kar5pt

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by kar5pt 5y ago
Living can be irrational too. There are plenty of people who are completely miserable with no hope or plan to make anything better, but still choose to live out of pure fear of death. There's always a conversation over whether suicide
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by kar5pt 5y ago
What's the difference between this and other todo list apps?
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by kar5pt 5y ago
Yeah HN down votes seem totally random to me. On reddit I can usually guess why I was down voted (advocating a viewpoint that goes against that subreddit's bias), but on HN I have no idea. I've been upvoted on things I would expec
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by kar5pt 5y ago
You can say this about any social problem. It's a lazy way to avoid having to try and make it better.
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by kar5pt 5y ago
That makes no sense. If more housing was built, property values and rent would go down. Making it less attractive for investors. Can you link to the studies you're referring to?
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by kar5pt 5y ago
It sounds like you're saying that working a shitty service job is not something anyone would willing do unless they were economically coerced into it. I wonder if this says anything about whether our economic system is based on coercio
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by kar5pt 5y ago
Do you have evidence to back this up?
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by kar5pt 5y ago
There's 34 million more men than women in China. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/too-many-... Seems totally reasonable to think that not have the potential to be a husband/father
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by kar5pt 5y ago
Chick-fil-A workers make me sad. They seem like they desperately want to scream at somebody but are forced to stuff it down into a fake evangelical pastor smile. I'd rather go somewhere where the low paid workers can at lease let out s
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by kar5pt 5y ago
The article says "No good evidence for multiple intelligences (in the sense of statistically independent components of cognition)." But shouldn't the burden of proof be the other way around? Why is it more reasonable to belie
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by kar5pt 5y ago
Oh, I wasn't physically dependent. But taking it at a young age contributed to a polysubstance abuse disorder. I have no issue with adults taking ADD meds by the way. I just don't like the way it's prescribed to kids so frequ
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by kar5pt 5y ago
What makes you think that engaging in sex haphazardly messes up one's brain chemistry?
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by kar5pt 5y ago
Why do you think that prostitution has to mean that the prostitute's manager would be able to force them to have sex with him? Couldn't we have a form of prostitution where the prostitutes have sex with clients while still be prot
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by kar5pt 5y ago
Why do you view prostitution as a negative? The only argument I've heard against prostitution that's remotely convincing is that outlawing it reduces sex trafficking. But it sounds like you're acknowledging that outlawing sex
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by kar5pt 5y ago
Society expects sexuality to operate under the cover of euphemisms and metanyms. This is why people talk about "making love" and "sleeping with someone" when they actually mean fucking. It's also why love movies are
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by kar5pt 5y ago
whataboutism would be the original comment bringing up American torture when someone criticized Saudi torture
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by kar5pt 5y ago
Hey, some ethics are better than none. I'm desperate for any news company to show a sliver of integrity at this point.
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by kar5pt 5y ago
This is likely because the modern psychiatric industry evolved partly out of religious institutions. I wouldn't look at it and assume it's a sign of some universal human need.
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by kar5pt 5y ago
This is false. I was diagnosed ADHD by a psychologist twice (this is the full ADHD test where they put you through IQ and other cognitive testing). My ADHD was severe enough that I qualified for accommodations on the SATs. I was still able
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by kar5pt 5y ago
>> Why do people idolise him just because he is rich? China is going to be china. >Said someone on a website where billionaires are idolized... just because they're rich. Said someone on a website where people do the things wh
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by kar5pt 5y ago
If you're going to call someone naive, you should say more than just linking to a paywalled article.
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by kar5pt 5y ago
I my opinion this helps fuel the rise of misinformation. How can you expect the average citizen to be informed when they're locked out of the most credible information sources? The academic publishing system is complicit in the disinfo
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by kar5pt 5y ago
No it doesn't. I spend more on coffee than I do on water. That doesn't mean I "prioritize coffee over water". It means that I don't need to spend as much on water to get what I need.
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by kar5pt 5y ago
At my old job I was routinely praised for being a hard worker because people kept seeing me stay to 7pm. I usually heard comments like, "don't work too hard" and "make sure you don't stay too late". What no one
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by kar5pt 5y ago
This saying embodies all the pretentions of the cult of overwork. Only the people who are "successful" (measured by monetary wealth and/or fame) are "somebodies". The rest are nobodies. They're invisible.
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by kar5pt 5y ago
How do these companies scale down the workload for 4 day a week employees? Estimates in the software field are based on intuition. I could easily see this becoming, "get 5 days of work done in 4 days and get paid less for it" if t
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by kar5pt 5y ago
Does "minimizing tax contributions" need to be said? Doesn't every company pay the minimum taxes that they're allowed to pay?
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by kar5pt 5y ago
Men don't want strangers to know their address either.
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by kar5pt 5y ago
I believe that there are a lot of sexless/loveless men who aren't violent or misogynistic. The problem is nobody pays attention to them. They only become visible to society when they say and do violent, misogynistic things. Then p
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by kar5pt 5y ago
That article's not opening for me on mobile, but do realize that just because something "affects the reward mechanisms" doesn't make it an addiction. There are lots of things that affect the reward mechanism - learning n

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