greenhexagon

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by greenhexagon 3y ago
The funny thing is... maybe? There's some evidence that the absence of parasites might be a contributing factor to autoimmune diseases, asthma and inflammatory disorders. See: https://www.verywellhealth.com/helminth-the
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
Just accept that you can be laid off and manage your life and finances accordingly. I know people who got laid off recently, with like 6 months severance. They're planning vacations, getting around to the projects around the house they
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
> No one is forcing anyone to host stuff in the cloud, no one is forcing anyone to use Gmail Contrast with: https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-... Even someone, with expert skills, decades o
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
The problem is we've all seen this pattern before. Push the disabled by default, opt-in only version. Face only small backlash because it's opt-in. Then in a later update, switch it to on by default but with an easy opt-out. Then
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
OP said "65% of men are obese or overweight" but your source is only obese. CDC says 73.6% of adults are overweight or obese ( https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm )
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
There is much about China that I don't understand, but I'm curious about the ownership in the "ghost cities". Given the ability of the CCP to significantly control major industries and movement of people, is it not possi
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
Can you step outside of your own point of view to realize this is all kinda silly? When you walk down the street, people might look at you and imagine you in ways you don't like. They might whisper about you to their friends. They migh
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
| If you want to fight against non consensual AI porn, you need someone to be the face of it Isn't this just an emotionally charged way of suggesting people fight against artistic freedom, freedom of speech, etc? I have literally zero
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
Curious how different our experiences of "culture" can be. I'm an American in my 40s. I've never seen "glorification of scams" in any mainstream culture and can't really think of any subculture where that
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
"People are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work" from https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#unemployed S
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
One could obviously exit the limbo by just ending up lower status. Imagine an actor or director who's very successful and high status. Then their subsequent work is less well received. They might have a period of "status limbo&quo
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
This is more like, a gross oversimplification of the first chapter of a freshman intro to economics. This is to economics what "assume the cow is a perfect sphere moving on a frictionless surface without wind resistance" type of p
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
Please don't troll on HN. Theft is taking something away from someone. Copying by definition doesn't. Pretending it's equivalent to, or even similar to, "theft" is ridiculous.
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
"Woke" started as a term used by young American social progressives as a reference to becoming aware of things which they had previously been unaware. Sort of a "Neo waking up from being in the Matrix" type of waking fro
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
> "American conditions" - is a term with decades of use in Norwegian politics to scare voters. Neat, I always enjoy learning about the various bits of propaganda and stereotypes that exist in different cultures and this was a n
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
Norway is projected to produce $122,421,000,000 worth of oil next year, against a population of only 5 million people. That's about $24,400 in annual oil revenue per citizen. Their sovereign wealth fund (profits from oil re-invested in
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
Do you think students should need a specific license to read a book? Do visitors to an art gallery need a specific license to look at paintings? Do audiences need specific licenses to watch a play? Those people will be influenced by what th
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
"Violating copyright" is a completely imaginary problem. We have a somewhat arbitrary set of laws, rules, guidelines and social norms about using existing ideas. American law for instance has limits on the duration of copyright be
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
For the completely unethical, perhaps. Delivering food is a legitimate, respectable and productive job. Fraudulently deceiving lonely men to coerce them into paying for more fraudulent interactions, less so. I wonder how long before an arti
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
If you're genuinely curious, I'd highly recommend the book "The Road to Wigan Pier" to get an understanding of working class life was like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
People claim it's due to an issue with Cloudflare and location data... but I get different results depending on device and browser. I have a Mac where Firefox goes to captcha loop but chrome doesn't. Meanwhile I have a PC where Fi
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
Adblocking users still provide value. Their clicks, watch time, shares, likes, comments, searches, related videos etc provide valuable training data for recommendations. They may share the video with others who watch with ads enabled. They
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
It's absolutely insane that the realtor cartel has managed to maintain 6% fees in light of the internet and skyrocketing house prices. I'll vote for any politician who takes steps to breakup the cartel and empower the middle class
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
Framing the situation as kids being "left behind" feels disingenuous if not outright inflammatory. Many European systems have been thriving for decades with different school options for different students, based on interest, aptit
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
Please also consider: removing the one or two severely disruptive students from a classroom results in drastically better education for the 20+ students who remain, which is likely a benefit to society at large. Based on my own education, a
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
> state Sen. Nancy Skinner, the bill's lead sponsor. "I'm chair of the Women's Caucus, and have heard from lots of women founders about how they don't even believe they can get a meeting at a VC fund, let alone a
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
Blogpost: "To figure out which vendors are truth worthy, see if they give a realistic and thoughtful response to a specific request" willcipriano: "This wouldn't work on me, because I'd just do fraud"
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by greenhexagon 3y ago
Surely the disease causing a child to become diabetic is "meaningfully threatened" though? I'm not sure why some people act like anything less than death is no big deal. Severe organ damage, whether lungs or pancreas or anyth