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Ask HN: How to reduce the impact of my cycling on musculoskeletal issues?
2 points by ultrastable 5y ago|3 comments
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by ultrastable 5y ago
this is above my pay grade techinically speaking - don't suppose you know of a guide to this sort of thing?
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Ask HN: Best ways to use old iPad as dashboard
8 points by ultrastable 5y ago|11 comments
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by ultrastable 5y ago
not to mention - it's a little convenient that the author of a book called "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" is telling us that actually, we shouldn't be worried about those products
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by ultrastable 5y ago
and re: hard drugs, casual use of those that doesn't meet addiction thresholds is way more common than most people think
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by ultrastable 5y ago
yeah, I don't disagree w/ the fact that the word "addiction" shouldn't be thrown around too casually, but I don't like the way they're scolding others for being insufficiently scientific while they demon
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by ultrastable 5y ago
"Nir Eyal: The vast majority of people stop playing these video games. Do you think people are still going to be playing Fortnite and Candy Crush in 10 years or so? Of course not, they'll be doing something else once they get inte
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by ultrastable 5y ago
agreed that the social media addiction studies are trash, but this is representative of how flawed the understanding of addiction in this discussion is: Joel Billieux: For a lot of people, you can realize that the gaming is actually a copin
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by ultrastable 5y ago
"Since Masonry's tenets are brotherly love, relief, and truth, if the Masons did run the world, it might be a better place. Many of the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution of the United States were Freemasons; the principl
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by ultrastable 5y ago
this is extremely embarrassing for YC. whether or not it's an intentional scam, anyone remotely involved w/ the tech industry should have seen how implausible the whole project was
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by ultrastable 5y ago
so you're saying you wouldn't rent to someone purely because they were homeless? w/ attitudes like this it's not surprising there's so many people living on the street
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Incarceration as Incapacitation: An Intellectual History(americanaffairsjournal.org)
1 points by ultrastable 5y ago|0 comments
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by ultrastable 5y ago
I don't think we should fall into the trap of thinking it has to be one or the other. people shouldn't be kicked out onto the street & the asylums absolutely were inhumane. reestablishing them is not a decent solution, & &
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by ultrastable 5y ago
why wouldn't you rent to it?
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by ultrastable 5y ago
"undocumented immigrant" isn't necessarily the same as "refugee", likewise sex vs assigned gender. if you're going to critique word choice you should know what those words mean
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by ultrastable 5y ago
I don't know anything about Bluetooth security but I'm assuming adding it to a lifesaving device isn't necessarily an improvement?
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by ultrastable 5y ago
You should check out Carbon Democracy by Timothy Mitchell if you haven't yet
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by ultrastable 5y ago
it's monstrous yeah. did you see the thing about McKinsey recommending that Purdue pay a rebate to pharmacies for every OD death, to assuage their concerns over dispensing large quantities of opioids? https://www.fiercepharm
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by ultrastable 5y ago
true, although I think it's worth pointing out that private prisons aren't as big a driver of mass incarceration in the US as a lot of people think. the privatization of services like food or health within public prisons, or repla
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by ultrastable 5y ago
there's no neat middle ground like buprenorphine but meth & some other stimulants can be prescribed in the US, so that's better than nothing - at least helps w/ problems of contamination, dose ambiguity, health risks asso
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by ultrastable 5y ago
I'm aware of that. but some rehabs adhere to the harm reduction model & too many don't, which is why you get people ODing because their rehab thought expecting someone to stay fully abstinent after a month or two of inpatient
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by ultrastable 5y ago
I agree w/ you in principle, but it's also worth pointing out that drug rehab in the US (and globally, but the US is the worst out of the countries I know enough about to assess) is a joke, court-mandated especially, eg: https:&#
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by ultrastable 5y ago
not claiming the things I listed make up all or even most of threads on my subject, just that they seem to show up every time
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by ultrastable 5y ago
HN relationship thread bingo card: - pointless statistical analyses - creepy transactional views of intimacy - facile evo-psych explanations of sexual attraction - misogynist ressentiment - the plight of the incel as today's #1 social
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by ultrastable 5y ago
slightly bizarre to see the author explain that Cellebrite have major contracts w/ US law enforcement & ICE then go on to say "but they have bad clients too!" & I don't like the Capitol rioters either, but I don&
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by ultrastable 5y ago
"In the pamphlet The SS as an Anti-Bolshevist Fighting Organization, published in 1936, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler wrote: We shall take care that never again in Germany, the heart of Europe, will the Jewish-Bolshevik revolu
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by ultrastable 5y ago
generally speaking, that's not clear at all. are the quotation marks around antisemitism there to indicate skepticism that it even exists? and whether the antipathy is "moral" or "racial" is just pedantry, in this c
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by ultrastable 5y ago
tbh when I mentioned the figure of the reactionary who blames history on Jews I wasn't thinking of something specifically anti-Soviet or even Russian - European or Western would have been a better way of putting it, Hitler being the cl
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by ultrastable 5y ago
the curse of Taylorism
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by ultrastable 5y ago
I agree it's awful, not to mention the fact that employees weren't informed of the Microsoft tracking software being used in the firstplace, but what's funny is that according to their analytics having yr IDE open & wiggl

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