pandemicsoul

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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
Because there's really no reason to question whether government should reasonably limit standard business practices – we've seen, in spades, how business practices are driven entirely and only by concerns of profit while the labor
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
Like others below have said, this seems like the absolute wrong conclusions to come to. Someone else mentioned he didn't have enough runway and that's what it feels like to me, too. Someone close to me has terrible migraines and h
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
Yeah, but if his tool showed – hypothetically – that in 75% of cases the generic (or just the cheaper medication) was just as good or better, that seems like it would have been a slam dunk?
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
"Thing is if people start hoarding medicine then new companies can pop up and fill in the gap" That's not how the market works. That's not how patents work. That's not how medicine works. That's not how any of
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
That's great. I don't know if they hid the comments I was referring to or what, but all the top comments at first were these really disgusting academic takes on torture and debating its value. Even for HN – which I often find to b
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
Bonkers reading through this thread and seeing people discuss torture as casually and unemotionally as if it were just a regular ol' anyday thing. Like wow folks, this is not academic!
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
You're right that public transit is inefficient for people living in rural areas, but 83% of the U.S. population lives in urban areas so to simply discount public transit as an "urbanist hobby horse" seems pretty hand-wavey.
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
Doesn't Apple REQUIRE a subscription on most apps? Like haven't there been multiple devs talking about how Apple rejects "free" apps if they "don't seem to have a unique purpose" or whatever, and you need
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
why make a promise you intend to break?
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
Spamhaus, which (as far as I can tell) is seen as the "most legitimate" blacklist is just as bad, if not worse. UCEPROTECT might be extorting you, but at least you know the name of the game. With Spamhaus, any email sender can get
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
Spam blocklists are run by an unaccountable cowboy cult that somehow has managed to consolidate a ton of power simply for the fact that most people who run email inbox services didn't want to deal with the problem of spam, so they were
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
"PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV from sex by about 99% when taken as prescribed," according to the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep/prep-effectiveness.html
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
It's not that mysterious, lots of other countries manage to do it fairly well: You create a minimum standard of living and help anyone that falls below that. A social safety net. If you have no place to live, the government provides yo
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
It always amazes me, in situations like this, that people just end up suffering even though the machine is "working on their behalf." Like, I used to have this idea – I have no idea where it came from – that if a crime happened to
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
The article also says you shouldn't use boiling water and recommends just using hot tap water.
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
This was actually the solution in some cities to pandemics of the early 20th century: Overzealous heating and open windows, even in the winter. You can read more about this at the link below, but basically the old furnaces that many New Yor
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
True, but it's a compromise most of us are forced to make. The vast majority of people know that a custom domain name makes their email more professional, but wouldn't have the faintest idea of how to even begin to manage one if i
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
I'm in a different boat than OP so maybe I can also provide a different perspective. I have a half-dozen legacy free G Suite accounts that I set up way back in the day. One was sort of a "junk email" domain that I used for lo
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
> My spouse worked for the state government as part of a benefits/disbursement program. She took phone calls from benefits recipients. Some who are disabled, on unemployment, or generally within the states bar to qualify for tax pay
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
I was just using an example of bias to make my point clearer. It wasn't my intention to make any connection beyond that.
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
> Why isn't it valid to say you don't like unions and so don't want anything to do with them? Because you can't possibly have personally experienced every union, and the media isn't good at covering unions genera
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
I love how all the objections to this are freaking out because people won't be able to get job offers above the salary range (which isn't even true anyway), as if the biggest problem facing workers in this country is being offered
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
It really just depends on what the final law is. Probably will just be something pretty simple that requires them to publish the salary and then everything else will be worked out in court. In lots of cases like this, there's just no i
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
It's not doing a great job against transmission of Omicron, but the vaccine doing a fantastic job of protecting people against hospitalization and death. Non-vaccinated people are 15x more likely to be hospitalized than vaccinated peop
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
I think ProtonMail ( https://protonmail.com/ ) is the only one that comes close to being "privacy conscious," mainly because it's their entire focus. Any other non-major, non-free provider might be an alternati
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
Probably besides the point, but you have an extremely skewed idea of what prompts a visit from Child Protective Services in the United States.
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
I mean, they've been doing this for decades. Don't you think their dataset is probably more informed than your speculation?
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
Yes, but you've got the framing wrong: The issue is that employees who don't join the union are essentially "benefit freeloaders." The union employs people to negotiates wages and benefits and manage the union itself on
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
"Gay males who do not identify or express as such" are not actually gay – they're considered "men who sleep with men" or homosexuals. Gay is a chosen identity that piggybacks on msm behaviors, so the idea that the s
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
I agree. Even if I don't receive a notification, if I happen to open the Slack app and see pending messages – particularly if they're from a manager or someone higher in the hierarchy – then I feel obligated to respond to them.

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