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Idk__Throwaway··on Ask HN: How do you deal with your brain not being “on?”
Yes, and? People are different. There are Europeans who dream of living in the US, and Americans who dream of living in Europe. There are short people who wish to be taller and tall people who wish to be shorter.
Idk__Throwaway··on India’s government wants total control of the internet
We have investigated ourselves and found that we did nothing wrong.
Idk__Throwaway··on ‘Mutual aid’ is a radical ideal. Some live its communal spirit
You say this as if you assume poor whites are racist by default and the poor of the other races are "enlightened" by default.
Idk__Throwaway··on GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
Why should a company be forced to continue to pay for employees they aren't in need of?
Idk__Throwaway··on Ask HN: Longer Discussions in HN?
I believe they feel that their ideology is the ultimate force for positive change, and they become so lost in it that they are willing to do objectively wrong things under the rationalization that they're nuetralizing a threat to the idealogy.

Again, that's just what I think makes sense and personally believe. It's certainly possible I'm incorrect.

Idk__Throwaway··on U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
Im almost certain that they would have heavily tested and analyzed the balloon and its payload as soon as it got near the US to ensure that there were no unusual emmisions coming from it.
Idk__Throwaway··on Colombian judge used ChatGPT to make court decision
Yeah I've seen a lot of people who seem to believe that the prompts they give ChatGPT aren't being cataloged and saved when they certainly are.

It sends every prompt you give it to a server, by design it has to as the model is far too computationally expensive to run locally.

Idk__Throwaway··on Companies save billions of dollars by giving employees fake “manager” titles
> Many big corporations need to be counter-weight with some other big organization.

Such as labor boards, or rather the government that gives them power.

Idk__Throwaway··on Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not going to be fun
> Not to be rude but...

And then you proceeded to intentionally use rude and abrasive language.

You can disagree with someone and challenge their opinion without using phrases like "who gives a shit" and "let it go".

Idk__Throwaway··on Covid-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the USA
Because young people don't die often, the requirement to be a "leading cause" isn't very high. According to the article Covid ranks 8th in causes of death with about 1,300 deaths in the 0-19 age range last year.

Not saying it isn't an issue, that's still 1,300 dead kids, but the headline seems (to me, at least) a bit sensationalized.

Idk__Throwaway··on Astronomers discovered 1M new galaxies in 300 hours
As someone who isn't too well versed on the topic, how are you so certain in your belief that all life is carbon based?
Idk__Throwaway··on Ergo: Erlang/OTP patterns implemented in Golang
As someone without a lot of knowledge of GO and with only a trivial understanding of OTP/the gen_server impl, how would this add friction? What exactly is wrong with it and what would be a better alternative?
Idk__Throwaway··on Smoking is associated with lower cognitive function in older adults
There are "plenty" of cold days as well. Does that disprove global warming?

Not only is "plenty" not an objective quantity, but even an objectively large quantity is irrelevant if it's not a large percentage of the whole. 100k geniuses with addiction problems wouldn't disprove the rule if there are 1b people with addiction problems who are of below average intelligence.

Idk__Throwaway··on [dead]
Nice! Thanks. Looks like my numbers were a bit off due to being out of date. To anyone who wants to know, currently the Swiss Big Mac is 35.4% more expensive than the US one.
Idk__Throwaway··on Smoking is associated with lower cognitive function in older adults
A genius addict disproves the broader claim no more than does "it was cold today, therefore global warming is a hoax". The rule can be true yet still have notable exceptions throughout history.
Idk__Throwaway··on [dead]
You must be misremembering the price disparity. A quick Google shows that Switzerland is home to "the most expensive big Mac in the world"[1] at 6.50CHF. Almost double the US's average of $3.99.

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-big-mac-most-expen...

Idk__Throwaway··on AWS Purity Test
Society doesn't need to change just because you don't like this specific sub-genre of joke. Romantic partnership, and subsequent occasional annoyance with said partner, is an almost universally shared human experience.
Idk__Throwaway··on Arizona legislature changes rules on retaining correspondence
I imagine what they mean is that any time a politician speaks, they must adjust what they say to agree with core voter demographic if they want re-election. Perhaps if they spoke privately they could concede on certain topics and reach a middle ground, then plan a way for each to explain the compromise to their voters.

In a public forum people would likely view the compromise as one or both politicians "losing" and a mixture of ego and fear of not getting re-elected would prevent either party from giving ground and taking more measured approach.

Idk__Throwaway··on Two Supreme Court cases that could break the internet
You support this until you and the arbiter of "obvious bullshit" begin to disagree.
Idk__Throwaway··on Amazon warehouse workers stage first-ever strike in the UK
You must not have gone out to eat much recently then. I'm on the road a lot and I'd estimate that over 50% of all restaurants I visit have a QR code menu.
Idk__Throwaway··on PSone.css – Playstation 1 style CSS Framework
Even without those arrows it seems very intuitive. It's just a subsection of the dpad with each button being an image that represents itself.
Idk__Throwaway··on PSone.css – Playstation 1 style CSS Framework
Maybe I'm just a weirdo but those icons seem perfectly intuitive to me.
Idk__Throwaway··on Bank of America has lost Zelle transfers for many customers
I'd just want to stick around to see how things panned out, it'd be pretty interesting.
Idk__Throwaway··on The terminal escape sequences ocean is deep and dark
I don't follow, whats the absurdity?
Idk__Throwaway··on UT-Austin blocks access to TikTok on campus Wi-Fi networks
My fridge doesn't curate the thoughts and ideas tens of millions of American youth are exposed to daily
Idk__Throwaway··on Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?
And how is implying your happiness is tied to a woman misogynistic?
Idk__Throwaway··on Meta confirms it’s rescinded some full-time job offers
If I sign an employment contract I've likely already left a job for the sole reason of taking the job for which I've signed the employment contract. At the very least it seems to me as if ~2-4 weeks of the employees previous salary was lost when it could have been avoided.
Idk__Throwaway··on Ventura Issues
Windows 11 is truly awful. Perhaps windows has always been a clunky mess and I din't quite realize it until I started using MacOS professionally, but I can hardly stand it. That said, I remember feeling Windows 10 was a notable degradation of UX, and Windows 11 only doubled down on that. Windows 7 is the last MS OS that I have any fond memories of, if it was announced that Windows 12 would be designed to more closely resemble that then I would seriously consider buying another Windows machine, until then I'll stick with my Macbook.