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In my own experience, ice (either the frozen water kind or the compression and elevation components) doesn't do a damn thing. For soft tissue injury my usual plan is movement movem…

I guess I'll go on record and say I think this is a great idea. There's too many journalists who just spew hot takes all day - at least make them pay for the privilege

The NPR news hour is, mmm, sort of OK (better than something like WashPo or Fox News anyways). But their non-news programming is unlistenable to me.

Not really sure how to square this analysis against this op-ed from the WSJ today: https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitters-lawsuit-against-elon-m... (The WSJ article was clearly writ…

In Minnesota anyways, the schools in lower-income areas get more money per pupil than the "good area" schools. In some cases dramatically more. For example, the high school in nort…

This kind of tone really doesn't engender sympathy: > We get it, Microsoft sucks, we should all be fired, rah rah rah. > I just don't know what else he's asking for here. Credit? U…

So, he was drunk, high, and riding on a sidewalk without a helmet. And now it's the City's fault? Do we blame the city when drunks crash their cars in to lane barriers? Or trees? I…

Why the focus on the fact that it was a Republican strategy firm? Why does that matter? Being the Washington Post, I'm sure it's to insinuate that all the bad things that happen ar…

Taibbi had a great take on this: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/worlds-dullest-editorial-launc... Why the hell did this editorial get the reaction it did? I can’t understand it and …

Based on the headline alone, I'd add Twitter and Reddit too.

I dunno, I think it was really spectacular. It's "standard Hans Zimmer" in the way that it's a bunch of new sounds no one has ever heard before - but they are also close enough to …

I don't condone this law, but I think people here are missing an opportunity for understanding. I see so much black-vs-white moral righteousness on HN lately when really, the world…

It's not that he's worried about being invaded tomorrow, it's that he doesn't want to let the slippery slope get started. I don't know how old you are, but when I was young and ide…

I agree - it was abundantly clear Isaac wanted to push the prevailing narrative, had no interest in alternative perspectives, and wanted to score some smartypants points in the pro…

Consider that there have been terrible things happening to people throughout the world, every day, for years. This is bad, of course, but I'd caution you that you're letting the me…

Yes, get a job. You can always work on your programmable proxy nights and weekends. Marketing/selling something like what you're building is going to be at least 3x harder than bui…

You sure like to be condescending. Every one of your replies to me starts with condescension. And I mean... my guy... I don't really think any of your comments are particularly com…

You have to be kidding me . This is your big experiment? "There are 175,000 24-year-olds in Gyeonggi, and for one year, each receives the equivalent of $220 in a locally negotiable…

Your response is smug and glib. You can make 150k without too much trouble as a plumber. Or a mason. And still they can't find people. If you can't find people to work for those wa…

There isn't a single UBI experiment that remotely approximates what people mean when they talk about UBI. They are all small samples and all for limited time periods. The COVID sti…

We already have the answer. 2019 was arguably the greatest year for the American economy on record. Real wages for the lowest quartile were rising at one of the fastest (if not the…

This is also a pipe-dream. You can't automate plumbing, drywalling, framing and dozens of other construction jobs. They already can't find people to work those jobs - when you add …

The stimulus is absolutely a factor. I agree there are other things pushing on both the demand side of the equation as well as the supply side. But UBI will never increase supply -…