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by jshevek 6y ago
How does your mother feel about it? I respect your inclination to reject marketing driven social manipulation, but if it's important to your mother, that might be an reason to set aside this viewpoint. You would be doing it for you m
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> Do I still have a duty to call my parents multiple times a week, despite us never having anything to talk about I don't think it's anyone else's place to decide what your duties are, here. On the one hand, feelings of
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by jshevek 6y ago
Not necessarily. Gaslighting can simply be descriptive, and different subcultures associate different emotions and intensity with c*, particularly outside of the US. (But also inside the US.). For example, it can convey dismissiveness, not
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by jshevek 6y ago
> "today might be a good day to call your mother" The OP doesn't qualify their premise with 'might'. ('May' only applied to video chat, specifically). The title is imperative, and there is a general c
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by jshevek 6y ago
Thank you for clarifying, and so thoroughly as well. I suspected that this was the case. I was just curious because the line I referenced could have a range of interpretations. Thanks.
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I noticed a two to three week spread of behavioral changes as the pandemic started. That is, some people, counties, states, companies entered 'pandemic mode' two to three weeks before others. So maybe an increase in comments was b
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by jshevek 6y ago
Superficially, your comment could look like a dismissive over-simplified answer to the question "why are these sort of articles popping up on Hacker News?" But I interpret your statement as a suggestion that there may be value in
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>> sometimes partly right > They weren't, because it didn't happen. My understanding of some of the redditization claims I have seen was that, during some periods of time, HN was "becoming relatively more like redd
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I asked about the child's motivation, not his ethnicity.
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Just because people have complained about something long ago, and were sometimes wrong, sometimes partly right, doesn't mean that some form of it isn't in progress at the moment, during this pandemic.
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by jshevek 6y ago
Is flagging of submissions only for spam, trolling, etc? I'm often tempted to flag submissions for lesser reasons, so I'd like to know. I'm curious how this fits, also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=230
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by jshevek 6y ago
Is this mentioned in another article on this topic? I didn't see that in this article. This article states this as his basic motivation: > “She told him she would not buy him a Lamborghini,” the Highway Patrol said in a tweet. “He
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by jshevek 6y ago
> Please educate yourself on statics and read the paper. I think you mean "statistics"? Statics is the study of constant forces acting on unmoving bodies (as opposed to dynamics).
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I take every study with a massive grain of salt, [especially one this size], until solid meta-analysis is done, but this is more promising than I expected for hydroxychloroquine without zinc: > Conclusion: in a cohort of 166 patients f
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by jshevek 6y ago
I think it is. Electric and magnetic fields exist in relationship with the processes that create and shape them. There is no prerequisite "background electromagnetic field" that is universally necessary for all of those processes,
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by jshevek 6y ago
I think you make excellent points in the first paragraph. As for the second: > I laugh when I hear people talking about a vaccine. We can’t get people to vaccinate for diseases like measles that spread faster, are deadlier, and kill kids
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That outcome would be good for most of society, but not for the very workers who are the subject of the concerns expressed in this thread.
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If thieves figure out that stealing incentivizes the employer to pay more (in an effort to reduce stealing), they now have a new motive to steal. That is, to increase the pressure on the employer to raise wages further. This new motive can
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by jshevek 6y ago
> I'm being angrily downvoted... Your claim regarding others' emotional states sounds like speculation based on insufficient information.
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> Can you please explain what's wrong with this idea? This may have more to do with the phrasing of your first sentence, which could be interpreted as flippant, or presumptive, or maybe even victim blaming. [After reading other com
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by jshevek 6y ago
I can see how dehumanization could be a common occurrence when "coming down hard" or "covering your butt", but I don't think it's intrinsic. Having and enforcing standards isn't intrinsically dehumanizing
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> This makes it much easier to discuss Yes, that's part of my point. That's an incentive to shoehorn, over-simplify, and strawman the ideas and arguments of others.
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Internally accusing people of bad faith can be a mechanism for dealing with cognitive dissonance. Publicly accusing people of bad faith, with no evidence or justification, can be a rhetorical tactic.
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Did you post this comment in reply to my comment in isolation, or as a reply to my comment in the context of the previous comments in the exchange, starting with "I very strongly feel that we should be very careful to avoid adopting a
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>> Do you have evidence that the truth more often than not win over lies? > The existence of technology as well as science. Simply put, the second statement is not evidence to satisfy the request in the first statement.
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The body of opinions designated as scientific racism has changed over time. Giving the parent the benefit of the doubt, I took their statement to be referencing traditional scientific racism, such as that which rested on craniometry and oth
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Science and technology is advanced by a tiny community of humans, relative to the species as a whole. I don't think it works as evidence for "more often", rather it is evidence for the amazing results that can come when the
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You seem to be rather fixated on the "first amendment" lens, while others have their own ideas of the value of the ethical principal of free speech as a means of preventing control over 'that which we are permitted to debate&
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This argument could have been used to discourage people from discussing the need to make any ethical improvements in our society, including, for example, ending slavery. The power of enforcement follows from policy, in a democracy policy is
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> This can't be relevant. You are right that it shouldn't be relevant. I believe that in practice, it is. There are censorious free speech hating people on both sides, but the left-leaning ones seem to have much more power in

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