thelean12

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by thelean12 6y ago
> the leading scientists in the human nutrition field were extremely aggressive in crushing all dissenting voices The problem is now you're too aggressive in the other direction. You seem to have to dissent, regardless of the stud
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by thelean12 6y ago
Incorrect, and you're starting to fly off the rails here. It's fine to critique studies and findings. It's not okay to say that you or your facebook friends know better and can substitute your own thoughts on a subject. That
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by thelean12 6y ago
Your anti-science vibe is terrifying. Be very careful about how you word stuff like this, even if at the end of the day it's just healthy skepticism. It's the same vibe that gives power to conspiracy theories.
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by thelean12 6y ago
Since I'm getting downvoted to oblivion I feel compelled to respond: I never said to assume that.
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by thelean12 6y ago
Of course. So what? The current alternative to scientific studies (with their varying degrees of bias and flaws) are Facebook-esque anecdotes about rednecks eating bacon that apparently are so compelling that they get upvoted to the top of
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by thelean12 6y ago
This view is really bad. The only logical thing to do is to follow current scientific consensus the best we can. Adjust ourselves as those views adjust. Anything else is just pure ego saying that you know better than experts. Random example
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by thelean12 6y ago
God, Covid has severely hurt my friendships. It's hard to even think about "schedules" or anything until the summer -- over a year with minimal friendship contacts. Video calls don't work for me, and everything is closed
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by thelean12 6y ago
AFAIK, people don't really steal stock radios anymore. Or at least, it's not very common. Your trunk should also be empty of anything valuable. There's no reason to keep much back there overnight. I guess thieves could steal
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by thelean12 6y ago
The best and only important deterrent is to not have anything to steal, especially in plain view. If everyone did this then theft from parked cars would drop to zero, and break-ins to near zero. Smash and grabbers don't care about alar
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by thelean12 6y ago
Since I've lived in US cities, yes. Almost daily do I hear a car alarm. Probably just a factor of: 1. More cars around me in the city than in the small town I came from. 2. More things that can set off the alarms (loud motorcycles bein
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by thelean12 6y ago
Anyone with a car alarm enabled in a city is just straight up rude and inconsiderate. I can't imagine the mindset involved for someone to put a device outside someone's bedroom window that will somewhat randomly start blasting lou
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by thelean12 6y ago
Well at least false positives are much better than false negatives.
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by thelean12 6y ago
HN has always had horrible UX and no desire to fix it. This tracks and does not excuse the original site at all.
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by thelean12 6y ago
Parlor was created in response to hate moderation on other platforms. It's not too far off to say "Parlor was created as a space for hate". Only used for hate is obviously wrong, but that doesn't change much.
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by thelean12 6y ago
> Firing on a mob is risky as hell and not morally clear. Why do people jump to the most extreme side of things in discussions now a days? There are many many many ways to disperse of a crowd that doesn't involve firing live rounds
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by thelean12 6y ago
Why are so many people applauding their customer service? You can't even call them after 3pm PT.
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by thelean12 6y ago
I joined a long time ago when I was broke and they were one of the few online banks I found with no minimum balance or fees and had a good network of ATMs near me. Then they stopped allowing me to send checks, so I had to open an account wi
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by thelean12 6y ago
Says who? Information about emergency issues are often spread on mobile phones.
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by thelean12 6y ago
Is that different to you than, for example, releasing a change to a product to everyone and observing the change in metrics?
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by thelean12 6y ago
That's at least a principled stance, which I can appreciate. I still disagree, though. It seems like the only logical way to get out of your thought process would be to create software and then never update or change anything. Either t
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by thelean12 6y ago
Those outcomes are likely on any A/B test. Just because you don't measure it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
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by thelean12 6y ago
I never understood why those in the tech industry were upset about that. They were doing A/B tests and were tracking sentiment. So what? How is that different than running an A/B test and tracking any other dimension? People were
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by thelean12 6y ago
This is misinformation: http://reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-covid-vaccine-causin... Honestly this whole poll post should be shut down. The amount of misinformation being shared is astounding.
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by thelean12 6y ago
Then you should contact the medical board or whatever the German equivalent is and tell them about this "reputable" doctor. They'd at least lose their license, and for good reason.
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by thelean12 6y ago
Someone just replied saying that they "fundamentally don't care" if they spread the virus because "we'll all die of stupid things". They deleted it or a mod removed it. Are these the people downvoting me?
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by thelean12 6y ago
Skip the queue for what? Did they get the vaccine already before it was approved? This is likely complete misinformation. Why is there so much misinformation on HN today?
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by thelean12 6y ago
> I’ve taken only 1 flu shot. As someone in mid-20s, I have low risk and honestly would prefer getting the flu to injecting myself with a vaccine. So I’ve elected to stop getting flu shots and take the risk. This is a very selfish take.
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by thelean12 6y ago
Having Covid already is probably a fine excuse to not get the vaccine. We'll know soon enough how much immunity it gives you, but it seems to give plenty for now. But unless it wasn't clear: I'm pissed at the massive amount o
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by thelean12 6y ago
People saying "NO" or "I WILL WAIT" should be ashamed of themselves for falling for misinformation and harming the rest of us. (Unless people are confused and saying "I will wait" when in fact they're goin
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by thelean12 6y ago
Do you realize how horrible it is to disseminate conspiracy theories that you heard from a "friend" who heard it from "a doctor"? You're part of the problem.

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