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by nabnob 6y ago
Hmm, I've experienced the same thing. My hunch is that this is related to spending long periods of time in front of a computer, with internet addiction gradually making my ability to focus worse and worse. I honestly think I was bett
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by nabnob 7y ago
I think it's incorrect to blame the current depression entirely on Covid-19. Economists have been predicting a depression by the end of 2020 or 2021 for a while - on HN I remember lots of discussions around the inverted yield curve.
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by nabnob 7y ago
I don't want any third party to read my messages, including the US Government.
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by nabnob 7y ago
Signal relies on the user's contact list so that they don't have to store signal users in their servers.
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by nabnob 7y ago
That isn't what happens in reality. It's interesting comparing hospitals with universities, since both are supposedly non-profit but make obscene amounts of money. In the past 15-20 years, both universities and hospitals have inc
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by nabnob 7y ago
Governments love having an excuse to increase their surveillance of citizens. First it was terrorism, now it is coronavirus.
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by nabnob 7y ago
If a platform involves tracking huge amounts of personal data and then making decisions off of that data, incompetence makes it more dangerous, not less. LAPD has been using Palantir to track people in poor and working class neighborhoods i
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by nabnob 7y ago
There's no such thing as ethical consumerism. That image of "ethics" and "sustainability" is just branding to appeal to woke liberals who have the disposable income to buy their groceries at Whole Foods.
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by nabnob 7y ago
The coronavirus gives Amazon an excuse to use to order employees to stay home if they try to organize their coworkers. It's not a coincidence that Amazon only ordered this employee to stay home after seeing that he led a strike. If A
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by nabnob 7y ago
Who decides whether blue collar workers deserve bathroom breaks? Why do you treat the free market as the sole authority on what working conditions people "deserve"? You're arguing that shaving off a couple minutes a day is w
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by nabnob 7y ago
Can you explain why you only had skepticism towards the worker in this situation, and none towards Amazon? I'm glad you reevaluated your position once you had more information, but I'm genuinely confused by the thought process in
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by nabnob 7y ago
It's a derailment because the people bringing this up aren't actually organizing towards helping homeless men. These two issues, women's shelters and men's shelters, aren't actually in contradiction with each other
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by nabnob 7y ago
As someone who does a lot of work in the area of stopping abusers, and also has my own experiences as a victim of an abuser - for a long time I placed all the responsibility and agency on the man who abused me and didn't want to see th
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by nabnob 7y ago
>It's crappy how I feel like I can change the world if I try, but I can't change the house down the street. That's because it's way easier to think about fixing the world in a theoretical way than it is to start makin
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by nabnob 7y ago
There are horizontal monopolies and vertical monopolies, there is no law saying that a monopoly needs to have 90% market share.
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by nabnob 7y ago
Thanks, this is super helpful. Do you think it's possible to have real privacy/security for someone who faces state suppression a la Edward Snowden?
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by nabnob 7y ago
What would "illicit testing" even mean? Any lab with the right equipment can test for the virus. There was an article in the NYT the other day talking about how these celebrities got tests before everyone else, and in some of th
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by nabnob 7y ago
Jungian psychology (shadow work) and the occult have been absolutely critical for me to work through the internal contradictions that led me to seek out drugs in the first place.
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by nabnob 7y ago
Uber does penalize drivers for rejecting too many rides.
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by nabnob 7y ago
Uber does not let you pick your clients. Drivers get a request for a trip that they can either accept or deny, and they also penalize drivers for rejecting too many trip requests.
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by nabnob 7y ago
>ADHD is present from birth and cannot develop as the result of trauma. Uh, source?
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by nabnob 7y ago
It's disappointing that so many comments are deriding the results of this study. I think this study is actually underestimating the effect of social contagion through social media, not just for emotional states but political views as
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by nabnob 7y ago
Throwaway accounts are discouraged in the site guidelines: >Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.
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by nabnob 7y ago
Wow. How do Palantir engineers sleep at night? Later in the article, it describes how LAPD uses Palantir software - tracking almost everyone in poor neighborhoods at all times. All of this use is completely without warrants, and the poli
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by nabnob 7y ago
Just read through a couple chapters and this is fantastic. Does anyone have a resource like this (theory-based, but still very hands-on and practical) for other subjects related to engineering, like say building engines?
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by nabnob 7y ago
This is a great idea. I know various types of addiction have a negative impact on the prefrontal cortex, which handles your ability to focus and manage time. I would like to see research investigating the relationship between internet add
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by nabnob 7y ago
That's a big part of the problem - commodities made with third world labor are so cheap to replace, that it doesn't make sense to fix it with labor at first-world rates.
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by nabnob 7y ago
>Go the other way. Figure out what times naturally work best for you, and work at those times. As someone with a tendency to procrastinate, this advice would easily turn into an excuse to avoid working at all. The best advice I ever got
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by nabnob 7y ago
This is a growing area of research now, on how trauma and emotional stress affect mental health. For anyone interested in this topic, The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is a good resources. I also like the madinamerica webs
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by nabnob 7y ago
This reminds me of the crypto currency startups that claimed crypto currency would help people in impoverished countries find financial freedom away from their local banks, when in reality these predatory companies just wanted to use poor p

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