wu-ikkyu

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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>In which year did social forces that marginalized women in STEM fields become negligible? What social forces?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Identity theft is at an all time high.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
No.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
How is tying to "make people spend as much time on a site as possible" is a conspiratorial hypothesis?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
I'm in the same camp. It seems the "news", in general, is a buffer overflow of malicious information that serves to override our logical thought processes with negative emotions and irrational tendencies.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
How about the US government in the 1960's conceding to civil rights demands in order to avoid a violent revolution?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Do you have any savings? Now might be a perfect time to take some time off work, travel, and/or figure out what you want to do with your life. Many people with a spouse and children will never have that opportunity
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>life isn't really that fun anyway >think I'll just hit the eject button early You should try sky diving
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
It would seem so (though it shouldn't be). IIRC the Sony hack was attributed to NK because they found some NK IP addresses in comments in the code.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
It's not reasonable, it's short sighted if you consider the long train of such "acceptable" abuses pursuing invariably the same end goal
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Still have to give the vendor your shipping address
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Doesn't help for online purchases. Likewise crypto is too user unfriendly for the masses to adopt and very few vendors accept it
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
And yet human beings still existed before developing written language, so the pertinent statement is still baseless: >As human beings we have never had as much free time as now
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Yes, it's human history
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>As someone who believes that developing ourselves comes from the traditional hard work of life and spiritual development (or whatever you may call it) with no quick fixes, I find the prospect surprisingly compelling. You may find the Go
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>The government can't just compel mental health care on a whim. They need evidence. Evidence like trespassing citations, public intoxication arrests, and citations for defacating in public These are not signs of mental illness, and
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Maybe because we're talking about Google? Seems like whenever Google is called into question on HN I've noticed a lot of appeals to authority and people defending them to a fault.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Will Google be pushing out a fix for this vulnerability?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>still a democracy and they are ultimately just reflecting the views of the public Seems more like a reflection of the views of corporations than the public
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
How is labor productivity relevant to whether or not a job is "bullshit"? If a ditch digger adopts new technology, their labor productivity increases, but that doesn't mean their job isn't bullshit
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Why is this being downvoted? Jon Oliver did a bit a while back on private prisons. The investigation uncovered an investor sales pitch which bragged of "high recidivism rates"
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Because recidivism is a bad
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
I've found that any questioning of the technical details of the government narrative on this matter is met with a flood of downvotes but never an actual valid counter argument. You raise some valid points
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
I agree with your premise but would nitpick against calling mental illnesses (in the psychiatric sense) pathologies. >pathology: the science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the lab
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Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by wu-ikkyu 8y ago|0 comments
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Email spam filters handle things well I think. Instead of completely censorsing/hiding things from you, suspected spam is placed in a folder that you can view and decide for yourself whether or not it's worth your attention.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Censorship can obviously be done by states, but the definition is not restricted to states only. >Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectio
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>trying to keep things on the rails and civil. Including banning trouble makers That's exactly what censors say
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Censoring is done by states False, we do not live in ancient Rome, so censorship can be done by people who are not government officials. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Yeah https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_...

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