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by dfgert 3y ago
I am trying to do this as well, but being surrounded by news/social/stream outlets that just push unnecessary hype its hard to achieve this. Any recommendation on how to filter out the junk?
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by dfgert 4y ago
I am shocked to read this. Why are they still using leaded fuel? There are so many well known research that links lead in fuel to unstable mental health and crime in population.
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by dfgert 7y ago
What makes you believe US completes fairly and openly? Don't you see news on China import embargo and capture of it's executives.
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by dfgert 7y ago
Wikipedia has flaws,too. 1. Your account need to have good history or social repo for your edits to be seriously considered by Wikipedia admins. 2. Admin can have their own set of bias and can decide to ignore edits. Remember Wikipedia is a
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by dfgert 7y ago
Protecting users data is a very hard problem to solve in current tech landscape. There are enormously profitable business build around this and are driving significant portion of economy. Only solution I can see is to build alternative econ
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by dfgert 7y ago
No matter how much they try to sell it as a good will gesture towards mobile users, I will not buy it. There are good examples where company starts off with good intent but later turns into a typical selfish corporation. Lets face it, every
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by dfgert 7y ago
I feel like this for most sensational news stories that I hear on news. Too much agenda in every news pisses me off. I wish there was a way to filter out such agenda.
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by dfgert 7y ago
I agree. Train were so much more fun as I can recall from my childhood memories. Now I rarely see someone traveling via train, and those who do are trying to save some money(train fares are cheaper in other countries). I guess time that&#x2
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by dfgert 8y ago
NASA actually receive lots of funding(might be second after military). Most of their work doesn't align with any of the politics promises, even then they receive good chunk of budget spending.
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by dfgert 8y ago
Plus, one looses so much(health and relations) in the process of making lots of money quickly that their option of coming back is no longer available. Lots of money also heightens one's expectations and comfort requirements so much tha
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by dfgert 8y ago
Thats because its an USA company. You don't see it coming up in news, you don't see any lawsuits from other countries, and they will keep covering the real issue as long as they like. There have been incidents in past when corpora
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by dfgert 8y ago
Landscape protection is very important, but I agree with comment below. Supply Chain Management(SCM) is being promoted via such claims. While it may be willing to do landscape protection now, there's no guarantee that it will continue
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by dfgert 8y ago
That's because most people religiously put faith in dumb news outlets of USA and keeps repeating the same arguments without trying to fully understand them. They have gotten accustomed to outsourcing critical thinking process to news o
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by dfgert 8y ago
When you make money more than what you need it irrelevant how you spend it.
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by dfgert 8y ago
Abnormal environment experiences do affect normal bodily functioning in animals and us. Its good that they are thinking of ways to advance technology without compromising our health.
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by dfgert 8y ago
When a person is struggling to even pay his bills, which most of the Americans are, then tactics like these from food companies does have lots on influence on what such people decides to eat.
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by dfgert 8y ago
Too much focus on growth is a quality that always leads to once doom whether its a person or a corporation. Its sad that our business economics favors this.
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by dfgert 8y ago
If speeches are regulated to this extent then it hampers society from discovering others experiences and learning from them.
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by dfgert 8y ago
'Peoples’ intuition is usually wrong without a lot of experience to back it up' -- people's understandings are based on their own and their social circle experiences. What's make you think its always wrong? Do you mean w
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by dfgert 8y ago
Are there any alternatives? I am ok with indie, slow, paid, not-super-accurate options.
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Ask HN: Filtered news subscription
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by dfgert 8y ago
I don't believe that it was a unfair race so to speak. In my knowledge it were the German scientists who moved to US and helped US develop the bomb. US may have had the resources but it definitely lacked the knowledge for building bomb
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by dfgert 8y ago
Life is not meant to be controlled based on your understanding of world because as human being we all suffer from subjectivity and fallacies. Learn to silence your brain and feel the life around you and in yourself. Listen to it and your ro
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by dfgert 8y ago
I don't understand when will medicine recognize the cause of all health complications instead of trying to individually path each and every problem. People can then start correct precautionary measures. All health issues that we see on
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by dfgert 8y ago
Same is valid for Asian countries. Bikes and bikers clothes culture is focused more on the utility rather than fancy looks. I would blame the US bike market for focusing only on looks.
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by dfgert 8y ago
I feel like biking to work is being promoted just for the sake of polishing city's reputation. Cities would build all these fancy facilities, which are grossly expensive infrastructure to build and maintain, just for sake of feeling th
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by dfgert 8y ago
I doubt analyzing university would do much since its already a common knowledge at this point still nothing is happening. Government and legal institutions are ineffective in solving problem where solution results in loss in profit. Buildin
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by dfgert 8y ago
My TLDR- We don't have any clue on how quantum mechanics function other than some guesses so we are not in position to predict anything about its future. Science might as well believe in God if its backing any logic to explain QC.
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by dfgert 8y ago
I feel the same about meditating near an powered-on electronic device, but in modern world it impossible to escape from EMW emitting devices. You can turn off all wireless capable devices in your home but can't control devices in neigh
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by dfgert 8y ago
Being in the company of your child's family is indispensable in late old age(part of life when one is physically and mentally incapable of excising things OP mentioned). Joy that old folks gets by spending time with grandchildren is ir

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