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sonicshadowon Quick Tech Billionaire Grants Aim to Speed Research – Not All Scientists Approve

You sound like you’ve been in ad-tech your whole life and just started reading up about this field called “academia” a couple weeks ago in some mushroom-fueled Wikipedia binge

sonicshadowon Airbnbust? Short-term rental prices plummet in Palm Springs

We all think we’re one big idea away from #vcfunded!

sonicshadowon AT&T does not intend to immediately remove lead cables from Lake Tahoe

This story is totally a distraction from some real shit going on in the world huh

sonicshadowon Google restricting internet access to some employees for security

Probably not for software engineers, just non tech savvy folks like the mechanical and electrical engineers.

sonicshadowon Founders and Customers: Love and Service

Yeah those are just dumbass mids. Fuck people who don’t want to make an ungodly amount of people

sonicshadowon ‘Hell on Earth’: Phoenix’s extreme heatwave tests the limits of survival

It always does! Ad-tech, health-tech, auto-tech - I love Silicon Valley!!!

sonicshadowon What planes can you fly without a pilot’s license?

This sounds intelligent! Can you recommend me a brand of toilet paper?

sonicshadowon What planes can you fly without a pilot’s license?

Yeah one time a pilot was in the cabin and he died of diabetes

sonicshadowon Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials

Repeat after me:

GET ALL COVID BOOSTERS

WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES

VOTE FOR BIDEN FOR 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036

sonicshadowon Ask HN: How to deal with 0.1X programmer colleagues?

Wish that ever happened. We just add shit to our sprint and yell at devs when they are burned out.

sonicshadowon Silicon Valley’s business model is a scam

Deal with the consequences later is what I like to say.

sonicshadowon Silicon Valley’s business model is a scam

Third, if all this is true it means all the fake wunderkinds on HN won’t be able to startup the next grift that withdraws value from the consumers’ pockets and places it into theirs! Oh no!

sonicshadowon Ask HN: How to deal with 0.1X programmer colleagues?

Then they proceed to call the samn things “sprints” and except us to do them back to back to no end

sonicshadowon Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials

Yeah not a great look, maybe science isn’t the truth after all

sonicshadowon Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials

Downvoted for not parroting Democratic Bay Area values. We will be contacting all FAANG companies and everyone listed in Crunchbase to let them know your an anti-vaxxer.

sonicshadowon Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials

Yeah who needs truth and accuracy anyway? Think of the small businesses who will never be because they couldn’t get a simple drug on market with minimal testing

sonicshadowon Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials

Sounds like a YC idea?

sonicshadowon The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X

It seems like you know me better than i do!

sonicshadowon Medicine containers used in the golden age of piracy

Man big pharma did a number on you huh

sonicshadowon Medicine containers used in the golden age of piracy

Who tf is that

sonicshadowon The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X

Think you're intentionally misreading what I'm saying, thanks for that

sonicshadowon The force that shapes everything around us: Parking

Definitely thought you were talking about Newfoundland and Labrador until your footnote, thanks for that

sonicshadowon The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X

Lazy thinking

sonicshadowon The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X

It's just an extension of the American culture, everyone is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, whereas in Europe it seems like people sit around waiting for entitlements to be handed to them and then riot in the street when they're not

sonicshadowon The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X

What's the point of living an extra few years either? I'd rather die at 70 after having lived a healthy life, than 80 and suffered the last 10 years

sonicshadowon Medicine containers used in the golden age of piracy

It sounds like you’re implying there is Western medicine and “pseudoscience”.

In other parts of the world they call this crap “white people medicine” and stick with the natural remedies. It just lacks a shiny seal of approval from the FDA/EU regulatory body, which makes it “pseudoscience”. We all know that science is totally incorruptible and always true though!

sonicshadowon Johnson and Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer

Wow! Do people outside of tech not make that much money??

sonicshadowon Medicine containers used in the golden age of piracy

Why take a thing that’s been known for thousands of years to be perfectly safe, when you can take this thing invented in a lab and tested on mice for 10?