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by prohobo 5y ago
I have no problem with amateurish communities (as I explained in the OP), because community mentorship is still a hell of a lot better than nothing. My problem with IndieHackers is that there's very little mentorship, and a lot of upse
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by prohobo 5y ago
My theory about "old" music: the 60's were essentially the golden age of Western culture, with brand new technology (synths, the electric guitar), and the sheer amount of absolutely new never heard before sounds coming out wa
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by prohobo 5y ago
Yes I have, and while it does seem to be the best community out there, I don't quite like it. Very few of the threads are about genuine problems, most of the time people are trying to get exposure for their project by pitching it to
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Ask HN: Why are there no indie product dev chatrooms?
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by prohobo 5y ago
"Contagious" "disease" "sucker" "stupid" "suckers" "fragility" To me that sounds like someone in the middle of a flailing pathological freak out. Why is he so angry at Bitcoin?
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by prohobo 5y ago
Sure, I'm just saying: it's still a legitimate problem and shouldn't be ignored.
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by prohobo 5y ago
Everyone is rightly criticizing the clear manipulation here. That said, "60-90% of abuse takes place within the home or family circle," - a quote from Mick Moran, co-ordinator of the crimes against children unit at Interpol. That
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by prohobo 5y ago
This is nothing new, unexpected, or reasonable. Of course some governments are going to look for a scapegoat: because their interventions failed. Of course most people will happily accept said scapegoat because assuaging their anxieties is
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by prohobo 5y ago
You're essentially trying to tank your immune system by doing this. Unless you're especially in danger from Covid (maybe like the professor in this video) you shouldn't avoid training your immune system by exposing it to the
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by prohobo 5y ago
No, he's not. He was just trying to be outrageous to wake his students up. I don't understand how this is all seemingly so cryptic to everyone?
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by prohobo 5y ago
I thought tenure was supposed to protect you from getting fired over bs ? This intro was engaging and informative, which is exactly what professors should be doing during lectures. For me the obvious take-away here is: post-secondary educa
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by prohobo 5y ago
The new Thinkpad, imo. I really like most of what they've done with it, but I'm just not into that keyboard... It doesn't look too usable, although people are saying it's good.
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by prohobo 5y ago
I don't really want to address your questions; this has been talked to death. How do you think tokens could help? Maybe they'd create incentives for users to use the engine. Maybe they'd open a market for said tokens so the d
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by prohobo 5y ago
Thank you for this, but I feel like you should make a profit and this is currently a missed opportunity to use web3 principles to do that. Free and open software is a great ideal, but the reality is that people need money to live - and ad
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by prohobo 5y ago
I have seen no real research into it. No real proof that it's a major issue. But (guess who) the mainstream media has been playing it up for a while, and it's always used as the final indisputable argument by people who support th
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by prohobo 5y ago
Do we have any proof of people getting re-infected at a population level, or even any proper studies of individual re-infection? Because a lack of re-infections is what I think would constitute a basis for building herd immunity.
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by prohobo 5y ago
I updated the link to an archived version. Fauci and the CDC were a little more careful, but they insinuated effectively the same thing with vaccination induced herd immunity. Of course, we now know the vaccines do nothing for herd immunity
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by prohobo 5y ago
If we're being charitable, the end goal of vaccine passes is to "nudge" people into getting the vaccine.
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by prohobo 5y ago
Stop lying. We can't solve any problems if you keep denying reality. - Up until mid-2021 people still thought "transmission was exceptionally rare" in vaccinated individuals: https://www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F
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by prohobo 5y ago
Not even true in the frame you're attempting to talk about it: the vaccines were touted to stop transmission up until August 2021 or so, when people realized they didn't and started backsliding into touting the protection of the
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by prohobo 5y ago
How does ADE come into this when it's just about transmission? From what I understood, ADE is mostly about severity of illness, and the severity looks to be down across the board.
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by prohobo 5y ago
So far evidence indicates, and I'm hoping this is true, that it's about 1/3rd as severe as Delta. South Africa (25% vaccinated?) reports much fewer people going on ventilators or even going to the hospital. Not sure what a bo
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by prohobo 5y ago
I know you're insinuating that the restrictions work. That's a very bold claim. Two things I'd like to know about the restrictions: 1) Do they actually work 2) Are they worth it (cost/benefit) You say "the end of ea
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by prohobo 5y ago
What are you talking about? In WW2 Germany took over the majority of Europe in like 3 months. They completely transformed their industry towards their goals before anyone even lifted a finger. You're saying they can't mobilize the
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by prohobo 5y ago
This argument has been addressed a couple weeks ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29419276 The truth is that Germany's government is to blame for this problem in the first place; if you are losing infrast
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by prohobo 5y ago
Finally, some real information.. Three points of note: 1) The number of Covid infections is likely either over-reported or under-reported. That could push the results in either direction. 2) The end results are an average of men and women;
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by prohobo 5y ago
Your opinion is naive, this isn't about using a website it's about centralisation of the internet.
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by prohobo 5y ago
As in stop pouring gasoline on pathological behavior (attention hijacking, emotional triggering, propaganda, etc.) through dark patterns/algorithms? Or censor everyone who has heterodox opinions? You should make a distinction here, bec
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by prohobo 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised by this myself, but the main actors in astroturfing are usually states and corporations through bots and paid shills, not normal users. So, if you were being serious about stopping things like that you would be
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by prohobo 5y ago
This argument I can understand, and I'm torn between Firefox and Brave because of it. Maybe the best option for people like me is to use both. Or create a Brave-like browser with Gecko?

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