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by nabnob 7y ago
Recently I've started going through the greyed/flagged comments at the bottom of every post - you would be surprised how often there are reasonable, well thought out comments downvoted or flagged because it hit a nerve with enough
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by nabnob 7y ago
A lot of people with autism also have sensory issues, maybe that is a factor in dysphoria?
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"treating it like a friend, like a spider u know? not gonna kill it but also gonna make sure the webs arent in ur personal space" lol
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by nabnob 7y ago
I'm pretty sure he dug through my history before making that comment and is downvoting any comments that are negative.
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It's a scammy, for-profit, private school that charges $30k+ for online classes. Edit: 20k up front, versus 30k if taken out of your salary over 2 years. That's around 20% interest. They mention that payments are 17% of your in
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by nabnob 7y ago
Yup, no one wants to consider actual radical change because it might require a lower standard of living.
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by nabnob 7y ago
You might be the first person I've seen on HN who actually understands materialism vs. identity politics. If you're interested in talking, feel free to shoot me an email at fatimaraj@protonmail.com
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I'm confused as to why Microsoft needed to use this tracking ID at all. Wouldn't Microsoft be able to trace the digital currency to the whitelisted test account? I'm assuming there's some kind of approval process for wh
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by nabnob 7y ago
From personal experience driving for Uber, I've noticed that facial recognition technology isn't that accurate if you're not white.
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by nabnob 7y ago
Oh hey, I'm an engineer in Charlotte! Have you guys talked to Amelie's yet?
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by nabnob 7y ago
Not a lawyer, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that a lot of these user agreements aren't legally binding specifically because no one reads them and most people don't understand what they're agreeing to anyway.
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by nabnob 7y ago
The problem is that the economic incentive to exploit the environment will always outweight the economic incentive to protect it. The article cited a ton of research that showed that carbon credits don't have a meaningful impact on car
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by nabnob 7y ago
Why was this comment dead? From this article ( https://steigerlegal.ch/2019/05/23/protonmail-real-time-surv... ) it appears to be true: >In its transparency report, ProtonMail explicitly mentions the possibi
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by nabnob 7y ago
Letting someone starve is aggression. If you have to work for minimum wage because the alternative is homelessness, isn't that also a form of coercion?
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I'm not denying that it might help people, it just seems like a half-assed bandaid solution given the breadth of the problem.
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I agree with you, I’m just hoping other people see it.
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I have an idea for a non-profit that tackles a systemic problem, but the companies you've listed seem hopelessly out of touch with the problems they're trying to tackle. Promise is mentioned as "tackling mass incarceration&qu
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by nabnob 7y ago
The solution to income inequality is not going to come from venture capitalists and private companies. I have an idea for a non-profit that tackles a systemic problem, but I can't help but look at some of the other yc grads and think t
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by nabnob 7y ago
This isn't really true, a lot of the changes made by JFK and LBJ were in response to widespread rioting. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 was largely in response to the riots that happened after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination
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by nabnob 7y ago
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I think the only way to fight climate change is by changing to an economy that doesn't rely on increasing production, and accepting a lower standard of living. I see people blaming
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by nabnob 7y ago
This doesn't really make sense, though. You have to grow grain in order to raise livestock. Without seeing how these numbers were calculated, it's hard to say exactly what this graph is showing.
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by nabnob 7y ago
So using technology that tracks your every move and is funded by wealthy venture capitalists who worship Ayn Rand is somehow less fascist than making your own coffee?? Not to mention the fact that the average person who owns IoT is typical
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by nabnob 7y ago
They're tools to achieve altered states of consciousness that can help you change the way you view yourself or your experiences. I meditate daily and have also used psychedelics recreationally in the past (this was a couple years ago,
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by nabnob 7y ago
Thanks, I'm doing a lot better now. I definitely think this is something that has to be learned over time - at my lowest point, if someone gave me this advice I'm not sure I would have been able to use it effectively.
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by nabnob 7y ago
I've definitely noticed this trend in my own thinking - hyper-individualism, along with a healthy dose of woe-is-me. It's especially bad on sites like Tumblr, where people list out their mental health problems along with other wa
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by nabnob 7y ago
Couldn't it just as easily mean that our predictions based on general relativity are wrong? Either 1) the prediction for a particular galaxy is right, and there's no "dark energy" or "dark matter" or 2) the pre
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by nabnob 7y ago
Raising cattle also requires additional land use for growing feed.
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by nabnob 8y ago
I am working on something similar using a Marxist analysis. I'm very critical of the "chemical imbalance" model for analyzing mental health issues. Much of how we define neurodiversity is related to someone's ability t
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by nabnob 8y ago
The issue of poverty worldwide is more related to distribution/ownership, and not caused by a lack of food. I think if these robots were owned collectively, it would benefit people. But that's not what's happening - like an
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Is this link down for anyone else?

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