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Anti Europe propaganda has ramped up on HN in the past few years. The right in the US is destroying their country so they need to point at and lie about other systems to appease their base.

A country is not a business. The goals are different. The levers and constraints are different.

For one, in this analogy, we (the "employers") have no power but the "employee" (the government) has the power of the law and the power of the guns.

In a private company the employer has the power over the employees.

That's like including your commute as a part of your job. That's not what people are talking about when they say coding is solved.

Man,did that page load fast. It made me realize how slow the rest the (my) web is.

That's not even about tech news. I couldn't tell you if Coca cola is part of a bigger group.

Show me any brand in a supermarket and I couldn't tell you who owns them.

When put in these terms it shows it's perfectly normal not to know who's behind chatgpt.

I didn't know who Shingy was. He looks like Jensen Huang's subconscious.

Humans are not prompted.

Exactly. Whether hn is a social platform is a hot topic for some, but in terms of addictiveness it's on the same level as reddit. And there's no algorithm and sub categories.

But every day there's basically the same type of threads, with the same predictable discussions and you know just by the title and the amount of comments on a thread that you'll get you dose of dopamine whether you're pro or anti any topic that is regularly discussed.

I made the same observation recently.

I think people under 25 probably don't even know how absolutely uncool it was to tell people you stayed at home in front of a computer on weekends or after school.

Absolute pariah behavior on the scale of coolness. But now ? Totally normal.

It's all about balance. Learning about various stuff from well written articles and Wikipedia for one hour is good. Doing the same thing for the whole weekend isn't.

Even reading books all the time to the detriment of other activities isn't good.

What's good is doing a bit of everything. Reading a book an hour before sleep, doing a hour of exercise two to three times a week. Reading a few blog articles, wikipedia, long and well researched magazine articles. Making time for in person social interactions. Playing games, video games, board games, card games from time to time. Engaging in a few online discussions every week. Etc

It's all about balance or at least that's the way I see it.

Better five guilty people free than one innocent in prison.

I'd like a national poll on this principle. My guess is a vast majority would disagree with it.

I wonder if there are Americans on hn who already self censor their criticism of the Trump regime because they're scared of reprisals.

I have another question I've always wanted to ask. How do you spell words if you can't picture them in your mind?

Have you memorized that "pyramid" is spelled p-y-r-a-m-i-d and that for every word? How does it work for Chinese characters?

To answer my own question from a non aphantasia perspective the best I can describe it is that I conjure the picture of the word in my mind then I read each letter aloud.

> The Book of Judith (probably written between 150 and 100 B.C.) contains an early description of someone dying of heatstroke.

I can't take the article seriously after that.