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lol, the OP is such a classic HN take. "Why doesn't society simply absorb a negative externality created by gambling and add high cost redundancy layers that are otherwise useless"…

"Some data models are already heavily polluted by people manipulating observations for various purposes" Example of this?

If you feel like spending several hundred dollars on a backpack (big if, I know), I can personally vouch for https://www.seventeenthirtythree.com/ . It's more or less a one man sho…

"A nation that can’t produce [physical goods] can’t stand." Based on what evidence? "And I think part of the issue is that we’ve become lazy. People don’t want to work anymore" Ame…

To you "screaming and yelling" at a private company that still retains agency over it's content moderation is government censorship, but the government's direct censoring of inform…

Unless the author makes a compelling case about why AI breaks the MAD status-quo between nuclear powers, I will assume that their appeals to NATSEC are an attempt to artificially c…

I don't think women are inherently better behaved than men, or that they naturally see themselves as being on the same team. It's that the dynamic where it feels fun or funny to te…

How much of this opinion has been shaped by actually talking to the women whose experience you are summarizing? And specifically in a context where they'd give you an honest and ca…

I have a first-hand experience once or twice a year that make me stop and think -- if I were a woman in this situation I'd probably be doubting my career path. The example I cited …

One of the smartest people I know almost quit software her first year out of school, because her all-male team spent an afternoon teasing her about how they were going to start a s…

Most or all mentions of Native Americans were introduced by Kubrick and absent in King's original

Do you think a movie where the main character is driven to madness at the site of a Native American burial ground/frontier wars is not purposefully introducing this subtext or do y…

Why do you think the goal of modern art should necessarily be to appeal to as many people as possible - or when you say "universally bad" do you mean to say "perceived as bad to pe…