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Even if the risk is minuscule, I just have no incentive to subject myself to additional risk.

I’ve already been diagnosed with covid and it was fine, a little worse than an average cold. Why should I take a vaccine and risk side effects for a disease with a 99.9% survival r…

I’m sure they’d gladly defend the BLM protestors who attacked federal buildings.

>There may also be a moral hazard - by investing my own time into my work, I disadvantage others who are not willing or able to do so, by seeming even more productive than my basel…

I am so tired of constantly hearing about politics at my workplace. Politics have already made their way into the tv shows, music, video games, and online forums that I enjoy. At l…

Softly bigoted? She is blatantly racist and sexist against white men. If she made those same tweets but “white male” was replaced with “black female” it would be enough to get fire…

Somehow in an attempt to “fix” racial disparities, America is making race relations worse than they’ve been in decades.

It’s not financially beneficial. The poster you replied to has no idea what he’s talking about. Repaying the highest interest loan first will still be the best choice.

Amusing to see people on hackernews advocating for mathematically inferior debt repayment strategies because of “feelings”.

A huge number of assets would drop similarly if you unloaded .1% of their entire market cap in one day. I’d say BTC recovered fairly well from that sale.

A never before seen coronavirus was found just miles away from one of only two BSL-4 laboratories in all of China, which also happens to publish gain of function research on corona…

Lots of pushback in this thread against the idea of 10x, 50x, etc. engineers. If we’re just measuring performance relative to the average software developer then I don’t see why th…

Only if it’s a Proof of Work blockchain. Ethereum is what is mainly used for NFTs and it’s in the process of migrating to Proof of Stake.

Sounds like a lot of work. Not sure why you think that is superior to simply using a blockchain.

>do you think the distribution of bitcoin will be somewhat equitable as we approach 2140 I don’t see why the distribution of anything would be “equitable”, outside of a communist u…

Someone reading an econ101 textbook and immediately deciding that Bitcoin is unnecessary is an amusing example of Dunning-Kruger :)

Alternative viewpoint: platforms without censorship tend to be right wing because that is what succeeds in a free marketplace of ideas. Left wing ideas require censorship to thrive…

Considering America’s obsession with diversity, I find it hard to believe that she would have an easier time in Europe or anywhere else in the world. In America she would receive c…

> You may see some starving birds outside so you go feed them. But as people do that, the population of birds merely increases up to the malthusian point so that larger population …

You are essentially arguing against “innocent until proven guilty” and implying it’s okay for a global corporation to take a public stance against a minor before his court case is …

Oh no, how unfortunate that Charles Darwin’s name appears in Biology textbooks. I am getting extremely sick of the media’s obsession with race.

In my opinion eugenics is only wrong when it is forced. I see nothing wrong with providing financial incentives for people to reproduce if they have qualities that society tends to…

These are the times we live in. Thanks to widespread racist/sexist hiring practices, every time I see a woman or minority in an upper level position I can’t help but wonder if they…

Often when I see numbers instead of percentages in these discussions, I can’t help but think it’s intended to manipulate the reader and that the percentage wouldn’t evoke the same …

The hash of the next bitcoin block can already be used for this. Easy tamper resistant random number every 10 minutes.