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lookalike74

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About lookalike74

I am not affiliated with Ycombinator the startup incubator but I love reading Hacker News and the comments. I work at a privately-owned healthcare startup and I imagine that's not very interesting to a business based on outside funding. But I just saw I had 96 karma points which isn't negative so I hope registering is helpful.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49014446

    This article gets it wrong from the start... "But whereas speech is most obviously important for communicating propositions or concepts, obtaining such knowledge, this is not the p…

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    Comment #47650614

    Great share, thank you!

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    Comment #46211382

    Why point out the couple who paid for the surrogacy is a gay male couple? Seems like more of a dog-whistle than a valid point.

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    Comment #44776652

    Thank you for sharing this. I work in telehealth and in the U.S. at least, most patients using these devices have no idea what data they're sharing and who they're sharing the data…

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    Comment #43348254

    Also ambiguous would be sympathy for this but not for the many private citizens called out publicly on social media by platform owners and government officials for the express purp…

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    Comment #43086687

    Other than comparing the sales records of two bands, concert attendance, or other numerical measures, it's hard to imagine your comment makes any sense. The Stones and REM weren't …

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    Comment #40972568

    Is that really analogous to one of the world's largest social media sites, especially one with AI that knows exactly what ads to serve you and your friends but not that you're dead…

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    Comment #38226647

    I love you for this comment

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    Comment #36717180

    Rupert Murdoch popularized tabloid news as we know it today and Fox News is a reflection of that. They were always concerned more with ratings than facts, and whoever wrote this ar…

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    Comment #34168111

    Happy for the author and some good points to consider as food for thought (however lacking in research on key points.) But reading between the lines, if the worst addiction did to …

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    Comment #32707256

    Thank you for this comment. The only possible negative here is "Kiwifarms itself will most likely find other infrastructure that allows them to come back online." Cloudflare suppos…

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    Comment #31564245

    It's also easy to dehumanize by assuming there are 'archetypes' that can be reasonably applied to people just because they're poor or living on the street.

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    Comment #31024852

    Most food banks in the U.S. use tolerances that go months beyond the dates on packaged and canned foods and also take into account the integrity of the cans/packages. Fresh prepare…

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    Comment #30983231

    To disable heresy you'd need to disable personal or moral offense. But it's as unrealistic to think that could ever happen as it is to blame "the left" for reacting to the delibera…

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    Comment #30895972

    The influence of this cannot be overstated. George Carlin said it best... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ryuJDTpEc

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    Comment #30877040

    There's also massive abuse by police of the tools and information provided to them for non-official purposes. Police personnel that will casually run license plate checks for frien…

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    Comment #30845658

    The yes/no in some cases could allow fixed-income people to be approved when they are short of the required income or credit history because they've never had a rental problem. A l…

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    Comment #30810549

    ...by showing 50% more advertisements and pretending what's relevant to Google ad clients must be relevant to users...

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    Comment #30796923

    Great question, DJ's mix songs and this person mixed 'every possible 12 note melody combination' they could generate with code.

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    Comment #30525568

    >Should I add “…and any other enjoyable activity”? No because most enjoyable activities don't cause you to die or want to die when you stop them. (Or idk... maybe the potato chip m…

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    Comment #30280963

    Learning to be more grateful for what you have will make selling yourself much easier.

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    Comment #30280944

    Learn more about being grateful for what you have and selling yourself won't be such a chore

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    Comment #30051884

    Eating kaolin isn't common but in Georgia you can still find it for sale in local gas stations. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/science-medicin...

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    Comment #29945366

    But it was a racial thing, heavily-encouraged by the losing party for years (decades actually) and with a well-documented history as such. Every U.S. Capitol police officer heard r…

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    Comment #29902519

    5 full-time jobs at 40+ weekly hours each would be 200 hours worked per week, which this person clearly does not put in.