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by ppqqrr 5y ago
As an avid vaporwave listener, I’d wager that listening to music slowed down / pitched down has a calming psychological effect in general. In other words, 432hz is not some magic number, it’s better because it’s lower.
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
It’s a three-letter glimpse into what motivated these scientists to write the paper; I think we can acknowledge it and move on without losing sight of scientific rigor.
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
I’m aware that it’s pretty whack, but my pet argument for reincarnation is this: you used not not exist. Then, at some point in time, you transitioned into existing. When you die, you’ll go back to not existing again (if that’s what you bel
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
Make policing cheaper, more efficient. Continue pressuring with the ongoing cultural/political shift, cheaper policing adds weight to the argument that we don’t need as many police officers. Less officers, less assholes. If that’s cle
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
I don’t believe that people will leave the police force voluntarily, either. But I do think that, now that the idea of sizing down the police force is politically viable, more efficient policing will put extra weight behind the idea by maki
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
No, I’m not. I mean, it’s just words written on the internet, the whole thing could be made up, right? My opinion is that the police as an institution needs technology to keep up with the world, especially if we want a smaller police force
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
The point of contention is how amazon and local police interact with each other, specifically what constraints amazon has on its data sharing with local police. Wife of an HN poster or not, testimony from someone who directly works with tho
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
> My wife runs a police intelligence unit that catches actual criminals from ring info
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
https://heyfocus.com/ worked for me, maybe it’ll help (if you’re on Mac). Addiction to social media is a real problem; thousands of engineers are paid to make sure that these products ensnare your attention. It wouldn’t be
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
Technically, I guess so. Point is, we can’t be diligent about everything at all times; and that includes intellectually. Difference is that negative judgements are more readily wielded as verbal weapons than compliments.
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
Having provoked you so with a daring headline, the author’s ploy is to draw you into their actual writing, in which they will explain the nuances of their arguments. If you cannot be bothered to move past the headlines, you’ll just be provo
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
Well, headlines be headlines. If you take them literally, they’ll disappoint you.
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
The author’s point is that labeling someone as “lazy” is intellectually lazy. Every person, throughout their lives, exhibits behaviors ranging the full spectrum from lazy to diligent. They might be lazy about one thing but diligent about an
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
Attaching vindictive clapbacks to every other sentence from OP is really not a way to help your argument, especially on HN. OP’s argument is clear; we have surplus vaccines, it’s statistically safer than getting COVID regardless of your inf
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
I think people who have night sky views pure enough for satellites to become a nuisance is probably in the global minority. One might even call it a privileged pov, given that most rural inhabitants of this planet struggle for basic network
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by ppqqrr 5y ago
To be fair, a number of countries might not have ended up as functioning democracies with free speech, backed by high tech economies, if it hadn’t been for US financial aids. Germany, for example.