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by loceng 4y ago
Why are you assuming it would be a walled garden and where users don't have full data and network mobility - ideally required through laws that don't yet exist in most places?
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by loceng 4y ago
Facebook is a very poor attempt at an "everything app" - and that's wholly due to who its founder is, his unethical tactics, and him not being a creative person. Walled gardens and trying to control and extract as much wealth
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by loceng 4y ago
Not a surprising conclusion based on how Facebook was founded and by whom.
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by loceng 4y ago
Part of yin-yang cycle. We've been in a yin-dark ages cycle, relatively slow moving, and will be moving into yang cycle - fast, exponential change. The technological innovation and distribution of technology via automation and capitali
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by loceng 4y ago
Indeed, it kills creativity and passion.
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by loceng 4y ago
Fair enough, my dislike of downvotes had me not carefully reading his short comment that I clearly skimmed.
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by loceng 4y ago
Good thing then most of the riches in the near future available will be from space exploration and mining, that may then redirect the greedy to direct their resources to that endeavour?
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by loceng 4y ago
What exactly did I say that made you think I don't take life seriously? From all I can see is you incorrectly simplified what I said to a strawman argument of '"idk, people die, no big deal"'. The reality is over th
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by loceng 4y ago
Not sure why you're being so downvoted, must be people who haven't read Darwin or know about mass extinction from things like floods and meteorites - like that wiped out most dinosaurs. If we don't get society under "con
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by loceng 4y ago
However they don't then explain at all why it is safe, nor cite any specific research relating to infants - "just believe us." And I find it additionally disingenuous or dishonest to not state that even trace amounts of a syn
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by loceng 4y ago
Reminds me of the concept of a "shit sandwich" - where you try to put bad points between two slices of positive points.
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by loceng 4y ago
"... the indie RPG scene laments its demise." Where did they move?
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by loceng 4y ago
Not with honest articles at the top, see my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33108401
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by loceng 4y ago
"And elevated troponin is not definitive of permanent heart damage." What else causes heart damage and troponin to release? We're going on suspicions now rather than thoroughly reviewed science and data?
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by loceng 4y ago
This Reuters article is disingenuous at best. They're downplaying the harm by changing the context. Re: "found that 18% -- not one third -- experienced any detectable cardiac effect" This research found 1:43 harm - because th
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by loceng 4y ago
He died of heart issue based on some replies to that tweet?
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by loceng 4y ago
As someone who uses the very shallow metric of "length of use" - thinking it is somehow a strong argument point, I'm guessing my judgement, critical thinking, understanding is greater than yours. The "tradeoff" is M
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by loceng 4y ago
Can you share more about this?
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by loceng 4y ago
So your argument is, if your claim is true - and if it's true in all cases or not - that those excess, unnecessary suicides, will happen within the first "few weeks" - and then that's acceptable to you that more people k
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by loceng 4y ago
"It's the best we have right now though, and antidepressants in general are probably more helpful than not, but yes, people SHOULD be aware that they might very well not work on them." MDMA, for example, seems far superior th
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by loceng 4y ago
I always find it interesting that around this amount of money is what's selected often for in hopes of a quick payment - as in, for most people, if it's a single one-off event - if they have money - $2.5k is bordering on deciding
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by loceng 4y ago
So then the author inherits the weird title? I could easily see more blunt-autistic types being so practical, straight-forward though.
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by loceng 4y ago
Leading also to an increase in rate of suicide compared to placebo, and arguably increased homicide as well; guns being the misdirection narrative. Edit to add: Downvotes even though in 2015 the FDA required "black box" suicide wa
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by loceng 4y ago
They're looking for a pill they can patent, and then will demonize and do a fear campaign on the non-patentable options. If the supposed anti-depressant effect of whatever specific molecule they claim doesn't induce relatively rap
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by loceng 4y ago
Re-reading this: a Freudian slip perhaps, I meant to say cohesive group - not coercive.
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by loceng 4y ago
Does the name Ockam have any relation to Occam's Razor?
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by loceng 4y ago
If you follow Gabor Mate and his understanding, you aren't prone to addiction if there isn't underlying trauma or suffering, possibly that you're unaware of and haven't processed yet. I've had many dozens of procedu
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by loceng 4y ago
I can't find a bookmark I had which was an online platform for this - but which would integrate various APIs you connected, or maybe it was just for a website's traffic - where you could set a certain noise to trigger, say on new
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by loceng 4y ago
In practice you rally all of the Bitcoin HODLers who are "desperate" and on average have "decent" losses - and want Bitcoin to become popular again, and ideally for them, become mainstream. This then incentivizes them to
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by loceng 4y ago
Sunk-cost fallacy with his indoctrination and vested interest in Bitcoin. Jack, Twitter, having been invested in early by Union Square Ventures, Fred Wilson et al, who also invested in Coinbase, CryptoKitties, Brave Browser, etc; USV believ

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