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by seti0Cha 4y ago
The reason people care about $7 gas is because often they can't afford it. People who can barely pay bills can end up losing their home, their car, getting their power shut off when expenses go way up. Poor people often have to commute
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Have you heard the joke about the drunk man looking for his keys under the streetlight? A cop comes along and starts helping him, but they don't find the keys. The cop asks "Are you sure you lost them here?" The drunk says, &
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So is posting on HN. It's as effective as glueing yourself to a painting (that is, not at all), but it's more environmentally friendly because none of us had to travel to do it.
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Where do you live? America is not uniformly high in crime. When I lived in NYC, people absolutely did lock their doors when at home. There was good reason for it too. I suspect other urban areas are similar.
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Citing statistics would be a lot more convincing than basing an argument around a single news story. I was under the impression that crime statistics show a deterioration. Is that not the case? (not a downvoter, btw, but maybe that's w
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From what I've seen, Italian coffee consumption is nothing like American coffee consumption. They don't sip at enormous cups of drip coffee while working, but instead quickly drink small amounts of espresso as a break. It seems to
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Totally agree on the meaning of "trust" here, and that's a fair point regarding it not really being conclusive that the media moved left. My own take is that they did, but your explanation is plausible. Strange times.
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That supports my point, not rebuts it. My thesis is that the media shifted to the left, causing Democrats to see them more favorably and Republicans to see them less favorably, and the drop and the gain both indicate that.
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> Typically papers write a follow up story when new facts have emerged, what new facts have emerged? Great question. What new facts HAVE emerged that caused the New York Times to change their stance on the provenance of these emails? See
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Already posted this on another comment, but that last sentence makes me want to make sure you see it. Summary here: https://reason.com/2022/03/17/the-new-york-times-belatedly-a... Referenced NYT article here:
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The New York Times quietly acknowledged that the contents were probably legitimate in a story on a related subject. Unsurprisingly, it hasn't been a very high profile story in the mainstream media. edit: link: https://www.ny
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> Could be telling us that the most of the (non-Fox) media leans left, and the independents see it but the Democrats don't. Well, yeah. That big jump when Trump got elected isn't because the media suddenly became much more trus
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I think you misunderstand my position. I'm not saying twitter should be unmoderated, I'm responding to the question as to why free speech is important. I would say that the internet itself is a free speech platform, and that'
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> Why do we need an absolute free speech platform? What good does it do? I think the better question is, what harm does not having a free speech platform do? I think the answer is fairly evident when you look at how the ability to contro
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Psychiatric treatment is not without its dangers either. A bad psychiatrist can fuck you up. I know several people that experienced this. I also know a couple of people who were messed up by poorly prescribed psychopharmaceuticals. The ugly
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This AI is being marketed to companies looking to improve their diversity. If it acts as you expect, then they just go out of business. I think the more likely scenario is that it achieves the desired outcome not by eliminating bias, but by
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Good point. I totally forgot about that dynamic. I now recall that by the time I got an invite I was already kind of sour on them. Not that I was actually excited to join, I just didn't like them inducing in me a feeling of being not o
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Back in my day, when kids heard older people talking, they listened because they knew they were hearing from someone with more experience than themselves. Kids these days lost their ways and think that knowledge and judgement are achieved i
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This argument always goes the same way, yet for some reason I don't think I've seen it all the way to the end. Let supply the next part: The notion of an "official" definition, and that it must be "declared" we
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What would those be? I thought the primary mistake Google made was in building Google+ after everyone was already on Facebook (and trying to force people into it)
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Good points. I find myself wondering whether everyone was equally affected. I don't always stare at the screen during video calls. I do when I'm trying to communicate, but when I'm thinking I do what I do in person - I stare
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> And I don't think there's any biological reason that men should be seen as threatening. Cultural reasons, maybe, but those can be fixed. Take a look at this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles&#x2F
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I think the point is that the goal of a meeting is not to have a meeting, so being more meeting-like is not necessarily a good thing.
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Is there public demographic data on HN users? My expectation, based on comments, would be that HN is skewing younger over time. Certainly it's gotten more popular over time, so a static, aging demographic seems unlikely to me.
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And what are the incentives of the people in the government agency? You seem to assume that absent financial incentives they will behave altruistically. I would argue that part of the reason agencies have those financial incentives is to gi
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I admit, I didn't read all 92 pages of that doc, I just skimmed to the chart at the bottom. I guess you are using "computer occ" value for programmer? If so, there's a lot more interesting things in there than what you p
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It's my understanding that twin studies indicate a very large genetic influence. Some lazy googling suggests 50%. Just throwing that out there.
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The claim is that there may be a lack of availability. Lack of availability does not imply lack of merit. Prior discrimination, for example, could explain a lack of availability.
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That's the case for government run ticketing as well. Even if only a small percent of people contest unfair tickets, you can use that as an indicator of how many unfair tickets are being issued. If it goes up under private ticketing, a
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> Minorities are essential within companies to prevent bias in their marketing and product development that can be fatal to business success. Is there any reason to believe this is true and not just conjecture? This always struck me as k

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