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Re:Ejaculation Frequency and Prostate Cancer on Monday January 30, 2023 @10:18AM (#34580719)
This condescending, pseudo-intellectual bullshit has no place on HN. Take it back to r/conspiracy where it belongs.
Re:EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @10:00AM (#34519018)
Excluding Tesla: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34518608

Perhaps you should do more research before ending a comment on such a condescending remark next time.

Citation needed.
You're getting downvoted for making a strong causal claim without initially citing any sources, and the citations in this comment don't even support your claim. From your first link:

>It’s important to note that artificial food colors do not cause ADHD.8 One study found that removing artificial food colors from the diet had a statistically significant effect on ADHD symptoms, however. The authors noted that the improvements were modest but still statistically significant.9

Seriously. Nothing like normalizing the gathering and (by default) over-sharing of sensitive data with your product...
My thoughts exactly. With their closed source app running on the client, they can do literally anything with the plaintext before encrypting it.

Be ready for an expansion of their fear-mongering ad campaigns about how anyone in your office or home can read your messages when you send them unencrypted.

Re:Telling your inner critic to chill on Thursday January 19, 2023 @04:02PM (#34445563)
Beautifully put.
> a joke

More like a thought-terminating false dichotomy that only serves to quash healthy discussion.

Let's leave these "jokes" on Reddit or Twitter where they belong please.

Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:08AM (#34413284)
>it also shows criminal intent.

Hard disagree, unless you have some citations to back this up.

Two mistakes != Torture. You're obviously not arguing in good faith here.
>almost universally factories of extraordinary animal suffering

I'd love to see some sources that support such a strong claim. Otherwise, it just comes off as bait for argument.

Maybe you are being down voted because condescending remarks like this do more to turn people away from the cause?
Are you claiming that the ends can never justify the means? If not, then I don't see how their arguments would be inherently devoid of merit.
I guess it depends on how important you hold the lives of lab mice considering they make up the vast majority of the 1500 number cited.
>Please reconsider how that happened.

As should you since flamebait isn't conducive to good conversation.

Following up with an argument full of terms like "many" and "can" is not enough to support an absolute claim in either direction.
>There's a term for this: Victim Blaming

What a ridiculous take. Helping people build the skills needed to defend from being bullied is nothing like victim blaming, at all.

>frequently, if not always

When you're making sweeping generalizations and arguing in near absolutes, citations are very much needed.

>just saying more research needs to be done

Right, because the results of the previous studies amount to evidence that is too weak to conclude that red meat is inherently unhealthy to consume. I'm not sure how your comment contradicts this.

Re:Size is the best predictor of code quality (2011) on Friday November 11, 2022 @06:42PM (#33568299)
>I've been writing software almost non-stop for close to 25 years, and I still don't understand most of the code written by others.

I think you nailed it. In my experience, the increase in complexity isn't necessarily inherent to the amount of code so much as the amount of abstraction used as code size increases.

I've worked on some large codebases that only used simple, well-understood and/or well-documented abstractions which didn't feel as nearly complex as other codebases with abstractions that were more complicated than they were worth.

Re:Show HN: Helping Laid-Off People Find Their Next Job on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:20PM (#33527192)
>Being a star performer doesn't protect you from layoffs.

Generally speaking, they absolutely do. Even in scenarios where an entire org is being cut, star performers will be reassigned to other areas of the company beforehand.

It may sound brash but it'd take either a major failure in management or a failure in reputation-building and visibility for a star performer to be cut during these types of layoffs. That's not to say that good or even great engineers aren't at risk, but you're not going to find "10x-ers" being let go.

Re:Is Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Going to Become Microsoft Linux? on Thursday November 03, 2022 @08:27PM (#33460023)
>The future of desktop Linux is a VM under Windows

If Microsoft has their way, you mean.

>this provides productive evidence for a 4 day work week if everything still runs with folks checked out on Fridays and they’re not in the office performing work theater.

Not exactly. Unless 100% of workers are only working 4 day work weeks, it's impossible to account for the confounding variable of other workers picking up the slack when analyzing these trends from a macro view.

What a ridiculous comparison. Let's stick to arguing in good faith, shall we?
Yeah, this behavior sounds a bit anti-user to me. The action pretty much boils down to,

"Oh, you disabled Bluetooth and left it that way? Well, we know better so we're going to turn it back on without your knowledge or approval. You're welcome."

I don't buy the convenience excuse either otherwise the behavior could be disabled if desired.

Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @05:04PM (#33336167)
Not sure why this is downvoted. Considering the parent led with

>I've hired hundreds of developers over three decades, and this is completely wrong

in order to argue from a position of authoritative experience, these questions are entirely fair game.

Re:Lab-made Covid virus draws government scrutiny on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @01:22PM (#33250861)
>all the evidence and data that makes this extremely unlikely.

Please, do share.

Re:Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022 on Friday September 30, 2022 @08:21AM (#33033895)
I disagree. You're essentially claiming that the need to prove an effect is removed once something is enshrined into law and that's not only illogical but dangerous to boot.
Re:Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022 on Friday September 30, 2022 @08:14AM (#33033844)
>How do you force anyone to not follow a law?

I'd imagine it be an ultimatum - if you enforce another country's laws on our citizens then you're also in violation of our local laws and will be fined, unable to operate in our country, etc

Re:Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair on Monday September 19, 2022 @01:31PM (#32901327)
Exactly, it's such an easy problem to solve if you're actually interested in solving it which makes it quite obvious that Apple isn't.

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