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by padastra 5y ago
Lol, I want to know how many people out there ordering Seamless because they’re too lazy to pick up the food are arguing they would have had an easier life chasing down an antelope with a 14-hour jog across the plain and dragging the severa
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by padastra 5y ago
I don’t know, maybe this is just nostalgia, but HN used to be a “oh cool, you managed to do this / build this / achieve this” and “look at what they’re doing that’s interesting” — and now it’s become much much more like reddit whe
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by padastra 5y ago
Reddit and HN skews to the perennially online, who are composed of people that believe work should be easy, fulfilling, highly paid, and most of all: optional. They also think this is the natural state of nature and it’s everyone else’s fau
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by padastra 5y ago
I don’t disagree with you on a personal level, but it is worth noting that “social disgust” is what has driven down tobacco rates as a population, even if it’s perhaps less effective for any one individual than empathy, etc.
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by padastra 5y ago
These differences exist conceptually, but my guess is if you did a factor reduction on actual behavior they would all be correlated nearly 100%.
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by padastra 5y ago
How skewed do you think it would have to be for the mean stay to be “short” eg 2-3 years, given the upper bound of human lifetime? This is one of those things that sounds smart but fails the common sense test.
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by padastra 5y ago
A few hospitals now have urgent care and ERs right next to each other, with a triage nurse in front saying which area to go to. That seems like a good system. I obviously agree with you that people can’t be expected to perfectly discrimina
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by padastra 5y ago
He described that he was able to go to urgent care for his daughter for a quick fix and the ER was not necessary for them (and the urgent care doctor who saw them must have agreed or they would have been sent back to the ER). What conclusio
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by padastra 5y ago
Amazing. I agree that the ER was not necessary for your daughter, but am impressed you can extrapolate that one experience to the entire set of patients with heart failure, pneumonia, sepsis, pyelonephritis, appendicitis, intestinal obstruc
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by padastra 5y ago
Sorry, people are downvoting this because it is out of the Overton window of acceptable discourse, and the fact that it happens to be true is irrelevant.
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by padastra 5y ago
The probability that the DOJ would investigate / prosecute this particular bias is near zero. Where I work, if you submit a bad review for an underrepresented minority you will get a call from HR asking “are you absolutely sure? You do
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by padastra 5y ago
There are many states where minimum wage for workers is above the federal $2.13 (actually, a bit more than half): https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped This whole $2 thing is bullshi
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by padastra 5y ago
You should ask yourself how you can be so self-assured yet wrong by several orders of magnitude. I'm not saying that as an insult -- it's probably worth re-evaluating your confidence : accuracy relationship.
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by padastra 5y ago
That's been crossed long ago...
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by padastra 5y ago
At some level of incompetence, you might ask whether the underlying assumptions are wrong -- for example, perhaps they're looking for excuses to reduce internet access more generally.
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by padastra 5y ago
Just FYI, like most studies of behaviors and their causes in large populations, the hypothesis that lead exposure resulted in more crime is not proven, see e.g.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5801257
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by padastra 5y ago
Have you ever, in your life, considered that you may sometimes be wrong?
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by padastra 6y ago
Do you think Mao just forcibly hoisted the Cultural Revolution on the populace, or did he just take advantage of a sentiment that was sweeping the times? Or a softer version: do you think McCarthy in the U.S. was potentially dangerous, or w
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by padastra 6y ago
My parents grew up during the Cultural Revolution. I'm slightly modifying some terminology so the parallels become more clear (original terminology was in Mandarin anyways, so...): It started off as pro-equality and for the people. The
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by padastra 6y ago
I don’t understand why the author insists on being willing to speak with future journalists. He’s a smart person who seems to have come down with a serious case of the dumbs.
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by padastra 6y ago
In your story, you are the unfortunate recipient of a shit stick from everyone: - your brother, a successful attorney who lied to the police to commit you - your shelter, who kicked you out randomly without cause (people who run and work at
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by padastra 6y ago
Do you believe you’re representative of the population of homeless people (ie are their origin stories similar in nature to yours)? Also, what life circumstances led to you sharing a motel room with a person who, out of nowhere, rushed at p
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by padastra 6y ago
Good thing he wrote a book on leadership while making this decision!
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by padastra 6y ago
The equity / social justice movement in the U.S. represents a drag on progress. We will be overtaken by much worse governments like China as a result.