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by poszlem 4y ago
Could you link to a peer reviewed study concluding that it's impossible to lose weight similarly to how it's impossible to get rid of an additional chromosome? Asking because as a person who has lost a lot of weight (and kept it o
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by poszlem 4y ago
It's not. The obsession with bloodwork seems to be specific to certain countries (like the US). In most countries, where the medical system is focused less on charging people money and more on evidence based treatments, blood tests are
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by poszlem 4y ago
OpenAI is "Open" in the same way the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is "Democratic". In the name only.
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by poszlem 4y ago
Some downsides of thinking in public: * Huge potential for audience capture ( https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/134792427167943065... ) if you have an audience * Huge potential for self-censorship, unless yo
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by poszlem 4y ago
I think the reason why you disagree is because you mean a different thing by "the internet". "The internet" - the corporate internet. "The internet" - normal people on the internet. "The internet" - e
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by poszlem 4y ago
You can already see that. If you think Twitter moderation is arbitrary or weird, clearly you haven't seen some of the popular Mastodon servers. Meet the new boss same as the old boss.
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by poszlem 4y ago
Yeah, as much as I don't want it to be true, HN algorithm is one of the harshest I've seen in terms of allowing people to hide/remove unpopular opinions. Some people think it's a feature not a bug though. I am not one of
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by poszlem 4y ago
Isn't the whole point that you can change the position of a person who says "fuck cars" by talking to them and telling them why some people need them? If they are not trolls, learning about how much of the world is reliant on
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by poszlem 4y ago
Makes me think of the early satellite photography that was captured using analogue cameras, which were mounted on satellites orbiting the Earth. When the satellite finished its mission, the camera would be released and fall back to Earth, a
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by poszlem 4y ago
That's cool, but that is just your opinion. Not only is kiwifarms not as bad as presented in the media, it's not even in the bottom quantile of "bad things on the internet". The reason it was blocked was purely political
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by poszlem 4y ago
> It disaligns the incentives. This is the best, and frankly the only good argument I know. The privacy concerns are IMO overblown, but the skewed incentives are the main reason why we ended up with internet that is toxic and miserable.
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by poszlem 4y ago
"It's not worse" is exactly how I feel using Kagi. I REALLY wanted to like DuckDuckGo. But it simply did not work for me most of the times. I have no idea what Kagi does to make it "not worse" but just by being &quo
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by poszlem 4y ago
I have been using Kagi for the last few months and it's the first alternative search engine (tried the Brave's one and DDG) that does not make me go back to google every other search. On the flips side, though, getting a "you
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by poszlem 4y ago
I use the website Ground News ( https://ground.news/ ) to try to get information from as many sources as possible. In the past, I may have dismissed some people as being "crazy" or believing in conspiracy theories,
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by poszlem 4y ago
The actions of "the authorities" (or rather - many people working in "the authorities") were both malicious/dishonest and incompetent at different times (and for different people). I can try and attribute the "
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by poszlem 4y ago
More like this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by poszlem 4y ago
The problem is not that people "don't trust others". The problem seems to be that some people "trust the wrong people" (according to some "experts"). The biggest problem with the so called "experts&qu
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by poszlem 4y ago
What do you mean by fair game? Is that true? Probably not. Should people be censored and prevented from talking about that? Absolutely fecking not. We have enough examples of medical misinformation coming from the most reputable sources to
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by poszlem 4y ago
One interesting aspect of these arguments is that people often attribute the spread of anti-vaccine views to social media platforms like Twitter, rather than acknowledging the role of government and media in promoting false narratives that
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by poszlem 4y ago
Freedom of choosing what you wear doesn't mean freedom from consequences (to paraphrase the very popular, and idiotic, phrase about free speech that some people tend to use).
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by poszlem 4y ago
Can you show me when it made front page in the US media?
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by poszlem 4y ago
Are you aware that the paradox of tolerance is a PARADOX? Most people quoting Popper online to promote censorship forget that part. It's not a carte blanche for censorship.
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by poszlem 4y ago
No, they don't. https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/status/16051281807503196...
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by poszlem 4y ago
It's unsettling to see how lacking in ethical principles some people are. If you truly believe that you would not care if a highly Republican-leaning social media company was collaborating with the government to suppress content from D
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by poszlem 4y ago
I am still baffled by the radio silence about any of that in the mainstream media. My prediction is that this, the Rittenhouse trial coverage, and the attempts to shut down the discussion about the lab Leak theory are going to be viewed in
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by poszlem 4y ago
Reminds me of a surprisingly good article from gawker: https://www.gawker.com/culture/failure-to-cope-under-capital...
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by poszlem 4y ago
You witnessed something that is sometimes called the "Havel's greengrocer". > Havel uses the example of a greengrocer who displays in his shop the sign Workers of the world, unite! Since failure to display the sign could b
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by poszlem 4y ago
Not to mention the fact that the paradox of tolerance was in fact a PARADOX. Most people quoting Popper online to promote censorship forgets that part. It is important to remember that a paradox does not have a straightforward solution. And
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by poszlem 4y ago
It is difficult for me to believe that this could be true unless their web application has also been hacked. And if that were the case then this is really getting into criminal negligence territory (especially the way they've been disc
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by poszlem 4y ago
I have no doubt in my mind that it is related to Japan's intention to prepare for the future where they might need to create their own nuclear weapons. While it is true that the processes and technologies used for producing electricity

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