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hoophoop··on Police Post Racist and Violent Messages on Facebook, a Review Shows
Despite all the sentiment analysis algorithms those posts are not routinely spotted and taken down...
hoophoop··on Lobste.rs
You are very, very confused. Some datapoints on HN:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitHNSays/top/?sort=top&t=month

hoophoop··on Bullshit Jobs
> I think if everyone stopped advertising unit sales would crash.

It did not happen when some countries switched to much more strict advertising rules.

People don't stop eating, drinking and buying medicines. Or start saving money that will never be spent.

hoophoop··on Bullshit Jobs
> competition itself. It's wasteful, but it's also necessary > we're too dumb to do it directly

citation needed.

Humanity is planning the colonization of Mars, nuclear fusion and so on and yet, somehow, managing our own resources is always an unsolvable problem?

> I'm criticizing runaway negative-sum games.

They are inevitable with competition.

hoophoop··on Bullshit Jobs
> I don't believe BS jobs are prevalent in the private sector

> As a manager

hoophoop··on Tandem – Decentralized, cross-editor, collaborative editing
+1
hoophoop··on New studies zero in on roots of depression and how ketamine affects it
> see's this individual's suffering not as a transition period in which they form a new model, but a severe disorder.

This sounds like the unhelpful "it's just a phase, it will pass"

Just like a wound or a bruise, depression lasting weeks is ok, if it last years is a severe disorder.

> the health care system is, like most of current western society, firmly implanted in empiricism. Science and measurement are the hammer

That would be nice: science has been doing very well in the last 200 years. If anything, psychology and psychiatry are often accused of not being rigorous enough.

> They are witchdoctors, sacrificing chickens

You just wrote that medicine is firmly implanted in empiricism.

> we get depressed is so that our mind is motivated to take a step back and build a more accurate model of reality. The thing to do, then, is to help the sufferer realize why they are suffering.

Psychology "talk" therapy has been focusing on introspection since Freud. It's often not effective enough.

hoophoop··on Older fathers have 'geekier sons'
In some countries it's really correlated to family cultural level (more than socioeconomic status).

In parts of Italy it's very uncommon to have children before 40!

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