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Even if the risk is minuscule, I just have no incentive to subject myself to additional risk.

I’ve already been diagnosed with covid and it was fine, a little worse than an average cold. Why should I take a vaccine and risk side effects for a disease with a 99.9% survival rate, when I’m not even bothered by it? Doesn’t make sense to me.

I’m sure they’d gladly defend the BLM protestors who attacked federal buildings.

There may also be a moral hazard - by investing my own time into my work, I disadvantage others who are not willing or able to do so, by seeming even more productive than my baseline.

Lol at calling this a moral hazard. By your logic any positive thing you ever do in life will disadvantage others who are not doing it and therefore appear worse in comparison. Let’s not have a race to the bottom just to seem like the nicest person possible.

I am so tired of constantly hearing about politics at my workplace. Politics have already made their way into the tv shows, music, video games, and online forums that I enjoy. At least let me disconnect from that outrage-fuel at work. It also affects team cohesion. I can easily collaborate with just about anyone when I don’t know their political beliefs. As soon as I find out someone holds opposing views on a topic I feel strongly about, I can’t help but dread my interactions with them. I would strongly prefer to not know what my coworkers think about (most) non-work related topics.

Softly bigoted? She is blatantly racist and sexist against white men. If she made those same tweets but “white male” was replaced with “black female” it would be enough to get fired from most jobs.

Somehow in an attempt to “fix” racial disparities, America is making race relations worse than they’ve been in decades.

It’s not financially beneficial. The poster you replied to has no idea what he’s talking about. Repaying the highest interest loan first will still be the best choice.

Amusing to see people on hackernews advocating for mathematically inferior debt repayment strategies because of “feelings”.

A huge number of assets would drop similarly if you unloaded .1% of their entire market cap in one day. I’d say BTC recovered fairly well from that sale.

A never before seen coronavirus was found just miles away from one of only two BSL-4 laboratories in all of China, which also happens to publish gain of function research on coronaviruses. I find it amusing that anyone can claim a lab accident origin is “crazy”.

Lots of pushback in this thread against the idea of 10x, 50x, etc. engineers. If we’re just measuring performance relative to the average software developer then I don’t see why they wouldn’t exist. I’ve met developers who solve problems that the average developer would simply never solve no matter how much time they threw at it. You could make the argument that they are “infinityx” engineers, as silly as that might sound.

Only if it’s a Proof of Work blockchain. Ethereum is what is mainly used for NFTs and it’s in the process of migrating to Proof of Stake.

Sounds like a lot of work. Not sure why you think that is superior to simply using a blockchain.

do you think the distribution of bitcoin will be somewhat equitable as we approach 2140

I don’t see why the distribution of anything would be “equitable”, outside of a communist utopia/dystopia. These days that word is mostly used by people exploiting the empathy of others to gain power for themselves.

Someone reading an econ101 textbook and immediately deciding that Bitcoin is unnecessary is an amusing example of Dunning-Kruger :)

Alternative viewpoint: platforms without censorship tend to be right wing because that is what succeeds in a free marketplace of ideas. Left wing ideas require censorship to thrive.

Considering America’s obsession with diversity, I find it hard to believe that she would have an easier time in Europe or anywhere else in the world. In America she would receive countless offers purely as a diversity hire. That’s not to say she wouldn’t deserve the offers based on merit, but Silicon Valley has decided that pure ability is less important to hiring than race and gender. That gives her an enormous advantage over white and asian males.

You are essentially arguing against “innocent until proven guilty” and implying it’s okay for a global corporation to take a public stance against a minor before his court case is even finished. Deleting only the content suggesting he might be innocent will significantly affect public opinion, regardless of the final outcome of the case. If it turns out he is innocent then this is going to be the Nicholas Sandmann situation all over again.

Oh no, how unfortunate that Charles Darwin’s name appears in Biology textbooks. I am getting extremely sick of the media’s obsession with race.

In my opinion eugenics is only wrong when it is forced. I see nothing wrong with providing financial incentives for people to reproduce if they have qualities that society tends to find positive, such as having a high IQ or performing well on some exam. Obviously no metric will be perfect, but they are at least a better proxy for intelligence than a coin flip.

These are the times we live in. Thanks to widespread racist/sexist hiring practices, every time I see a woman or minority in an upper level position I can’t help but wonder if they are there because someone wanted to fill a diversity quota. The thought never even crossed my mind 10 years ago.

Often when I see numbers instead of percentages in these discussions, I can’t help but think it’s intended to manipulate the reader and that the percentage wouldn’t evoke the same emotional reaction.

The hash of the next bitcoin block can already be used for this. Easy tamper resistant random number every 10 minutes.