Revenant-15

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I'm losing my patience with how comments are downvoted on HN. He's right. People are dying from common illnesses in the US because of a lack of hospital beds/staff. "Elective" surgeries cover a lot of essential surgeries that prevent much suffering, high health costs and even deaths.

Revenant-15

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> It sounds like if you had your way, you'd be quite the authoritarian. Do you hear yourself?

So every forum that has mods to moderate the posts that are made is "authoritarian"? Do you listen to yourself? It's not authoritarian to ensure a certain level of quality or level of discourse. And what's going on in these comments does not meet any reasonable bar.

Revenant-15

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Well, good thing they didn't have to compete with today's mobile OS's back then. Android back then was abjectly terrible. They definitely had a shot at the second spot behind Apple, especially in low-income countries.

Revenant-15

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Honestly, I wish I could delete at least half the comments here, including yours. It's as if the moment somebody mentions "government", the majority of HN that is American goes "bu-bu-but it's authoritarian!!!!" and cries about freedom. It's ridiculous.

The CCP is an authoritarian government. Yes. Is this being proposed in the US? No. Why all the whining and insane amount of pearl-clutching then?

Frankly, I was hoping to see more discussion about the (potential) effects of (excessive) gaming or the potential/unforeseen consequences of the ban, but apparently people here seem to go braindead the moment China, government or freedom is mentioned. It feels like I'm back on Facebook or Reddit again. Has the level of discourse really become that much worse on HN over the years?

Revenant-15

5 jaar geledendiscuss

What? Antitrust isn't solely about marketshare and having a monopoly. You can behave in anticompetitive ways that break antitrust laws without having a monopoly.

Revenant-15

5 jaar geledendiscuss

I'm more concerned about people who doubt science as a default point of view more than the people who trust the science. If you don't trust science as a process, then you're just putting your faith in random crap that gets through your arbitrary filters. That's how we get stupid stuff like Qanon and Pizzagate.

We're always putting our trust in one thing or another. Personally, I'd prefer if we put our trust in a method that, over the long-term, strives towards some sense of "real" truth as opposed to some contrarian anti-science, anti-intellectual bull. Yes, be critical. No, don't reject science just because it suits you or because it might be uncomfortable.

The best thing about science? It's falsifiable. If climate change suddenly turns out to be wrong tomorrow, I don't have to cling to "oh, but yesterday the consensus was that it was real". It's "oh, these smart people are discovering new things that are giving us a new/deeper understanding of something we didn't quite understand correctly, time to update my understanding of the world".

If your point of view is dependent on your not understanding something, then it doesn't matter. You'll cling to your beliefs, which become a part of your identity, no matter what evidence is presented.

Revenant-15

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Bowser only joined Nintendo in 2015. I'm fairly sure Bowser, the character, has been named Bowser far longer than that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Bowser

Revenant-15

5 jaar geledendiscuss

In fact, it can be helpful to treat the symptoms first, because the symptoms might make it impossible to productively approach the core issues one might have. They might be feeding back into each other in a never-ending loop of negative interpretation/emotion.

Revenant-15

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Imo, we didn't evolve to function in a vacuum and it has severe emotional/psychological effects if we're in that situation (involuntarily). If loneliness isn't a purposeful choice with the mental stability and maturity required to create your own structured life, it can be quite harmful.

It isn't just about "eating at a regular time", it's the social aspects of eating together, or seeing or interacting with people around which you can structure parts of your life.

Revenant-15

5 jaar geledendiscuss

> I might rather be depressed.

After experiencing both, I vastly prefer being on SSRIs, no contest. Probably wouldn't be here right now without them.

Revenant-15

5 jaar geledendiscuss

I remember RX 580s going for 170 Euros before the pandemic. I can only hope that prices reach sane levels sooner than later, but I suspect we're going to see at least another year of outlandish prices.