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by taxyz 2y ago
Why is a news article about a 44 year old drug on Hacker News? As far as I can tell this isn't about tech, tech policy, a new medication, a new discovery about an old medication, science, etc. Seems like its just fodder for a political
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by taxyz 2y ago
There's nothing preventing us from the law requiring the same for online verification. It doesn't have to be the case that Facebook or Twitter or whatever store any information other than at some point they did verify your age. As
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by taxyz 2y ago
I think this again comes back to the idea of thinking of it as some sort of digital town square. We don't seem to have an issue with the government requiring businesses to check ID for alcohol, tobacco, porn (in the physical world), an
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by taxyz 2y ago
My point is not that they NEVER existed, its that they no longer exist in the capacity most people mean when they use the term. As you mentioned, cities used to be organized around them. Most people now live in cities that are either don&#x
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by taxyz 2y ago
If actual politics reflected sentiment on the internet, US politics would look very different. The Overton window on the internet is very different from real life, there is tremendous bot traffic from outside the US, there are people with m
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by taxyz 2y ago
This has become such a common trope that I think people fail to apply even a modicum of scrutiny: the internet is not the town square and whatever your idea of the town square is likely wrong if you think its as wild-west-y as the internet
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by taxyz 2y ago
Yeah, a decent litmus test is if you sign into a service from a new device and without much effort all your chats/messages/history or whatever is there, the security is weak. I got off WhatsApp years ago so I am not sure what&#x27
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by taxyz 3y ago
Again, this is a bad analogy. Having a driver's license isn't linked to adverse health effects. I am not sure why people always go down these weird avenues to try to justify their convictions. If what you believe you think is righ
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by taxyz 3y ago
False equivalency. I am not required to "walk in the city" to participate in society or the economy. Sure, we can educate everyone on the risk of walking around the city as long as we don't require long haul truck drivers to
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by taxyz 3y ago
Having lived in all 3 of those cities, I, too, am amazed it hasn't reached that state yet either. What's worse is that at some point a lot of the restaurants that have made the current iteration of those cities what they are will
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by taxyz 3y ago
> I can't forget something that's not a fact Putting aside your arrogance for a moment: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/META:NASDAQ?window=1Y https://www.google.com/finance&#x2F
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by taxyz 3y ago
Correlation doesn't equal causation. Having lived in SF during that period, there was a lot of governmental policy that contributed to that rise in homelessness. Saw the same thing in Oregon: homelessness increased when housing prices
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by taxyz 3y ago
You forgot the part where a lot of these big companies are still making buckets of cash and now those buckets are distributed amongst fewer people within the company further straining inequality, especially considering investors are general
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by taxyz 3y ago
Not saying it’s the case here but a lot of times congress asks these questions as leading questions or to give viewers the full context of follow up questions (or more likely for easy clips). A hypothetical back and forward might be somethi
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Business Insider Laying Off 8% of Staff(variety.com)
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The DEI Backlash Is Here(axios.com)
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by taxyz 3y ago
I’m going to do you a favor here and be more honest than most will, please understand it’s coming from a place of good intention and trying to help you get a job: your LinkedIn reads like a crock of sh*t. - Your tag line claims you’re an ML
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by taxyz 3y ago
If you are implying that in the recent era - we'll look at 2013 leading up to same-sex marriage being legalized - that there was rampant homophobia, the data does not support your claim. According to the FBI, in 2013 there was 334 hate
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by taxyz 3y ago
I don't think the comment is crazy, and I'm going to afford you the grace you didn't afford me in the reading of your comment. My comment was not about the significance of being able to marry or whether or not same-sex marria
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by taxyz 3y ago
You’re either too young to remember or creating a non-existent history of what life was like before same-sex marriage was legalized. This is not a comment on anything to do with gay rights but more just a matter of fact: pre-Obergefell life
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by taxyz 3y ago
I’m not sure how you can say Reddit deserves none of the credit for creating Reddit. It has to be at least as valuable (from a revenue perspective) to create the site as it costs to design and run one of the most trafficked site in the worl
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by taxyz 3y ago
My argument (guess really) for why density necessitates more cops is that the opportunity for criminals also increases with density. My thinking goes something like: a line of densely parked cars up Polk street with a bunch of people with t
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by taxyz 3y ago
Grew up in the area and lived in SF for years. I, too, hated all those good paying jobs coming into the city bringing in all those people who were annoyed by our crime and shit-on-the-street ways! We really need to keep anyone out if where
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by taxyz 3y ago
I'm not sure if that national average is a good benchmark or not (maybe there is some sort of argument for how urbanized society has become) but my guess would be that there is some density factor. SF is something like 850k people pre-
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by taxyz 3y ago
Lenovo has a tool for exploring their bios for particular systems: https://download.lenovo.com/bsco/index.html Not sure why the subdomain is download because you do not have to download anything. This particular laptop
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by taxyz 3y ago
I think the problem is multi-faceted: - some guns were legally acquired in the US then stolen - the government has done gun running operations from the US into Mexico and then some of the guns have ended up being used in crimes back in the
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by taxyz 3y ago
When you see literal shoot outs in the streets between the Sinaloa cartel and the Mexican armed forces, you don't honestly think the cartel members drove to AZ and walked into a Cabela's, do you? Just like drugs, humans, etc, guns
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by taxyz 3y ago
Depends on which area of the country that you are in but along the southern border a lot of gangs bring in guns. Then there is the fact that our incompetent government does things like Operation Fast and Furious ( https://en.wikip
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by taxyz 3y ago
I'll add some nuance here and its possibly a separate debate on its significance but according to that data, total firearm deaths surpass vehicle deaths but if you look at the split between homicide suicide its like 60-40 homicide-suic
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by taxyz 3y ago
I think the conclusion is that the group definition matters: a group of people age 1-19 is different than 2 groups. 1-17 and 18-19. If you use 1-19, firearms are the leading cause of death, if you use 1-17 they are not. In almost every othe

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