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by altacc 3y ago
Finally, somewhere to share my a list of dubious property listings! In Norway agents hire house stylists to make a house look good. Airbeds dressed up to look like somebody just got up, magazine pictures on the wall, etc... often to a farci
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by altacc 3y ago
Once you factor in the time scales involved, your justifications for why plastic isn't much of a problem disappear. There is no significant decomposition of plastic by microbes in the wild. Nature will fill niches but there's no e
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by altacc 3y ago
I wouldn't trust politicians at all with this. They purposefully stalemate laws that are needed to use a bargaining chips or attach irrelevant but self-serving amendments. The midnight vote to keep murder a crime will also fund a nucle
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by altacc 3y ago
The UK government has a proposed law that customers must be able to end a subscription in a single clear process and all subscriptions entered into online must be capable of being ended online. Seems that if the US pushed this kind of law i
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by altacc 3y ago
That's for you. Number one rule or UX design is (or should be) never base a design decision or assume user abilities based upon your own preferences or abilities. Users, especially Amazon users, are a very wide range of people.
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by altacc 3y ago
> narrow slice of the market Do you have some numbers to back that up as every UX designer I know uses Figma. I did a quick google and the first few results point to surveys with market shares of 63%, 35% & 60%, depending upon metric
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by altacc 3y ago
Excess groundwater extraction already causes numerous issue across the globe without considering a small effect on the Earth's tilt. Surely you don't need to accept any of the climate change science to accept that making the world
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by altacc 3y ago
It's an alpha, but I think what matters is what the problems are and how realistic Tesla's approach to them & the design process is. Basically are they going to actually fix enough of these important structural issues before p
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by altacc 3y ago
In general leaving social media is g odd thing, especially if you're exposed to the negative behaviours that are rife on the larger public forums. I find that many non-mainstream ideas thrive on Reddit in smaller subreddits as it'
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by altacc 3y ago
About 500, after a clear up. I'm currently shopping around for a new password manager but that's proving to be a frustrating search. Bitwarden scrambled my master password so that I lost access, not just once but twice (password w
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by altacc 3y ago
Yep, I'd love a podcast app that can remove all the fluff from conversational podcasts and give an abridged version. Like blinkist, but for anything I throw at it.
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by altacc 3y ago
Different thing though. Things like this feed the myth that facebook is always listening to you. It's close enough to the idea to allow the cognitive leap from 'possible' to 'happening' without more than anecdotal e
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by altacc 3y ago
There is nothing in that thread that proves it could happen, let alone is happening, beyond "my friend says it's possible" and then everyone jumping on that as if some random person assuming something is possible is the same
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by altacc 3y ago
Same here. Interviews hide interesting information within a lot of noise and I'd much rather have a concise and information dense summary.
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by altacc 3y ago
This would be the interesting thing to know: if debt is being sold for pennies on the dollar, how can we pay off our own debts for the same price?
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by altacc 3y ago
Whilst this article isn't (it's at least 2 years old based on wayback machine or 3 years old based on copyright notice), it's interesting to see that people are increasingly questioning the source of content.
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by altacc 3y ago
I wonder if they confused neoliberal with liberal? Similar words, very different meaning. Either way, wishing for even less echo chambers in the media is not constructive or beneficial for society.
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by altacc 3y ago
Almost every closure of a real news outlet is a loss to society as a shrinking news market means stronger echo chambers and narrower reporting. Vice does some good reporting and in areas that others won't or only glaze over. Basically,
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by altacc 3y ago
Hi. This is a common but incorrect opinion, so you're going to get down voted. You are using your frame of reference to imagine how somebody with severe mental health difficulties was thinking at the worst time of their life. Empathy i
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by altacc 3y ago
One of the factors other replies haven't considered is that Norway routinely spends a lot on transport infrastructure, with cost-benefit just one of the factors. This project was relatively cheap compared to the constant building of tu
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by altacc 3y ago
In my comment I didn't actually refer to the editing of documents, it was more a meta comment on the definition of history. > They are altering existing works written by people who are long dead, without making it clear to the reade
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by altacc 3y ago
History hasn't stopped, history, as in our chronological description of past events, has always been constantly edited, with the telling of the same events differing depending upon who is telling the story (and their motivations), and
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by altacc 3y ago
No cryptocurrency in its current or foreseeable future state are useful as daily methods of payment, for many reasons. Cryptocurrencies are volatile speculation instruments, not a practical currency as they lack the necessary combination of
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by altacc 3y ago
The "phone breaks" argument is weak as plenty of wallets are lost and sometimes even attached to phone and then both are lost. The strong argument is that things don't even have to be illegal to become impossible to pay for u
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by altacc 3y ago
This sounds like a prelude to a simplistic "the models aren't accurate, so climate change probably isn't really a problem". However the problem with that is that the overwhelming majority of observations and models, many
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by altacc 3y ago
Well, it also happens to be an incredibly corrupt country with inadequate policing and government, so "let God deal with it" pretty much sums up the approach to everything.
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by altacc 4y ago
When I gained citizenship of a highly religious country I had to swear an oath with my hand on a cross, with silver Jesus attached. I asked if there was an atheist option and the the answer was basically "No, we have enough faith to kn
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by altacc 4y ago
Alternative cultures have always had alternative niches of events but clubbing in the early days, at least in Europe, was often largely a culture of acceptance. Age, gender, attire, whatever... acceptance was high. As I started to age and d
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by altacc 4y ago
Yep, cultural inertia is a powerful thing. Very little about human decision making is about facts. People largely come to an emotional decision based on group identity, prior bias, etc... and then do post hoc justification with curated &quo
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by altacc 4y ago
Risks are comparative, moral panic is not and ignores this. Banning something because it is not 100% harmless is just not something that is done without extra considerations, such as a moralizing. E.g. Pain killers cause significantly more

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