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They get to pick the sentencing they are aiming for, and that can depend on race.
Re:The Causes of Long Covid on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:59PM (#48418914)
I had covid 7 or 8 times lol. Basically 2-3 times a year from Jan 2022 until spring of 2025. Luckily there have been seemingly no long-term effects for me, and it's been over a year since I last tested positive.
This article is absolutely infuriating and so many of the people included should be deeply ashamed of their behavior (as described). I understand that the people at the hospital are in danger of legal retribution so for many of them their cowardice is excusable. But the examples of the hospital CEO making empty promises without actually doing anything, and the hospital refusing to foot the $5,000 bill to transfer the patient to a location that would actually care for her are morally disgusting. The lawmakers that intentionally created this grey area though are the true villains for willingly gambling with women's lives to score political capital.
Re:'I found your dad': The mystery of a missing climber on Saturday May 03, 2025 @10:42PM (#43884073)
The latter are generally called alpinists.
Re:Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @05:10PM (#43476017)
This still happens in my experience, I've picked up keys from friends and Airbnb hosts via a local business in the past few years.
Re:The Five-Week Solo Startup on Sunday March 16, 2025 @05:08PM (#43382332)
Are you sure? I've read a lot of this person's stuff over the years. A lot of it is quite earnest and in line with the message of this post.
Re:Mathematics of the daily word game Waffle on Friday January 17, 2025 @02:45PM (#42742453)
Google even and odd permutations to learn more :)
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do on Friday January 03, 2025 @01:41PM (#42588310)
>Notice it’s never free climbing the nose in a day, which would require 5-7 years of dedicated training.

Would take way more than that for the average person. You can count the number of people who have done that as of now on one hand.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @10:12AM (#42063534)
I don't know if you saw the "Kamela is for the/them" ads, but they stoke a much more general fear and hatred of trans people than the issues you are referring to. Those issues are picked because they are most popular amongst a broad swathe of the electorate, but they are couched in a deeper hate and distrust.
Re:Diagrams · Diagram as Code on Monday November 04, 2024 @04:38PM (#42046249)
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @03:39PM (#41988491)
My body is also something I constantly work on yet I can't help but read this in Patrick Bateman's voice.
Re:The Death of the Minivan on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @08:23PM (#41726176)
Yeah but it's easier to own two pairs of shoes than it is to own two cars.
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate on Sunday July 21, 2024 @05:58PM (#41028559)
Condemnation from a lot of those names is a strong positive signal imo.
Re:Why I failed in $1,7k monthly revenue in my first SaaS? on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @04:36PM (#40446165)
So you built a tool to make spamming people easier?
I'd bet a substantial amount that nobody is learning that Everest exists from this article.

I agree that the current state of Everest is an embarrassment. But that doesn't change the fact that it's the tallest mountain in the world, and the efforts (both successful and failed) to be the first to summit were audacious and inspiring to many people. Stories like the one in the OP should not be suppressed just because decades later the mountain has turned into a pile of shit.

Re:Show HN: Wanderer – an open-source trail database on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @03:10PM (#40290200)
This looks very cool and could be useful to me. I've been uploading my tracks to caltopo. Could you say a few words about what this offers over that?
Re:Devin, the First AI Software Engineer on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @02:16PM (#39682900)
I don't get your pessimism, after we are replaced we can all work at the glue factory :)
Re:Boeing whistleblower found dead in US on Monday March 11, 2024 @09:53PM (#39675349)
And that's why no murders are ever committed, because the possibility of jail time or capital punishment dissuades anyone who would consider committing murder.
Re:S3 is files, but not a filesystem on Sunday March 10, 2024 @08:17PM (#39663589)
You're right technically, it's an abuse of notation that isn't uncommon. My physics profs would do it in college.
What's better? I ask out of ignorance, but personally I think Datadog is amazing for viewing logs.
In a similar vein, I remember that when I was learning to program, I would look at applications like Word and get overwhelmed with the idea that you would need to implement everything from scratch.
Re:Do Elephants Have Souls? on Thursday January 25, 2024 @01:52PM (#39133293)
How does that line imply animals have no soul?
Re:Alternative London: A British Whole Earth Catalog on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:13PM (#39120665)
It's an exploration of a man's life and impact on the world. The length was fitting. Personally I didn't find it tortuous at all.
Re:Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel on Thursday January 18, 2024 @01:07PM (#39045206)
It is reasonable, although niche enough to be a bad defense.

Here is a popular Instagram account where someone does exactly what you are saying is unreasonable: https://www.instagram.com/salvagetoscenic

I think they are referring to the idea that r/canada is pretty antagonistic about the government.
Could you elaborate here? Spurred by you and the person you're replying to painting such different pictures of what sources are out there, I took a look myself. I didn't find it so trivial to find sources backing up the person's claims.

> Most places do not have "time limits".

I couldn't find anything about slaughterhouses having lifelong limits for employees and would love a link or search term to use because it's an interesting concept to me.

> I find no evidence of abattoir workers becoming more likely to be serial killers.

I also could not find evidence for this. Here is a meta analysis of many studies, none of which mention slaughterhouse workers being more likely to be serial killers. Some studies show higher crime rates in towns with slaughterhouses, but not for violent crimes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10009492/

> People used to kill their own animals and weren't vegetarians.

This is trivially true?

Re:What I learned building 9 products in 2023 on Monday January 08, 2024 @06:06PM (#38919716)
It's definitely grifty. The shipfa.st copy makes it sound like you need it to build products so you too can make lots of money like he does. Except if you look at his website, the thing that makes all that money is.... shipfa.st.

It reminds me of people who sell classes using tales of their success, except all of their success comes from selling the classes in the first place.

Pretty sure this can already happen.
Re:Particle Life on Thursday December 28, 2023 @07:59PM (#38800626)
I assume it falls off at inverse of r squared, which is why the person you're replying to is mentioning other functions besides that one.

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