powera

63 ms·

571.
by powera 10y ago
Article is from 2014. Also this guy thinks he has the solution to back pain and bad vision as well, so I would take all of his solutions with a "not verified by actual scientific studies" grain of salt.
572.
by powera 10y ago
You can't just declare a common word to be offensive and get offended when people use it in a normal context and expect to have a reasonable conversation.
573.
by powera 10y ago
Uh, why does "This means that my work will never result in a marketable product, a useful machine, a prescribable pill, a formidable weapon, or any direct gain." imply "she’s the real deal" in any way? If your definitio
574.
by powera 10y ago
Maybe I was too subtle. If gun owners are threatening to shoot people over regulations, isn't that a sign that guns do kill people, and maybe we do need some type of regulations? And we're talking about a registry, not a cons
575.
by powera 10y ago
Why do you think they haven't?
576.
by powera 10y ago
I don't think the fact that the author prefers the map he designed means anything about which one is actually better or more usable, regardless of his credentials.
577.
by powera 10y ago
It's probably already been said, but comparing Google Maps to a paper map is stupid. The paper map has to have lots of cities on it, because there's no other way to find where exactly the specific suburb is if it's not on t
578.
by powera 10y ago
Really? Are you saying you'd start shooting people over a gun registry, or "other gun owners" would?
579.
Introducing Jelly, a New Search Engine(medium.com)
3 points by powera 10y ago|1 comments
580.
by powera 10y ago
Or maybe "productivity growth" will have to stop at some point; even at 1% year over year, that makes 1000x growth in 700 years. Barring space travel, it's hard to even imagine 1000x growth over the next 700 years in any real
581.
by powera 10y ago
You have a very unusual definition of tragedy, if you feel <something bad has happened so it can't be a tragedy>.
582.
by powera 10y ago
I feel like this is at least the third article that's showed up here recently making the claim that "cities are more important than countries for economic development" with no real argument behind it.
583.
by powera 11y ago
This seems purely like a tax on being an old organization.
584.
by powera 11y ago
Yes you are advocating trespassing and litter. Saying that you'll rent to 8 families and they'll have no choice but to trespass and litter is advocating it. You literally say "I told my [hypothetical] tenants they can jus
585.
by powera 11y ago
The current title is blatant editorializing on the part of the submitter.
586.
by powera 11y ago
The site is called Hacker News, not Inequality News.
587.
by powera 11y ago
These statistics almost always willfully ignore the fact that many of these people have negative net worth; it's entirely possible that I personally have more wealth than 10 percent of the world simply due to their having negative weal
588.
by powera 11y ago
You don't seem to have understood my comment at all. In what way is Diaspora, the (failed) 2010 solution to this "problem", at all different from what you say the solution is now? And other than "controlled by corporat
589.
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1923)(www-personal.umich.edu)
3 points by powera 11y ago|0 comments
590.
by powera 11y ago
Article is (2014). Also there's a massive difference between a person who "compete"s with their peers and a person who "sees his peers as his or her biggest enemy".
591.
by powera 11y ago
“I’m inclined to say Facebook has the same responsibility of any legacy media company” - except most every newspaper in the country endorses candidates for President.
592.
by powera 11y ago
I mean, this map (as any) has a lot of problems. The most obvious ones in my view are "How is Wyoming part of the Great Plains and not the Inland West" and "How is all of Indiana urban in the same way that Chicago is"?
593.
by powera 11y ago
I don't get this article. Other than defining a bunch of new words, what are they exactly saying the problem is, and what are they saying the solution is? Just saying that <the solution isn't diaspora, it's swadeshi> i
594.
by powera 11y ago
If GreenFuel is a Zimbabwe-based company, doing bad things in Zimbabwe, and only selling to the Zimbabwe market, how is this related to "multinational corporations" at all?
595.
by powera 11y ago
Are you trolling? How is "never telling anyone where you work out of fear of a lawsuit" the smart way to do anything?
596.
by powera 11y ago
Except you don't enter a plea for an action, you enter a plea for a criminal charge. A murderer can confess a crime to his lawyer (under privilege), and still honestly plead not-guilty to first-degree murder (for example, it could be
597.
by powera 11y ago
Your statement is factually incorrect, at least in the US court system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney%E2%80%93client_privil...
598.
by powera 11y ago
I find the article's implication that replication of scientific studies is something invented at Yale in the 21st century beyond preposterous. And I'm certain that "Re-Bunked" isn't actually a word.
599.
by powera 11y ago
I would think it shouldn't be used in the real world because an 80% guess rate of gender based on name is really terrible compared to other naive approaches, like "list of 1000 most common names by gender".
600.
by powera 11y ago
This is the worst of science. Two people, each convinced the other is wrong, doing various arbitrary experiments until they get ones that kind-of support their claim, and then publishing ten of those to say they have "evidence".

More ›