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Confirmation bias. You don't notice when people back down from their bad takes because that's normal and expected. Or possibly just selection bias if you are in situations where pe…

Right. People who only intermittently engage in such behaviors should be treated differently than people who consistently engage in them.

How much of the development is being done by humans?

There is an upside: oppressing people who consistently engage in antisocial behavior is good and necessary.

Imperfect enforcement is a feature as often as it is a bug. You can't make "antisocial behavior" in general illegal but you can make certain behaviors (loitering, public intoxicati…

It's not that surprising. Ask the average Jordinian about their opinion of Palestinians some time. Ask an Egyptian or a Syrian if they think their countries should take in Palestin…

Israel wasn't bombing those neighborhoods for revenge, they were doing it because Hamas build militarized tunnels under dense civilian neighborhoods.

People with historical trauma are far more likely to inflict further wrongs than people without historical trauma. This is the case for individual trauma too. It has always been th…

Typical Eurocrat meddling in people's affairs. The owners of those items should be free to do whatever they want. If the government is concerend about environmental damage, they sh…

That's a matter of opinion. The US has its faults, but overall it's quite easy to have a very high quality of life here, and to live a huge variety of different lifestyles if that …

NJ and CA. You can't make guns at all in NJ, and you need a firearm permit to buy an airgun or bb gun.

A lot of Iranians would probably love for us to send weapons. There are videos of Iranians celebrating the bombings of IRGC bases during the 12-day war.

Ukraine didn't attack Russia. Hamas attacked Israel.

They should keep the chewed up pieces and make it part of the exhibit.

There is a market for luxury electric pick-ups, and it's dominated by Rivian.

Making it look too much like a regular F-150 was a mistake. You need the vehicle to look distinctive enough for it to market itself.

Yep. If eviction rules aren't loosened, these SROs will only be rented to people with >700 credit scores just like normal apartments. The people who need them most still won't get …

This makes no sense. Putting the AI issue aside, do Microsoft employees not get annoyed by file explorer frequently hanging or crashing?

There are many successful co-ops all over the world, including in the US. You just don't hear about them because they don't look much different from corporations from the perspecti…

Unions often end up decreasing productivity due to added bureaucracy, leading to ultimately worse compensation in the long run.

We definitely cannot build a self sustaining civilization on the moon.

This would be such a dumb move on the government's part. "Lose the new space race" is ridiculous PR-brain. We are not racing to the same goal! China is trying to land on the moon, …

Subject matter and UX. HN has to remain its 2005 era minimally functional self to keep people out.

Encyclopedias are already lossy. Top LLMs seem to be less lossy than top encyclopedias tbh.