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by president 5y ago
Why not let scientists challenge his arguments then?
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by president 5y ago
> "has already used" This is assumptive language accompanied by a random video that has not been confirmed (as far as anyone reading this board would know). With all the disinfo/misinfo that's been flowing through soc
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by president 5y ago
YC people have secret controls in their account!
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by president 5y ago
You don't think they might have some kind of a backup plan?
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by president 5y ago
> "they" Best thing you can do is zoom out and stop playing tribal politics because as soon as you do, you'll realize both sides are equally disgusting. The left happens to have the weight of the establishment and institut
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by president 5y ago
Social networks are negative because people are negative. People are negative because their life is not going so great.
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by president 5y ago
Most people are not willing to have a Socratic style debate let alone admit they could ever be wrong. That is the root of the problem in our society today.
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by president 5y ago
Have you noticed that people that label a position or argument misinformation never want to have a discussion about it? The pattern always seems to be: 1. Call something misinformation 2. Ignore any counter claims (so they cannot be proven
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by president 5y ago
Forbes has been owned by China since the early 2010s. Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/1...
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by president 5y ago
So long as these social media companies allow bots and unverified accounts spam will occur. Too bad there is a financial incentive for these types of accounts to flourish.
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by president 5y ago
That's a very close-minded and divisive comment if I've ever heard one
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by president 5y ago
The sad truth is that the average person won't care
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by president 5y ago
Maybe we shouldn't have closed down the economy which was the reason why these programs existed in the first place.
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by president 5y ago
Where there is money to be made, there is always a way
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by president 5y ago
How do we know they are giving us the right stats? Sun Tzu said that the basis of all warfare is deception.
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Ask HN: Is there an API out there for verifying US citizenship?
2 points by president 5y ago|1 comments
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by president 5y ago
This was obvious in the time when people that had the most rationale argument typically made decisions on how things should be. Now we live in a time where people who make the most money make the decisions on how things should be.
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by president 5y ago
> It ends when the the threat subsides. > The people you elect to represent you (for those of us with a democracy-like government) The answers are not as simple as you have suggested. Problem is that there are unelected officials and
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by president 5y ago
Isn't keeping employees working longer by design? Or is it only "dangerous" now because they are somehow finding out that the knock-on effects of these perks are now giving negative returns on productivity?
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by president 5y ago
A big problem today is that platforms only highlight only popular/trendy or paid content. What I would like to see are platforms that give regular people a chance either through chronological or random discovery. There is so much great
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by president 5y ago
This is true. Growing up in an immigrant community (and as a minority myself), I would always hear people mock how open and trusting Americans were and how Americans were easily cheated. Anything involving the honor code would usually be vi
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by president 5y ago
You wouldn't know it if you only followed mainstream media. I think the corruption of media has been the downfall of our society.
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by president 5y ago
I don't think the process of getting an ID is optimal but it is not an excuse for having lax ID requirement rules either, which is an argument I often hear.
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by president 5y ago
Isn't this just a consequence of inefficient government? These people don't get paid enough to care about their job to make a great experience for people. My friends working in government all say it's near impossible to get f
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Chamath Palihapitiya Responds to Criticism over Comments on China’s Uyghur(wsj.com)
3 points by president 5y ago|1 comments
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by president 5y ago
At least in large enterprise software world, I have noticed in recent years that managers are starting to offload everything to the individual contributors. For example, in the early 2000s when I started my career I remember managers would
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by president 5y ago
I think a lot of people were already unhappy with their jobs, for whatever reason, and the pandemic + pandemic work life just pushed them over the edge.
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by president 5y ago
Hypothetically if it ever comes out that Covid was not the killer virus it was made out to be, would you regret wasting 2 years of your life not leaving your apartment? I find it interesting because I know many people who have lived life to
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by president 5y ago
There are always going to be leaks and there will never be 100% protection and there will never be "zero covid". The entire mask argument is irrelevant and only serves to distract and divide. We should have said from the very begi
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by president 5y ago
Not sure if it's an industry-wide trend but in the last decade, I have seen a continuous growth of unmanageable levels of work and expectation of productivity in the various places I've worked in Silicon Valley. This is made worse

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