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by dnissley 4y ago
Metafilter was the place I learned to be civil online, and that just makes the current state of things all the more devastating.
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by dnissley 4y ago
Also the French: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_paradox
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by dnissley 4y ago
Yeah this is my understanding as well. Dietary cholesterol only weakly correlates with blood cholesterol
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by dnissley 4y ago
What data are you looking at? Consider also the Minnesota Coronary Experiment which violates this connection: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/records-found-in-...
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by dnissley 4y ago
Aren't there certain cultures with high saturated fat intake but very low occurrence of heart disease? E.g. Inuits
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by dnissley 4y ago
Interestingly, this is kind of an anti-example of what was asked for in the OP. Here, few people quit, not many.
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by dnissley 4y ago
Most prominently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
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by dnissley 4y ago
I've noticed there is a tendency among folks on the left (and for all I know it's also true of folks on the right) where people who do as you say are cast out and labeled "centrists", creating a dynamic where internal cr
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by dnissley 4y ago
Any examples? IIRC, many such orders signed by Trump were immediately undone or at the very least drastically watered down by Biden.
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by dnissley 4y ago
Isn't it pretty bad to be a zebra in general though? Certainly there isn't any place where zebras have it better than horses.
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by dnissley 4y ago
Is it really the same standard of care? I would speculate that the standard of care in the US is at least marginally higher than many other developed countries based on my admittedly anecdotal experience, especially if you plug wait times f
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by dnissley 4y ago
The Nissan leaf had a pretty traditional dashboard w/physical knobs IIRC. Last I heard it's being discontinued.
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by dnissley 4y ago
Do you not understand just how dystopian this is? This refrain to be enthusiastically anti-X reminds me of 1984 and the two minutes hate. I can't get enthusiastic about being anti-Nazi because Nazis are not a thing I've had any ki
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by dnissley 4y ago
Generally in agreement with you here, but are you aware the specifics around why CF dropped services for Stormfront? CF were holding the line until Stormfront's people claimed that CF were secretly supporters of Stormfront's ideol
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by dnissley 4y ago
In absolute terms, is it still a small amount? Doubling doesn't mean much if the number was infinitesimal to begin with.
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by dnissley 4y ago
Will Life360 ever add an option for consent to share like google's trusted contacts did? E.g. I'd like it if someone could ask for my location and give me 5 minutes to respond, and give me the chance to deny that request (sharing
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by dnissley 4y ago
I've found twitter to be a kind of mimetic testing ground where you can put your mastery of certain mimetic forces to the test. Not sure what the ultimate test is, I think it might be to quit completely, but without skipping the test o
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by dnissley 4y ago
There is an option to continue to do the best they can, even if it's not great, because even a poorly moderated twitter is better than no twitter. It's only by over focusing on cases like those in the submission and ignoring all t
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by dnissley 4y ago
I mean random person in the veil of ignorance sense. If I was a random person in Pakistan, would my life be better or worse because access to the broader social web was cut off? It seems plain to see that it would be worse for most, and on
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by dnissley 4y ago
Ironically the above take about money in politics is so popular that the narrative around it is basically impossible to change at this point (at least among people left of center). I don't think any amount of evidence could change mo
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by dnissley 4y ago
I have a hard time taking this position seriously -- when did you come to this conclusion? Have you put yourself in the position of someone living in these countries? Some random person having their access to the rest of the world just cut
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by dnissley 4y ago
I doubt they make very much money off of Pakistani users. It might even be a small net loss. I don't think twitter publishes ARPU per country though, so this is speculation to some degree.
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by dnissley 4y ago
How is Twitter's relationship with Pakistan predatory? Also, what is the equivalent to Temple Grandin's list for moderation of social media?
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by dnissley 4y ago
Is it really reasonable? Twitter fails regularly to take such context into consideration when making moderation decisions in their home country. How could it be reasonable to expect them to get it right when it comes to the context of a for
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by dnissley 4y ago
The content of subscriber only posts is, but beyond that it's open to them.
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by dnissley 4y ago
This is definitely a way to go about things. What would you say are the trade offs involved compared to other ways?
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by dnissley 4y ago
Hello, introvert here. I also love all of those office things you listed (provided I have enough space to work by myself in between). I specifically quit my wfh-only job and moved cross country to go back to the office. I joined Meta here i
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by dnissley 4y ago
I think the issue here is that I fundamentally disagree with the direction of this particular ribbing. I think we should be sensitive to this kind of naive questioning, which comes from a good place (wanting to make teaching easier and
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by dnissley 4y ago
Why was this instance a good use case for ridicule? As you admit, the question asker might very well have been genuinely curious. The answer to their question doesn't seem blindingly obvious to me (although I can certainly speculate ab
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by dnissley 4y ago
The problem is that this type of reply reflects your own deeply unexamined prior (e.g. that software can't play a part of solving this issue, or that anyone who said X believes Y, etc.), and so sets up an antagonistic interaction with

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