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by oliv__ 5y ago
The only way you can justify this point of view is by using the most extreme case where you have implied violence in a public medium. 99.9% of people's facebook posts don't look anything like that. You're essentially using th
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by oliv__ 5y ago
If he had "extremely anti-user values" don't ya think there might be less..ahem... users of Apple products? Have you considered the possibility that your opinion is that of a minority.
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by oliv__ 5y ago
I'm sorry but the symptoms reported "fatigue, shortness of breath, brain fog, stress or anxiety, altered taste or smell, body aches and muscle pain, insomnia, headaches, joint pain, and congestion" could all (except for alt
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by oliv__ 5y ago
> Researchers also found that individuals who experienced long COVID were more likely to be less educated, have seasonal allergies and pre-existing health conditions, and self-report greater symptom severity than people without long COV
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by oliv__ 5y ago
> Facebook found that it lacked the business talent and engineering acumen to quickly and successfully integrate its outdated desktop-based technology to the new era of mobile-first communication LOL. This literally goes against every
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by oliv__ 5y ago
The main difference is you have knowledge of how your own brain operates in reality, what kind of actions you might take in a given situation (and by extension the same can be said of other humans), whereas most (if not all?) people have no
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by oliv__ 5y ago
That was quite the rabbit hole.
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by oliv__ 5y ago
So in the end what's your point? Do you support mandatory mask-wearing and social distancing for the rest of our lives?
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by oliv__ 5y ago
> So you think we should all try our luck with live COVID and just hope for the best? Not all: people at risk (older people, people with auto-immune disease and people with existing conditions), just not healthy, active, young people.
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by oliv__ 5y ago
> But I also want to see YouTube and Facebook succeed as internet companies by enabling regular people like me listen to experts disagree about controversial topics That disappeared a long time ago...
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by oliv__ 5y ago
> What's the downside? We don't know what we don't know. That's the downside. You've just taken an experimental drug which has yet to be approved by the FDA, and was designed using novel technology we haven&#x2
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by oliv__ 5y ago
What I'm curious about is: what happens now? When everyone starts realizing that vaccines and masks can't fully contain a spread, what's the next logical step to take? Are people going to insist that you keep wearing your mas
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by oliv__ 5y ago
As far as "belief" goes, you're the one on the side of belief here. All the data and numbers show the risk is incredibly low for someone like you (provided you don't have an auto-immune disease)
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by oliv__ 5y ago
I'm perfectly fine with that. I'll take my chances, they're pretty damn high. Also, "risky life" is not exactly how I'd qualify being OK with living with a virus with 99.9% survival rate, I'm not talking a
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by oliv__ 5y ago
Maybe the solution is to accept that living is a risky proposition and we are OK with a minimal amount of risk in exchange for everything (normal) life has to offer.
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Starbase Tour with Elon Musk [video](youtube.com)
4 points by oliv__ 5y ago|1 comments
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by oliv__ 5y ago
"Clearing the camp likely will be difficult both logistically — it’s more challenging to remove structures and vehicles that don’t run than tents — and ethically — there are few places for the displaced residents to go." This mi
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by oliv__ 5y ago
Oh please, I was driving the whole time. It was fun if anything.
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Why we switched away from Google Places for our Autocomplete API(hackernoon.com)
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The freeze would've been pleasant if it weren't for the power failure
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by oliv__ 5y ago
> But that combines with the idea that your work = your worth, which is completely untrue I don't think it's either objectively true or false, but if you find it true for yourself, then it most definitely is true. There are f
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by oliv__ 5y ago
> We all wished he’d just let us do our job and go back to filling the leadership void at the top of the company. Honest question: why didn't you tell him directly? I feel like for the right person, this could turn things around?
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by oliv__ 5y ago
I'd suggest focusing on one thing. My 2c
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by oliv__ 5y ago
Even if they had 10M users (which I doubt), at 100 contacts per user that's 1B contacts.
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by oliv__ 5y ago
Speak for yourself
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by oliv__ 5y ago
As I write that I know intellectually how self-centered, selfish, and delusion it is but I feel it intensely. Almost as if there was some kind of flaw in the initial premise...
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by oliv__ 5y ago
"Food service jobs have been 'plagued with low wages for an extraordinary long period of time'" Plagued? Isn't that just how supply and demand work, ms "economist"? The only reason workers are quitting a
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by oliv__ 5y ago
"The most abhorrent idea of all to me is that there are stupid, weak people that are worse than "us" that we need to shield from bad ideas because they are not smart enough (like we are) to handle them. Lots of support for t
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by oliv__ 5y ago
Who decides what's off limit?
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by oliv__ 5y ago
Whoever's developing this software should be ashamed of themselves

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