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811.
by maeil 3y ago
> This is not so in mainland Europe I see you haven't visited the Netherlands, where what you're describing is even worse than the UK.
812.
by maeil 3y ago
This does not explain it, qnd trying to do so through biology is the wrong angle. This issue is purely a cultural one, not a biological one, but this is not popular to investigate because 1. it's considered impossible to solve and 2. b
813.
by maeil 3y ago
The point being made is that other countries don't boast about their freedom as much.
814.
by maeil 3y ago
While this might happen, it's certainly a tiny minority of cases. In most cases it's just too big of an ego to admit that they really don't know, and not willing (private practice) or unable to (employed by a big hospital) sp
815.
by maeil 3y ago
Article says "meat industry", HN title says "food industry", unless we're getting AB tested.
816.
by maeil 3y ago
Mentioning a lab leak as being worth considering was effectively banned on multiple major platforms for a long period.
817.
by maeil 3y ago
I'm not joking when I say it's very hard to tell whether you're sarcastically making fun of the facetious arguments they could hypothetically put forth or if you're serious.
818.
by maeil 3y ago
I've been noticing a big trend since the start of this year of a lot of these decisions by the EU favouring short-term industry profits over the common man. Is this an effect of the rise of the profits-first right across Europe now hav
819.
by maeil 3y ago
> However, in screenshots of messages between r/PICS and Reddit seen by The Verge, Reddit said that the wiki page is outdated (the last edit was made four years ago) and pointed to a different page, also titled Reddit Content Policy
820.
by maeil 3y ago
> you'd have to bring your own $5 drinking vessel to Starbucks because there probably wouldn't be a "to-go" cup available without petrochemical-based cups. Tens of thousands of people already do this, if not more.
821.
by maeil 3y ago
You remember the timeline very differently than I do. Dailymotion, just to give one example, was full of such content until at least 2010.
822.
by maeil 3y ago
You're right that Daszak and the Ecohealth Alliance are culpable, but it must be noted that various USG orgs were not supportive of his actions > The report he finally did submit stated that scientists planned to create an infectio
823.
by maeil 3y ago
I'm very confused that this point is being ignored so heavily on HN of all places. If tomorrow ASML and TSMC are struck by a meteor, or indeed controlled/sanctioned, it would take either the US or China spending trillions and cost
824.
by maeil 3y ago
> Because nobody e.g. teachers, students, parents wants remote education. Plenty of students do. The percentage of parents that does is indeed small, but not trivial either.
825.
by maeil 3y ago
AirBnB I kind of understand, but house sharing why?
826.
by maeil 3y ago
> I'd like there to be at least one comment here calling out Wikipedia without praising Musk. I'll add another one; the way anything related to the origins of Covid-19 was handled was disgraceful. Yes, the way Facebook et al ha
827.
by maeil 3y ago
> How would you feel if in the rest of the world kids pajamas were made of fabric that didn't burn easily / melt onto skin, but in the US due to lax regulation, companies were making them out of cheaper fabric that is practical
828.
by maeil 3y ago
The fact that this phenomenon is only really seen in the US is enough on its own to conclude that this is an American political or social problem.
829.
by maeil 3y ago
Clearly cities elsewhere don't. This isn't a "city" attribute.
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by maeil 3y ago
> Where is Baltimore supposed to get the funding to meet this increase in demand for city services? That is for American politics to figure out. This is an American political issue and blaming Korean car makers is absurd.
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by maeil 3y ago
It's magnitudes closer to 0% than to 100%. Like 0.1% compared to 99.9%.
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by maeil 4y ago
Why are you phrasing things as if "educated" and "good faith" are related? > I don't want to be around uneducated people who act in bad faith Are you fine with being around educated people who act in bad faith?
833.
by maeil 4y ago
The scientific consensus is that within a century unbridled capitalism will end up killing an order of magnitude more people than any other system ever did.
834.
by maeil 4y ago
I would imagine that in certain countries with strong consumer rights (e.g. Australia or Germany) it may well be, just understandably no one bothers with the expensive legal fight it would take.
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by maeil 4y ago
Through violence, as history has shown.
836.
by maeil 4y ago
This is a non-issue; the stock will temporarily lose a bit of value through the increase of supply and that's it. Amazon as a company would still intrinsically be valued at hundreds of billions if not 1+ trillion, even if Bezos were to
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by maeil 4y ago
> Everybody else wants housing to continue to be a growth investment Acting like non-NIMBYs don't exist is harmful and does a massive disservice to them. They do exist and they need to be praised instead of ignored.
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by maeil 4y ago
Your comment does not show that there is any "black-and-white thinking" is taking place here, or if it is, that it is unfounded. Even with a generous interpretation, there's no relevancy to be found.
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by maeil 4y ago
What language pairs are you talking about? I don't think people realize just how much the difficulty level and the state of technology differ depending on that choice.
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by maeil 4y ago
I agree with most of your comment but comparing Facebook or Google with Tiktok remains a classic "both sides" false equivalency that takes away from other valid points that you make. Yes, US social media companies too have to comp

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