Atheros

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by Atheros 3y ago
The problem is that it's impossible to get all of your peers to put down their phones at the same time and do the hard work of rebuilding normal social structures and low tech communications channels. You (a teenager) can invite your p
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by Atheros 3y ago
He talked about not having a marriage and you misread it as not having a partner. That's a pretty severe misunderstanding and I'm very curious what caused it.
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by Atheros 3y ago
The private messaging apps are modern social media. Social media is a service a group of people who know each other in real life communicate about things happening to them in real life. I know that a lot of people take issue with that def
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by Atheros 3y ago
Some people don't just guard that word, they guard all words. We as a society even need to pass laws to protect the definition of words we use in commerce, like "ice cream" and "bread", otherwise people would abuse
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by Atheros 3y ago
Bricked things can only be unbricked because the word has gradually lost most of its meaning. At this rate some day you're going to hear someone say they bricked their phone and mean that it ran out of battery and needs to be recharged
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by Atheros 3y ago
If you can't fix it or find someone who can, it is bricked. If you are able to fix it then it is not bricked. One device may be bricked to one person but not to another. But that must still be the definition, right? Otherwise the wor
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by Atheros 3y ago
If the cars caused the mindset then the mindset would necessarily be delayed by two generations because mindset and worldview changes require new humans.
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by Atheros 3y ago
It has to be worth a lot less than that today. The number of young people who visit websites ever in any given week is dropping. Reddit's usage among young people shot up after mobile apps were developed for it, not before. Domains j
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by Atheros 3y ago
The number of people who enjoy music is and always has been lower than the number of people who find it useful to use music as a pretext for socializing. Tape is easier to carry and lend to friends than vinyl. Tape can be recorded by home u
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by Atheros 3y ago
If your goals is to communicate an idea to other people or society and you are the one talking, you can and should choose to not use incorrect language. Even if the other person sometimes uses incorrect language. You insistence on using i
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by Atheros 3y ago
In a ponzi scheme, some actors go to jail for the rest of their lives and in a speculative bubble they do not. There are good reasons to have separate words for these separate concepts. Dishonest people will always use hyperbole when descri
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by Atheros 3y ago
I've seen a lot of this reject-all-analogies behavior on the Internet lately. I've been interested to find an underlying cause beyond just more kids online lately.
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by Atheros 3y ago
I don't think that Apollo's lunch was free. Apollo gave Reddit free content, free content reviews (voting) that can be used for sorting, and free moderation, and all Reddit had to do was handle anti-bot mechanisms and host a centr
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by Atheros 3y ago
Who is making these loans? Do they know something we don't? Or do they just think that they'll be bailed out when it all goes bust? Last time the banks were selling the loans to other people. Is that happening again this time? Thi
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by Atheros 3y ago
They'll never Ever discharge into the grid. If it's ever close to economic to do so, it'll be more economic for utilities to buy and install cheaper grid-scale batteries on their own. Batteries designed to move around safely
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by Atheros 3y ago
I wish to propose a solution: A tax when you wish to add someone to your block list. $1 per person per door per year. Madison Square Garden is a popular spot and so serves lots of people and so has lots of doors so that business should, I t
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by Atheros 4y ago
It is pretty outrageous, yes. If Alice logs in and I correctly request Alice's details from the database, it's reasonable for me to expect that the database either returns Alice's details or an error. It shouldn't be up
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by Atheros 4y ago
What did I write that is false? You didn't actually contradict any of it. You wrote about what people prefer and I wrote about what people do . > People tolerate watching things on small screens without good audio, sure, but that
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by Atheros 4y ago
I know that middle-brow dismissals are frowned upon but I want to write this anyway: I will never believe these types of studies without either a control group or better measuring of confounding variables. Health & happiness and marriag
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by Atheros 4y ago
30 years ago members of the general public spent money on home stereos with good speakers. Photos, videos, and movies from the 80s of male teenagers' rooms all had at least decent stereos if not pretty good stereos. And now they don&
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by Atheros 4y ago
Name and shame.
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by Atheros 4y ago
The level of BS in this thread perfectly resembles the BS in religious-level audiophile discussions. A mixture of provably correct and provably incorrect statements all mixed together with common words used in uncommon ways. > But yes, t
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by Atheros 4y ago
You didn't answer my question. Above, you said that IQ tests cannot compare intelligence differences over time and I asked why. The fact that the average is always normalized to 100 doesn't make your statement true. Researchers ca
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by Atheros 4y ago
Why not?
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by Atheros 4y ago
Isn't that a distinction without a difference? The U.S. Fed creates money out of thin air and then lends it to the Treasury. Eventually the Fed gets it back from the Treasury and deletes it. China skips the lending step. The difference
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by Atheros 4y ago
Survivorship bias occurs when researchers focus on individuals, groups, or cases that have passed some sort of selection process while ignoring those who did not. The author made the case that history's geniuses practically all had pri
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by Atheros 4y ago
He didn't fail to consider that, he just didn't consider that, because he had no reason to consider that, just like he didn't consider the orbit of Pluto or the phases of the moon. If you think he should have considered and c
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by Atheros 4y ago
'"green square" instagram' > About 1,080,000 results (0.42 seconds) It's a bubble.
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by Atheros 4y ago
17% efficiency at a 20°C/200°C temperature differential according to their website.
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by Atheros 4y ago
Advocates of the vacancy tax imply that their goal is to eliminate vacancies thus freeing up more housing. If our goal is, instead, to maximize tax revenue in order to build permanently-affordable housing then that is a much different (and

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