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by coatmatter 9y ago
At this point, I think it is unproductive to comment on Zuckerberg as an individual (ad-hominem attacks?) because this leads to assuming that any alternative CEO would be better. I don't think we've had any solid evidence so far t
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by coatmatter 9y ago
As we say around these parts, "perfect is the enemy of good". I've used Facebook a fair bit over the past decade and only deactivated it two months ago, after Zuckerberg signalled his intentions for 2018. I see a deactivated
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by coatmatter 9y ago
Many, many people don't realise there is an entirely separate section of BuzzFeed called BuzzFeed News. BuzzFeed News are the ones who first published the "Steele dossier" to the public (as far as I recall; if there was anoth
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by coatmatter 9y ago
Supposing you're right, what is Facebook so good at that MySpace couldn't manage to do? What really is their "moat" that no one else can touch? Interesting that you mention obesity, tobacco, cocaine and opiods because no
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by coatmatter 9y ago
From what I've been able to gather, teens prefer creating "ephemeral" less-curated content in favour of throwing up "permanent" posts to Facebook (for all/too many to see) until it's past its use by date.
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by coatmatter 9y ago
The headline I'm seeing for the article as of 20180322T1509Z is "For Many Facebook Users, a ‘Last Straw’ That Led Them to Quit" (different to the one posted here - I don't know if it was changed at nytimes). Not everyone
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And do those who do the most research seek the highest fees?
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by coatmatter 9y ago
I believe the main alternative is to drastically cut down on the amount of news that's consumed - which may or may not be something you need to do. Otherwise, how about listening to local radio for a short while when you're gett
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by coatmatter 9y ago
Twitter is indeed quite the mixed bag - I don't recommend for anyone to take the habit up but I think I'm starting to see why it's still so popular: It can sometimes be more toxic, but I've heard it can also be really gr
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by coatmatter 9y ago
There's definitely a large number of people who only visit sites through Google's homepage. Not the address bar or anything else (clicking links being the exception). I worked this out by hearing about customer support calls for a
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by coatmatter 9y ago
Sometimes you can, and find out personal information or that used to be the case not long ago. I don't know under what conditions it takes but it's a bit like some news paywalls, I think. Incognito tabs won't work.
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by coatmatter 9y ago
That could well be true, so I thought I'd throw it out there to check if I was (comparatively) the only one who isn't really a fan of "ELI5". So the other alternative is to have more ELI5 prefixes for questions. It'
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by coatmatter 9y ago
Going off-topic, but I want to ask whether writing "ELI5" is really necessary? I find it too much of a redditism and while it doesn't seem to contravene any hn guidelines, I get the feeling that "simple" questions w
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by coatmatter 9y ago
I haven't actually seen "guaranteed to go up in value" pitches but I believe the ones that do work on certain people take a more subtle form. It's a bit like how poorly written spam makes professional-looking phishing lo
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by coatmatter 9y ago
Sarah Jeong posted that "crypto is short for cryptography" shouting-from-rooftops sketch a while back but I'm not sure where it's gone. I think when she refers to Bitcoin, she also means every other piece of madness that
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by coatmatter 9y ago
That's a good one to be prepared for. I don't know what Dropbox's account recovery procedure is (which does have a support ticket system available), but if you also back it up to Google Drive; you can recover the Google accou
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by coatmatter 9y ago
Do eBay and Wish have better reputations as far as genuine products go?
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by coatmatter 9y ago
This is good article you've probably already read on the topic of counterfeit eclipse glasses: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/09/science/eclipse-glasses-r... Perhaps the worst thing in my mind abou
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by coatmatter 9y ago
I brought my 8x42* binocular on an international trip last year but I found it took up space and weighed my carry-on luggage down (every kilo makes a difference with lengthy time in transit and tired walks through large terminals). I also d
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by coatmatter 9y ago
I've heard about the existence of the full volume, but to date I don't think I've ever seen nor laid hands on it (if I've seen it, I think I would have remembered browsing it). I have a feeling that most people who speak
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by coatmatter 9y ago
"non-trivial" is the one that annoys me the most but I can't fully explain why. Perhaps it's a bit like the reaction when I hear "visceral" while listening to book and movie reviews. It just seems a tad pretent
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by coatmatter 9y ago
Honest/naïve question: Regardless of how good or bad sugar is, is it possible that cars and televisions have both separately contributed more harm than sugar over the past century? Both encourage sedentary habits and in the case of tel
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by coatmatter 9y ago
> Do consumers really so strongly prefer hand soap with arbitrary smells added to it? I think most just don't care and don't really sense it. I don't care when I'm in public restrooms so long as there's liquid ha
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by coatmatter 9y ago
What I've noticed anecdotally (feel free to critique this) is that of the few people I know who appear to fit that profile of having MCS, it's of my opinion that they would all benefit from stress-management techniques (including
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by coatmatter 9y ago
In Australia, we have a public-private model for hospitals and health services. However, I think there's starting to be a greater awareness that private health insurance for many holds increasingly poor value, compared to what is avail
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by coatmatter 9y ago
> Just like how brushing your teeth makes your breath smell alright for 30 minutes. Provided your mouth isn't dry (e.g., when you're asleep), brushing your tongue should help a lot. Getting rid of the white furry stuff very muc
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by coatmatter 9y ago
Morning, evening or both?
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by coatmatter 9y ago
Have you tried DuckDuckGo lately? If not: As a personal experiment (starting a bit over a week ago), I switched all of my browsers' default search engines to DDG and it's so far been surprisingly pleasant. To me, it actually feel