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clint··on Texas police want uvalde bodycam footage suppressed
Half the country has known this for ~CENTURIES~
clint··on Religious Discrimination at Google
I literally laughed out loud at the second sentence.
clint··on Two thought experiments to evaluate automated stablecoins
I used the website google.com and found this: https://reflexer.finance/
clint··on The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn
They reached it, but were quickly proven wrong
clint··on Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?
I actually found the old reddit (pre-2016 or so) hard to use and full of even more useless content than it is today. I personally don't understand how people continue to use the "old" reddit interface.

I spend a lot of time reading incredibly engaging and useful content on reddit (web/official app) these days.

clint··on Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific – research (2019)
How do you know they went out during the day and weren't completely or mostly nocturnal?
clint··on Babies Collapse Household Systems
the parent who gave birth to the child
clint··on IQ Test Made by Mensa Norway
I got bored after a couple and just quit, so I guess I'm the actual genius lol
clint··on Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
Won't reply to all the strawmen at the bottom of your post, but I and lots of people don't care what people HEAR while we're using the bathroom.... its a bathroom for god's sake! Everything happening in there is normal and I'm not sure why you are imagining yourself to be "vulnerable" inside a locked private room.
clint··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
you have noooo idea then :cringe:
clint··on Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these days
As an equally useless anecdote, I've probably owned ~10 mac laptops in my life and I've never had an issue. I literally have never used a laptop sleeve or anything I just throw it in a bag and go. Literally one of the most indestructible things I've ever owned.
clint··on The Colorado Safety Stop is the law of the land
The only other time I really got hurt was when a very aggressive driver (again downtown chicago)( became incensed that I was riding in the car lane (no bike lane) and got within inches of my back wheel and started honking like crazy, scaring the shit out of me and causing me to slam into the curb and fly off my bike.

Both were accidents I made while a newb biker, I became a lot more "seasoned" after these two events and became a way more defensive biker

clint··on The Colorado Safety Stop is the law of the land
I was literally "rear-ended" by an 18 wheeler at an intersection in downtown Chicago. Orleans and Grand iirc.

The guy had pulled up so close to my back wheel, and then "forgot" I was there. When the green turned, he immediately impacted my back wheel.

I was able to exit the bike in the brief second between that tap and when he seriously hit the gas. My bike proceeded to be crushed by the semi along with all my electronics in my bag strapped to the back. I was so lucky to get off the bike (admittedly I was incensed that someone had bumped me and I was about to get into a fight with the person), if I had tried to stay on that bike I would've definitely died!

clint··on 40% of California's small businesses died in the last two years
Marc Andreessen spouting off at the mouth about things he doesn't understand?? I can't believe it! /sarcasm
clint··on Ask HN: How do you not keep track of what you did yesterday (and this morning)?
Because I don't prepare and it rarely matters
clint··on Stanford requires booster shots for all students
Isn't this true of nearly every pharmaceutical on the market?
clint··on The Joy of Cryptography
Its a very old technique from the 90s actually!
clint··on People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency
I will hire a kind person who needs to learn a few things any day of the week over a puzzlemaster trivialord who pisses everyone off
clint··on A Prototype Original iPod
No leaks
clint··on After two hours zinc oxide sunscreen loses effectiveness, becomes toxic: study
People did and do wear clothing that covers all of their skin when outside for any period of time.
clint··on What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos
Turing's Cathedral has a lot about Neumann
clint··on NYT Confirms Israel Killed an Iranian Nuclear Scientist with a Robot Sniper
Read the NYT article, it explains the whole thing
clint··on FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine
This has got to be one of the dumber arguments I've seen made in the media and especially here.

Kamala was saying that if the only person telling her she should get vaccinated was Donald Trump, then no, she would not take it.

The (very clear) implication is that she would prefer that people who actually know what they are talking about (i.e. virologists, doctors, nurses, scientists, the FDA, the CDC, NIH...etc) recommends getting the vaccine, then she would get it enthusiastically.

Is this really too hard to understand or are you really trying to use this extremely flimsy argument to accuse her of hypocrisy?

clint··on United Airlines bans duct tape restraints
Won't be flying on United any time soon I guess
clint··on Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful
The hoops, to me, make it seem like you're going to be working with puzzlemaster trivialords, which sounds like the definition of hell on earth.
clint··on My small revenge on Apple
What a cry baby
clint··on The rise of never-ending job interviews
sounds like a literal nightmare, and your prize is... working at Google? No thanks!
clint··on Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud
Read the article
clint··on Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds
This doesn't even take into account the damage it does to your body's insulin resistance and blood sugar levels. Alcohol is damaging on a systemic level that most people never consider.
clint··on Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds
You smoked "4 puffs from a bong" which is a _lot_ of weed for someone who is essentially cold turkey.

The whole anecdote that weed is _exceptionally_ stronger than it used to be in the past is not well proven. In the 70's people were alleging weed is 20x stronger than in the 60s, in the 80s alleging it was 7x stronger than in the 70s. In the 90's alleging it was 40x stronger than the 80s. And so on. People repeat it because someone goes from cold turkey to sucking down a huge toke from a vape pen in 2021 and get high as balls, not taking into account they probably vaped the equivalent of a whole joint in one action.

Its a trope that's never been born out by any real data.

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