arkades

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by arkades 6y ago
Not exactly. The AAP has waffled for years, putting their thumb on the scales of every guideline to include a “cultural factor” to the cost- benefit analysis which is literally “but people really want this for religious reasons.” They gener
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by arkades 6y ago
Right. That’s why it’s odd.
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by arkades 6y ago
> Piracy of songs, movies, and applications actually improves sales, according to a study that the European Union funded and then tried to keep from getting published: I never understand this argument at all. Piracy of X improves sales o
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by arkades 6y ago
It's not thinking that gets me into accidents - it's not thinking that gets me into accidents. That also applies to driving. edit: Unintentional. I meant, it's not those situations where I think for a second and make a bad ca
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by arkades 6y ago
Without even digging into the paper, let's be clear. They didn't find "they have memory trouble." They found, "they have trouble recalling sensations." > "Our data also showed that individuals with apha
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by arkades 6y ago
Expressed Preferences vs. Revealed Preferences >19% of the public uses google and/or facebook services.
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by arkades 6y ago
> One aspect is that being excellent at one thing is hard. Be really good at two things. And thats how you will stand out because it is the fusion of two skils that makes you unique. This is a difference of semantics. "Do a thing y
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by arkades 6y ago
> there is a subreddit for all things. 1. It needs to position itself as something other than not-reddit 2. There are a lot of issues Reddit really doesn't solve. Reddit encourages short, pithy, drive-by posts without much in the
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by arkades 6y ago
Quite a lot of Greek myths, when not stripped down to the "simplified for story-telling to kids" versions, are straight-up case studies / moral lessons to adults . I'd never look at the Odyssey and mistake it as somethi
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by arkades 6y ago
A show about people who are overly concerned with appearances can better learn to project a particular appearance, based on the appearance of people who they think are better at faking a particular appearance. I assume. From the tag line on
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by arkades 6y ago
Apple’s approach improves privacy in most contexts for all of its users, enough to shape market practices. Your approach works for a tiny, tiny sliver of people - which, by the nature of population-level snooping and marketing, are irreleva
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by arkades 6y ago
Excising "no free tier" (because we damn well know "free" products ain't free either - that's not an indicator of marketing), your argument boils down to "one of those services is new, therefore, content m
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by arkades 6y ago
The Ashley Book of Knots.
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by arkades 6y ago
Until they start prosecuting people and putting up barriers to counterfeit sales, it is just words. They're slightly different words, but still.
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by arkades 6y ago
I got a counterfeit book of knots. And I kept it. As far as I can tell, someone printed and hardbound a PDF of the actual book, which is otherwise I guess out of print. It's about the best I could hope to get under the circumstances. S
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by arkades 6y ago
The article deservedly bashes Google in a way that many here agree with, and praises a number of services that many here at least somewhat agree with. Validating people's spleen is generally a good way to get to the top of the fp.
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by arkades 6y ago
If mentioning it in a one-liner is a stealth ad, I assume this was also an ad for Notion, Zoom, Twitch, Apple, Instagram, and TikTok.
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by arkades 6y ago
> You're almost there; the point is not I take issue with this statement. It's essentially a variant of the No True Scotsman. I constantly see the OP's statement asserted, in various contexts, by various parties, in the
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by arkades 6y ago
I was expecting someone to say like, Vive or something. The Quest is that good? I see it being pitched as stand-alone. Does that mean you can't use it to do VR for PC games (e.g., Skyrim)?
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by arkades 6y ago
So, for someone who isn’t gonna drop a grand on a Valve rig, what’s the right purchase for a gamer today?
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by arkades 6y ago
I love you.
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by arkades 6y ago
> Do you feel that that addresses your concerns? Many of the responses critical of his decision seem to read as "Here's reason X that his decision is non-sensical, and I didn't read the actual link where he clearly and rea
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by arkades 6y ago
In addition to any emails one might send the relevant editor at the NYT, you may also email your concerns to editors@cjr.org The Columbia Journalism Review does a lot of "reporting on reporting," and has a very high profile in the
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by arkades 6y ago
As you pointed out in your footnote, science is a bad topic for journalism, intrinsically. Something like Scientific American is about as good as it gets for lay audiences - solicited longform articles from the relevant experts, meant for a
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by arkades 6y ago
His post literally includes the line “and angry internet critics have called my job pretending to be upset patients to get me fired.” You can’t imagine how it would affect his job?
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by arkades 6y ago
Thank you.
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by arkades 6y ago
What does CHD stand for in this context?
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Hey Email(hey.com)
9 points by arkades 6y ago|2 comments
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by arkades 6y ago
I was quite taken with their pitch after seeing their article about the battle with apple yesterday. It seems like they did tackle a lot of my pain points. Does anyone actually have first-hand experience? Did they "fix" email?
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by arkades 6y ago
And phone companies don't play an editorial role in determining what calls you get to hear, and who hears yours. Newspapers are responsible, even when they're publishing someone else's submission to them.

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