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For what it's worth, I have never lived or worked in the Bay area. Your point is still probably directionally accurate, just expanding "Bay area" to include all the hubs of technol…

Your experience matches mine- I only ever heard "trickle down economics" used by people on the left making mocking, derisive commentary about Reagan and neocon politics. Then someo…

Are we seeing that? I'm certainly not? I suppose "psychopaths" will attach themselves to literally anything given the right opportunities, but EA seems like a relatively poor targe…

The irony of this post. If you over-simplify, stereotype and demean people who disagree with you, you're part of the problem. Honestly if it was that simple, then maybe we should j…

It looks like you've been misled about the US. The US welfare budget is mind-bogglingly large, over a Trillion dollars per year. Yes, Trillion with a T. Healthcare costs can be ver…

> Of course, mined diamonds aren’t blood diamonds, but her impression was still they were a little ickier For all intents and purposes, they are. The voluntary processes the diamon…

Ironically, the narrative of "right wing rabbit hole leads people to " is itself far more concerning to me for the stability and functioning of the US. I frequently talk to people …

> The reason local newspapers are failing is because nobody reads them I don't believe that's true. The subscription cost for most newspapers barely covered the printing and distri…

We could trivially fix the "80 hour weeks" piece by increasing the number of places available in medical schools and residencies, but the AMA intentionally keeps that number small …

This seems like a concerning level of charity being given to cops who ruin people's lives. Would you accept a world in which "1 in 1000" planes crashed because the pilot was on 3 h…

Bit of an aside, but the socially acceptable levels of casual-hate when directed at "white men" is sometimes shocking to me. > Post-election analysis would show that the Bernie Bro…

It seems like several different things are getting intertwined here and people are arguing past each other based on perceived "sides" and largely imagined positions being projected…

This whole thread really just makes me realize how severe our filter bubbles, echo chambers and distrust of "the other side" has become. Nobody wants poor people to die and nobody …

Because chain restaurants are generally kinda gross. The typical American chain restaurant is going to serve you something that starts with low-quality ingredients, then gets a bun…

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> The best you can do is to highlight how bad sugar is to health in general, and hope it influences people to change their habits We've been trying that for years and it's clearly …

The comment I'm responding to goes against several HN guidelines, but I'm hoping I can use the opportunity to turn it away from low-effort trolling into an opportunity for educatio…