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cup··on The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
Do you think people seeking medical advice from HN comments might be related to their disatisfaction from the suppor they receive from medical clinicians?
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Just saw this on reddit. This is the letter Tesla

<https://preview.redd.it/zyglrv7bsaif1.jpeg?width=1290&format...> apparently.

cup··on Media Bias Fact Check: Hacker News
My impression is that the site has gradually shifted right, but the Overton window has shifted right faster giving the illusion that it has gone left.

Edit: There is something ironic to be said about my very benign comment triggering someone to the point that they felt compelled to create an account and call me classically right wing slurs (subhuman, animal, low-iq). I think its worth considering that the internet/social media has contributed to a growing mental health crisis. Hurt, sick and lonely people seem to congregate online.

cup··on How did Dennis Ritchie produce his PhD thesis? A typographical mystery (2022) [pdf]
Failing to mention his involvement with the US security services seems like an oversight. We don't know exactly what technology he add access to at the time.
cup··on Mindfulness is as effective as an antidepressant drug for anxiety
This might say more about the effectiveness of antidepressants than anything else.
cup··on Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific – research (2019)
Doctors aren't scientists. Most likely incurious and also uninterested.
cup··on San Francisco police linked a woman to a crime using DNA from her rape exam
This is reprehensible and further evidence of the systemic rot within all police forces.
cup··on CIA’s fake Hepatitis B vaccine program in Pakistan helped fuel vaccine distrust
Reminds me of the documentary Cold Case Hammarskjold where they discover the apartheid era South African government had set up fake medical clinics to infect (Black) Africans with HIV.
cup··on High schooler invented color-changing sutures to detect infection
What do her parents do?
cup··on Singapore abolishes school exam rankings (2018)
Why are University spots scarce in the first place.
cup··on Trump Moves to Ban Foreign Telecom Gear, Targeting Huawei and China
And CIA seeded companies aren't?
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>The Hamas-tied Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is best known as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing case in U.S. history, appears to have access to high-ranking Facebook and Twitter executives and has communicated with these individuals about who should be allowed to stay on their platforms, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Tuesday.

Wow.. talk about subtle.

cup··on Worst Union in America (2012)
What don't you agree about?
cup··on Netflix Chose a New Market Over Free Speech. That Sets a Disturbing Precedent
How does it set a disturbing precedent? Business has always pursued money over morality under a capitalist system.
cup··on I Was a Cable Guy. I Saw the Worst of America
Or maybe its a chance for you to wonder why a gay woman might find themselves constantly frustrated and angry when living in a patriarchal homophobic society?
cup··on What did Jesus really look like? (2015)
Probably looked more like Osama bin Laden than white Jesus.
cup··on Chart of the Decade: Why You Shouldn’t Trust Every Scientific Study You See
The downside of this though is that unexpected positive results sometimes get buried. For instance, clinical trials have to report all adverse effects but not positive effects. We've had drugs tested for symptom X fail to have any effect, while causing bald people to have their hair grow back. Yet the company we were testing it for wasn't interested and those results never made it into the public domain.
cup··on My Parents Give Me $28k a Year
All white people do have some innate starting advantage due to their whiteness. That isn't to say they don't also have disadvantages too, for instance poverty, disability etc.

Having white skin though gives you an advantage in a system that prioritises whiteness over other colours. Its not racist to discuss this.

cup··on Length of ring and index fingers 'linked to sexuality'
That's a very dismissive attitude. There are limitations with the study, but the methodology is sound.
cup··on Murdered Saudi Rumoured to Have Used Apple Watch App to Record His Own Death
>Funny that all these Middle Eastern rulers follow the same pattern of tyrannical rule and are undone by it when they are eventually taken down tyrannically by much bigger tyrants

You mean Funny that all these Middle Eastern rulers are propped up by the West and only replaced when its politically expedient.

cup··on The childless, aging future
"Uncontrolled population growth is bad (Africa)"

What do you even mean by this statement?

cup··on How to start a lab when funds are tight
Nature should publish less articles about how to do X on the cheap and more articles about how the government needs to increase funding for primary research.

As one of the most prestigious journals around, or at least most well known generally, they should be using their clout to go in and bat for researchers, not constantly being reactive and defensive.

cup··on Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers
More flexibility to litter?
cup··on Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors
What is a race?
cup··on Seymour Hersh on spies, state secrets, and the stories he doesn’t tell
> is completely wack.

Truth is stranger than fiction and a journalist only lives by their credibility. He wouldn't publish it if he didnt think it was solid.

cup··on Amazon to block Australian shoppers from its US website
Thank you LNP.
cup··on How Britain’s First Mission to China Went Wrong
Can Chinese isolationism really be compared to repugnant UK imperialism?
cup··on Was Kevin Cooper Framed for Murder?
Sounds like you're in favour of something that can never be done in a fashion that you demand. So how can you be in favour of it?
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Elon Musk reminds me of a teenager undiagnosed with ADHD. 5 million projects in the works. Zero seen through to completion.
cup··on Sympathy for the Incel
Maybe It's time for people to realise they don't 'deserve' sex and that they should get counselling, seek help and form constructive relationships that improve their lives rather than kill people.
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