders of the pandemic in SF. Where on earth did I equate the two?
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Humans are pretty resourceful; I expect we'll survive in some form or another. But climate change absolutely is an existential threat to ecosystems, biodiversity, food security, water security, political stability, etc. The fact that t
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> apply rational thought to the question. Okay, I'll give that a try: the benefits of wearing masks in public during a pandemic are known, whereas any harm that might be caused by occasionally exposing children to the sight of part
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> Wearing a mask, as we did for 4-5 hours on a flight recently, weirds out my 2 month old since he can't see my face. How can a two month old possibly express that he's "weirded out" by a mask. As you said, you were o
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Absent any scientific evidence, it's a rather extraordinary claim. There had been no human flight throughout human history until ~100 years ago, yet GP did not have any fear about flying with his family.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Clearly a large part of the country finds masking indoors onerous, ridiculous as that may seem. Edit: look no further than the fact that this comment is downvoted for confirmation that some people feel this way.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> We've come to the point now that much of the prophylaxis, and outpatient treatment protocols for Covid are being actively suppressed on social media, and in the MSM, despite them being an adjunct, rather than a replacement for vac
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Don't disagree but tbf he also said: > Lack of any one of these points isn’t the end of the world, but at the present moment, Jekyll lacks ALL of them. That’s a real problem. I think the point is that most projects will engage with
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> Talk to the different representatives of each company, tell them what you like, what you're interested in and _ask them questions_. What interests you about their company? If you seem excited about it, they are more likely to be e
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Well, "most popular" is an objective category, whereas "interesting" is not, so it's really up to the individual to determine what is and isn't interesting.
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> More directly, empirical knowledge obtained via experts, science or scientism is unreliable as compared to our a priori knowledge about the nature of man. How so exactly? What is your a priori knowledge of "the nature of man?&quot
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Why don't you suggest some ulterior motives then? You're implying, without evidence, that people advocating action on climate change have sinister motives. The burden of proof is on you to show it.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Switzerland seems to have done pretty well with multilingualism over the past few centuries.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I get that's the logic but I think it's completely stupid. If someone is "mediocre" enough to scrape by that implies they are competent enough to get the job done. If they are not able to get the job done, then they are
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> Even worse is hiring someone merely mediocre and not actively harmful. How is hiring a mediocre developer worse than hiring a charlatan?
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Because the population has increased over the course of fifty years. There's a limit to how many single-family houses you can build that are reasonably close to jobs.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
New York has been downzoning for years now. What's important isn't just having high density, it's making sure that available housing grows with the population. When your population is increasing, increasing density helps with
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by jgwil2 5y ago
From 2016. Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23019816 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12626314
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I deactivated my account the other day in frustration over this. They would send me emails and I would sometimes click a tweet, only to be prompted to log in, which I didn't want to do because I wanted to avoid being sucked in. Okay, f
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by jgwil2 5y ago
PI/6 is not rational.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
This reads like satire, but on the off-chance you're serious, you need to reframe your perspective. Consider the lives of Amazon warehouse workers, to take the most obvious example. Maybe therapy can help with this.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Instead of downvoting could someone just provide the correct link?
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by jgwil2 5y ago
No one considers Amazon engineers "subhuman" - if that is your perception then all I can say is I think you need to seek therapy for your depression because no one should have to feel like that.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
This one? https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat2.html#btree
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Not GP, but the "as well" in that comment could be seen to imply that GP is a mediocre engineer, and OP is as well.
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Because those who erroneously believe they've done enough are more likely to change their behavior when confronted with new information.
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Related: https://instagram-engineering.com/python-at-scale-strict-mod...
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I think the complaint is that people routinely rehash points that were already addressed in the article, because they didn't bother reading it in the first place.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Nowhere does GP suggest anything of the sort. Only suggestion is to weigh upvotes less heavily relative to recency in determining comment order.

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