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> If there is going to be a metaverse, I'm not sure I want Facebook to own it. I don't want them to own it. I'm 100% sure.
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The kind that uses image and fraud in pursuit of their own ambitions. I'm guessing her child will be used to argue why she shouldn't go to prison. Convenient timing, isn't it?
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> I have a vivid memory about the first time I found out about Theranos and Holmes. It was in the business school setting, and the point the professor was making was about how cool it is that a young woman is disturbing an old industry.
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Wait until you figure out that government always chooses power over people.
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ModoPayments | Remote (Continental US) | Senior Software Engineer (Go) | Salaried Full-time We are an innovative startup in the FinTech / Payments industry looking for a Senior Software Engineer that can help us build the future of ent
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to claim otherwise is ludicrous. Nonsense. From Arthur Ashe to Ryan White to Magic Johnson, there was continuous noise and encouragement around HIV prevention and research through the entire period. And narratives were manipulated then, t
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I’m in the USA and my comment was in that context - I forget sometimes that HN has a global audience.
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Campaigns to inform, yes! And that allowed those engaged in risky sexual behavior to make decisions for themselves. But shutting down the bathhouses and swingers parties and park bathrooms was considered a violation of rights . Now contras
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Objections over long term safety are absolutely reasonable due to historical precedent (see the Polio vaccine) and because the litmus test of “peer-reviewed” research is the standard the parent I responded to set. There exists no “long term
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Except when it concerns risky sexual behavior, or so we were told just a generation ago.
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YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content Which will, of course, galvanize those who are skeptical of the vaccine and the intentions of our bureaucratic overlords. And because that's so obvious,
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> If you're claiming something that hasn't been demonstrated through peer-reviewed scientific research, then you're offering your opinion. Not necessarily. What is the bar to be defined as "scientific research"
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None of these stereotypes have any guidance for nonbinary people Looks like quite the stereotype you've identified "nonbinary people". You'd do well to start comparing yourself to actual people instead of the stereot
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There's a book that is often "assigned" to newlyweds or engaged couples called "The Five Love Languages" that provides some insight into this. I was asked to read it via a church-related program for engaged couples.
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Because it allows them to give undeserved weight to dubious sources or inject their own opinion or the opinions of their friends or colleagues without disclosure or justification.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity
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Students at Portland State are not being taught to think. Rather, they are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues. They have been taught the magnitude of their outrage makes them righteous. And their outrage is never sat
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Modo Payments | Remote (Continental US) | Salaried Full-time | https://modopayments.com/job/senior-software-engineer/ We are an innovative startup in the FinTech / Payments industry looking for a Senior Softw
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Pournelle's Law
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And a sizable portion of the population believes the government should take on more responsibility, as if those outcomes will be better somehow. It’s Gell-Mann amnesia of another kind.
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You’ve already got it figured out - be happy for him. Some of the best advice I’ve heard is “someone else’s success isn’t your problem”. We all know that financial success isn’t the measure of a life. So take it to heart. And that means you
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Given what I would consider the eternal preciousness of a human, and the fleeting insignificance of computer software, I found it strange he opened with "I am a developer for Drupal." For example, why did he place that before his
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I'm going go ahead and guess, based on the tone of your comment, that you are similarly distrusting of information from the medical community. Tone? Your Hacker News clearly works in ways mine does not. I socialize with a number of p
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I wouldn't mask in that situation, I'd quarantine. If I were knowingly exposed to Covid I'd quarantine until both time and testing determined I was not sick. Covid is undoubtedly serious and responsible people should take mea
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No. I refuse. I'm vaccinated. I social distance. I have good personal hygiene. I've made efforts to mitigate the risks to my family and others we might encounter. I respect your right to decide for yourself. I respect a brick-and-
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As Moe Green said: I got a business to run! I gotta kick asses sometimes to make it run right! Regardless of whether Elon Musk has been sufficiently sensitive to the emotional needs of the people around him, his accomplishments (across a
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Modo Payments | Software Engineer | Remote | most of us are clustered near Dallas or near San Francisco We are an innovative startup in the FinTech / Payments industry looking for a Software Engineer that can help us build the future o
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It's Ars.
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I've given up hope that this will be solved. The buried lede is that, if the prophets of climate doom are correct, you need to substantially reduce your standard of living . And all those third-worlders that are trying to improve th
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The lab-leak hypothesis is provocative (and probably true), but got smothered anyway. It was just inconsistent with the narrative .

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