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It was a figure of speech. I still click on the links and scan the comments. The recent links about Ethereum and the large hack were prime examples. There is an extreme undercurrent of skepticism that only gets somewhat masked by HN’s culture of writing critical comments in a roundabout intellectual way. There are also a huge number of low effort hostile ones that seem like Reddit overflow.

I should add that this is hilarious considering the name of this website.

More likely that engineers are more likely to think that they are more critical than the general population and that basic human social facts somehow don’t apply to them.

Because literally every single topic is filled with puerile “Haha, Idiots!” comments immediately. Every single time.

Sorry but no. While every community that portrays itself as “rational” would like to think that it is unbiased and skeptical toward everything, the same basic human social dynamics still apply. HN is aggressively anti-crypto to the point where I don’t even bother reading comments on related links. It’s become a Pavlovian 2 minutes hate, every. Single. Time.

If you can deal with the finance-speak and excessive hustlerism, Bowtied Bull on Substack has some interesting commentary. Their old blog (Wall Street Playboys) was equally as interesting as it was offputting.

See: Singapore yesterday and India today.

Calling miners “the working class” is a misleading label no doubt chosen to instill sympathy. By that measure, factory owners in the industrial revolution were the working class.

> the places with the most rigorous enforcement of theological dominance also have the worst child abuse problems.

Citation needed. The data doesn't back up that claim, contrary to the media's narrative.

A report which Christian Ministry Resources (CMR) released in 2002 stated that contrary to popular opinion, there are more allegations of child sexual abuse in Protestant congregations than there are in Catholic ones, and that sexual violence is most often committed by volunteers rather than by priests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_c...

Catholic clergy aren't more likely to abuse children than other clergy or men in general. The 4 percent figure appears lower than school teachers during the same time frame, and certainly less than offenders in the general population of men.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/do-the-right-thing/2...

> catholic puritan morality

Might want to check your terms here.

Polaroids have been around for quite some time and don't require a photo studio.

I wonder if all of this (Apple, Chatcontrol, etc.) will spark a backlash against computing devices. The government can't rifle through your physical photos to search for [bad thing], at least for the moment. Will we see a resurgence of Instamatic cameras and other offline-first devices?

Depressingly, I'm sure most people won't care. But hey, I can hope.

I wish people understood the origins and structure of the EU. It grew out of a trade association (ECSC) and has very little to do with direct or even representative democracy in the standard sense of the word, i.e. representative of the populace. It is an external political class with only tangential connections to individual citizens.

This is an issue, because it gives opponents of European integration a fairly legitimate position to be critical.

Meta comment: this story is the future of geopolitics. A confusing mess of different narratives, each backed up with a cornucopia of digital “evidence.” It is still unclear to me exactly what happened here. All I can be certain of is that all participants are incentivized to spin a story in their own favor.

- I don’t think Lex asks open-ended questions, he asks exceedingly basic ones that often betray a lack of knowledge on the topic.

- Long is not equal to deep. There is a lot of empty filler content that isn’t authentic or relevant.

I used to like this podcast but two behaviors by the host ultimately turned me off:

- Lex’s weird comments and massive oversimplification of ethical topics. He always seems to ask people if X is Good or Evil, with no consideration of nuance. I get that he’s a computer scientist and not a ethicist, but I somewhat expected more.

- He doesn’t question the guest or curate the discussion very well. Some of the episodes are 3, 4, 5 hours long, which is madness. I want to listen to his guests, but I can’t spend 5 hours on a conversation that has an hour of insight. This is the job of a good host.

Overall the strength of his podcast comes from the quality of guests. I wish he would take his role as journalist/interviewer a little more seriously.

This is for the average person. For the super rich, America or Japan are probably the places to get top medical care.

This seems counterintuitive but it actually does make sense. Most of the populated urban areas in the US are too cold or too politically hostile to have large homeless populations. It’s primarily an issue in a handful of regions and cities.

Just the modern version of actor and bodybuilder...

Probably inevitable, although this fall seems a bit too early. Also probably unenforceable in many areas of the city.

How about...

4) You recognize this as yet another crisis that the government is using to unconstitutionally increase its powers. 9/11 and the Patriot Act and Iraq/Afghanistan being a recent example.

This stuff happens again and again and yet somehow the default position is “convince me why this is a bad thing.”

History education needs more funding, and fast.

If the aliens can travel across space and kidnap people, surely they can figure out how to disable a smartphone for a few seconds.

Try to shift your income to something extremely apolitical.

If you are a programmer, go work for a company that makes billing software or manufactures pottery. If you aren’t, go be a chef, accountant, or taxi driver. Anything that doesn’t require you to share your opinions on sociopolitical issues.

> A group of Italian researchers recommends that obese individuals double their self-isolation time to 28 days, using research from influenza epidemics to argue that such individuals are more susceptible to infections similar to COVID-19 and can be contagious for longer periods of time.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2020/05/11/...

> it has been clearly illustrated that obese patients are potentially more vulnerable to COVID-19 and more contagious than lean patients

https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/clinmedicine/20/4/e109

> Due to prolonged viral shedding, quarantine in obese subjects should likely be longer than normal weight individuals.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7130453/

Again, you are not understanding the point I am making. It has nothing to do with living healthily.

An obese person is more likely to have a communicable disease. Coming into contact with them can cause an infection. This is no different than COVID.

Are you for banning obese people from public spaces? I fail to see the difference.

No, it isn't irrelevant. You seem to have missed my point entirely.

An obese individual poses more risks to others than a non-obese individual. They are more susceptible to every disease, which means that if you interact with them in a public place, you are placed more at risk. Obesity itself is also starting to be deemed socially contagious.

> TUESDAY, Jan. 23, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Living in a neighborhood with a high rate of obesity might raise the odds that you and your children will become plus-sized, too.

https://www.webmd.com/diet/obesity/news/20180123/is-obesity-...

> You being obese doesn't infect my child of being obese.

I wrote:

> Being obese makes you more susceptible to most communicable diseases, colds, and flus

I didn't say an obese person can infect others with obesity. I said they make it more likely that others will get infected with communicable diseases, colds, and flus.

Exactly the same situation with the vaccinated and COVID.

> There is currently no good reason other than historical precedent and religion to believe that mind is separate from body

A bit ironic, because the only reason you think this is because of the historical development of positivism and the complete ignorance of its shortcomings.

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

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

- Phillip K. Dick

To me the implication was "look how dystopian these kids look wearing COVID body suits" and not that there no reason to control COVID among children.

Virtually everyone that owns stock or an online business has made a killing during the lockdowns. If we lived in the United States of Amazon, I have no doubt that President Bezos would initiate permanent lockdowns.

Otherwise yeah those are good points.