nabnob

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by nabnob 9mo ago
Everything is noticeably more expensive than it was 15 years ago, though.
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by nabnob 9mo ago
What are you calling "extremist terrorism"?
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by nabnob 3y ago
Looks like it's back up. Still, this seems like an absurd absurd amount of issues recently
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by nabnob 3y ago
Sameee
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by nabnob 3y ago
For what it's worth, I remember coming across this claim a couple years ago about AWS on HN. I don't think it's fiction, it's possible that their PR has scrubbed these allegations from the internet.
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by nabnob 3y ago
Oh yeah, I agree with you. It just raises the question, is it even possible to find security related companies that won't cave to US pressure?
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by nabnob 3y ago
Huh, I frequently see advice online that says to use VPNs based in countries that are not one of the "fourteen eyes"/"five eyes".
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by nabnob 3y ago
Real answer? Buy proprietary data from social media companies, credit card companies, retail companies and train the model on that data.
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by nabnob 3y ago
Well, to be blunt, it's because there are billion dollar pharmaceutical companies that want to keep making money off of these drugs, with around 20% of adults taking anti-depressants at any given time.
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by nabnob 3y ago
Irving Kirsch, psych professor at Harvard, wrote a book called "The Emperor's New Drugs" which argues that antidepressants are basically just placebos. I haven't read the book but I have seen a lot of interviews and arti
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by nabnob 3y ago
Facebook will hand over your data to the government without a warrant. These billion dollar companies have become another way for state to surveil us.
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by nabnob 3y ago
They're only subject to large fines if those laws are in place and actually being enforced, though. Companies keep getting away with these huge data breaches in the United States with almost no real consequences.
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by nabnob 3y ago
Internal Family Systems therapy is a form of therapy that uses the idea of different "parts" of ourselves, and postulates that we can heal these different parts of ourselves by accessing an inner source of compassion underneath al
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by nabnob 3y ago
I don't think this is true about brain chemistry or that ADD is a life-long disability. Just speaking from experience here, I was diagnosed with ADD as an adult in my mid-20s and then started using IFS therapy (parts work) a couple yea
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by nabnob 3y ago
I've found it to be really helpful with refactoring code but not solving an entire problem.
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by nabnob 3y ago
Those hyper-competent nice devs can turn incompetent engineers into competent ones, though, and have such a huge impact on work culture that they bring everyone else up with them too. A lot of incompetence can just be inexperience, not unde
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by nabnob 4y ago
Well fucking said. For a lot of kids, their teacher is one of the few stable adults in their life. There's a ton of social and emotional things kids learn from good teachers beyond just book knowledge.
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by nabnob 4y ago
Saving, thanks! And great point.
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by nabnob 4y ago
Something that helped me dramatically in this area was picking up a new hobby, purely for fun, with no expectations about getting "good" at it or winning any praise or accolades - for me, this was dance. It's taught me how to
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by nabnob 4y ago
This is great advice, saving, thanks!
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by nabnob 6y ago
>Sugar is the biggest threat to weight loss because the calories from sugar go straight to fat, and the sudden increase in high glycemic index input triggers an insulin response, which makes you feel like a yo-yo merry-go-round of energy
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by nabnob 6y ago
Military recruitment intentionally targets poor and working class small towns where people don't have a lot of career choices.
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by nabnob 6y ago
Is it just me or do the "Concerned Home Office Associates" not sound like they actually work at Walmart? I talk to the workers at my local Walmart and they don't refer to themselves as "associates", or care enough
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by nabnob 6y ago
Yeah, they never intended a full democracy. Initially only white men who owned property could vote (6% of the population when the United States was founded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_voting_rights_in_t..
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by nabnob 6y ago
That's actually not true, and that's a really big assumption to make without evidence or direct experience. Radical activists today still face state suppression. I know of a communist in Austin who had an FBI file because he led
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by nabnob 6y ago
Let's not act like the United States was a shining example of freedom and democracy before WWII, either. Slavery, destroying indigenous people and taking their land, followed by oppressive laws targeting black and indigenous people...
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by nabnob 6y ago
It's a way to check if someone read your entire profile, so you can filter out people who are just looking for a free place to stay. For example, you could hide the word "pineapple" two paragraphs in and ask that people ment
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by nabnob 6y ago
Why not take measures that don't impact individual rights, like requiring essential jobs to provide their employees with PPE? Where's the accountability for Amazon and Walmart, that continue to allow sick employees to work?
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by nabnob 6y ago
It's not semantics. Capitalism doesn't mean an 'unregulated hellscape', capitalism requires a state to exist in order to defend the right to hold private property. In capitalist countries, the legal system functions ma
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by nabnob 6y ago
Denmark is also a capitalist country. Social democracy (having a free market while also having nationalized healthcare and a strong social safety net) isn't the same thing as socialism (where the state is run by the proletariat and ex

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