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by jmye 8mo ago
Sorry, I know it's a hard line for parents to tread and it's really easy to criticize parenting decisions other people are making, but the "everyone else is doing it so I have to" always seems as lazy to me today, as it
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by jmye 8mo ago
What an empty complaint. Do you think those criticisms aren't valid (about the projects or auto-scroll)? Or are you just desperately trying to pass snark off as additive insight, instead of snide "caring about things is dumb, you
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by jmye 8mo ago
Why did you code it in in the first place? Just get rid of it. There's absolutely no reason to scrolljack on a text-only website.
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I always find this interesting… Spotify is phenomenal for me - about every third Monday Discovery playlist has two or three hits, which feels like a pretty solid ratio, at this point. YouTube has never suggested a single thing I cared for.
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I’m not clear what you think AI changes in healthcare, or which middlemen you mean? Is it the thousands of start-ups pretending you can use AI for better care? Or are you suggesting the middle men are the doctors?
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Why do you think I have the responsibility to "add substance" to your non-substantive load of shit? You may not have said the literal words "be happy", but that is precisely what your "medical advice" amoun
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by jmye 8mo ago
Why do you think? Enragement = engagement. You could generously assume that it's users optimizing for posts that get them likes/karma/whatever, or ungenerously assume that the platform itself is gaming engagement via AI or bo
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by jmye 8mo ago
Why is this downvoted? It's literally two of the questions on the PHQ9, which is used to, you know, diagnose/measure depression. Maybe some of y'all should stick to the javascript threads and stop pretending to be experts in
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by jmye 8mo ago
> Taking the antidepressant has become the dominant go to approach Cite?
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by jmye 8mo ago
> Well yeah, but you gotta start somewhere Wait, I thought those things solved depression ? Why are you hedging now? Did your initial analysis suck, and you're just now realizing it? Are you figuring out that maybe this is slightly
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by jmye 8mo ago
> How to solve most cases of depression What absurdly thoughtless, shallow nonsense. What, specifically, is your background in depression research, that leads you to believe you've completed solved it for everyone? I'll wait. I
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> I'm not familiar with the healthcare sector. Is this where the job growth is? Real world, less so; HN-focused areas, absolutely. Nearly every mediocre, tech-focused healthcare start up is just a money siphon, no matter how many ti
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by jmye 8mo ago
Nearly every country that has it shares a land border with Russia. Weird.
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What, specifically, do you think you're adding, here? The wild, incredible insight that at least "some" (whatever that weasel word means) folks in Ukraine probably wish they weren't fighting a war for the future of their
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by jmye 8mo ago
Implying that's the entirety of their army recruiting is obvious bullshit and propaganda, hoping no one will look any closer - clearly given what you've linked, here and what you're pretending it's responsive to. Why, sp
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by jmye 8mo ago
If Facebook didn’t exist, they would’ve found the photos on MySpace. Come on. All Facebook likely did here that was any different than any other social media platform would have done, was gather Sandberg, Zuck and a cadre of snotty, sniveli
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by jmye 8mo ago
> Take out their army "recruiters" grabbing and beating people on streets He says, and then unironically whines about being called propaganda.
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So easy to demand they cede territory for “peace” from your couch in Austin. But hey, I get it. Breitbart said they should.
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Nah, it's because you know you have no idea what you're talking about, and you know you're utterly out of your depth, just like every other Facebook researcher, so instead, you'll play "you're mean and that mak
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If it's not, it's only because it's small potatoes and irrelevant. The owners certainly aren't likely to have any more courage than the reddit owners, given their tech-founder adjacency.
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Man, no /s at all. Peter Thiel is demonstrably evil even before the Epstein files come into play.
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He says, after unironically refusing to answer a single question.
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> Effectively? It doesn't seem to me like most western governments allocate this funding "effectively" at all. Based on what specific metric? How ought it be allocated? I assume this isn't just some ideological whinin
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> And you can ALSO voluntarily pay more in taxes while doing so. You're just repeating the same fundamentally silly thing I argued against like saying it louder will make it somehow less childish and silly. Did you have an actual po
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> Is this passive aggressive insult really necessary? I think simplistic cliche's deserve derision - if you don't like that, perhaps don't use them? It's hardly a shot at the writer to suggest that what he wrote is me
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> But no, fuck the working poor, let’s fund artists. What if they built those 66 houses? Is the complaint then, "what about the other working poor, why didn't they get houses"? Is there ever a point where it's like, o
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> You know you CAN donate money to the government any time you want, right? Do you do that? Practice what you preach, don't hide behind "oh if only the government made me do it." You know we can also advocate for higher ta
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by jmye 8mo ago
Because we use taxes as a process to crowdsource funding more effectively. That's literally the entire basis for it. Might as well ask why "only the taxpayers who care about a new highway can raise funds to buy it" and then w
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> Is my friend who plays the didgeridoo in his free time now an artist if he declares it's suddenly his full-time occupation? Is this really a risk, given UBI is generally minimal? Anyone who wants to live on it full-time to support
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by jmye 8mo ago
What, specifically, does this have to do with my comment? Aside from being another opportunity to abuse a tired, ill-conceived soapbox?

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