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The funny thing is... maybe? There's some evidence that the absence of parasites might be a contributing factor to autoimmune diseases, asthma and inflammatory disorders. See: http…

Just accept that you can be laid off and manage your life and finances accordingly. I know people who got laid off recently, with like 6 months severance. They're planning vacation…

> No one is forcing anyone to host stuff in the cloud, no one is forcing anyone to use Gmail Contrast with: https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-... Even som…

The problem is we've all seen this pattern before. Push the disabled by default, opt-in only version. Face only small backlash because it's opt-in. Then in a later update, switch i…

OP said "65% of men are obese or overweight" but your source is only obese. CDC says 73.6% of adults are overweight or obese ( https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.h…

There is much about China that I don't understand, but I'm curious about the ownership in the "ghost cities". Given the ability of the CCP to significantly control major industries…

Can you step outside of your own point of view to realize this is all kinda silly? When you walk down the street, people might look at you and imagine you in ways you don't like. T…

| If you want to fight against non consensual AI porn, you need someone to be the face of it Isn't this just an emotionally charged way of suggesting people fight against artistic …

Curious how different our experiences of "culture" can be. I'm an American in my 40s. I've never seen "glorification of scams" in any mainstream culture and can't really think of a…

"People are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work" from https://www.bls.gov/c…

One could obviously exit the limbo by just ending up lower status. Imagine an actor or director who's very successful and high status. Then their subsequent work is less well recei…

This is more like, a gross oversimplification of the first chapter of a freshman intro to economics. This is to economics what "assume the cow is a perfect sphere moving on a frict…

Please don't troll on HN. Theft is taking something away from someone. Copying by definition doesn't. Pretending it's equivalent to, or even similar to, "theft" is ridiculous.

"Woke" started as a term used by young American social progressives as a reference to becoming aware of things which they had previously been unaware. Sort of a "Neo waking up from…

> "American conditions" - is a term with decades of use in Norwegian politics to scare voters. Neat, I always enjoy learning about the various bits of propaganda and stereotypes th…

Norway is projected to produce $122,421,000,000 worth of oil next year, against a population of only 5 million people. That's about $24,400 in annual oil revenue per citizen. Their…

Do you think students should need a specific license to read a book? Do visitors to an art gallery need a specific license to look at paintings? Do audiences need specific licenses…

"Violating copyright" is a completely imaginary problem. We have a somewhat arbitrary set of laws, rules, guidelines and social norms about using existing ideas. American law for i…

For the completely unethical, perhaps. Delivering food is a legitimate, respectable and productive job. Fraudulently deceiving lonely men to coerce them into paying for more fraudu…

If you're genuinely curious, I'd highly recommend the book "The Road to Wigan Pier" to get an understanding of working class life was like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries…

People claim it's due to an issue with Cloudflare and location data... but I get different results depending on device and browser. I have a Mac where Firefox goes to captcha loop …

Adblocking users still provide value. Their clicks, watch time, shares, likes, comments, searches, related videos etc provide valuable training data for recommendations. They may s…

It's absolutely insane that the realtor cartel has managed to maintain 6% fees in light of the internet and skyrocketing house prices. I'll vote for any politician who takes steps …

Framing the situation as kids being "left behind" feels disingenuous if not outright inflammatory. Many European systems have been thriving for decades with different school option…