EchoReflection

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by EchoReflection 2y ago
the only "Osborne" I can think of off the top of my head is the fictional Norman Osborne (aka the Green Goblin) [and I guess to be fair his equally fictional son Harry Osborne]
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by EchoReflection 2y ago
Haidt is also co-author of the extremely relevant, data-rich, and well-researched book "The Coddling of the American Mind", which is definitely worth every modern human's time/money/attention. In the book he and
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
dang, seems like they missed out on not going for "radix"
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
"non-profit" and "not-for-profit" are super misleading terms. I worked for a "non-profit" for about a year, they made boatloads of money that just went into the hands of the staff and the head of the company,
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
"rent is up nearly 20% since 2020" but is that taking into account the change in the value of the dollar and changes in the consumer price index? https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2020?amount=1
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
i have been using Ente for a few years now and totally love/recommend it
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
https://archive.is/2024.02.27-205528/https://www.bloomberg.c...
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
"Economic Facts and Fallacies" by Thomas Sowell is a very good book that talks a lot about this (indirectly). https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/economic-fac...
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
the only other options I can think of (in the USA) are USPS and a company that I haven't seen in so long that I wondered if they were still in business, DHL. DHL's website is still up and running, but I guess they aren't doi
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/coddling-of-the-american-m... Historically, students had consistently opposed administrative calls for campus censorship, yet recently Lukianoff was encountering more demands for campu
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
regarding the idea that the horrors of Mao's China, Stalin's Russia, or Pol Pot's Cambodia are not possible in a "free" country like the USA: "There always is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the s
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
"even chatGPT says chatGPT is racially biased" https://web.archive.org/web/20240209051937/https://www.scien...
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
"The Coddling of the American Mind" by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff is a very good (and troubling) book that talks a lot about "safetyism". I can't recommend it enough. https://jonathanhaidt.com&#
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
friendly suggestion, avoid describing yourself as "not a smart person". Research definitely shows that self-talk can have significant effects. I know this from my own life and experiences, but for the sake of writing this respons
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
it is sad (and appalling) that so many people around the world are so addicted to "convenience" and material possessions that Amazon flourishes financially despite the huge number of reasons to avoid using that godforsaken abomina
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
even though i liked Bard, it is only one (extra) letter away from being the word "bad". "Bard" is cooler imo but "Gemini" starts with "G", has "gem" (a rare, valuable thing) in it, and sou
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
good response
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
"everything" but only the "high quality" (or highER quality) instances of everything. seems pretty reasonable.
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
I predominantly use Vivaldi, although I occasionally use FF as well. Mull and Fennec are good choices too, and in the past I used Bromite.
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
I don't remember when I first learned about HN, I think maybe when I was in high school(I'm 36 now). I have found an uncountable number of interesting and imo mentally valuable things through here. When I share them (which I often
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
case study in the power of word choice, this “headline” reads “Apple allows SOME iOS apps to track"... but the actual article to which this page links does not include the word "some", making (imo) Yingyu's article
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
worse, Apple and Google worked together (without the public knowing, of course) "as if they were one company". https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-20/apple-goo... https://www.
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
even though (I think) I 100% agree with that article, I'm not sure it is sound. one can buy the right/rights to something "for X amount of time" or on "Y amount of devices" (what is known as a "lease&quo
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
I wonder if the "release" was done in spite of dev knowledge that it isn't really ready. Like "screw it, we want to attract eyeballs even though we know it's premature"
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
seems like if FF leadership is smart they will figure out some way to tweak their product so that it is compliant or they will start spending money on advertising. I have never once in my entire life (I'm 36) seen an ad for FF. Perso
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
I just want to say thank you to everyone who is doing tests and contributing to this, you are truly unsung heroes (not sarcasm)
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
pretty sure not sarcasm
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
so far everyone's comments here are awesome
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20231030162310/https://www.busin...
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by EchoReflection 3y ago
it's mind-blowing to think that, for ancient humans (and moderns that live in distant/"isolated" areas), every night is still like that.

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