ElmntOfSurprise

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by ElmntOfSurprise 8y ago
A shame that having plain paragraphs and pictures does not work (Android dropped support since N). Commenting on the design, as a slow reader and non-native English speaker I felt annoyed at having to read against the clock ticking away for
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by ElmntOfSurprise 8y ago
The charts are not really " Why Americans Spend Much on Health Care", just "Americans Spend Much on Health Care (or More than Others and More than They Used To, Anyway)". Believable causes that I have read being suggest
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by ElmntOfSurprise 9y ago
If Apple user visits contribute less to the earnings of a certain class of websites (news sites, for example), then these could lose interest in the visitors and not optimize content for them. This could e.g. lead to websites breaking when
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by ElmntOfSurprise 9y ago
Just the threat that a big company has the capacity to lower prices drastically can keep small companies from entering a market.
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by ElmntOfSurprise 9y ago
Quality threads in HN: "But [outgroup] would disagree!"
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by ElmntOfSurprise 9y ago
Absolutely the right decision. If a topic has many smart people arguing both sides, then there is probably some merit for both, and you should not antagonize your coworkers over it. Also: > Altheide’s account provides a counterpoint to t
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by ElmntOfSurprise 9y ago
I liked the old Android emoji much more and was disappointed that they lost the race for becoming the standard. It used to be possible to express the emotion of being content that is not exaggerated by showing teeth or blushing [1], and &qu
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by ElmntOfSurprise 9y ago
I don't live in California, but I hear that if you do, and if you work in tech or academia, it is quite hard to find anyone in your social network who watches Fox News or listens to right-wing radio unironically. As I said, Damore does
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by ElmntOfSurprise 9y ago
>There's nothing left to complain about He just needs to get his job back, get people in his industry not threatening him any more etc... Galileo also got the discussion he wanted, eventually. >the strategy of denouncing media b
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by ElmntOfSurprise 9y ago
Yeah, writing about how conservatives are the worst? You'd probably have to get in line.
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by ElmntOfSurprise 9y ago
I think his point is, you can't fight all the battles.
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by ElmntOfSurprise 9y ago
You mean that boys like computers more --> they buy more computers (or nag their parents about getting one), or that parents are more prone to give computers to boys --> girls never have the chance to get as interested? Interestingly,
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by ElmntOfSurprise 9y ago
I actually think Galileo vs. religion is a quite fitting analogy for these kinds of issues today. There is a prevailing ideology that, if you are seen as disagreeing with it, and if you doing so is visible enough, can get you ousted from po
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by ElmntOfSurprise 9y ago
"Not writing as well as Scott Alexander" is a pretty high bar you're setting there. While the document may have been influenced by that post, and while both authors seem to have a similar "non-feminist left" politic
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by ElmntOfSurprise 9y ago
Note however that Gizmodo say > Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted The links that were removed are probably relevant. Some passages in the text even have quotation marks around them where I assume that links to sources w