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by wbronitsky 7y ago
Please show me the data you have so we can have a shared understanding of the facts. Until then, there is no reason to continue this discussion.
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
It’s worse than this; employees who helped build the company are systematically shut out of reaping the rewards. Things like 90 day exercise windows, no information on exit timelines, and more dilution like this, pitched as if it was some f
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
I’m not asserting anything other than that this argument is not based on data. The data aren’t there, you aren’t an expert, and this argument doesn’t help anyone. That’s the most positive read I can give what I consider to be a reckless tak
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
This is the terrible take that will be everywhere in the next few weeks; “I think I had it, therefore I am an expert on the spread of this disease”. There is no data or coherent argumentation here. I’m sorry you were sick, but this isn’t an
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
That’s because you don’t understand what you are talking about. You have waded into a debate where people are informed and you are not, yet when faced with an informed opinion you dismiss it as it doesn’t make sense. This is type of argumen
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
My point is that there is no comparison to feeding the hungry, and we have all the proof we need that your and everyone else's private donations are not enough. So, is there a solution in there that doesn't leverage government, or
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
Equating banning plastic bags to feeding the hungry probably makes it harder for someone to not see you as an amoral monster. And if we do believe you are an amoral monster, which I do not, what does that say about what we believe about peo
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
With Apple and Google they already have the permission of the tracked. It’s in the terms of service for your phone, or your phone’s OS, or any of the other vectors they control that you carry around with you all the time.
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
That rational basis you're looking is called morals. We owe things to each other, although you seem inclined to believe otherwise, and are pushing what is obviously a callous and simplistic version of our society. I will not continue t
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
I find it amazing that humans have the capacity to have empathy for one class, people who might die from an illness, yet have zero empathy for another, people who are currently working in a now high-risk job who are demanding fair pay. The
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
We can all get our information directly from the source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238578-uk-has-enough-i...
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
This reply sounds suspiciously bigoted and was posted incredibly quickly. I do understand dog-whistles. I need to get out of here before someone accuses me of controlling hollywood. this place went to the rats Edit: after taking a quick loo
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
So we are normalizing rightwing propaganda sites on HN now? Seeing an article from a Ben Shapiro fronted site on the HN front page is frightening. I need a new place to get my information.
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
This argument is not worth responding to. You are arguing that our economy should be protected before people are protected. It is disgusting, and I'm tired of rehashing the same disgusting crap over and over. If you really think that t
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
The alternative is a wildly increased death rate, which you cannot reverse. There are so many ways to fix economies, only a few ways to address a pandemic. If you do not have another solution that keeps people alive, kindly be quiet; you ha
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
""Shelter in place" laws telling residents to stay in their homes whenever possible are sweeping the country, making it clear that public health concerns—as opposed to worries about staving off economic collapse—have carried
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
How do we prove, to everyone on the street for example, that you are immune? This problem is much thornier than you wanting to go outside because you believe you have already had and are now immune to this virus.
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
This is an article written by a “growth hacker” who knows literally nothing about public health, claiming to explain public health to all of us. This crap shouldn’t be on HN. This forum has become next to useless, slowly, then all at once i
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
This is such a weak comment. It introduces no new data or arguments and simply casts emotion about from a biased viewpoint. Comments like these are cratering any value the HN forums used to have. Please stop for the good of the community.
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
While the GP might have been off base, there has got to be a better way to phrase this argument. The quality of discussion on HN has exponentially decreased in the past few days. It would be cool if we all started to add to these conversati
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
How bad is it for all these "old people" if they are dead? It would be really nice to hear compassion instead of worry about money. How about we keep people alive, then deal with the economy? Something tells me the country that ca
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with anyone here. I'm merely asserting that we should use facts to back up our arguments.
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
Here we go, actual data about SSRIs vs the placebo effect: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/ It would be super cool if we all took the time to cite data that back up our assertions instead
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
there are still no facts and no sources in your argument. I cannot and will not engage in this sort of meaningless argumentation without data. Please stop
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
I think that the argument “it never works like that” should be coupled with at least one data point. I don’t think it’s helpful to dismiss other commenters based upon simply your opinion, and not a set of facts we can all inspect together.
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
> Parasite gives one the same degree of insight about Korean culture as Raising Arizona does about American culture. http://sensesofcinema.com/2017/cteq/raising-arizona/ and https://www.theatlan
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
Making something illegal does not stop people for continuing to perpetuate that something. We have this conversation here all the time, and I think we can all agree that legality is not the beginning nor the end of equity. Put another way:
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
This response has to be the most aggressive misreading of privilege I've encountered in a while. Privilege IS NOT a system where everyone in a group gets better outcomes than another group. It IS NOT a system in which everyone in a gro
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
This argument does not address the point. No one said that lucky means perfect; everything is relative. It can be (and is) true that you can be the luckiest baby in history and have "crippling illness". You can both be privileged
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by wbronitsky 7y ago
This is a pretty specious argument. Murder is illegal and punished severely, yet we still try and avoid getting killed. I would posit that it is the same here; wage fixing is bad and punished, but wouldn't it be better if we had a fast

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