bjt2n3904 (u/bjt2n3904)

bjt2n3904 commented on You'll own nothing and be happy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You... · Posted by u/marcodiego

dang · 2 years ago

We've banned this account for using HN primarily (exclusively?) for ideological battle and ignoring our request to stop. That's not allowed here, regardless of your ideology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

bjt2n3904 · 2 years ago

My (near decade long) comment history speaks for itself. I do not primarily use HN for a culture war, but I do engage it. Despite how I try to avoid the culture war, it beat a path to my door, and threatens my livelihood. Something something, "and when they came for me, there was no one left to speak".

I maintain that I'm being banned -- not for engaging in the already present ideological battle on HN, but merely for engaging on the wrong side of it.

bjt2n3904 commented on The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin (2016) newyorker.com/tech/annals... · Posted by u/sklargh

bjt2n3904 · 2 years ago

The fact that Daghlian and Slotin died in the same hospital bed has always been a sobering thought. "Well, that does it" are harrowing words.

There are famous engineering incidents that are good to study -- the Challenger disaster, the Minnesota Bridge collapse, the Therac 25... But compared with the LANL Criticality incident, there's something different. The former are all technical failure analysis.

This incident is almost existential in it's implications, like Shelly's Frankenstein. A discussion on the nature of humanity.

bjt2n3904 commented on Memory Allocation samwho.dev/memory-allocat... · Posted by u/thecoppinger

bjt2n3904 · 2 years ago

The asides with the dog are great. I've seen a few blogs use this technique -- I'm not big on Greek, but I think Plato used this technique too.

It instills the idea that you should be asking a question at this point. Some information has been provided that should generate more questions in your head, if you're keeping pace.

bjt2n3904 commented on Ketamine no better than placebo at alleviating depression, unusual trial finds science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/theNewMicrosoft

bjt2n3904 · 2 years ago

Psychiatry, having failed to measurably solve any "mental health" problem is so desperate to find a solution that it's sampling the recreational drug cabinet. This isn't science. This isn't medicine. This is rolling back the clock to witch doctors and medicine men.

Can't be depressed if your mind has been chemically lobotomized.

bjt2n3904 commented on Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way med.stanford.edu/news/all... · Posted by u/CharlesW

robotburrito · 2 years ago

We are always trying to solve this problem while avoiding the elephant in the room, the current state of society is not very healthy for most people.

bjt2n3904 · 2 years ago

What you say here will be deeply unpopular.

I have found that people treat depression and anxiety like a medical condition -- diabetes, or high cholesterol.

Yet I can measure those numbers, compare them with other people similar to me, determine what ranges are outside the norm, and observe changes as I try different strategies to manage them.

Depression, like physical pain, can neither be measured nor compared. And if this analogy holds, then there are those who would rather dull their pain with medication and claim victimhood, rather than find the source of it.

bjt2n3904 commented on Average Age of Cars on U.S. Roads Hits 12.5 Years, a Record High thedrive.com/news/average... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

bjt2n3904 · 2 years ago

Everyone's got their fairly reasonable explanations as to why this is happening. Complexity in cars driving up cost and tanking reliability. Inflation. Tight finances. Public transit, work from home.

And then I look at the WEF guys, who want to make personal vehicle ownership not a thing and think... Boy it's happening. We're turning into Cuba with ancient cars on the road -- eventually none of them will be personally owned. And we're totally happy about that prospect for now.

2016: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/goodbye-car-ownership...

bjt2n3904 commented on U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr theintercept.com/2023/05/... · Posted by u/mikece

CPLX · 2 years ago

I get the concept. But there's a pretty obvious difference between just sitting in my home and going to work and posting on a global media platform that is literally intended to reach every other living human as its core reason for existing.

The argument seems bizarre to me. A much better pre-technology analogy would be if I wrote lots of letters to the editor of a newspaper and people read them.

Maybe it would even be a little creepy if the government had an FBI agent in every small town that read letters to the editor and sent them to be filed by topic in Washington or something.

But it wouldn't be spying right?

bjt2n3904 · 2 years ago

Who cares whether it's "spying" or "surveillance"?

Here's the real issue, which this semantics argument is derailing. Several times, a shooting spree has occurred, and all the government agencies say, "Oh, yeah... We knew about them! Anyways, the mass shooter's community is very much under attack..."

Pretty hard to swallow when the federal agencies are spending time and resources holding a magnifying glass over political opponents (with a long, LONG track record of nonviolence).