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What's the point of having an account if you'll just ban it for criticizing HN holy cows likd nuclear energy.

> people who couldn't answer such questions as who their senators are would see their vote go straight in the trash Your proposal would send to the trash the votes of 90% of black …

Good catch correcting me that 47% is not half. Are you saying that the votes of uneducated people should be worth less than those of college educated people?

So the half of US who voted Republicans, including a lot of black people and latino people are nazis or willing to bed down with them?

I've read that on his subreddit you get banned if you mention that he got his PhD from Drexel.

The first half is like: Lex: vaccines are good Rogan: maybe, but they are for weak unhealthy people. I'm healthy and fit. Also, long term side-effects Lex: but we don't know the lo…

You would be surprised, but reading a transcript is much faster than listening, even on speedup (1.25x, 1.5x, ) You can also quickly scan ahead, or reread a sentence. Navigating au…

In UK, where NHS is publicly owned, it was actually policy to have 90% occupancy of ICU beds. If it was less than that, the "extra" beds would be removed.

Even professional video production (movies, ...) shoot the raw material in lossy formats, albeit, with minimal compression. Not even they can afford lossless capture. Because while…

As Taleb likes to say, an efficient system is the opposite of a robust system, kind of by definition. We are now witnessing the effects of our modern hyper-efficient just-in-time g…

For something like Instagram, where most images (and videos) are viewed only once, size is very important. And way more images are viewed on Instagram than on mobile websites.

From a linked article: > It would be great if web browsers would accept in an tag all the video codecs they can play in a tag, the only difference being that in an tag, the video i…