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void-sky • yesterday at 12:55 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

We all have that already, it's called smartphone sadly.

It works with whatever political direction you lean on, which stance you have on two or more genders, which religion you love or hate, which gaming platform you prefer, how old you are and many more "divide and conquer"-topics.

It'll be difficult to replace because it's so effective already...


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pohl • yesterday at 2:01 PM

Might want to take up bird watching: an early indicator of cognitive decline is the loss of an ability to pick up on subtext.

triceratops • yesterday at 1:55 PM

> We all have that already, it's called smartphone sadly.

That's what the person you responded to was saying.

kurthr • yesterday at 1:24 PM

What percentage of people are neither of the simple common XY nor XX chromosomes? It's about as many people as there are with red hair. If you don't include chimerics it's about 0.25-1.7%, if you do include twin chimerics it's 8%, not including mothers micro-chimerism.

Probably shouldn't be having those Kenyans (Kalenjin) competing in marathons either. Completely unfair advantage.

All models are wrong, some are useful.

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