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by nzmsv 5y ago
So this is the male version of the trophy spouse stereotype. Focuses on lifting and courting, has an education just to check off a box, writes pseudointellectual drivel to pass the time. Just as likely to be replaced by a fresher model in
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by nzmsv 5y ago
I'm actually not pushing for anything, and since I wasn't following antivaxxers this is all new to me. I guess this was my 10000 moment for the day ( https://xkcd.com/1053/ )
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by nzmsv 5y ago
OK, I'm probably going to burn a bunch of karma on this comment, but this is very interesting. For example, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4516275/ looks like a legitimate piece of researc
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Not an anti-vaxxer, but comments like this are even better antivaxx fodder :) I understand where you are coming from, but the ultimate goal is to stop COVID, not get everyone a jab in the arm. If the jabs (legitimately) stop working we sho
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by nzmsv 5y ago
True. This one hit close to home for me personally, but I can say with confidence that therapy can make things a lot better. There's a tendency to either coddle a person with these issues, or try to get them to change through tough lo
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by nzmsv 5y ago
And if you look at that particular prosecutor's record, there is a clear pattern of "overkill".
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by nzmsv 5y ago
And it sounds like he was perfectly aware of this. This feeling of being "not really a man" can be overwhelming, and I feel like this is an incredibly toxic thing perpetuated by our culture. It's possible to spend an entire
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by nzmsv 5y ago
No, vei nid to do al the saim drujeri bicoz ze jenerashon befor vem had to :) Olso, zis kaind of speling luks strainj to old pipl.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
If your birth country isn't India or China, a masters could significantly speed up the process of getting a US green card. For India or China you'd wait a decade anyway.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
There is also a pretty well-made show on this topic, and it's even on Netflix: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fartsa_(TV_series)
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by nzmsv 5y ago
There are even to this day quite a lot of houses in Russia with this exact setup. My grandparents old house had an oven stove and radiators. They replaced the oven stove with an electric boiler sometime in 2000s but kept the radiators.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Americans lost two skyscrapers and still talk every year about how the country was scarred. Yes, it was terrible, but imagine a country literally burned by fire from the sky, and future generations continuing to suffer through birth defect
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by nzmsv 5y ago
But, to play devil's advocate, isn't this exactly what we should want, long term? I think the end goal is for Black and autistic people to be thought of as people first and foremost, and their differences would take a back seat.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Fun is maybe not quite the word I'd use. The juxtaposition of all the wording about "defense" and menacing-looking characters that would definitely be the villain and not the hero in any comic book or movie is... unsettling.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Won't we figure out at some point how to input the fun into the brain directly, bypassing the usual senses? At that point, what's the use for galactic colonization? Math/fun can be maximized most efficiently by plugging int
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Artificial bodies. Our deep-seated bias towards compassion has led us to subvert natural selection through medicine (and I say this as someone who likely would not survive a few centuries ago). We will continue to decline physically as a
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by nzmsv 5y ago
But what about Plato's cave? You say that a mind arises from a healthy brain, but let's say we put a perfectly healthy brain into an environment where it cannot experience the same kind of stimuli that the brains riding in our bod
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by nzmsv 5y ago
I think our sense of right and wrong actually has a lot to do with evolution. Indeed, it's one of the things that drives our evolution as a species. Self-preservation is very important, and anything that puts it in question tends to e
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by nzmsv 5y ago
There are basically two viable next-gen messengers: Telegram and Signal. One has an open encryption protocol and a founder who is much better connected in Silicon Valley.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
I have to ask: but why? The author correctly concludes that the human mind is software, but then their survival instinct gets the better of them and they don't carry this thought to its logical conclusion. And that is: death is a fea
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Isn't this "doctrine of the foregone conclusion" exactly how the west operates? Not too long ago there was an invasion of Iraq over some WMDs that unnamed "intelligence sources" were absolutely certain were about t
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Annex territory? Turkey, NATO member, 1974 ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus ) Your parents were alive during that time, so it's not that old school.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
There are a lot of Russians who don't support Putin yet will fight to make sure another one of these peaceful transitions doesn't happen in their home. Rampant crime, addictions, brain drain, internal wars - no thank you, please
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by nzmsv 5y ago
It's interesting that we had a back and forth discussion here. If we were talking in person, this kind of error correction would be natural (me: "it's random", you: "this is not what random is", me: "oh y
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by nzmsv 5y ago
You are right, it's not really random, but it can certainly feel that way. I can throw the pedantry right back at you though: I didn't quote a percentage of randomness so I made a true statement. Some degree of randomness is pres
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by nzmsv 5y ago
I was actually half expecting some downvotes and thought it would be a cute bit of post-irony to downvote this to near-background color.
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Downvotes on HN are basically random. I've had well-written comments downvoted into oblivion in threads that also included another comment stating the exact same opinion slightly differently. I've had zingy one-liners upvoted to
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by nzmsv 5y ago
You are so certain of this! Why not use this kind of information to make a killing on the stock market?
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by nzmsv 5y ago
The free market works the other way too though. If lab techs were in high demand (as they are), and your friend's employer was demanding an unreasonable schedule, she'd be free to jump ship to a better job. Right now software en
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by nzmsv 5y ago
Not moral, practical. The majority of places that do on-call do it because it's the default. That's the problem with on-call: it somehow took on moral undertones. And as a result it does not feel safe to speak out against it. If

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