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New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

dennis_jeeves2 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:21:23 +0000

>For the same reason your taxes pay for schools even when you don't have kids.

>Because we live in a society.

Quote attributed to attributed to Jiddu Krishnamurti 'It Is No Measure of Health To Be Well-Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society'

>just know that without a society, the children will grow up to rape you,

BS. I can tell you that you have never lived in a 'society' where there were no taxes. I have.

Have more IQ in your line of reasoning than the cliched 'society'. Idiot.

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "HPV vaccine cuts risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30"

dennis_jeeves2 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:47:53 +0000

You'd be surprised at things that are deemed necessary when money is to be made.

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "HPV vaccine cuts risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30"

dennis_jeeves2 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:29:24 +0000

>From what risk level without them? How many people actually die of cervical cancer before age 30??

They will downplay that number or exaggerate it.

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "Midjourney Medical"

dennis_jeeves2 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:57:42 +0000

>I don't understand how people are so gullible? How do they keep falling for it?

As they say there is a new sucker born every minute.

(You already alluded to it when you asked the person's age)

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "Midjourney Medical"

dennis_jeeves2 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:52:36 +0000

> Many people mistakenly believe that early diagnosis is the final boss in medicine,

True. My more nuanced take on it: For most chronic conditions (including cancer) diagnostics have improved but resolution has not. The PR machine of course hypes things to make it seem like we have more cures today that in the past. What is have is more diagnostics and more procedures.

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan"

dennis_jeeves2 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:21:53 +0000

>That's pretty rich, gotta say!

He still can think objectively, that's what it means.

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "What happened to nerds?"

dennis_jeeves2 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:09:46 +0000

You comment is probably one of the most important here. The gate keepers (generally the nerds) who produced useful products/services allowed the non-nerds in (to management), and from then on it's a slippery slope.

You will see similar dynamics where a bunch of people are involved.

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?"

dennis_jeeves2 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:27:15 +0000

True.

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

dennis_jeeves2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:11:37 +0000

>but do people realize that code is just a means to an end?

Some people don't. May have their identities tied down to their profession/skills.

(concerns about job loss, future opportunities are somewhat justified though)

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

dennis_jeeves2 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:08:01 +0000

Spot on. Too much freedom = peasants revolting.

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "The Last Technical Interview"

dennis_jeeves2 — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:54:06 +0000

Yes I do think it has merit. I think some kind of specialized IQ test which measures for aptitude can be used for for screening. Of course it's not a be all and end all but it should significantly reduce the 'grinding-leetcode' situation.

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "The real cost of owning a home"

dennis_jeeves2 — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:59:28 +0000

> If you take the money you'd use for a down payment and mortgage and invest it instead (after paying rent) you end up in about the same place.

You won't - you got to account for real inflation which is about 7% in US and taxes.

Note that in both cases investing (simple investing like S&P500) vs owning a house you loose. It's just that overall loses will generally be lesser if you purchase and then sell a house. I will need you to to show me figures on yearly basis if you want to tell me otherwise.

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

dennis_jeeves2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:43:23 +0000

>In other words, African governments are even more corrupt shitholes.

>(Please note: im explicitly saying this about the governments. Not the people. The people, in most/all situations, have little to no power to remove this corruption, other than civil war.)

Often (but not always), even common people are corrupt.

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"

dennis_jeeves2 — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:10:56 +0000

>People start dying off, and all of a sudden housing prices go down. There's more parks open. The air feels fresher gradually.

Ted Kaczynski had a point...

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

dennis_jeeves2 — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:09:11 +0000

>By aligning the incentives right, it will mean good cops will force out the bad cops quickly.

Not system will ever work as intended if entire societies are either corrupt and/or stupid. Cops are no different.

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "We've made the world too complicated"

dennis_jeeves2 — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:18:08 +0000

Ted Kaczynski had a point...

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "[dead]"

dennis_jeeves2 — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:15:57 +0000

> There isn't a good route to send such repeat-low-level offenders

Death? ( caveat: it really has to be used VERY cautiously, anything can be abused)

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials"

dennis_jeeves2 — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:58:44 +0000

Thanks.

Regarding full strength kimchi - did you make it yourself or did you buy it? If you bought it, what brand?

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

dennis_jeeves2 — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:03:04 +0000

>I got bad chronic constipation after four years as a strict carnivore.

2 questions:

1) Did your constipation start right after you did strict carnivore? Or was it after 4 years?

2) List all foods that you ate on strict carnivore. (Include salt, water etc. I presume it won't be a long list)

New comment by dennis_jeeves2 in "US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war"

dennis_jeeves2 — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:13:24 +0000

Should have been jumps BY 3.8%