Hacker News: dontknowwhyihn

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "The Invention of a Neighborhood"

dontknowwhyihn — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 21:34:20 +0000

Prepare to be downvoted to oblivion. HN is a leftist echo chamber. If you question vaccines, climate change, systemic racism, or the trans ideology, your voice will not be heard.

I’m probably shadow banned already.

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "Modernity has made us allergic"

dontknowwhyihn — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 06:15:58 +0000

You said it better than I could have. Amazing how no one will consider how overstimulating the immune system might create autoimmune disorders.

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults"

dontknowwhyihn — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:39:58 +0000

Have you not noticed the complete disregard the United States has for its citizens?

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "Schizophrenia drugs may have been off target for decades, study finds"

dontknowwhyihn — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 18:04:07 +0000

Don’t people still talk about “low seratonin levels?” I always found it suspect that we say someone’s levels are low without actually measuring them.

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "Legions of DEF CON hackers will attack generative AI models"

dontknowwhyihn — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 21:27:39 +0000

I discovered that Midjourney can’t generate a question mark, and if you use the /describe command and give it a picture of a question mark, it hallucinates.

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "We need scientific dissidents"

dontknowwhyihn — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 01:19:22 +0000

Australia became a full on prison colony. They didn’t contain covid, they imprisoned their entire population.

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "Horrifying numbers of Americans will not make it to old age"

dontknowwhyihn — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 02:12:17 +0000

And someone who is free can choose to be as cautious as they please. They just can’t force their choices on everyone else.

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do (2021)"

dontknowwhyihn — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 20:19:23 +0000

Losses are not fully tax deductible.

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "Software engineers hate code"

dontknowwhyihn — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 21:42:04 +0000

“What happens once will never happen again. What happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says"

dontknowwhyihn — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 20:12:42 +0000

This looks like it’s purely about gaming signup metrics for Threads. Make it easy to try, create a huge disincentive to cancel, and suddenly you have a wildly successful, “sticky” app.

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "'Incredibly noticeable': alcohol ban cut family violence, crime in Alice Springs"

dontknowwhyihn — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:48:50 +0000

I’ve been to Alice Springs. It’s basically a mall and a trailer park in the middle of the desert. If I lived there, I’d be an alcoholic too.

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake"

dontknowwhyihn — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:04:43 +0000

I believe it’s s reference to Tartaria. If you think along those lines, the dynamite makes more sense.

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "Language models can explain neurons in language models"

dontknowwhyihn — Wed, 10 May 2023 00:02:35 +0000

How do you know that’s true?

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "Coinbase secures Bermuda licence"

dontknowwhyihn — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 05:20:28 +0000

The SEC could have prevented Coinbase from becoming a publicly traded company, but they didn’t.

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "Coinbase secures Bermuda licence"

dontknowwhyihn — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 05:16:46 +0000

Isn’t it interesting how crypto went from tulips to securities all of a sudden?

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "More students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships"

dontknowwhyihn — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 21:13:34 +0000

I would define critical thinking as a way of filtering information before absorbing it as truth. This involves actively questioning it- is it internally consistent, does it seem to have an agenda, are some obvious questions not being considered, are the arguments appealing more to emotion than logic, etc.

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "Long Covid has had a brutal effect on the workforce, study finds"

dontknowwhyihn — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:13:15 +0000

“Long Covid” is just our euphemism for adverse reactions. The fact that you’re not even allowed to bring this up casts serious doubt on all studies into the phenomenon.

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "Tether ownership and company weaknesses revealed in documents"

dontknowwhyihn — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 23:42:05 +0000

I overlay the BTC price chart with the chart of Tether’s market cap. The correlation is hard to miss.

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "Pi-hole: Network-wide ad blocking"

dontknowwhyihn — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 07:39:13 +0000

Get a short throw projector. You can plug an apple tv into it and project whatever you want on the wall. It’s the perfect dumb screen.

New comment by dontknowwhyihn in "The Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income"

dontknowwhyihn — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 20:13:10 +0000

I agree completely.

Also, the following statement is based on a false premise: “ Let's just recognize that Earth actually does belong to all of us, everyone in the present and future, and that those who own pieces of it, and who create things out of it, owe compensation to the rest of us for removing our access to what would otherwise have been common property.”

This implies that creation itself is some kind of theft. The actual theft is taking something from a creative, productive person and giving it to an idle one.