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I could see someone argue that, but would a monarch, for example, really hyperfocus nearly as much on optimizing crops to the point of driving the farmers to suicide, just so he co…

I find this individualistic view of the problem fascinating. It treats companies as individuals and thinks they're all different, which is bolstered by the BS terminology about "co…

This back-and-forth will never end until there's government regulation that tells the creators of digital communication platforms, in no uncertain terms, "You do not get to control…

Is there some reason no digital platform producing company ever washes its hands of all moderation and leaves control of illegal activity to the people actually responsible for it …

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This just reminds me of how we ship meat from the US to China for processing and then back, then slap "US Raised" on it to avoid suspicion.

Surprising it's taken them this long. It's basically the world's news aggregator at this point. Unlike Instagram or TikTok or any entertainment-focused social media platform, Twitt…

That flippant posturing is the result of reading history books from the perspective of everyone who lived over the past several thousand years being backwards and evil. It blinds p…

I can confirm this anecdotally. I've always had near zero empathy for anyone who isn't a close friend or family member, and I have very high pain tolerance, to the point of outrigh…

It's usually prescribed specifically for fever, not just for any pain. Could this be why so many people (myself included) report feeling a sense of wanting to live a more proactive…

Meanwhile, many multiplayer games have neither skill-based matchmaking, nor a ban on premade groups playing against solo queue players. I just can't grasp how any developer can ser…

Bit of a meta question: is linking to Substack posts in this way equally as viable as linking to a standalone blog? As in, the advantages of Substack are clear, but are there any d…

But our leaders aren't incentivized to do it, because our leaders are incentivized only by the very corporations in question. As in, the corporations, through lobbying, quite liter…

And why are we now comfortable with not having kids? Because of atomism. The "golden age" argument is flawed. No one seriously argues that literally everything was better in the pa…

There is no name-calling or personal attacking in that comment. The one qualifier that could possibly be interpreted as "an attack" is referring to an inanimate subject (data crunc…

No one will ever be convinced by such autistic data crunching. Human intuition is responsible for things like criminalizing drugs. People feel uncomfortable around drug-addled lech…

And this is the flawed "it happens more to the poor, so it should be abolished" take. Something being done disproportionately doesn't mean it's wrong. It's a way of diverting away …

This is the epitome of the "How does the collective well-being of society affect you in any way? Mind your own business!" take. Troubled people use drugs, including cannabis. Troub…

I keep seeing data points like this, but does supplementing vitamin D work? Does it make sense to read things like this and conclude that taking a vitamin D supplement pill daily i…

This seems somehow relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNTp4kELkSY

Sounds like the way dreams are usually structured. Seemingly coherent overarching structure with completely arbitrary zig-zags at the micro level.

I considered this, but opted for a physical visual timer where the amount of time you set it to is covered by a red overlay on the clock face, which recedes until it reaches zero. …

But do we have laws requiring user data be protected? Aside from the new California law, we don't have anything like GDPR nationwide, do we?

So the current Who is Hiring thread sitting at the top of HN seems to corroborate an observation I've made over months of job hunting, including before the pandemic. No one in SoCa…

Because "muh free market". Even in 2020, both conservatives and liberals (the non-radicals on both sides) still cling to the idea of lack of regulation being a good thing, despite …