lookalike74

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96
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Jan 19
I am not affiliated with Ycombinator the startup incubator but I love reading Hacker News and the comments. I work at a privately-owned healthcare startup and I imagine that's not very interesting to a business based on outside funding. But I just saw I had 96 karma points which isn't negative so I hope registering is helpful.
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Comment · 1 day ago
Sure, and tell us how/if you don't care about email providers generating "interest" for commercial reasons when half of anyone's inbox is full of crap no one wants or requested.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 3 months ago
This article gets it wrong from the start... "But whereas speech is most obviously important for communicating propositions or concepts, obtaining such knowledge, this is not the primary function of music." There's the talking drums of Native Americans, rap music, and so much more.
Comment · 7 months ago
Great share, thank you!
Comment · 11 months ago
Why point out the couple who paid for the surrogacy is a gay male couple? Seems like more of a dog-whistle than a valid point.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing this. I work in telehealth and in the U.S. at least, most patients using these devices have no idea what data they're sharing and who they're sharing the data with.
Comment · 1 year ago
Also ambiguous would be sympathy for this but not for the many private citizens called out publicly on social media by platform owners and government officials for the express purpose of risking those citizens' safety, especially since most citizens don't have the secret service and endless taxpayer money to protect them.
Comment · 1 year ago
Other than comparing the sales records of two bands, concert attendance, or other numerical measures, it's hard to imagine your comment makes any sense. The Stones and REM weren't contemporaries.
Comment · 2 years ago
Is that really analogous to one of the world's largest social media sites, especially one with AI that knows exactly what ads to serve you and your friends but not that you're dead?
Comment · 3 years ago
I love you for this comment
Comment · 3 years ago
Rupert Murdoch popularized tabloid news as we know it today and Fox News is a reflection of that. They were always concerned more with ratings than facts, and whoever wrote this article is full of shit because the Rupert-Fox-tabloid connection started in the 70s.
Comment · 3 years ago
Happy for the author and some good points to consider as food for thought (however lacking in research on key points.) But reading between the lines, if the worst addiction did to him/her was dropping to 85lbs and getting kicked out of college for selling drugs, that pretty much indicates a pampered college kid who never truly worked for a habit and it gets SO much worse than that.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thank you for this comment. The only possible negative here is "Kiwifarms itself will most likely find other infrastructure that allows them to come back online." Cloudflare supposedly being "concerned that our action may only fan the flames of this emergency" is disingenuous at best.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's also easy to dehumanize by assuming there are 'archetypes' that can be reasonably applied to people just because they're poor or living on the street.
Comment · 4 years ago
Most food banks in the U.S. use tolerances that go months beyond the dates on packaged and canned foods and also take into account the integrity of the cans/packages. Fresh prepared foods like bakery items are repackaged for quick redistribution. Fruits/veggies (which are a very small portion of what food banks get) are distributed according to their condition but otherwise spoil the same there as anywhere else. And larger foodbank systems distribute things to the agencies - where people who need food actually go - using these guidelines and sometimes have the same food storage methods as grocery distribution centers might. Liability is a concern, but more in the sense of distributing healthy, useful food vs lawsuits.

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