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by B56b 1y ago
The increase in supply he advocates for is a viable solution because it is sensitive to different things. Small, local development gets built and becomes profitable based on demand of the local housing market, but almost all housing today i
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by B56b 1y ago
Oh is there a reason you couldn't use IndexedDB to store the puzzles?
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by B56b 1y ago
The fact that people are generally uncritical of this growth claim is just stunning. You have to believe that this is as big as smartphones while ignoring all of the differences with this cycle of hype.
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by B56b 2y ago
They absolutely are tracking revenues/profits on CNBC, what are you talking about?
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by B56b 2y ago
Nope, eating nothing but potatoes for the rest of your life is a fantastic way to ensure that you end up with severe macro/micronutrient deficiencies, which will be a very effective way of generating disease, including cancer.
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by B56b 2y ago
That's a Blaise Pascal quote actually.
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by B56b 3y ago
You're basically just describing fee-less digital currency. The problem is that achieving the fee-less part by using a blockchain makes some extremely undesirable tradeoffs. To name a few: -Money laundering becomes impossible to pr
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by B56b 3y ago
I think the article makes a pretty good case for bloat being bad for low-end users actually. His analysis demonstrates how many websites become genuinely unusable on cheaper devices, not just to techie standards, but for anyone trying to ac
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by B56b 3y ago
Umm, no I would not describe Ray Kurzweil's predictions as "disturbingly on target". Dan Luu checked everything and came up with 7% accuracy: https://danluu.com/futurist-predictions/ .
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by B56b 3y ago
The correlation they saw was after controlling for potentially confounding variables, like income level, housing stock, density, and demographics, as explained in this article: https://caseytrees.org/2023/09/mythbu
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by B56b 3y ago
Jonathan Haidt has researched this topic extensively and concluded that it was both, or rather that it was the replacement of play-based childhood with screen-based childhood. Particularly social media's effect on young girls was very
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by B56b 3y ago
It just comes mostly from other vehicles, or are 42,000+ people also being killed each year while taking public transit?
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by B56b 3y ago
Odds are word of mouth is not going to be kind to this though. I can see pre-order statistics being overly optimistic.
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by B56b 3y ago
With the ubiquity of SUVs at this point I can't imagine that many of them are being sold to men wanting to feel more "Rugged". I would think the vast majority are bought by those who want the additional space and safety of th
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by B56b 3y ago
That's exactly it. I'm not sure what about software in particular makes people think that it can exist without funding. People have no problem paying for a physical product, but virtual products are hard to justify for some reason
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by B56b 3y ago
It seems inevitable for online discussions of a topic this large to be completely unproductive. It's broad enough that everyone's favorite societal ill can be blamed, yet virtually no one reads Haidt's research explaining why
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by B56b 3y ago
There's been a significant increase in anxiety and depression among adolescents since ~2012. It's not just business as usual, and it's significant enough that the same increase is visible in hospital admissions for self-harm.