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Please ban me. I don't want to participate anymore.

The Greek government banned imports and effectively created a temporary, legally mandated barrier to entry for international competitors, which directly benefited Tikun Olam as the…

>You live in Greece. You are a physician. It’s a free country. Yet you have chosen to blame a “Jewish company.” From August, 2025: https://businessofcannabis.com/as-canada-floods-e…

You can tell what the paper is going to argue just by reading the author affiliations. They're all part of a group whose funding lines all lead back to NIDA. NIDA’s mandate is harm…

Your heart is in a better place than the NGO-contraption market, but what you also need to understand is that when you change a local optima in minimal ways, you also disrupt the r…

>It works like this: after loading the clothes, detergent and water, and letting it sit for 10-15 minutes, users can close the lid and turn the handle for two minutes, repeating th…

>Of course, you and every other histrionic lemming won't take this to heart or even really read it. You'll skim it, pretend that's the same thing, look for the no-no words, hammer …

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If you actually slowed down and read what I wrote, you'd see that I said that people blindly believing in either LLMs or MDs are stupid (as did the OP). And gee, what are people su…

It's an incredibly credible comment. But if you have a need to have slavish trust in authority, be it LLMs or MDs, yeah, it'll look preposterous that someone might have an independ…

Just want to chime in amidst the ensuing dog-pile to say that my experiences match yours and you're not crazy, but I'm also an empirically-minded arch-skeptic. Curious: you're not …

I'm glad Karpathy is publicizing this use case, but reading with LLMs is silly when you can directly transform the text on a conceptual level to fit the patois and lexile level tha…

I concur that moral panic is an irrational response and that shame is an ineffective tool. The point of divergence, however, is in the diagnosis. Abandoning the medium is an indivi…

This "YouTube shorts are killing our attention" take is just the latest instance of a moral panic that's as old as writing itself. The only reason we're OK with novels or TV is pat…

>Beneficiaries in EDs of private equity hospitals experienced 7.0 additional deaths per 10 000 visits after acquisition relative to control (13.4% increase from a raw baseline of 5…

By all means.

I was reading the comments from the past times this was submitted, and I just wanted a reason to draw attention to this comment from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2508…

when i lay awake at night, there in the clockwork of my brain i know the code was not right, but i will not code it again it matters not how severe the bug, nor how the fixers will…

They're just showing them the door: https://xkcd.com/1357/ The people getting fired have shown themselves to be exactly the types of people Popper warned about in his Paradox of To…

It seems everyone is missing the forest for the trees by focusing on political motives, because the system is working exactly as designed. An ad platform is an auction-based machin…

>I must admit I’m a little unnerved with how gleefully people enjoy using a fake slur. I realize it doesn’t harm anyone but I just don’t get the appeal. I think there's a clear soc…

The author's argument is built on fallacies that always pop up in these kinds of critiques. The "summary vs shortening" distinction is moving the goalposts. They makes the empirica…