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by 46493168 7mo ago
This strikes me as a distinction without a difference.
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by 46493168 7mo ago
There’s a few books I recommend for you, if you’re open to learning more about this subject. The first is “Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas” by Natasha Dow Schüll. The second, and arguably more direct and fascinating, is “
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by 46493168 7mo ago
> How can you seriously think you've created something when you're just using someone else's software? This is the nature of delusion
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by 46493168 7mo ago
> So yeah, when you stop taking something that protects your heart and kidneys, it stops protecting... your heart and kidneys. This is not at all obvious and still requires further study. Do the drugs themselves have heart- and kidney- p
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by 46493168 7mo ago
In veterans with T2 diabetes: > To find out what happens when people stop taking GLP-1s, Al-Aly’s team of researchers tracked the health of more than 333,000 United States veterans with type 2 diabetes for three years.
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by 46493168 7mo ago
People make choices based on information in the market. The question in the thread was “why are people using Mac and Windows?” One answer is: linux is not well known, and what is know is that Linux is a hassle.
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by 46493168 7mo ago
Really? When every thread about linux on a laptop includes comments like “palm rejection doesn’t work but I use an external mouse so I don’t care” and “the laptop gets hot in my backpack because sleep/suspend doesn’t work so I just pow
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by 46493168 7mo ago
>You FIRST have to fix the system before you open up the floodgates. I don't see any reason to fix the system on a nationwide level. Let the individual states figure it out. There's things that the top 5 US states for healthcar
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by 46493168 7mo ago
Yes, precisely. The smaller subset that make bank from the current system directly benefit from us poors (aka non-billionaires) from blaming the person lower on the ladder.
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by 46493168 7mo ago
This version (finally!) has an updated version of Bluetooth (5.3 vs 5.0). BLE was finalized in 5.2. So fingers crossed that it’s fixed.
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by 46493168 7mo ago
What does this comment mean?
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by 46493168 7mo ago
The United States will never have universal healthcare because a subset of the population would rather pay more for worse health outcomes than participate in a system the provides abortions, HRT, or PreP, or any healthcare at all to Black p
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by 46493168 7mo ago
Waterfield makes a better case, it even has magnets that do what the smart case does
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by 46493168 7mo ago
Could you point to where Apple claims that H2 enables lossless audio over wireless for the AirPods Max 2? I don’t see that claim on the spec sheet. What I see is this note: “Ultra-low latency audio and Lossless Audio listening requires a wi
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by 46493168 7mo ago
XM6 does not support audio over USB-C (The USB-C port on the XM6 is only for charging) QC Ultra 2 does, but the headphones turn off when plugged in and have to be turned back on while charging AirPods Max with USB-C and AirPods Max 2 appear
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by 46493168 7mo ago
Are you sure your AirPods Max have the latest firmware? This issue was addressed in an update right after the first version came out and people reported the issue you're describing: If you set your AirPods Max down and leave them stati
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by 46493168 7mo ago
"...the thin wires carrying power can crack over time, specifically after hundreds or thousands of swivels of the earcups (since they turn 90 degrees to fit flat into their case). That microscopic crack can cause issues with the connec
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by 46493168 7mo ago
>I really don't understand how these are $549. H2 chip enables smart audio switching when paired with Apple account + other Apple products. This is a feature that many people find valuable.
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by 46493168 7mo ago
Thermals and the interconnection speed would be a drag, but it would be nice to have a target display mode on a mac for iPhone
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by 46493168 7mo ago
What version of MacOS are you running on yours? I have a 2017, 16GB, 1.7ghz and it's DOG slow on Ventura, even with reduce motion and reduce transparency. I have considered downgrading just to see if there's improvement.
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by 46493168 7mo ago
> but who knows how long someone might be making that kind of money? Would you mind saying a little bit more about your thinking here? A million a year doesn’t just sound like a lot, it is a lot. FRED reports the median income in Washi
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by 46493168 7mo ago
Palantir found their next contract for facial recognition. Palatir x Flock collab soon?
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by 46493168 7mo ago
Used by whom?
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by 46493168 7mo ago
The future is a labor shortage. Good for wages, bad for inflation.
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by 46493168 7mo ago
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/addiction-outlook/20... The delivery system modulates speed and magnitude of the hit, which affects how rapidly and how strongly dependence forms, but every form produc
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by 46493168 7mo ago
It's a reasonable mistake, I'd say. We spent those decades conflating "nicotine" with "smoking" and, through herculean efforts, managed to get the smoking rate down to 12-14% (in Germany it's still 22.7%!)
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by 46493168 7mo ago
What dimension of “addictive” are you anchoring on? Capture rate? Withdrawal severity? Reinforcement strength? Relapse rate after quitting? Nicotine dominates on some of those and not others.
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by 46493168 7mo ago
Because people will buy it.
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Under the most common frameworks for assessing claims about "indigenous status" or "land entitlement", length of continuous inhabitation and external support for migration are big factors. Considering Sitting Bull's
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by 46493168 8mo ago
There was never a process where Arab or Muslim conquerors completely replaced the native population, they just added to it. Conversion and Arabization gradually transformed the existing population’s identity. If descent from conquerors me

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