Mirioron

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by Mirioron 7y ago
English is not my first language. We had 11 years of 4-7 hours of English a week, yet this was still not enough to get everyone to be decent at the language by the end of high school. The people who used English to play video games or chat
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> It should also be noted that the total atmosphere (dry + water) is about 3% water vapor by weight and H2O makes up the majority of the greenhouse effect. This is actually an incredibly important point, because higher temperatures mean
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I am unique through the useragent. Apparently Brave and Chrome both put the device model of your phone into the useragent string. It also contains your OS version and Chromium version. I guess those three points alone are able to very signi
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I'm also getting unique useragent with Brave.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I think that sounds fine though. You could consider HN to be "like reddit" too, but there's still value in HN.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
How come they're not being sued over this?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> In an authoritarian government, the best interests of the ruler at a higher level is not always served by the ruler at the lower level. Or maybe the national government is trying to find a scapegoat to blame, and the provincial govern
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Letting the mind wander like that is precisely why I read books in the first place. Sometimes I'll only read one chapter in 3 hours and the rest is just daydreaming.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
There's a good chance that whatever that is work you will stop enjoying even if you liked doing it before. Look at the large amount of people that play video games for a living that essentially stopped enjoying those games.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
There is a theory that maybe ADHD is an evolutionary adaptation. Being distracted by small things could be quite useful for a hunter, because they're more likely to notice wild animals. As far as I know though, this is just a theory. &
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> If you do agree that might cure you then what does it mean about your ADHD diagnosis? It means that you have ADHD in the context of the demands society puts on you and not you have ADHD, period. But that is exactly what ADHD is about.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Eventually you will end up avoiding those close people by essentially any means necessary. You'll think of some excuse to avoid doing it. Sometimes sitting out in the cold street feels better than having to go home and do the task that
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Yes, exercise absolutely helps, but a person with ADHD is much more likely to exercise if they have been prescribed medication. Without medication they will likely just stop exercising at some point, because they "don't feel like
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Because the way they would have to do it is by offering people something even better in return. In a voluntary trade both sides end up better off, because both sides get something they want more than what they give away.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Globalization, for example, is zero-sum for many people. Since we're now buying <wheat/metal/electronics> from <x country>, people who did that here lost their jobs. Considering that those are some of the ha
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I get the idea of the hierarchy, but why does performance matter? Performance matters because we want to promote those that generate value the most. This correlates with improving the world for everyone. If your coworker invents cold fusion
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I wonder if there's some kind of a wisdom-of-the-crowd effect going on. While votes are certainly undermined by political campaigns, I could see it still play an effect.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
They're both labeled ADHD nowadays clinically. The ADD you're talking about is called ADHD-PI or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Primarily Inattentive.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
What I don't understand is - why is it a problem that somebody performs better on medication? Life isn't sports or a game. It's not a competition. Shouldn't people be happy that someone else can keep their life together?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Imagine if there was a pill to reduce risk of cardiac arrest, with some increased risk of something relatively minor. (Some?) Antihypertensive drugs can contribute to harm to the liver. They're unlikely to cause anything on their
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by Mirioron 7y ago
On the other hand, centralization increases bureaucracy and corruption. Humans are still humans and their memory is limited, which means that they can still only pay attention to X number of politicians. If you increase the number of politi
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I've been wondering about this recently: perhaps we'd actually be better off with simpler browsers that did less so that the websites would do less?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> You don't have the right to decide what is in the interests of the Marvel franchise, Marvel does. That doesn't sound right though. Wouldn't this mean that any time a large corporation used somebody's copyrighted wo
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> No, memes have not been “permitted”. Something is not legal just because you don’t get caught or sued. All that matters is whether this happens much in the real world or not. The world's most draconian laws mean absolutely nothin
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I switched to DDG from Google because of AMP. Now I use DDG because the results seem often more relevant.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
The reason people are outraged is because in practice memes were permitted. These new rules create more enforcement, which means that in practice people will likely have less freedom.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Under Berne the key test would be if it was prejudicial to the copyright owner's economic rights, and it would be hard to argue the image had no economic value if it was being used in a popular meme. Isn't that backwards tho
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by Mirioron 7y ago
You're right! I was thinking about directives here since this was about the copyright directive. Another point is that even when it comes to regulations it generally falls onto the member states themselves to enforce those regulations.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
The thing is that this delayed gratification is what allowed modern society to appear in the first place. Without delayed gratification you can't have farming or housing. Both of which are vitally important for human survival in most p
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I'm pretty sure this is just a consequence of that EU copyright reform that passed some months ago (article 11&13/15&17). At least the linked article talks about it (in German). The EU can't make laws themselves. The

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