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by antasvara 6y ago
What I always wonder about these articles is why they believe that Apple will change. If there's anything we've learned so far, it's that most apps deal with these charges from Apple with no complaints. Yes, currently there&#
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Not sure how to feel about this. On the one hand, this seems intuitive; learning that your work is less useful than you thought would give a worker less job satisfaction. This would explain the career changes that occurred directly after th
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Obviously very impressive, but I've been wondering how likely it is that someone would get this by chance. If we assume there's a 60% chance of getting it right on average (this could be lower, but a 10% increase in accuracy seems
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This seems like a fairly intuitive conclusion; it's commonly accepted that just the act of trying to remember something solidifies the memory in your brain [1]. It would follow that the act of using language in context, instead of just
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What concerns me about his idea is that businesses would be less incentivized to take payments if your money was closer to expiration. This could lead to situations where my dollar is worth significantly less near expiration than someone el
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I don't think it has to be viable on a bigger level. If all the system does is keep productive, engaged community members a reason to stick in the town due to the currency they've built up, I see that as a win for the currency.
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I think the best way to think about this is to consider time credits a supplemental currency that incentivizes actions that benefit the community. Yes, your time could be worth more when working with traditional currency, but by that logic
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I've always found this concept interesting, and more generally the idea of community-based currencies. Time-based currency has a history [1] of attempted implementations, many of which don't leverage the community aspect here. A l
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What you seem to be advocating for is a service something like Fiverr, where drivers set their own prices and Uber/Lyft takes a 20% cut off the top.
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Speaking from experience, you're most likely to be upsold if you don't know what you're looking for. For example, I've been upsold when I was buying a printer. I know nothing about printers, so much of the purpose of goi
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The generally accepted meaning is that already having something (the bird in hand) is worth more than chasing after things that you don't have (the birds in the bush). So in this case, the idea is that customers you've already acq
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So what I'm hearing is that introductory classes could be replicated in a primarily online environment? I'd be a huge fan of moving the first year or so of college online (or at least having the option to do so) for a reduced rate
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What would you consider to be the correct term to use? I've seen a lot of posters arguing with the term "uncontrolled," and I agree that IA was utilizing some type of control when lending out their books. However, "contr
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by antasvara 6y ago
As with any habit, there's no silver bullet. You just have to make a concerted effort to produce something, however small, every day. For example, you could force yourself to comment on a Hacker News post every day, or write 100 words
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Seems as though over the lifespan of the car, a Tesla is better for the environment. However, the point of the comment was that people who drive Teslas are offsetting their environmentally friendly car with a larger house, more air travel,
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There's a difference between someone saying the premise of the joke doesn't make sense and not finding it funny. It seems like it went over someone's head if they say "Yeah, but oil isn't sold that way" versus
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This is an interesting concept that I hadn't thought about before. Seems similar to the rent vs buy argument for a house- spending more money in total, but spreading out the payment, can be more profitable in times where the economy is
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I'd love to see stats for this, as it seems to me that at the moment the majority of students that go to a community college were less likely to graduate regardless of plans to end up at a state school. It would be interesting to see g
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They were responding to the assertion that skiing holds a larger risk of dying than the travel to the ski resort. Statistically, it seems more likely that a person would die in a car accident versus skiing.
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While that style personally annoys me, I feel as though a decent chunk of the American populace find the topic of an article more interesting if they understand the human context behind it. The recipe example is a perfect distillation of th
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Seems like our brains aren't optimized for exponential growth because it's not integral to our survival. I could be wrong (not a scientist), but I find it hard to find a situation in which comprehending exponential growth would ha
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Does this work if my laptop screen is closed?
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There were four options given in the Wikipedia article, which are: 1. retaliate with nuclear weapons; 2. not retaliate; 3. use his or her own judgement; or 4. place the submarine under an allied country's command, if possible. The docu
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That was an extreme example,the point is that kids can end up in the water in unexpected ways. Even parents that would never intentionally leave children in the water alone can end up in a situation where a child is unattended in the water.
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That's a misunderstanding of the article, it says that the issue is due to the leaky blood brain barrier. The chemicals for inflammation in the body aren't inherently bad, they're just not designed to be in the brain. Decreas