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I work as a courier for a gig work company which involves a lot of cycling (on the ebikes they provide) which is starting to give me problems like carpal tunnel & intense stiffness…

this is above my pay grade techinically speaking - don't suppose you know of a guide to this sort of thing?

I've wall-mounted an ancient Ipad & I I'd like to use it as a dashbord: world clock, calendar + appts, tasks (ideally from Things.app), etc - all the better if it's easily extensib…

not to mention - it's a little convenient that the author of a book called "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" is telling us that actually, we shouldn't be worried about …

and re: hard drugs, casual use of those that doesn't meet addiction thresholds is way more common than most people think

yeah, I don't disagree w/ the fact that the word "addiction" shouldn't be thrown around too casually, but I don't like the way they're scolding others for being insufficiently scie…

"Nir Eyal: The vast majority of people stop playing these video games. Do you think people are still going to be playing Fortnite and Candy Crush in 10 years or so? Of course not, …

agreed that the social media addiction studies are trash, but this is representative of how flawed the understanding of addiction in this discussion is: Joel Billieux: For a lot of…

"Since Masonry's tenets are brotherly love, relief, and truth, if the Masons did run the world, it might be a better place. Many of the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution …

this is extremely embarrassing for YC. whether or not it's an intentional scam, anyone remotely involved w/ the tech industry should have seen how implausible the whole project was…

so you're saying you wouldn't rent to someone purely because they were homeless? w/ attitudes like this it's not surprising there's so many people living on the street

I don't think we should fall into the trap of thinking it has to be one or the other. people shouldn't be kicked out onto the street & the asylums absolutely were inhumane. reestab…

why wouldn't you rent to it?

"undocumented immigrant" isn't necessarily the same as "refugee", likewise sex vs assigned gender. if you're going to critique word choice you should know what those words mean

I don't know anything about Bluetooth security but I'm assuming adding it to a lifesaving device isn't necessarily an improvement?

You should check out Carbon Democracy by Timothy Mitchell if you haven't yet

it's monstrous yeah. did you see the thing about McKinsey recommending that Purdue pay a rebate to pharmacies for every OD death, to assuage their concerns over dispensing large qu…

true, although I think it's worth pointing out that private prisons aren't as big a driver of mass incarceration in the US as a lot of people think. the privatization of services l…

there's no neat middle ground like buprenorphine but meth & some other stimulants can be prescribed in the US, so that's better than nothing - at least helps w/ problems of contami…

I'm aware of that. but some rehabs adhere to the harm reduction model & too many don't, which is why you get people ODing because their rehab thought expecting someone to stay full…

I agree w/ you in principle, but it's also worth pointing out that drug rehab in the US (and globally, but the US is the worst out of the countries I know enough about to assess) i…

not claiming the things I listed make up all or even most of threads on my subject, just that they seem to show up every time

HN relationship thread bingo card: - pointless statistical analyses - creepy transactional views of intimacy - facile evo-psych explanations of sexual attraction - misogynist resse…

slightly bizarre to see the author explain that Cellebrite have major contracts w/ US law enforcement & ICE then go on to say "but they have bad clients too!" & I don't like the Ca…