<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: naijaboiler</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=naijaboiler</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:07:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=naijaboiler" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naijaboiler in "U.S. science is in chaos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I compare it basketball. Due to the goal being 10ft in the air, it structurally biased against shorter people. You don’t need actually size-ist for it to exist. It’s just inherent to how the system of rules are constructed</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:40:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593563</link><dc:creator>naijaboiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593563</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by naijaboiler in "Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There’s one thing you can guarantee in America. If it puts the interests of high income people vs everyday income people, the policies favoring the rich will almost always win out.</p>
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<p>whats all this talk about 20% wealth tax. We are asking for 1% per year, and the rich are still screaming. damn
I pay more than that on my house.</p>
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<p>i hate when people bring it up. everybody that works pays payroll taxes which is around 25% when you count both sides.</p>
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<p>i disagree with you. The author is pointing at deeper cultural issue of lack of candor that unaddressed allows things like sexual abuse to flourish. It is an organization that is not willing to tackle serious or face hard things head on. Yeah and their product sucks, so improved marketing won't save it.</p>
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<p>Good analogy except a human is several orders in magnitude more complex than that</p>
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<p>I'm a doctor who used to be an engineer. Deriving things from first principles in medicine is a lie we doctors tell ourselves.the truth is this.we have some really good understanding of syne things at molecular levels that we then correlates to things that happen clinically at a macro level, that correlation is very very handwavy. But we teach it as if we know for sure. We don't.
 The few things that we think we have a somwhat good correlation for, we often test on our exams, but even for most of those things, it's some handwavy link<p>I recall being an engineering classes, armed with just calculus and linear algebra and newton laws, I could attack just about every problem from first principles from my entire undergrad. Every. I didn't have to take into consideration real life presentation of the problem. First principles were enough to get me nearly there<p>Medicine is fundamentally not that way. Yes we learn the biology, but if you reason solely from biology, you will quickly end up in the wrong places. to become a doctor, I had to learn that hard way that yeah a disease doesn't just  present this way just because the underlying physics and biology suggests it should. You separately have to learn how the disease presents, then try to tie it back to our extensive but still very very limited understanding of the possible biology.<p>I have problems with doctors that don't acknowledge how tenous that link is and despite how much we know, we still know so so little. We are far more useful than what we know.<p>I understand to biology majors, the few things that seem to follow physiologically from moelculqr biology dupes us into thinking medicine currebtly derives from first pricinples. But it doesnt.</p>
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<p>it did. GFC was a financial recession no doubt, but oil prices was one of the final things that tipped everything over. Oil prices climbed high, slowed economic activity a bit, and the whole financial that teetering just collapsed.</p>
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<p>Conservatives all over have 1 disease. They are incapable of abstract empathy. Until it personally happens to them, or someone very very close to them, they are incapable of noticing injustices or hurts.</p>
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<p>big business will always act in the interest of big business. 
Only a stupid business man will confront the full-might of the executive branch of the federal government heads on, particularly when the President is showing that he is willing to use that power against anybody</p>
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<p>58% of Americans were okay with goverment shooting at protesting students at Kent State shooting.</p>
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<p>same usually, i read this and see this some flawed or hackneyed tripe.
But these ones are actually true and anyone who has had a long career and led people and product will resonate with many of them.</p>
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<p>we are human being interacting with other human beings. what you call "kissing ass" is just learning to influence and work with other humans. It is by far the most useful skill to have in workplace. But don't worry. continue your disdain of it, includeing calling it negative names, and watch your career stagnate.</p>
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<p>those are trends. prior to that, it was nike airforces.
A business like Nike can't build their business solely on trends. Trends are cyclical, they can bring you massive windfalls, or bankrupt you.<p>Nike was a sports shoe company that forgot it was a sports company and started acting like it was a pure consumer goods company, leaving itself at the whims of fashion trends.</p>
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<p>turned 40, switched to Brooks and my feet thank me everyday for it. I only wear 1 black brooks adrenaline GTS.<p>Rain, sunshine, snow, indoor, outdoor, running, it doesn't matter. Work, shopping, meeting, travel, church. 1 shoe. My achilles no longer hurt, bye bye shin splints, bye bye back pain.</p>
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<p>Correct. Most americans view those targetted strikes as just continuation of the broader wars against terrorism (AQ, AQ++, ISIS affiliates)</p>
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<p>- against ISIL, againg al-Qaeda
- UN Security Counsil resolution<p>All those are either against some terrorist organization or its multi-country sanctioned.</p>
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<p>Afghanistan was more justifiable. The argument was that it was a failed government that housed a terrorist organization that just attacked US.<p>What Iraq had to with it, i honestly have no idea. Somehow we pivotted from Afghanistan to Iraq</p>
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<p>wrong. confession is the pimary way most people get convicted</p>
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<p>Exactly pricing discrimination (i.e. selling at different prices to different customers) is absolutely legal and is market efficient in a market with multiple sellers and multiple buyers.<p>Pricing discrimination combined with monopsony(single large buyer) or monopoly ( single large seller) powers is not market efficient. It leads to higher prices by end consumers. Price discrimination via  collusion + Walmarts monopsony in grocery industry violates that 1930s act and is illegal</p>
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