bodiekane

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by bodiekane 1mo ago
Stolen phone -> access to finances (through password reset emails/SMS or just apps on the phone) -> no ability to pay for medicine/healthcare -> death. Stolen phone -> post offensive things to users Twitter account -&g
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by bodiekane 2mo ago
Every good aspect of modern life and modern medicine, technology, etc started with fundamental research that can be made to sound silly. Some grad student studies the effects of alcohol on fish, learns something new about biology, publishes
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by bodiekane 2mo ago
That populist narrative was popular on social media, but the truth is the exact opposite. Germany had relatively reasonable debt and government spending relative to taxes. Italy had entirely dysfunctional spending and Greece was essentially
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by bodiekane 2mo ago
>who got the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, left his VP role at DeepMind to have no reports, and be an IC That seems like an obvious choice to make. Managing people, looking at Gantt charts, meeting with compliance & legal and all th
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by bodiekane 3mo ago
> Why would AI be any different? The speed, the scale and the class of people impacted are all novel. AI will likely cause massive displacement in the span of a few years which prior advancements had spread out over decades. In 1850 the
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by bodiekane 4mo ago
Where do you imagine the power goes when you've taken it away from "the administrative state"? I can totally understand an argument that says a certain administrative function was not working well and needed to be fixed. But
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by bodiekane 4mo ago
Ya, the word "transplants" here seems to mean something very different than you're interpreting it as. This isn't a hospital procedure like an organ transplant. It's material placed into the recipients colon through
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by bodiekane 5mo ago
Cycling has a pretty rich history of people injecting themselves with things they bought on the internet- EPO, testosterone, etc. The bodybuilding subculture has been injecting testosterone, about 50 different testosterone-like drugs (Tren,
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by bodiekane 5mo ago
"Authoritarian nightmare" is an accurate description. Calling this student's project a "harassment platform" is misleading, emotive language.
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by bodiekane 5mo ago
The payments are going to a government. They're not using bitcoin to hide the payments, they're using it because receiving USD or Euros or whatever would mean that a hostile government could seize the funds from the bank. The trac
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by bodiekane 5mo ago
I'd rather live in a world where a student's website hosts an anonymous mean comment about me than live in the authoritarian nightmare of how the school officials, guards and police acted in this behavior. Tea is still available o
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by bodiekane 6mo ago
I don't think the "broken windows" metaphor is very accurate for healthcare. A lot of healthcare spending is along a gradient of elective vs necessary and some continuum of quality of life improvements. For instance, I could
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by bodiekane 7mo ago
I consider it a small green flag, if the award is from somewhere semi-reputable. I've worked at places where employee surveys were done by the 3rd party to decide on winners. Companies that know they mistreat their employees won't
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by bodiekane 7mo ago
Seems like the main reason it's gone up all these years is "Early adopters successfully evangelized to get more mainstream bigger-fools to buy from them at elevated prices". At this point, Bitcoin is fully mainstream and the
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by bodiekane 11mo ago
And yet, millions of people work 40 hour weeks and take a couple vacations per year while working in razor-thin margin industries like grocery stores and low margin restaurants, manufacturing, agriculture, construction, retail, trucking and
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by bodiekane 11mo ago
Regulations will just make it easier for the powerful incumbents to control what content the platforms are allowed to host. Deregulation is the solution here- get rid of DMCA and all the other laws that are used to bankrupt any competitor t
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by bodiekane 11mo ago
> with real world accountability So the government can neutralize every journalist, political opponent, whistleblower or whoever by whatever means are most effective in their particular jurisdiction (China- disappear, Russia- jail, US- a
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by bodiekane 11mo ago
I smirked at the parent comment, and it didn't even slightly occur to me that someone might interpret its intent as serious and literal until I saw your comment.
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by bodiekane 11mo ago
Except, programs which give free books to children in households without books demonstrably improve reading. There's a correlation component, but also there absolutely is a causal connection of access to books and parents reading to ch
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by bodiekane 11mo ago
Texas has "Robinhood" rules where property taxes from affluent areas are taken away and given to lower income areas throughout the state, so that the schools have more similar budgets regardless of income level in the area. They s
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by bodiekane 11mo ago
A minor improvement to your argument here- artificial dyes are legitimately harmful in many cases. There are good reasons why the EU had already banned multiple chemicals that were still allowed in the US, and it's a good thing to upda
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by bodiekane 1y ago
$260k is absolutely middle class, nowhere near "upper class", by any reasonable consideration of lifestyle, freedom, power or day to day experience. The median home price in SF is $1.3. Using the calculator at zillow ( https:&#x2F
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by bodiekane 1y ago
Maybe other people's usage of the term is just different than yours without either being "correct". For at least half of America, "DEI" means "giving preferential treatment to some individuals based on their ra
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by bodiekane 1y ago
Not the point you meant to make, but, maybe Grandma shouldn't live in a place that requires constant use of an air conditioner to be survivable. Americans keep moving to places that are fairly inhospitable to humans - too hot, too litt
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by bodiekane 1y ago
Surely the environmental concerns are the larger "tax on everyone". Fossil fuels appear cheap specifically because the benefits accumulate to the corporation extracting and selling them, while a substantial portion of the costs ge
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by bodiekane 1y ago
I put in effort to brush my teeth every day. Everyone who sees my smile is stealing that effort and should be required to pay me.
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by bodiekane 1y ago
> just don’t get how people are ok with “cheaters” gaming the system. This is a story about citizens being deported without due process, without access to lawyers, without access to healthcare. You don't have to be "ok with che
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by bodiekane 1y ago
Libertarian is completely the opposite side of the political spectrum from police state/authoritarianism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart
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by bodiekane 1y ago
"Single" for the purposes of this just means "not married". They don't care if the man has a girlfriend, situationship or polycule. If a person isn't married, they're single for the sake of taxes, census d
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by bodiekane 1y ago
> everyone thought "the economy" was bad for the last four years at the same time as they answered surveys saying they personally were doing great Most of HN would rationally answer a survey that way. High paid tech job, flexib

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