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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I’m not a medical expert but your hand waving of stents feels off to me. Yes, it’s not surprising that stents can be dangerous, but the alternative is open heart surgery. Which sounds pretty damn risky too. Is the choice really that simple?
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/an-important-distinction Patriotism is love for one’s country. Nationalism is the belief that one’s country (and often ethnic subset) is supreme (and more deserving of prosperity), spe
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Time spent isn’t the same as addiction though. The grossness of Facebook is not that people spend too much time on it (though they may), but what content they see, how they are encouraged to engage with it, and the effect it has on people’s
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
So all you need to do is change the policy determining billions of dollars of infrastructure and profits with powerful entrenched interests? Where do I sign up?
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Project Vesta claims it would need $250B / year to sequester all the carbon we emit... https://projectvesta.org/
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I don’t have any kids, but I can’t figure out what people are actually complaining about here. Most comments seem to be referring to breast feeding in the hospital in the few days post birth. Is it just hospital culture we’re upset with? My
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
The important bit is that they’re not “practically” effective. You need to wear them properly. You need to change them regularly. You need to practice effective hygiene like not touching your face. If the government distributed masks that c
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
> High risk with the highest reward I don’t understand people who think this way. Let’s imagine there is definitely an alien and we find it. Assume it follows a similar tech trajectory as humans. If we find it in the millions of years of
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
A person in Nigeria isn’t a minority, unless they’re not ethnically Nigerian.
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
A lot of people are incredibad at driving in snow. I would not be surprised at all if self driving cars vastly reduce the accidents attributable to snow on the road. Some of that might be due to the car deciding something is too dangerous t
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Agreed. Democracy doesn’t work when you can send different messages to different people, and pretend that your platform is specialized to each case. Big data targeting helps them do this, but even regional targeting is probably fine. I shou
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Often not. This is a really under looked at part of business. Sales is an excellent example. Most sales cultures are super super competitive. The natural inclination is to promote the best salespeople to be sales managers. But sales talent
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I’m curious if any non movers would like to chime in here, because tempting as it is, I wouldn’t be surprised if this mentality was common among HN readers regardless of childhood stability. Moving sucked, but i hadn’t until now considered
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I had a male friend with a mother that did that. As a child I didn’t recognize it, but as it was explained to me in adulthood, the reason he played guitar, got quarterback lessons, and started to hang out in groups with cooler kids (or at
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
That’s interesting. I switched ~4 times in the first 5 grades. I’ve never really considered whether it affected me much, but have been highly self aware that I don’t really care about letting go of people. I have a vivid memory of yearbook
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I like this conceptually, but I don’t think I trust it to be... a reliable opinion. I got 1.5 / 6. Apparently this means I’m at HIGH risk, which strikes me as pretty stupid. What are other people getting? (I am comfortable and pretty d
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
The harm of not allowing Facebook dating while it fails to meet privacy regulations is that people have to use alternative dating services that do meet privacy regulations. Social harm: nothing. The implication that any government ban is ba
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
No that’s not correct. I mean if we’re evaluating the claim that no blind people got schizophrenia then sure. But the claim is that blind people don’t get schizophrenia, which is different. The population for this claim is not “all the huma
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Except we don’t have perfect information. Schizophrenia is misdiagnosed fairly frequently. I couldn’t find stats on undiagnosed schizophrenia, or schizophrenia diagnosed without visual hallucinations (which is probably the more relevant me
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
There’s no moral problem with increasing the price when it becomes a better product. There arguably is a moral problem selling a product with optional safety features that cost extra. If tesla invented immortality fields within their vehicl
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I don’t know if I believe that 3 / 10,000 people are born blind, in addition to the arithmetic errors
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I don’t think that was his point. He is saying you can neither assume that this fee is enough to offset the carbon, nor that Ryanair will spend it appropriately. Just because it says carbon offset doesn’t mean all of the carbon is offset. I
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I disagree entirely. Office politics were rampant in companies I’ve seen that had little to no advancement. Because the only way to go up was effectively at the expense of someone else leaving, or someone else not get promoted too. Environm
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
1) How close do you think the technology is to answering -this- question? Four days! 2) How long in years? Three years!
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I find your anecdote silly (no offense intended), but do agree with the general point. Especially in tech, you can have a drastically higher impact donating some tech time than manual labor time.
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I’ve been on the other side of the table where these decisions are made. It’s rarely malicious. It’s more so trying to emulate companies they think of as successful. Many business leaders believe that market cap == goodness of management, a
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Society has plenty of trust functions. If you can’t rely on them, it’s not unreasonable to think that your blockchain evidence won’t help you either. Suppose you post your finding generally, then I see it, and post it to the blockchain time
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
Yep. 7 years in Boston and the only time I have ever heard a “Boston” accent unironically was at Fenway Park.
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
The problem with this approach is that you don’t get anything for the added risk. We could decide to keep trying. That is, build a rocket, put people on it, send it up, and repeat until one reaches the moon without exploding. That might get
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by throwawayhhakdl 7y ago
I don’t think that’s the right way to phrase it. Complicated things are probably written down somewhere, but it’s just not practical to assimilate the knowledge without having been involved in its creation. The loss of this kind of thinking

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