ekanes

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by ekanes 3y ago
I don't like the "but bad things can lead to good" as an excuse for anything, because it washes away or excuses the evil. Let the evil be known for what it is, and allow for positive benefits to stand on their own merit.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Perhaps, but by far the single greatest way to change health outcomes for an individual (not a society) is their own personal actions. We need both approaches.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Agree about books but I've found you can judge a restaurant by the font they choose outside for their name (!). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by ekanes 3y ago
A couple grand a year for 12k people isn't nothing. If you expand it out to more of the C-suite, it gets even higher.
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by ekanes 3y ago
While it's probably not your point, I find it greatly heartening that these companies are sending such a strong message by leaving a big and valuable market. It doesn't really matter what their reason is... it could be: a) They v
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by ekanes 3y ago
Work on getting the contracts first. Then when you're ready, pivot. Then there's nothing to fear. If you can't / don't get contracts, nothing changed.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Some cicadas which emerge en masse every 17 years. Seems like the same strategy.
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by ekanes 3y ago
So they increase your lifespan probabilistically, but not in any terms you can measure. That said, the article's points about the costs of screening is valid and interesting. False negatives, false positives, time and money, those are
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by ekanes 3y ago
Yeah. I felt similarly about the importance of the kids when we lost a loved one. They kept us going. Life has phases, and this one will pass, and hopefully you will find the next phase to be better.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Long sleeve shirts & pants. Loose clothing. Goal is to keep them away from your skin.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Amazing. Great work. Interesting and useful! Only feedback I guess would be that one-line replies, often with exclamation marks felt much more common than on HN. Still, v cool and probably hugely helpful for people with social anxiety, whi
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by ekanes 3y ago
Perhaps, but it's good to distinguish though between N95 masks and cloth masks.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Sort of. Ads as a business model exists because many people don't want to pay companies directly (through subscriptions etc). For the company to exist, they have to make money, so they sell people's attention. Unfortunately, we s
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by ekanes 3y ago
If you think about now, you're right. If you look forwards and can say that some percentage of these companies might be giants in the future, then it's worth paying attention to.
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by ekanes 3y ago
I don't think you're really hearing the feedback here. When someone says "you're being shady" the right answer isn't "we'll look into how we can be less shady." The right answer is "oh snap
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by ekanes 3y ago
Sorry to hear that. I hope your prognosis improves.
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by ekanes 3y ago
> If you don't cancel, drivers will simply park and wait for you to cancel If I realized this was happening I'd be inclined to simply order a Lyft/Uber and off I go, and the driver will eventually have to cancel to get the
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by ekanes 3y ago
Interesting. If I realized this was happening I'd be inclined to simply order a Lyft/Uber and off I go, and the driver will eventually have to cancel to get their next fare.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Similar to why the flying experience can be so awful - consumers by airline tickets based largely on price. The airlines that lower costs (and experience) best win.
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by ekanes 3y ago
Mental stimulation is discussed here in the comments, and that makes sense, but I wonder if social connection could be a factor as well. Loneliness and disconnection with others seems correlated with all kinds of declines. If you can'
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by ekanes 3y ago
> with more Reddit communities coming back from the blackout, their opportunity to claim the user base in the long run is already passed Perhaps, but on June 30th Apollo (most likely) goes dark. So there may be another group of folks ch
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by ekanes 3y ago
I wonder if end-user apps will eventually solve this. Conceptually, rather than server admins choosing what's federated, users will have several/many accounts and they will choose what they want, and under the hood that will be en
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by ekanes 3y ago
Agree. I also don't like Facebook, but if they contribute something good, great. If they don't, and they're somehow harming the system... well this time there's a solution <-- that's the cool part.
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by ekanes 3y ago
I think many servers/instances post what they're all about and how they're different, and that should help. We're seeing all kinds of sites springing up to help navigate this, and I think in time it'll be sorted out
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by ekanes 3y ago
> Social networks that only discuss itself and its own existence. This is a phase that every single new platform/tech passes through. All of them. (Yes, fediverse isn't new, but it's new to many right now...)
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by ekanes 3y ago
Mattresses have ridiculous margins, so astroturfing is likely.
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by ekanes 3y ago
This change will be slower, but it seems a truth that in life, inside a company and in communities, there are some people who do much more work / have more influence than others. If the best / brightest / most helpful etc pe
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by ekanes 3y ago
Yes. That's perfect. Except that the animal they're eating wasn't necessarily dying, it might have just been growing slowly.
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by ekanes 3y ago
1) Yes, but you could lose a lot of reddit's actual power users. See: Current Situation. :P 2) Yes, this is better for reddit but untenable for Apollo. 3) If you buy the app that makes your site SING, that everyone loves, then you kee
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by ekanes 3y ago
Hey, sorry. You were right. I didn't read TFA and just jumped into the comments with outdated opinions. I'm a bit surprised that he'd go back to them, honestly. Would much rather he turn his talents and Appolo towards makin

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