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by clnq 3y ago
We have labour protections in the UK and this isn't a big problem. We can't fire people on manager whims and tantrums, and there is more accountability in the process, but not a problem or an obstacle to firing people who are not
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by clnq 3y ago
Most every day-priced synthetic meats fall short in taste. Over time, I've adjusted, and now my brain perceives the taste of meat substitutes as the new norm for meat. However, what I find quite interesting is that the meat substitutes
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by clnq 3y ago
"It works on my machine"
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by clnq 3y ago
I worked for a company that used Discord as the main internal coms tool. Aside the privacy and infosec concerns, staff would get suspended and quarantined often. And not for messages, but for things like using multiple accounts for business
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by clnq 3y ago
That was my first take as well, but after reading some of the previous articles by the author, it's not really about the size of elements on the screen. It's more about being able to "zoom" into information in a system,
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by clnq 3y ago
There's a footnote, attached in the wrong place, that explains the use of word "Heresy". It's used in a similar sense as "revolt", in the context of contrarianism. In that sense, it is "heresy" -- not
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by clnq 3y ago
Aren't there quite good DNS filters (like what OpenDNS provides) for the worst parts of the internet? You don't want them looking at porn, gore, extreme politics, social media, self-destructive behaviours, drugs, and at particular
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by clnq 3y ago
Physical activity and exercise is a good point and I think it's safe to say that exercise is a good, or at worst, a neutral pastime for kids. Probably good, as it would be for adults as well. What about getting them involved in a physi
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Yes, if you look at survival as one instance, it does become difficult to say anything about the likelihood based on the outcome. But I think it's too easy to dismiss this as survivorship bias. There are also other selection biases, wh
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> I'd absolutely whitelist those apps for much more time. I think this is a much better approach than blanket screen time restrictions. By the way, I got into programming when I was about 10 because an informatics teacher at schoo
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There are very many programming competitions for school students in most countries. Algebra isn't needed much, they are more like LeetCode.
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> The extreme hysteria created by anything related to children often seems to be carte blanche to destroy privacy and implement backdoors in applications. Yes, and you can tell because the proposed solutions attack privacy when alternati
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One might argue that developing proper filters for garbage content is much more beneficial than being sheltered from it. Of course, you can’t just throw everything at a kid and expect them to figure it out. But kids are smarter than most pe
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by clnq 3y ago
I never understood restricting screen time, can you explain the reasoning for me? My parents did this when I was growing up but it only handicapped me because I was interested in coding and didn’t have enough time to learn to go to the comp
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by clnq 3y ago
I went to school in Central Europe and it was partially pre-cellphone times, so please excuse my ignorance. These days we have a lot of medical apps from calorie counters to continuous blood glucose monitor apps for diabetics, which prevent
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by clnq 3y ago
I agree and I am saddened by the number of low effort comments on HN in recent months. It feels like they have become much more prevalent.
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by clnq 3y ago
Thanks, that’s a strong argument.
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That’s an interesting point about the dependence of likelihood on the outcome. However, a counter-argument is that if you win a lottery 250 times, it would be reasonable to conclude that the lottery is biased in your favor. If you lost a be
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by clnq 3y ago
Yeah, and we couldn’t disqualify people from UBI anyways, as that could mean banishment from an UBI-inflated economy. They might be unable to afford even the most basic necessities when the economy adjusts to everyone’s increased spending p
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by clnq 3y ago
> You're assuming a competitive equilibrium No. That’s a different topic. I’m saying that it doesn’t matter how we distribute money — there is a finite number of real value in an economy.
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by clnq 3y ago
How does progressive taxation stop inflation? “Effective UBI” policies is the goal but doesn’t describe a solution to any particular problem.
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by clnq 3y ago
Why is the bottleneck idea widely accepted? It seems to my non-academic brain that each bottleneck would make an ongoing population less likely, as it is an opportunity for the population to die out. So it seems like us having this chat tod
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by clnq 3y ago
That’s a potential problem with UBI. Prices could inflate to a level where if you want food you better get a job. Ultimately, UBI doesn’t create more resources in an economy - it just makes more nominal cash flow through it. Not to mention
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by clnq 3y ago
Why overcomplicate it? It’s money gifted for a good cause — charity.
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by clnq 3y ago
That’s also a problem with a lot of the social safety net initiatives like UBI — small scope of the studies. It’s very difficult to say how these measures could affect the macro economy. It would be easier to pass/ratify laws for them
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I guess they weren’t testing for whether the bias is true. Though yeah, it’s a bit wishy washy to call something a bias and not real, then design your test to avoid challenging the notion. A bias could still be present though. A phenomenon
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by clnq 3y ago
Very Onion-adjacent. “I wrote a slur-filled racist rant in Word and big tech didn’t even so much as lift a finger to stop that, but if it had, it would have stifled my freedom of speech… so it kinda almost did that, too”
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Looks very good. But yeah, make sure you have enough £££ headroom to chase up banks when things go wrong. Otherwise you’re one failed large TX away from trouble.
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> Some experts tied that to a phenomenon seen in the early stages of wars and natural disasters, when people pull together and support each other. It could also be, at least in part, that Covid killed a some people that could have killed
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by clnq 3y ago
Yes. If you put them on a gamut and bin them into two categories based on where they fall on the harmful-helpful spectrum, you’d get close to 50/50. Maybe 60/40.

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