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by CodeMage 4y ago
Did you read the actual letter? I ask becasue it's not included in the NYT article, so I'm not sure whether your complaints about political correctness and your comparison with Christian values stem from not knowing the contents o
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by CodeMage 4y ago
> This is a very predictable consequence of criticizing your employer via a public letter. The first thing that comes to mind when reading this is "So what?" Yes, it's predictable. I don't believe people who wrote the
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by CodeMage 4y ago
> Let's not forget that Asimov had a questionable lifestyle [0]. I already know that sexual harassment and abuse of power are bad. If someone uncovers such behavior in a living writer, I will react appropriately, by demanding justic
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by CodeMage 4y ago
Chile might have cheaper healthcare, although I doubt it, but that's completely obscured by their health insurance. They copied the US health insurance racket almost perfectly, and that's what needs fixing much more than healthc
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by CodeMage 4y ago
I based what I said on the study by Kazda, Bell, Thomas, et al [1], although there's always a chance that I might have misunderstood it. From what I understood, it seems that there's a certain degree of overdiagnosis in milder cas
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by CodeMage 4y ago
There is a "widespread belief" in ADHD and that it should be medicated because there is evidence for it. The ADHD my son has and the ADHD my nephew has, among others, are not things I choose to believe in irrationally. As for wher
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by CodeMage 4y ago
If I'm coming across as defensive, then I haven't been clear enough. I'm not defensive, I'm furious but I'm trying to channel it into rational discourse. There's nothing "defensive" about wanting to s
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by CodeMage 4y ago
I've already expressed what I object to: that it's a pithy, kneejerk, judgmental trope-parroting that does more to stigmatize the majority who want to help their kids, than to help combat the abuse perpetrated by the minority of b
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by CodeMage 4y ago
That's true. And it's also true that ADHD is overdiagnosed and overtreated, and the rate is non-negligible. That is a problem that both the public and the medical community are aware of. I agree with maintaining awareness of that,
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by CodeMage 4y ago
Again, this is not about wanting to sit at a desk for hours every day. He's perfectly content to sit at a desk for hours every day, in front of his computer, and yet he'll have the same problems focusing on most things. Yes, the m
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by CodeMage 4y ago
It's more horrifying to me that HN has turned into a kind of place where people will confidently assert their judgment something they have no knowledge about. My son has ADHD. There are other ADHD cases in the family, so we knew that c
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by CodeMage 4y ago
Yes, it is. My philosophical stance has been changing and evolving constantly over these 40+ years that I have been alive. Unlike my race or my sexuality, it's not part of who I am, it's part of who I choose to be. In fact, I woul
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by CodeMage 4y ago
Yes, it's reasonable to equate them in the context of employment discrimination . That's what "protected class" protects from.
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by CodeMage 4y ago
I don't understand how that's relevant. The comment I replied to was arguing about applying the same standards in free speech, whereas "protected class" refers to employment discrimination.
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by CodeMage 4y ago
False equivalence. Religion is a personal choice. Sexual orientation isn't.
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by CodeMage 4y ago
It doesn't ruffle my feathers at all. I've done my share of piracy when I lived in countries where that was the only viable way to get my hands on the information, art, or entertainment that was otherwise unavailable to the vast m
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by CodeMage 4y ago
The first sentence is spot on. The rest is the distortion I was talking about. You demand empathy, but are unwilling to be empathetic yourself. In the end, you're the one opting out of discourse here, not the rest of us.
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by CodeMage 4y ago
Whether people are "entitled" to enrich their lives with art/entertainment or not is an interesting question in this context. We're living in a society where a huge number of people has experienced a good solution to the
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by CodeMage 4y ago
Every single show or movie I wanted to watch over the last year has been an exclusive to some streaming service or other. Amazon used to let me buy anything, and the Prime was there to entice me so I don't have to pay for individual ca
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by CodeMage 4y ago
Yes, it is. But even though you didn't manage to communicate your point correctly, it still stands: the only reason streaming replaced piracy was because people could afford it and it was easier to use. Even the ease of use has decline
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by CodeMage 4y ago
> I stopped reading Gibson after that. I found "The Peripheral" to be refreshingly good. I would recommend giving it a read.
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by CodeMage 4y ago
I miss the days when we didn't need sites like this one, but I'm extremely glad it exists and thankful to you for helping me discover it.
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by CodeMage 5y ago
I can't say whether it's unique to the US, because I've only lived in two other countries before moving here. Also, I've spent all these years since I moved to the US living in the same county of the same state, a stat
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by CodeMage 5y ago
This question needs to be asked more often. It took me quite a while to realize why I'm more engaged on Twitter than I used to be. In my case, it's to have a conversation. Before I moved to the United States, I could have all sort
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by CodeMage 5y ago
I grew up with smaller micros, like ZX Spectrum 48k and Commodore 64, then I got my first PC and it ran DOS. I started using Windows 3.0 when it came out, and I've been a Windows user ever since. I tried Linux desktop a few times, but
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by CodeMage 5y ago
Okay, but why re-export it like this, then?
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by CodeMage 5y ago
> Over the next few months, the tolerance for bullshit, especially in politics, will go way down. Maybe I'm too cynical, but I think it's way more likely that the next few months will allow those politicians who relied on tha
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by CodeMage 5y ago
Do you really want to go down the rabbit hole of discussing just how many fallacies you stuffed in a one-liner? Is that what passes for discourse on HN nowadays?
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by CodeMage 5y ago
Sure, if we apply the same logic out of the context where it was applied in this case, then you're completely right. However, context matters. The statistics they quoted showed that the helmet use was at 91% in Seattle. So if you have
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by CodeMage 5y ago
What they're saying is that there are biases in the sample of the people who got fined. What you're asking is what caused that bias. While that's certainly an interesting question that should be answered for a variety of

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