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Pile Of Garbage posted:[…] reminds me of […] slashdot
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Aug 7, 2021 08:22
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im good with other people rooting through the poo poo so i don’t have to. could emptyquote this post in the twitter thread too
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Aug 7, 2021 10:50
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tracecomplete posted:Killed posts, whether flagged or nuked, go to the bottom. I think it's mostly user killed stuff. I flagged seemingly half the goddamn thread today. when i looked at it there were grey top-level posts on the first page and non-grey top level posts on subsequent pages, which i think indicates manual lowering. it was certainly all stuff which deserved to be yeeted off the first page if so.
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Aug 7, 2021 16:23
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vaccine hipster timbo1642 3 days ago [–] Absolutely, just about every liberal media source, scientific establishment, and politician did with no proof or data. That's exactly what they always do. They pretend to be open, they pretend to believe in science, but they just lie and push an agenda and that's all they do. I'm very pro vaccine, so pro vaccine I've gotten vaccines most people have never heard of, but the reality is, EVERY medical professional that claims the vaccine is safe is a liar and the doctors are violating their Hippocratic oath. We don't know the long term side effects, so they should instead say "From the data we have, short term side effects are minimal, BUT we have no idea what the long term side effects are." That would be the honest answer. They should still recommend it for most people, but they should be honest. They like many people are brainwashed by the drug companies and act like they are on their payroll. reply
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If they have a dealer who can hook me up with the lyme disease vaccine that was pulled from the market because of people being stupid I'd be very interested.
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Aug 8, 2021 20:56
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gotta say “im into some pretty obscure vaccines, you probably haven’t heard of them” is an interesting angle for hn
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Aug 8, 2021 23:12
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hn bros: you lefties are incapable of imagining any solution to any problem that doesnt involve a magical benevolent state sweeping in to save us also hn bros: save me daddy climate-bezmuskos quote:jsonne 32 minutes ago [–] (currently top comment on the ipcc thread)
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Aug 9, 2021 13:02
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besides the obvious lmao at "maybe we should tax co2 and let the market fix this" at >1C in 2021
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Aug 9, 2021 13:03
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perhaps i could offer some tax incentive to venture businesses that promise net removal of the water filling up my mouth and nose
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Aug 9, 2021 13:05
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1337shadow 9 minutes ago [–] Each human being emits 25 tons of CO2 per year just by breathing, should the businesses also be taxed based on their number of employees? People often forget the good parts about the little CO2 increase from the past century, I care a lot about environment (I'm a countryside person) but CO2 - many people forget it is the food of the plants that we need to eat - just takes all the place in the environmental debate and what I think are more important matters such as waste reduction, ocean cleaning, recycling, durable/fixable hardware... I'm hoping for people to do a cost/benefit analysis of the CO2 situation and start thinking rationally and work on what is actually bad for us, not just CO2 greenwhashing bs. reply
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Aug 9, 2021 13:08
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Jose Valasquez posted:1337shadow 9 minutes ago [–] cost/benefit analysis cost: 2 billion people becoming refugees and starving or dying in conflicts in the next few decades benefit: extra day of sun in my yard (im a bit of an outdoors type) so you can see its really impossible to say, for me, as a rational person
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Aug 9, 2021 13:20
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Internet Janitor posted:god drat principal skinner: no, it's reality which is wrong
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Aug 9, 2021 16:21
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golergka 8 hours ago [–] Usage of the word "justify" implies that there's some objective "just" level of work relations that we can deduce that would be fair for everyone. I don't think that this universality exists. Some people are okay with this, some are not. Some companies want this, some do not. There are plenty of different employees and employers out there, and they can balance their respective wishes on a free market. reply
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Aug 9, 2021 18:26
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it’s true. even back in the day, all those Victorian 8 year olds who broke their back as chimney sweeps did so because it equitably balanced their wish of “not starving in a gutter” with their employers wish for exploitable, disposable laborers
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Aug 9, 2021 21:21
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The ghouls are in! inglor_cz 15 minutes ago [–] BioNTech has a lot of potentially groundbreaking mRNA therapies in its pipeline, some of them against various forms of cancer. https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det... https://biontech.de/science/individualized-cancer-medicine https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03072-8 I am really looking forward for such solutions, gently caress cancer. That said, the economic impact of such cures isn't clear to me. If your population gains, on average, say, a year or two of life, the pay-as-you go pension systems that are already under strain in greying Europe will come under even bigger strain. So it seems that each discovery like that will be balanced by us working longer. Personally, I as a 42 y.o. in Czechia, do not expect to get any meaningful state pension ever. There will be just too many of us. londons_explore 18 minutes ago [–] Are they really selling vaccines for $19/dose? Seems like bad business when plenty of countries would have paid $1000/dose if they could get the first deliveries and open their economy a few months earlier. And those higher prices could have supported more factories being built to make more doses quicker. Where there backdoor payments to decide who got which doses first?
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Aug 10, 2021 16:30
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the first post you quoted doesn't seem very ghoulish to me. it's just stating a fact: pension schemes are designed around a certain life expectancy, and as life expectancy increases so do pension obligations. in the USA, this means that various Medicare and Social Security trust funds will run out of money over the next few decades. they're explicitly not advocating for more cancer to keep life expectancy down (the hn-ish take here is to encourage smoking, as it tends to kill quickly and around the retirement age, so you get maximum economic benefit from a smoker while minimizing end-of-life medical expenses)
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Aug 10, 2021 17:18
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so the trusts will have to raise rates. nbd.
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Aug 10, 2021 19:48
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Nomnom Cookie posted:the first post you quoted doesn't seem very ghoulish to me. it's just stating a fact: pension schemes are designed around a certain life expectancy, and as life expectancy increases so do pension obligations. in the USA, this means that various Medicare and Social Security trust funds will run out of money over the next few decades. they're explicitly not advocating for more cancer to keep life expectancy down (the hn-ish take here is to encourage smoking, as it tends to kill quickly and around the retirement age, so you get maximum economic benefit from a smoker while minimizing end-of-life medical expenses) I agree, the original post seems fine, and not just for HN?
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Aug 10, 2021 23:31
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Chris Knight posted:so the trusts will have to raise rates. nbd. you mean the fed has to print more money
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Aug 11, 2021 00:17
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honestly, our modern understanding of economics is such that we probably could switch from using trust funds to printing money to cover social security and medicare and even basic income without producing any significant inflation, much less hyperinflation, by adjusting a variety of other economic inputs and outputs to keep monetary velocity from changing too much
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Aug 11, 2021 01:24
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Hollow Talk posted:I agree, the original post seems fine, and not just for HN? I don’t know. I get the concern but I find it a bit weird to hear “there might be a cure for cancer” and going “hm but my pension” like sure if you want I’d bet a good cancer vaccine is also gonna be cheaper than longer treatment costs on the system too. But maybe the olds need to die faster for my retirement that works too.
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MononcQc posted:I don’t know. I get the concern but I find it a bit weird to hear “there might be a cure for cancer” and going “hm but my pension”
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MononcQc posted:I don’t know. I get the concern but I find it a bit weird to hear “there might be a cure for cancer” and going “hm but my pension” everyone still dies of something, so in a bleak financial calculus, people not dying of cancer in their 70s might just mean they need a lot more transplants, prosthetics, and minor surgeries to improve their quality of life while they’re in their 80s and 90s. or if nothing else it means they’re still alive and consuming resources (housing/food/energy/care) without contributing much anymore from a less misanthropic perspective, of course, you might think giving a lot of people an extra 10+ years of normal life would be worth something to society
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Aug 11, 2021 01:51
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quote:I'm baffled by the glowing endorsements of TikTok on Hacker News of all places. TikTok content comes across as completely vapid. im dyin
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Aug 11, 2021 03:51
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quote:rutierut 1 hour ago [–] Big surprise, there.
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Aug 11, 2021 08:39
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MononcQc posted:I don’t know. I get the concern but I find it a bit weird to hear “there might be a cure for cancer” and going “hm but my pension” It might also mean that people will live longer, but will generally be poorer in the future while living longer, since social security won't be able to cope. This would then be true for everybody, including the poster. Poverty in old age is a thing that exists with functional social systems, too. The way I read it (which is, admittedly a best-case scenario) is that more thought has to be put into how social security can work with an ever-older populace, which in turn is politically difficult because there are already so many "old" people that it's demographically advantageous to simple promise additional rises for the current generation of pensioners to make sure they vote for you right now. Perhaps, there is a bit of a parallel here between future-proofing social security and climate change, where vested interests in the present conflict with sustainable long-term strategies for future generations? Hollow Talk fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Aug 11, 2021 |
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Aug 11, 2021 08:44
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Isn't there some sort of societal cost to dealing with cancer currently too? It just seems weird to assume that people being healthier longer will automatically be bad.
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Aug 11, 2021 09:17
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KozmoNaut posted:Big surprise, there. except that thread is about Unsong which is legitimately, no-qualifiers-needed great http://unsongbook.com/interlude-%D7%AA-trump/
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Aug 11, 2021 10:41
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It's by Scott Alexander, so ehhhhh I have my doubts.
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Aug 11, 2021 11:02
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"DoD Awards $1B Contract to Peraton to Counter Misinformation" this post title is impressive for how hackernews catnip it is
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Aug 11, 2021 21:13
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other great threads from hn tonight: 1. Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers 127 points by berkozer 3 hours ago | hide | 91 comments 2. Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome (zapier.com) 194 points by gscott 7 hours ago | hide | 157 comments another ycombinator success story! also, please massage my ego!
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NihilCredo posted:except that thread is about Unsong which is legitimately, no-qualifiers-needed great i just looked at the toc and was like huh, so that's what 94 chapters of sucking your own dick looks like
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Aug 12, 2021 03:50
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rjmccall posted:from a less misanthropic perspective, of course, you might think giving a lot of people an extra 10+ years of normal life would be worth something to society depends, can they work a register?
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Aug 12, 2021 08:37
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The average hn poster probably thinks people should be taken out and shot when they hit 40 (unless they're an entrepreneur).
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Aug 12, 2021 08:44
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Show HN: olds.go -- Execution as a Service
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Aug 12, 2021 11:55
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matti posted:Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers reading the hn thread so you don't have to, this is less "personal gaming coach" and more "cheat program"
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Qwertycoatl posted:reading the hn thread so you don't have to, this is less "personal gaming coach" and more "cheat program" it’s not considered cheating in riot games. in lol it’s basically like having a 2nd monitor with the wiki page for your summoner up. for valorant… actually I’m not sure if there’s any actually useful in match info? it compiles stats from your matches you’d have to record manually. with the esports bubble I’m sure there’s revenue opportunities. they’re not going to become a unicorn or anything with that though.
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people in the thread were saying that getting audio notifications for stuff happening in valorant was cheating. i was assuming they're right even though it's hn, since i haven't played the game
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radu_floricica 20 hours ago [–] Funny as you're twisting what I said. I'm really tempted to wonder if it's because of culture war, or your subconscious feels a bit guilty. Probably culture war. I called inhuman being certain that you'll never randomly flirting with any young women you're working with, over many years. Not exactly what you're saying, is it? Also for the record, most 17 years old are attractive. They're not dateable if you're older, not relationship material, illegal to have sex with in certain legislation, a bad idea to in most cases and so on. But attractive? Why wouldn't they be? Ah, because you called them "minors". I'm sorry for you, if you really live in that world. Edit: should have probably used a less harsh tone. Sorry. I'll blame it on being misinterpreted so badly, but still. reply
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