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by shadowmore 5y ago
I could see someone argue that, but would a monarch, for example, really hyperfocus nearly as much on optimizing crops to the point of driving the farmers to suicide, just so he could point to a line going up on a chart in a meeting with in
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by shadowmore 5y ago
I find this individualistic view of the problem fascinating. It treats companies as individuals and thinks they're all different, which is bolstered by the BS terminology about "corporate culture" that the companies themselve
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by shadowmore 5y ago
This back-and-forth will never end until there's government regulation that tells the creators of digital communication platforms, in no uncertain terms, "You do not get to control the content on the platform you have built, becau
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by shadowmore 5y ago
Is there some reason no digital platform producing company ever washes its hands of all moderation and leaves control of illegal activity to the people actually responsible for it (the FBI, NSA, local law enforcement, etc.)? Are companies a
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by shadowmore 5y ago
Imagine living in 2021 and still thinking this propaganda talking point from 1949 still holds any weight with anyone. We know competition doesn't work. Competitors get bought out. We know the stock market doesn't work. Money raise
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by shadowmore 6y ago
This just reminds me of how we ship meat from the US to China for processing and then back, then slap "US Raised" on it to avoid suspicion.
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by shadowmore 6y ago
Surprising it's taken them this long. It's basically the world's news aggregator at this point. Unlike Instagram or TikTok or any entertainment-focused social media platform, Twitter feels necessary to its users, whether to s
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by shadowmore 6y ago
That flippant posturing is the result of reading history books from the perspective of everyone who lived over the past several thousand years being backwards and evil. It blinds people to the realities of power dynamics that still exist to
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by shadowmore 6y ago
I can confirm this anecdotally. I've always had near zero empathy for anyone who isn't a close friend or family member, and I have very high pain tolerance, to the point of outright ignoring minor wounds on a regular basis and the
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by shadowmore 6y ago
It's usually prescribed specifically for fever, not just for any pain. Could this be why so many people (myself included) report feeling a sense of wanting to live a more proactive life when sick with a fever? You'd think it would
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by shadowmore 6y ago
Meanwhile, many multiplayer games have neither skill-based matchmaking, nor a ban on premade groups playing against solo queue players. I just can't grasp how any developer can seriously think a game can be enjoyable when you're o
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by shadowmore 6y ago
Bit of a meta question: is linking to Substack posts in this way equally as viable as linking to a standalone blog? As in, the advantages of Substack are clear, but are there any distinct disadvantages to using it as both a blog (exposure,
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by shadowmore 6y ago
But our leaders aren't incentivized to do it, because our leaders are incentivized only by the very corporations in question. As in, the corporations, through lobbying, quite literally write the legislation, not the people we actually
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by shadowmore 6y ago
And why are we now comfortable with not having kids? Because of atomism. The "golden age" argument is flawed. No one seriously argues that literally everything was better in the past. Rather, the criticism is that it's absurd
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by shadowmore 6y ago
There is no name-calling or personal attacking in that comment. The one qualifier that could possibly be interpreted as "an attack" is referring to an inanimate subject (data crunching) not to any given participant in the conversa
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by shadowmore 6y ago
No one will ever be convinced by such autistic data crunching. Human intuition is responsible for things like criminalizing drugs. People feel uncomfortable around drug-addled lechers, so they want them imprisoned. That's all the justi
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by shadowmore 6y ago
And this is the flawed "it happens more to the poor, so it should be abolished" take. Something being done disproportionately doesn't mean it's wrong. It's a way of diverting away from the core point by appealing to
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by shadowmore 6y ago
This is the epitome of the "How does the collective well-being of society affect you in any way? Mind your own business!" take. Troubled people use drugs, including cannabis. Troubled people are prone to crime. Crime spreads and c
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by shadowmore 6y ago
I keep seeing data points like this, but does supplementing vitamin D work? Does it make sense to read things like this and conclude that taking a vitamin D supplement pill daily is a good idea?
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by shadowmore 6y ago
This seems somehow relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNTp4kELkSY
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by shadowmore 6y ago
Sounds like the way dreams are usually structured. Seemingly coherent overarching structure with completely arbitrary zig-zags at the micro level.
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by shadowmore 6y ago
I considered this, but opted for a physical visual timer where the amount of time you set it to is covered by a red overlay on the clock face, which recedes until it reaches zero. That way you get not only the benefit of the alarm at the en
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by shadowmore 6y ago
But do we have laws requiring user data be protected? Aside from the new California law, we don't have anything like GDPR nationwide, do we?
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Ask HN: Who is hiring entry level?
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by shadowmore 6y ago
Because "muh free market". Even in 2020, both conservatives and liberals (the non-radicals on both sides) still cling to the idea of lack of regulation being a good thing, despite decades of evidence to the contrary. The liberals
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by shadowmore 6y ago
You know it's 2020 when a judiciary committee address begins with a billionaire attempting to cloak himself in a victim narrative. I can't wait for the world to go back to normal, so it once again becomes shameful to show any weak
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by shadowmore 6y ago
Tom Holland is great. Really applies a stylistic flare to historic records, with some liberties taken in pursuit of creative narrative, but still keeping grounded and acknowledging when something is mostly deduction due to insufficiently pr
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by shadowmore 6y ago
This is a point Peter Thiel brings up regularly on a larger scale, i.e. the circular, narrow nature of modern innovation, where instead of improving the physical world around us, we're way too heavily invested in this self-perpetuating
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by shadowmore 6y ago
I can't tell satire from reality anymore.
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by shadowmore 6y ago
On a tangential topic, do respectable online certifications for product management exist? Plenty of Udemy courses and the like, but nothing I've found with certification. Is certification generally reserved for specific technical skill

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