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Why is a news article about a 44 year old drug on Hacker News? As far as I can tell this isn't about tech, tech policy, a new medication, a new discovery about an old medication, s…

There's nothing preventing us from the law requiring the same for online verification. It doesn't have to be the case that Facebook or Twitter or whatever store any information oth…

I think this again comes back to the idea of thinking of it as some sort of digital town square. We don't seem to have an issue with the government requiring businesses to check ID…

My point is not that they NEVER existed, its that they no longer exist in the capacity most people mean when they use the term. As you mentioned, cities used to be organized around…

If actual politics reflected sentiment on the internet, US politics would look very different. The Overton window on the internet is very different from real life, there is tremend…

This has become such a common trope that I think people fail to apply even a modicum of scrutiny: the internet is not the town square and whatever your idea of the town square is l…

Yeah, a decent litmus test is if you sign into a service from a new device and without much effort all your chats/messages/history or whatever is there, the security is weak. I got…

Again, this is a bad analogy. Having a driver's license isn't linked to adverse health effects. I am not sure why people always go down these weird avenues to try to justify their …

False equivalency. I am not required to "walk in the city" to participate in society or the economy. Sure, we can educate everyone on the risk of walking around the city as long as…

Having lived in all 3 of those cities, I, too, am amazed it hasn't reached that state yet either. What's worse is that at some point a lot of the restaurants that have made the cur…

> I can't forget something that's not a fact Putting aside your arrogance for a moment: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/META:NASDAQ?window=1Y https://www.google.com/finance/qu…

Correlation doesn't equal causation. Having lived in SF during that period, there was a lot of governmental policy that contributed to that rise in homelessness. Saw the same thing…

You forgot the part where a lot of these big companies are still making buckets of cash and now those buckets are distributed amongst fewer people within the company further strain…

Not saying it’s the case here but a lot of times congress asks these questions as leading questions or to give viewers the full context of follow up questions (or more likely for e…

I’m going to do you a favor here and be more honest than most will, please understand it’s coming from a place of good intention and trying to help you get a job: your LinkedIn rea…

If you are implying that in the recent era - we'll look at 2013 leading up to same-sex marriage being legalized - that there was rampant homophobia, the data does not support your …

I don't think the comment is crazy, and I'm going to afford you the grace you didn't afford me in the reading of your comment. My comment was not about the significance of being ab…

You’re either too young to remember or creating a non-existent history of what life was like before same-sex marriage was legalized. This is not a comment on anything to do with ga…

I’m not sure how you can say Reddit deserves none of the credit for creating Reddit. It has to be at least as valuable (from a revenue perspective) to create the site as it costs t…

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My argument (guess really) for why density necessitates more cops is that the opportunity for criminals also increases with density. My thinking goes something like: a line of dens…

Grew up in the area and lived in SF for years. I, too, hated all those good paying jobs coming into the city bringing in all those people who were annoyed by our crime and shit-on-…

I'm not sure if that national average is a good benchmark or not (maybe there is some sort of argument for how urbanized society has become) but my guess would be that there is som…