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by premium-komodo 5y ago
I think you mean to say, Yelp users are sharing information, and patrons are choosing to go to different establishments that cater better to their desires. That was the idea of Yelp, was it not? Not seeing the problem.
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
> If an equality program is so successful that it creates an equality imbalance in the other direction what do we do? Equality of outcome is not possible or even desirable. That is the problem. The more people try to force some completel
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
The reason we have to go to the trouble of making cryptocurrencies is that busybodies like this guy are endlessly trying to reduce our freedom. They're not trying to look out for people; they're trying to protect their ability to
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
Well, I don't think "more powerful" is a good way to think about it. A spreadsheet is essentially a functional programming paradigm. One programming thingie is not going to be "more powerful" than another. That said
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
If you think it might be a little inappropriate to care much about a programmer's endorsement of a vaccine, here's an actual famous doctor saying "for God's sake don't take this thing". https://www.y
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
Well, entire generations were brainwashed not to eat good foods, and to substitute more harmful foods in their place. Remember the food pyramid? Many of my schoolmates are obese and well on their way to an early death due to diabetes, from
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
As is often the case with the FBI, they were apparently facilitating the crimes. It's easy to argue that the crimes might not have taken place without the FBI's help. Somehow this is never entrapment when the FBI is doing it.
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
It's allowed, but I get the sense that many HN users don't want it to come up to be discussed in depth, because it's a huge can of worms, because if it's established that it works, intellectual honesty compels us to ask
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
I basically agree -- the woke interpret anything other than absolute unconditional support as opposition. But there may be something to this strategy of making the announcement so insipid that the woke don't have anything in particular
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
It obviously has value to the people who are involved with it. We don't decide if other people are allowed to do the things they're interested in by comparing their activity to something in Argentina. If you are able to say precis
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
Sure, I don't think it's good tech, and I don't like it. But I don't like a million things people do, and I don't try to make some convoluted argument that their weird activity is a matter of public concern. > An
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
Well, it's hard to evaluate a complex situation like yours, but I get the sense that you're doing a lot of outward searching for good things, e.g., searching for a good job, satisfying interactions with others, interesting topics
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
These are like dispatches from deep within a cult compound that can only be made by ignoring virtually every metric of human well-being. Poverty, illiteracy, infant mortality, etc., one could go on for days, they're all better. But fro
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
> Dear Dr Marik I am from a remote place(Muzaffarpur,Bihar) in India.people are not that rich and can’t effort costly treatment.i used your MATH PLUS protocol in TOTO to save hundreds of life at very low cost.since there is limited govt
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
This is a very good initiative, but keep in mind that it's probably not one percent of the actual list. I searched for four people that I could think of immediately, and none of them were there.
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Suppressing data on ivermectin cost 'half a million lives', doctor charges(worldtribune.com)
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
Hmm, I'm kind of doing this. After 20-someodd years of programming, I no longer think the big wins are in technology, but rather within, in cultivating mind. So I'm going to gradually help people with meditation. One thing I'
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
Were there around a hundred million buffalo in North America for quite a long time? Were they emitting dangerous amounts of gas?
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
Many HN users seem confident they know the truth, and that they know which sources are credible, and are comfortable suppressing anything contrary to what they already think, often without explanation. I don't think HN is quite an echo
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
> Dear Dr Marik I am from a remote place(Muzaffarpur,Bihar) in India.people are not that rich and can’t effort costly treatment.i used your MATH PLUS protocol in TOTO to save hundreds of life at very low cost.since there is limited govt
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
Weird, inappropriate wording. "Satellites taking measurements may have underestimated"? What's actually been happening is that satellites take measurements , and then all but a few climate models (around 100, IIRC) run way t
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
Begging the question. There are highly qualified people like Sucharit Bhakdi who are being declared conspiracy theorists for no other reason than that they are going against officially sanctioned truth. Which is the high-quality signal, the
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
I'm trying to think of a more clearly deserved rebuke and exodus for terrible behavior, and nothing is coming to mind.
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
Sure. Even free speech extremists seem OK with cordoning off immediate plans to commit violence. But try to find a place where a waitress or bartender will interrupt your conversation to insist on the correct view on the flatness of the e
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
I agree, but I don't think they'll ever see any need. From their perspective, The Science said one thing back then, and then The Science changed its mind and is saying something else now. As long as you're obeying The Science
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
Bars and restaurants are unmoderated discussion forums that have been used to organize violence and real-life crimes since forever. Who exactly do you think is wise and moral enough to police what everyone talks about?
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
> When 1984 and "Orwellian" are used as a catch-all for any type of oppression or even any type of propaganda, I think it does a great disservice. I agree, but it's not hard to make a stronger case. Organizations like Goog
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
Suppose someone offered, say, ten million dollars to the first team that could write code to discern, from the outcome data, which areas had locked down and had mask mandates, and which hadn't. Would anyone be able to claim it? If the
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
Exactly. Could they beg the question any harder? "Sometimes people post more blasphemy even after I show them the relevant passage in my book of scripture."
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by premium-komodo 5y ago
I think this was wrongly flagged, so I'm resubmitting it. If you flag it, please say why. If you want to block discussion on important topics, you should at least give some explanation.

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