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to be frank I'm not here to argue the semantics of a single incident, but rather to argue against the "left can do no harm" crowd

Just an example from, uh, 2 days ago: https://www.chronicle.com/article/professor-fired-for-allege...

False comparison - you’ll find plenty of vitriol against white people, christians, traditional values and such in extreme left

OP understands neither science nor complex systems. Science is never ”ready” so by their logic nothing would ever get published, and something as integral to human ”system” as the …

Lifespan is a poor metric for quality of life. You can be alive whilst being plagued by multiple illness. Healthspan is what is important (how long you can live without suffering f…

I can give you plenty of left-wing policies that ended in mass genocide. How do you fit that into your mental model?

The question here is - is the cost difference of a shared bathroom versus a private bathroom the (or a) major factor in not building affordable housing and the answer is almost cer…

Privacy? The original point, although not fully written out, was that the elite schooled grandfather thought it would be more effective to build housing with shared bathrooms, but …

Because some people (as in, a vast majority of the global population) live their lives in a low-income bracket and one could consider it a very unpleasant thought to live your enti…

It has large ears too. Which stereotype are you referring to that has large ears and noses? Brits perhaps?

Agreed - out of the blunt comments, maybe 5% are truly abrasive. I don't think it is nearly as big of a problem as the author is making it to be.

Serious question: do people want HN to turn into a safe space then? I always preferred the blunt tone of the forum, because in practical terms you can flesh things out faster that …

It's difficult to read sentiment and know whether you're being sarcastic or not so please take no offense from my tone, but this is the complete opposite of "beautiful" - it is the…

So lets say 50% of farmers quit and become philosophizing dog-walkers, please explain how you avoid a global famine and / or how you distribute food to people and simulatenously ta…

Localism should be encouraged more, I agree, but I just get the vibe these antiwork activists arent arguing for that, but rather for some subjective right to spend their days doing…

I dont understand the logic in this at all. Is the idea to have some sort of free flowing money pool a la UBI that ensures all people can obtain basic necessities? If so, then what…

So what exactly is the alternative for selling your labour to someone else - and more importantly, one that is scalable to the general populace?

Everything being revenue optimized and run by MBA people

The mindset you describe is a mindset of exploration, adventure and tinkering. Occasionally it ends in catastrophe, but historically has been the driver of some of the greatest inv…

Mastering the subconscious is definitely a top trait for attention management / discipline and quality of life in general. I noticed this pattern not too long ago: was reading a te…

By now it's fairly well known the most addictive apps & sites exploit your dopamine system to keep you hooked in: https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones...

Usual culprit - your brain's dopamine circuits are fried by your daily activities like endless phone browsing, video games etc. Cut down on dopamine junk and you'll find motivation…

Thanks. I still find it surprising a company of Amazon's stature wouldn't have figured out how to fully automate something relatively trivial like this.