> I am arguing that some do. What is the purpose of finding someone, anyone, who holds some fringe opinion to attack it as if its common? You can find any opinion about anything out there after all. > Quoting some…
> The "America is too spread out" argument is total bullshit. In support of this statement, here is a map of "mega regions": http://www.america2050.org/sync/elements/america2050map.png Source:…
It's not paid by taxes but by health insurance. We have both a private and a semi-public system (managed by "Krankenkassen", independent insurance entities, that compete for members; it's... complicated, but less so…
> it should be up to me if the pain is server enough to warrant opioids It is! You do get the drugs you need. If you actually ARE in pain. But this woman, as predicted by her doctor, was not. If you read the article,…
Not sure how you manage to come up with such a comment after reading this particular article. Clearly she did not have the pain she feared she would have. She said she took two Ibuprofen - that she did not need! So why…
> You haven't provided any argument in how they are different You are quite the joker. Or maybe you have some real problems reading English? Try again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16197689 Of course, it's been…
> that your claim that there isnt at all is wrong. Well, it isn't, as I already pointed out. Is the main strength of your argument how often you repeat it? > So your claim is simply wrong. Ah, yes, as I suspected. A…
I don't understand what your question has to do with anything I wrote. Unless your intention is not an actual honest discussion, but to mislead - but surely that cannot be true.
Not like cash at all. You can't pay with cash unless you are right there. Also, paying with large amounts of cash is hard or suspicious or even impossible.
As a software architect (current title, but I had a technical education, "electrical/mechanical", incl. technical drawing, lab work, metal work, decades ago, before studying CS), who prefers text most of the time I…
if bots can produce 'worthy set of opinions' we would be totally useless Are you useless because other people write comments? What is the difference between it being a biological human and an artificial human - should…
> I'm pretty sure no one is seriously remotely claiming that machines understand text better than humans. Just some of the headlines: - http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/15/technology/reading-robot-ali... "Computers are…
I've been a heavy user of Flow for - two years now? I also occasionally use TypeScript. I don't contribute to the code (in the Flow case, I don't speak OCaml, I contributed a bit to the type library and the online docs;…
I won't dispute it because of the general "If you've never seen a black swan, is that proof that none exists? (No)" fallacy, but speaking as a German, I cannot remember having seen one in Germany, ever. So even if one…
I know I won't get any updates for the system for my 2012 Dell XPS 8500 (256 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM, i7 CPU - I don't see a need for an upgrade, it's all there). Does that mean I'll just be left out cold? That's how I…
I'm originally from one of those former GDR states (they became states after reunification, during the GDR they were smaller districts - "Bezirke" [0]). The countryside is slowly dying, even though it still looks pretty…
IMO there are a lot of needlessly downvoted comments on HN these days. A few months ago I was trying to stem that tide and upvoted downvoted comments when I saw no reason for those downvotes. It really looks completely…
1 Get a die 2 Decide which numbers on the die represent which decision 3 Roll the die 4 Use that random decision . ...time passes... 5 You really dislike the decision made by the die? Go with the other one 6 Should you…
I don't think that that is the idea. I think the reason is similar to what was shown for seat belts: When you know you are protected you take more risks. If criminals can protect themselves they are probably more likely…
> I'm extremely curious about how you found out Exclusion and desperation. I got nothing from various doctors despite problems that I thought should be treatable. It had very, very slowly gotten worse over two to three…
Keyword here: "acute". Nothing about chronic exposure, which is what is relevant here. Even if they did have a long-term study of low-dose exposure, it would be an extremely limited one (rats, mice, controlled…
For example, https://ask.metafilter.com/297591/Origin-of-the-term-Enginee... > ...used to describe engineers and other technical folks assuming their technical knowledge of systems (usually computer,…
Which he didn't write - you did. You even put it in quotes, nice try. The discussion brings out the worst in some people here.
This site is going down the drain. More and more like Slashdot and others. I'll only post useless comments any more, anything else is a waste of effort. The only way to achieve change is to make things WORSE. New…
We are missing a lot of context - much of which you can't supply here even if you wanted to. For example, it seems entirely plausible and not exactly rocket science that not eating the wrong foods (for a given person -…
> I am arguing that some do. What is the purpose of finding someone, anyone, who holds some fringe opinion to attack it as if its common? You can find any opinion about anything out there after all. > Quoting some…
> The "America is too spread out" argument is total bullshit. In support of this statement, here is a map of "mega regions": http://www.america2050.org/sync/elements/america2050map.png Source:…
It's not paid by taxes but by health insurance. We have both a private and a semi-public system (managed by "Krankenkassen", independent insurance entities, that compete for members; it's... complicated, but less so…
> it should be up to me if the pain is server enough to warrant opioids It is! You do get the drugs you need. If you actually ARE in pain. But this woman, as predicted by her doctor, was not. If you read the article,…
Not sure how you manage to come up with such a comment after reading this particular article. Clearly she did not have the pain she feared she would have. She said she took two Ibuprofen - that she did not need! So why…
> You haven't provided any argument in how they are different You are quite the joker. Or maybe you have some real problems reading English? Try again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16197689 Of course, it's been…
> that your claim that there isnt at all is wrong. Well, it isn't, as I already pointed out. Is the main strength of your argument how often you repeat it? > So your claim is simply wrong. Ah, yes, as I suspected. A…
I don't understand what your question has to do with anything I wrote. Unless your intention is not an actual honest discussion, but to mislead - but surely that cannot be true.
Not like cash at all. You can't pay with cash unless you are right there. Also, paying with large amounts of cash is hard or suspicious or even impossible.
As a software architect (current title, but I had a technical education, "electrical/mechanical", incl. technical drawing, lab work, metal work, decades ago, before studying CS), who prefers text most of the time I…
if bots can produce 'worthy set of opinions' we would be totally useless Are you useless because other people write comments? What is the difference between it being a biological human and an artificial human - should…
> I'm pretty sure no one is seriously remotely claiming that machines understand text better than humans. Just some of the headlines: - http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/15/technology/reading-robot-ali... "Computers are…
I've been a heavy user of Flow for - two years now? I also occasionally use TypeScript. I don't contribute to the code (in the Flow case, I don't speak OCaml, I contributed a bit to the type library and the online docs;…
I won't dispute it because of the general "If you've never seen a black swan, is that proof that none exists? (No)" fallacy, but speaking as a German, I cannot remember having seen one in Germany, ever. So even if one…
I know I won't get any updates for the system for my 2012 Dell XPS 8500 (256 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM, i7 CPU - I don't see a need for an upgrade, it's all there). Does that mean I'll just be left out cold? That's how I…
I'm originally from one of those former GDR states (they became states after reunification, during the GDR they were smaller districts - "Bezirke" [0]). The countryside is slowly dying, even though it still looks pretty…
IMO there are a lot of needlessly downvoted comments on HN these days. A few months ago I was trying to stem that tide and upvoted downvoted comments when I saw no reason for those downvotes. It really looks completely…
1 Get a die 2 Decide which numbers on the die represent which decision 3 Roll the die 4 Use that random decision . ...time passes... 5 You really dislike the decision made by the die? Go with the other one 6 Should you…
I don't think that that is the idea. I think the reason is similar to what was shown for seat belts: When you know you are protected you take more risks. If criminals can protect themselves they are probably more likely…
> I'm extremely curious about how you found out Exclusion and desperation. I got nothing from various doctors despite problems that I thought should be treatable. It had very, very slowly gotten worse over two to three…
Keyword here: "acute". Nothing about chronic exposure, which is what is relevant here. Even if they did have a long-term study of low-dose exposure, it would be an extremely limited one (rats, mice, controlled…
For example, https://ask.metafilter.com/297591/Origin-of-the-term-Enginee... > ...used to describe engineers and other technical folks assuming their technical knowledge of systems (usually computer,…
Which he didn't write - you did. You even put it in quotes, nice try. The discussion brings out the worst in some people here.
This site is going down the drain. More and more like Slashdot and others. I'll only post useless comments any more, anything else is a waste of effort. The only way to achieve change is to make things WORSE. New…
We are missing a lot of context - much of which you can't supply here even if you wanted to. For example, it seems entirely plausible and not exactly rocket science that not eating the wrong foods (for a given person -…