Hacker News: cultus

New comment by cultus in "Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”"

cultus — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:53:06 +0000

There's consequences.

New comment by cultus in "Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”"

cultus — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:43:52 +0000

Deplatforming works. A few people follow to other sites, but most don't. It also becomes harder to attract new cultists if one is shut out of major services.

https://gnet-research.org/2020/05/11/weighing-the-value-and-...

New comment by cultus in "Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump"

cultus — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:10:42 +0000

The ANTIFA CEO is sitting in his fortified command center underneath the Appalachian Mountains as we speak, cackling and torturing a Trump supporter to death for not calling xir by the proper pronouns. Our joke of a liberal government is doing nothing to eliminate this dangerous threat to our guns and precious, precious strip malls.

New comment by cultus in "Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach"

cultus — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:36:57 +0000

Luckily the difference in response is absolutely not emblematic of any serious structural issues in American policing, and we can all move on from this with no real reforms.

New comment by cultus in "Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach"

cultus — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:35:50 +0000

You don't think that the US government should be able to defend itself? That's an interesting opinion.

New comment by cultus in "Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump"

cultus — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:24:58 +0000

Yeah I live a few blocks away from where where ANTIFA was supposedly terrorizing and burning. The only danger to the public was the tear gas the police indiscriminately used and drifted into apartments and retirement homes. You are full of it.

New comment by cultus in "Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump"

cultus — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:22:23 +0000

I thought right-wingers respected private property rights? Surely you don't hold contradictory and illogical opinions, because the right also prides itself on "facts" and "logic?" Is this not true?

New comment by cultus in "U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests"

cultus — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 23:54:07 +0000

The facts of the war in Iraq were objectively bad. Should the media have hidden this to avoid accusations of bias? The problem is that the same critical coverage did not continue for Obama. Keep in mind too that all major outlets cheered the lead-up and start of the war - it's a big money spinner after all.

New comment by cultus in "U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests"

cultus — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 23:53:04 +0000

The facts of the war in Iraq were objectively bad. Should the media have hidden this to avoid accusations of bias?

New comment by cultus in "US doctor forgives $650k in medical bills for cancer patients"

cultus — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:01:13 +0000

The incentives are all wrong. Tests are money spinners, so hospitals and clinics push them hard. Over-testing is usually associated with worse health outcomes. For example, nearly anyone who gets a full body scan has a few suspicious looking blobs. It's almost always nothing, but it results in unnecessary treatment or exploratory surgery while not actually saving many lives.

New comment by cultus in "US doctor forgives $650k in medical bills for cancer patients"

cultus — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:58:05 +0000

It's so heartbreaking to see people who are very sick or even dying have to stress about bills. It's just not something a moral society does. It's not just mental, cortisol really knocks down your immune system.

New comment by cultus in "Brexit stops Brooks England sales of ‘Made in Britain’ saddles to UK shoppers"

cultus — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 19:04:09 +0000

To me it's an argument that there isn't enough democracy. Brexit would never had happened if the British political class (including Labour and libdems) were not totally hostile to the interests of the British working class over a period of several decades. When a government isn't responsive to the people, bad stuff happens.

New comment by cultus in "Brexit stops Brooks England sales of ‘Made in Britain’ saddles to UK shoppers"

cultus — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 19:00:42 +0000

I'll just drop in here to say that as a massive cycling enthusiast and former racer,

BUY A BROOKS SADDLE!

They are the best bike saddle I've ever ridden. I don't get sore or chafe even on 5+ hour rids Sure, they weigh 2 lbs instead of 10 ounces, but that just doesn't matter for 99.8% of cyclists. Since it is leather, the saddle breaks in to your particular nether regions just like a boot or baseball gloves.

New comment by cultus in "A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize"

cultus — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:26:38 +0000

It's neat that you are in such a position, but many aren't.

New comment by cultus in "Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)"

cultus — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 14:45:24 +0000

Why does that bother you so much? Language changes to fit needs. Always has, always will.

New comment by cultus in "The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978)"

cultus — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:31:33 +0000

It's probably just that they wrote this for fun because I can't imagine anyone would fund it. Economists use a surprising amount of dry humor like that, I've noticed.

An old one:

  Remember the unfortunate econometrician, who, in one of the major functions of his system, had to use a proxy for risk and a dummy* for sex.

*(a discrete dependent variable)

New comment by cultus in "Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seattle law goes into effect"

cultus — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 02:08:26 +0000

Birth rates go down when people are in a secure situation. The solution isn't to make having children hard through impoverishment. That increases birth rates further.

Besides, in the case of this Somalian man, in subsistence-oriented societies having more children is often economically advantageous.

New comment by cultus in "Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seattle law goes into effect"

cultus — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 02:06:26 +0000

Yes, that is a moral problem that our society has.

New comment by cultus in "Uber will charge significantly more per trip as new Seattle law goes into effect"

cultus — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 01:03:04 +0000

If we reduced having children to pure economic calculation, humanity would go extinct.

New comment by cultus in "Baltimore police lied about almost every aspect of its spy plane program"

cultus — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 01:00:34 +0000

Sorry, but that's not a reliable source.