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by hackflip 5y ago
Let's take it a step further. We can reduce STI transmission to zero if we remove all of everyone's genitals.
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by hackflip 5y ago
I wouldn't need to wash my hands if you chopped them off.
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by hackflip 5y ago
There are outliers to trends and therefore we should remain ignorant to the trends?
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by hackflip 5y ago
Lockdowns hurt profits in some companies, and boost profits in others. It's easy to be pro lockdown if it's boosting your profits and harming your competitors.
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by hackflip 5y ago
Do you think Dick knows he's a dick?
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by hackflip 5y ago
I had a super smart poodle mix growing up, and it was smart enough to easily open the latch on its cage from the inside with its tongue. It also knew how to rearrange chairs in order to climb onto the dinner table. The ones that are too sma
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by hackflip 5y ago
Many cultures value sharing the pizza equally. American culture values making more, and bigger pizzas.
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by hackflip 5y ago
If you tell me to deprive myself of some conveniences because some people in another part of the world in another decade/century will suffer as a consequence of my actions... I agree with the selfless option in theory, but in practice
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by hackflip 5y ago
I think it's important to have goals outside of career/financial goals. Your self esteem should not come from any individual metric in a vacuum.
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by hackflip 5y ago
I think of democracy like a diversified portfolio. Putting all of your money into one stock can go either incredibly well or incredibly poorly, depending on what the one stock is. Diversifying the portfolio is the safest option; it may not
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by hackflip 5y ago
"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
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by hackflip 5y ago
The only problem with this metaphor is that tolerance to poison/lava is an individual tolerance whereas the parent comment refers to a species' tolerance over N generations.
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by hackflip 5y ago
Brexit referendum was in 2016. Trump was elected in 2016. In 2021 the world has mostly shifted left.
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by hackflip 5y ago
So in a roundabout way, vaccines ARE connecting them to the Internet!
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by hackflip 5y ago
They can be solved, but they often aren't. A lot of things that happen implicitly and organically in person need to be explicitly planned and scheduley in a virtual environment.
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by hackflip 5y ago
I don't deny the existence of it, but I'm uncomfortable with the idea of drugging children because they won't sit still while being lectured to for 5+ hours a day.
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by hackflip 5y ago
I've never recorded a podcast, but as a podcast listener, I've found that podcasts with two hosts tend to have that psychological switch on by default, whereas podcasts with one host tend to have it off by default. Conversation &g
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by hackflip 5y ago
It's a made up scale that is intentionally imprecise to communicate rough estimates. These imprecise measurements may be way off on individual units of work, but in aggregate, can average out to fairly consistent measurements within a
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by hackflip 5y ago
We threw out the baby with the bathwater.
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by hackflip 5y ago
I suspect (most) individuals are behaving rationally (in the own best interest), but in aggregate it leads to the group collectively behaving incredibly irrationally.
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by hackflip 5y ago
As an early adopter from the Digg exodus, I haven't really enjoyed Reddit in the past 2 years or so.
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by hackflip 6y ago
As an Asian male, it seems to have become really fashionable to denounce white males in the past few years. As if you can correct past injustices by punishing those in the present.
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by hackflip 6y ago
The 80s-90s was a small window in time where computers were becoming powerful enough to do cool things without modern UX hiding all the implementation details.
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by hackflip 6y ago
I regularly pirate movies that I've already purchased 2+ times (eg I already own on both VHS and DVD). The friction of walking into another room to find my physical copy is greater than just downloading it on my laptop.
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by hackflip 6y ago
I don't force myself to do my side projects. I have to find them enjoyable to take them on. And if they're enjoyable, I need little energy to do them.
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by hackflip 6y ago
I think it's perfectly acceptable for a third party to (respectfully) offer their opinion.
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by hackflip 6y ago
I think that in many cases, solving the symptom of a problem rather than the root cause makes the problem worse. If I'm burning my hand on a hot stove, I don't want pain killers to mask the pain.
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by hackflip 10y ago
Do you ever find that this approach leads to a subset of your questions being answered? I've found that asking n questions in a row frequently leads to only the nth question being answered (which I presume is often due to content being
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by hackflip 10y ago
Something I like doing to get myself in a different mindset is that I tell myself I am not allowed to work on "good" ideas at home. I will literally only work on a personal project if it sounds "dumb" (eg: a Mobile Virtu
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by hackflip 10y ago
> As if Naver, Korea's #1 portal, will change its domain name at a whim Maybe they won't change their domain name, but what if you end up needing to move from http to https? Or what if you want to crawl their staging server at

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