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by novia 7y ago
> How are they sold? In Australia they have the gory death warnings I was just in a vape shop in the American south for the first time a few days ago. They are presented as technological marvels. No noticable gory death warnings. There a
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by novia 7y ago
Spammy websites. A flag tool given to long time Google account holders would be helpful.
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by novia 7y ago
> The majority of participants also said that following the advice would have brought their younger self closer to the kind of person they aspired to be, rather than making them more like their “ought self” (that is, the kind of person t
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by novia 7y ago
Fun fact. Asian people suffer the health effects from high body mass (such as diabetes) sooner than people of other ethnic groups, and because of this their obesity BMI cutoff is actually lower. So, while you may not see Asians that look hu
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by novia 7y ago
I was in a Wendy's recently and saw a "now hiring" sign. One of the selling points was "free meals" so...
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by novia 8y ago
Your link is from 2016 before the presidential election but after the primaries. Nate is admitting that he underestimated Trump in the primaries and talks about what happened. This does not seem particularly relevant to the subject of elect
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by novia 8y ago
>“The device can work in remote areas because it provides its own power and does not need batteries,” said senior author Richard Kaner Second paragraph. The point is, when it snows, often the sun is blocked, or the solar panels might get
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by novia 8y ago
A lot of comments here seem to be missing the point. This isn't supposed to add electricity to the grid. It just makes a self sufficient weather station to measure snowfall. Which is cool. A lot of times you'd want to measure such
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by novia 8y ago
You might find this video interesting: https://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY Shows every nuke set off between 1945 to 1998.
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by novia 8y ago
I like your theory about entitlement issues, but in the future could you please try to make it without resorting to reducing humans to numbers? This is the sort of rhetoric that leads to comments like this one: https://news.ycomb
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by novia 8y ago
First you say "I don't mean to belittle your decision to flag the article" Then you write several comments doing just that.
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by novia 8y ago
> If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did. Oops! I'll keep this in mind for the future. But the cat's out of the bag already here so... > Articles should not be flagged for how their words and numb
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by novia 8y ago
>> To me (and many others) this topic is political in nature and controversial. > How so? It's in the very next sentence. But oh by the way, the author doesn't have a great track record on this issue. https://s
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by novia 8y ago
> The best course of action here is to flag the offending comments, rather than the entire thread. The best course of action for my mental well-being is to flag the whole thread and move on without reading the comments. Unfortunately I&#
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by novia 8y ago
> Women have to screen candidates until they find someone they think is interesting. This is exactly the kind of harmful narrative I'm talking about. > Sociologists have determined that men peak sexually around 18 years old [3].
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by novia 8y ago
I flagged it AND I'm contributing to the conversation.
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by novia 8y ago
Yes climate change is political, but would the comment section to a climate change article on this site be full of the types of comments we see in here? Would it be an actually divisive topic for the users of this site? What I love about Ha
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by novia 8y ago
Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's
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by novia 8y ago
Not to mention that historically video games and pornography both have been marketed towards and produced for men in the age group affected much more than women in the same age group.
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by novia 8y ago
Because people like me flag them. If you want an actual explanation: I am a woman and this does not match with my lived experiences. In fact, the article seems to dehumanize women in a lot of places. I'm really tired of the incel narra
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by novia 8y ago
>Gamergate <went> from something about "gaming journalism" or general angst to an identity movement steeped in fear / hate, harassment, and for some actual violence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6
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by novia 8y ago
Why not just prevent the use of timestamps on videos that contain children? Why not say "you cannot view this video if you are over 18" unless the watcher is specifically added to a list of allowed viewers? Why not require the wat
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by novia 8y ago
Or this researcher could have got a woman to speak into his mic while he played.
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by novia 8y ago
If you haven't read The New Yorker expose yet, I highly recommend it. Something missing from this NYT article is the fact that Dan Mallory worked as an editor, and would have access to lots of manuscripts through his job. When reading
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by novia 8y ago
It was my impression (as an American) that the only potato safe to eat raw is nagaimo.
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by novia 8y ago
"Citrus canker was first found in the United States in 1910 not far from the Georgia – Florida border. Subsequently, canker was discovered in 1912 in Dade County, more than 400 mi (600 km) away. Beyond Florida, the disease was discover
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by novia 8y ago
>before the terrible canker in the 90's forced the state agriculture office to basically bulldoze and burn every non-commercial orange tree in the state. Could you elaborate more on this, or link me to a place where I can read more
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by novia 8y ago
Living Alone Can Be Deadly For Men https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/new-study-claims-being...
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by novia 8y ago
I started reading this book because of your suggestion. Unfortunately it is at best a product of its time (1967) and at worst actively antagonistic towards the naked apes who are not straight, white, and male. I got halfway through before I
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by novia 8y ago
Barnes & Noble http://audreyii-fic.tumblr.com/post/170886347853/the-entirel...

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