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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>This industry is rife with user-hostile behavior. It's become so commonplace you'll find these purveyors openly discussing it as if there isn't anything wrong with what they are doing; industry "best practices. The i
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>But I've observed from decades ago that when we look at progress in science and technology, the future looks unimaginably bright, but when we look at politics and governance, it is incredibly dark. I don't really see these as
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Just run highly rated MERV filters. I use a bit of a bulky MERV 14, but as long as you can cycle the total air volume of the space you're cleaning quickly, anything with 20+% uptake on small particles will work over time. The experimen
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I think this is interesting because it's such a common issue on this board. You can tell when people are requesting evidence to shut down a discussion vs. to broaden a discussion by the way they reply - if they bring in their own count
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All of the backlash I've seen over the paper has to do with the precision and effect sizes measured - I haven't seen an argument, let alone a credible argument, that the effect itself is not real. Follow-up research has confirmed
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Okay, go nuts: More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
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I like the data collection, but the design he uses for a box fan is VERY poor. You can get a large 20x20x1 filter that will cover the entire fan surface area of the box fan. Just from inspection, that should increase the total volume of air
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This is correct. Additionally, this isn't just someone's word. Witnesses will be cross examined. Their testimony will be compared with others, along with records. Ultimately the trier of fact will determine if they're credibl
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Professions mandate training minimums per year in order to maintain credentialled status. They're low, sure, but they at least create a need for ongoing professional education.
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>Vendors aren't arbitrarily setting "trends" You're right in that trends aren't arbitrary, but you've jumped from that idea to the idea that consumer needs are the reason. That's not the case. A large p
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Not really. All companies that make bags may be pulling consumers in different directions with respect to which style of bags they should purchase, but all will pull in the direction of "purchase bags". You can zoom out from bags
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I've gone through probably 300 slide decks from various industries that explicitly state that 'consumers in x demographic sector will need to be re-educated about the value of [something they didn't want]'. I've see
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This is a false dichotomy. Parties do not have to have binary, 1 and 0 values for how much power they have in a given transaction, and remarking that employees having little power places them in the same place as ancient hunter-gatherers is
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>Because if everyone raises their prices, the wage increase then effectively makes no difference. Not really. The relative elasticity of various goods and services (including labour) will determine which parties ultimately shoulder the c
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I've actually watched the briefing you're referring to. Go to 26:00 - 28:00 https://www.pscp.tv/w/1OyJAYoodRnJb The very next statement by Dr. Ryan "There also is the issue that there is a massive global
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>You seem to be making an argument from authority by leaning on experts I don't think that's the core of what I'm saying. I'm saying people have limited mental time, so devoting an unlimited volume of time to sorting
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This is actually pretty interesting because your post is premised upon a massive misreading of what actually happened. It shows you can spread disinformation while thinking you did your research. The expert knowledge was that mass usage of
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>ISPs themselves, (older) reddit, 4chan all serve as examples that the people you don't want to talk to can be mostly siloed off to some corner and you can have your own corner where you can have fun. Things only get problematic onc
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That's why I've got a frowny face there :).
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>But isn't the flip side of all this censorship a reduced ability for people to tell bullshit from reality? No. People have limited processing cycles in their heads, and you never notice the bullshit you fall for, so you can't
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>And as an aside, how many of us really need to be reminded, several times per day, of the scope of the 1st amendment? Really? Yes, that's why people are pre-emptively raising the status of the corporations in question as private -
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It's not a bizarre distinction. The discussion is about free speech, and a common talking point has to do with comparing the actions of companies to the protections laid out for free speech in the American first amendment. However, the
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
Just to chime in; the poster you're replying to is correct regarding your incorrectness related to the relative weighting of R&D vs. Marketing spend. Pull a public filing for these companies and take a look at their balance sheets;
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>No matter your technical proficiency, you are a lousy hire. Hard disagree. There is a place for the developer as product evangelist, and there's a place for the developer as a skilled tradesperson. The idea that someone needs to be
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>I also believed that non-ionizing radiation doesn't cause chemical reactions. I also believed that generally chemical reactions would be required to have a negative effect on human biology. These aren't true as a rule, but gen
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>I stream YouTube in the background while working on projects around the house and I can't recall the last time I was recommended a strange video that was somehow policy-breaking. I have a fairly curated stream of videos due to year
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>"Social justice" movements are also manipilative and are doing much more harm than good at this point Seems like a completely separate discussion, but I'd disagree emphatically with a premise that attempts to equivocate b
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>Or are we really that elitist, and do we really have so little faith in individual's ability to think for themselves? >Should we just abolish the idea of a free market of ideas? Not all ideas are the same. The free market of ide
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>It's like either you have a great deck and thousand emails or nothing. Pretty much. If you can't make the deck yourself, hire a third party to mock one up for you after you've put the content together; let them do the spa
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I don't really think it's a case of CEOs good, R&D bad. I think it's more of a case of CEOs not taking no for an answer for mission critical funding. I've been on the chain for many VC connections, and in the room fo

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