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aCoreyJ

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aCoreyJ··on Admin unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was banned in 2015
I have no doubt those who worked on the US 2020 election page and pages like "Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election" would have death threats at the very least
aCoreyJ··on Silicon Valley doesn't understand the concept of fun
At the end of the day they all have a profit motive and the most profitable thing they have found is ads. The type of advertisers allowed to advertise on social media, aka to lots of children, don't want to be next to anything controversial.

But they have all done a terrible job of this, banning algorithmically people who have done nothing wrong (or in the case of X saying something that makes Elon mad) while allowing widespread truly harmful misinformation

aCoreyJ··on Is this "not quite a recession" worse than any recession in memory?
But there is a poor guy in the comments that only goes out to eat 1 or 2 times a week instead of 3-5. What a tragedy
aCoreyJ··on Silicon Valley Ditches News, Shaking an Unstable Industry
Yea of course it's false if you ignore the "Palestinians say"... That's why it's there
aCoreyJ··on New study confirms gulf stream weakening
The thing is it's impossible to prove any single event or change is caused by climate change because we have no way of showing what would be happening if humans hadn't altered the planet.

With weather we can show that severe events have become more common.

I'd have to read the study thoroughly to know for sure but it seems they can show certain effects of the fossil fuels industry but not actual causation of the overall slowdown, which may be impossible to prove.

aCoreyJ··on YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform
I don't get it, do they have monetized YouTube channels?
aCoreyJ··on A state official refused to release water for West Maui fires
Making a decision isn't solving the trolly problem though
aCoreyJ··on Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator
You don't do your conspiracy theory any favors by making absurd blanket statements
aCoreyJ··on Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange
ML you can actually give context and a very specific question but SO you have to search and hopefully find a similar enough question that has an answer that isn't extremely outdated
aCoreyJ··on Institutionalized Belief in the Greater Fool
This is backwards to me. Pandemics literally can't go on forever, a vaccine was in sight pretty early on. It was actually worse than it had to be and lasted longer than if people had behaved in rational ways.
aCoreyJ··on We need scientific dissidents
100s of thousands more died in the US because of how little we listened to experts. That's just fatalities, not other negative consequences . Our vaccination rates are abhorrent.

Even if you just look economically, the US set itself back massively with supply chain and labor issues we will be dealing with for decades because of it.

aCoreyJ··on We need scientific dissidents
"The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions."

There have been other studies that have found effectiveness, and basically all agree on no downside.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...

As far as children, there are a lot more negative effects that can happen that aren't fatal. There is a lot we don't know still

aCoreyJ··on We need scientific dissidents
Seriousl question: why is this "enlightened centrism" pessimistic viewpoint so popular on hn
aCoreyJ··on We need scientific dissidents
What YOU did was an attempt to shutdown descent by attacking the poster instead of actually debating the issue
aCoreyJ··on We need scientific dissidents
No they were being censored and bullied if they believed or led their patients to believe it is an effective treatment.

My Uncle had a patient dying yelling he didn't have Covid whose family doctor's only "treatment" was to prescribe them ivermectin.

It's not illegal, but I don't want that doctor.

aCoreyJ··on tRPC – Build and consume typesafe APIs without schemas or code generation
In server components you can just await in the component itself so you don't need a solution like tRPC.
aCoreyJ··on Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures
The biggest thing about this sulfur realization is that it's a massive experiment we have been accidentally running on its effectiveness and the side effects caused by it... And now without it.

Makes it a lot easier to validate your solution and be more sure of side effects

aCoreyJ··on Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures
The biggest thing about this realization is that we just ran a massive natural experiment about its effectiveness and side effects without realizing it. An experiment that never would have been run if proposed, both politically and economically.
aCoreyJ··on Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures
The salt water comes from the ocean and goes back to the ocean.

I'm not sure what to take from the natural comment or if it's serious... Natural things can be profoundly bad for the earth and things that live on it, like poison... Or volcanos...

Also salt water, incredibly natural it turns out.

aCoreyJ··on Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures
He also made a YouTube video on this

https://youtu.be/dk8pwE3IByg

aCoreyJ··on Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures
There are ways to make clouds and have this effect that don't involve sulfur!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening

aCoreyJ··on We bailed out the banks but we’re not prepared to bail out the planet
As a Reddit refugee my disappointment is immeasurable that people are actually worse (or less quickly buried) at reading the article here
aCoreyJ··on Blaming Capitalists and Workers for Inflation
Inflation is a rise in the general level of prices, more money in the economy causing the value of the dollar to reduce in value can be one cause of inflation. There are various ways to measure this like the consumer price index

Things like printing money are often said to cause inflationary pressure.

Inflationary pressure can be caused by several factors such as fiscal policies, demand-pull inflation, cost-push inflation, disproportionate minting of money compared to the industrial output and demand for goods and services, increases in production costs such as raw materials and wages, a surge in demand for products and services, different variables or disruptions that push manufacturers to adjust and respond to ever-changing supply-demand economic conditions

https://www.wallstreetmojo.com/inflationary-pressure/

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/012115/consumer-pri...

aCoreyJ··on Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?
phind.com, good interface, doesn't constantly log you out
aCoreyJ··on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
Did he allow free speech or did he make different, and more opaque, decisions about who to ban while laying off anyone who handles appeals.

Also being able to pay to make your speech more visible isn't what most people have in mind when they think of "free speech absolutism"

aCoreyJ··on FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures
Another good one is JetBrains Mono: A free and open source typeface for developers https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/
aCoreyJ··on Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market
I have been on HN a lot more since ditching Reddit recently and somehow I think it's actually worse than Reddit with commenters not reading the article
aCoreyJ··on TikTok Extends the Wasteland
In the end I kind of feel like TikTok does allow more positive interactions than Facebook and Twitter promote, so maybe it won't be as disastrous for society and mental health as those platforms have been for millennials
aCoreyJ··on ChatGPT Now Losing Users
I wonder if this includes if you are just using bing, phind or copilot
aCoreyJ··on Telling the Bees
I have a very similar thing, even call it existential dread.

I ended up on anxiety medicine for something else and it has made them less frequent. Turns out they may be a sort of panic attacks

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