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by mikkergp 4y ago
Believing climate change is happening isn’t pessimism though, neither are almost any of the other things you mentioned. Thinking a particular solution won’t work isn’t pessimism. Thinking all solutions won’t work or humans just aren’t cap
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Actually I read through the whole article and this doesn't really make sense. Most of her article is critical of the institution, then she just throws this in here, like the problem is too many people on their phones, which is rarely
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Yeah, that provision seems suss as hell
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If they thought they could sell it, I'm sure there would be.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Sadly, I don't think that will change any opinions, particularly of people suspicious of "the man". May ironically make it worse.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I'm not a supporter of homeopathic medicine, but I'd be curious to know the research on half the other stuff in the medical aisle. OTC pain medicines have famously little power vs placebo for instance.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
The one that got me, was I think I remember Oscillococcinum being advertised on TV as a kid. Didn't realize it until I was waiting to check out at the counter and started reading the boxes next to the checkout line because I was bored
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think you understate the value of the placebo effect in medical treatment, especially for certain types of treatments, i.e. pain and psychological treatment. I'm not saying we should treat infectious diseases that way, but the place
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I mean, most if not all homeopathic remedies label themselves as homeopathic.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It's Malcom Gladwell so take it with a grain of salt, but his episode on The Satire Paradox was great: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-sati... The premise is that despite Satire being
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I watch a lot of the historical farming series, Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_historic_farm_series ) And, despite the many different ways people choose to live, there's still thi
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I’ve noticed in my life I really limit my “must-dos”. In fact I may only have one. I have to run the four or so days a week I plan to. Too much structure I think doesn’t leave enough slack time and then too often does the inverse of what
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think it's fairly clear even in his example that not all white collar is created equal. I'm not sure how you'd divide it but certain professions like Doctors and developers are not in the same camp as management/accou
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Yeah, I get the point, but I stand behind what I said. I probably just worded it the way I did because it's click-baity. :-) Thinking about your deathbed is really just another way of living in the future instead of the present. On y
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Your deathbed mindset is a pretty short time to have to endure to optimize your entire life around. Especially compared to the hundred or so years you have to live through.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Definitively proven? I can’t wait to see that randomized controlled clinical trial. FWIW the language I see used is compelling evidence, where are you getting definitively proven from?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
One thing about this study as described in the article is it doesn’t really seem to be about “Facebook” persay but social media in general, it doesn’t seem to cover any of the newsfeed optimization stuff since it was done using data from t
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40k Recipes for Murder(radiolab.org)
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I love the micropayments idea for consumers, but I suspect it would be really hard to get businesses on board, similarly to how music companies lost money when moving from albums to individual songs, and now streaming.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I started there but ended with the writer. First of all, they are paying for the product in time spent watching ads, and second of all if YouTube is going to offer this ad-supported product they should offer a good ad supported product. I
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Bend over and cough?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Interesting point, I guess I’m making the assertion that conservative ideas can spread better in small groups then liberal ideas since liberal ideas are trying to change the status quo they just have to plant a seed. Conservative ideas hav
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Really you had to go back to 1981?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
But isn’t disallowing political content discrimination once the post is flagged and deleted? I guess what happens if we allow discussions of SOPA but not bit a gay marriage bill, again it may be relatively easily grockable to an HN user, b
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by mikkergp 4y ago
On hacker news the overwhelmingly hardcore libertarian forum? I could see that. I don’t see a lot of progressive discussion here
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by mikkergp 4y ago
True but big tech’s policies have always been based on behavior, not viewpoint. The question becomes how will that be ultimately adjudicated.
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I wonder if the underlying goal of all this is actually classic authoritarian restriction of freedoms. The big public platforms are much better for spreading progressive ideas than conservative ideas. Maybe this was the underlying reason
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Yes but new posts are often closed as overly heated/off topic.
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> They're public squares that are closely related to a mall rather than a private Starbucks location. Just reading a book on malls, in America, they are mostly privately owned and are absolutely famous for rigid policing.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Hacker News avoids political discussion, would this mean a site like hacker news(assuming it’s big enough) couldn’t moderate heated political discussion as off topic? Im curious how this would apply to Reddit, will there just be constant br

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