el_cujo

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by el_cujo 7y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think it's as simple as "just go back to smaller groups". For companies, more users = more revenue, there isn't realy much incentive to not try and pull in as many people as possible. And then
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I'm not anti-vax, but this is a discussion on toxicity on the internet, and I see plenty of people who take great pleasure in just unloading on anti-vaxxers because they know it's a target nobody will scold them for being cruel to
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by el_cujo 7y ago
This is my experience as well. In the early/mid 2000s I mostly browsed sites with a small, dedicated group of regular users. These sites were (mostly) civil and had a "small town" feel where you kind of knew everyone or at le
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>Anecdotally, I believe burnout is more likely when you work on a job that only cares about profits, or is not fulfilling in some meaningful way. I worked in academic medical research for a while and many people seemed burn out. There wa
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by el_cujo 7y ago
The only thing I prefer about google at this point is that occasionally if I search something where I just want an answer and not a result link, google will just give me the answer in that little box at the top of the result page. Something
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>found that 51% of food franchisees earn less than $50k per year and only around 7% take in $250k Unbelievable, owning a franchise seems pretty stressful just to be taking in 50k/year. I guess once you get it off the ground with goo
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by el_cujo 7y ago
The point of this was to look at questions the author thought were interesting but maybe overlooked I think, not a "TOP 10 QUESTIONS WE NEED ANSWERED NOW OR THE HUMAN RACE IS DOOOOMED!!!" listicle.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
This is a good idea. Depending on the field, there really shouldn't be any statements in the text about the findings in the paper that aren't directly backed up by "proof" in a figure. If you're familiar enough with
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>"oh you're lonely? deal with it, or just make friends!" No, it's much worse, it's telling you to just hang out more with all of those friends you already have.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>they aren't predictions at all Sure they are, it's a nice counterpoint to the people who think in 10 years we'll have flying cars and a fully immersive VR matrix and nobody will have a real job since AI and robots will do
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I don't know if this is true everywhere, but in my city in the US, cars are supposed to stop at crosswalks (not talking about at intersections necessarily) if a pedestrian is crossing even if there is no stopsign or signal beyond the w
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by el_cujo 7y ago
The US isn't exactly known for it's fair and perfect legal system (particularly if you're brown), so the fact that Japan's numbers are even higher says something.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
type vimtutor in your shell for the "intended" tutorial
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>Twitter is the most intellectual, and underrated, social network, because people follow too many political accounts and celebrities instead of other people I mostly agreed up until this. These days it feels like on Twitter, everyone is
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>Most of the predictions are decades away in the future, so the story can go on unchecked for decades. And so on. It's not just the sea level rising stuff in the future though, now basically any adverse weather event is blamed on cl
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Yeah I agree there is a very strong incentive for certain groups to disprove climate change and they're backed by a lot of money and influence. Comparatively, there doesn't really seem like that big of an incentive to sell a &quot
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by el_cujo 7y ago
>In this day and age, feeding into the narrative that science is just another competitive team sport where people compete with whatever means necessary is downright dangerous. >Reality is much more nuanced, and the article actually do
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by el_cujo 7y ago
This has been my experience more-or-less as well. Any graduate student that does anything even alzheimer's adjacent at the school I used to work at absolutely had to have a certain two researchers on their dissertation committee and th
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I'm definitely not suggesting this is the norm (especially for new investigators or those going up for tenure) but my time in academic research has been kind of the opposite. Almost everyone in my lab would take at minimum the week fro
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Had the same thought. I find it very easy to skip breakfast and still not feel the need to go overboard at lunch but I have a hard time falling asleep if I didn't eat a filling dinner. Lunch + dinner only lifestyle fits me much better
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I like the general principle here of trying to keep website design relatively simple and self-reliant, but I'm not sure I agree with the idea that "link rot" is some horrible problem we desperately need a solution for. Good a
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I guess they don't feel like they need to pay more if they have a big pool of potential interns all willing to live in a hostel for $15k/year
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Not in their pods, er I mean cells.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I think that "co-living" spaces like this were common for factory worker-types around the industrial revolution, where you were with strangers rather than roommates, but my only source is that I vaguely remember hearing it on some
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I could maybe see doing something like this if it was $300/month cheaper and each pod had a retractable door, almost like those Japanese capsule hotels. I get that in a space this small you aren't going to have much privacy, but t
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I didn’t mean that they aren’t usable like that, but that a lot of people try them out after hopping between a bunch of Linux distros first. I know people who use FreeBSD as a daily driver and do all of the normal stuff your average user wo
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Even for a work computer, if I can't easily open, say, Stack Overflow then it's a non-starter.
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I think it's just an evolution of distro-hopping even though I don't think people like to admit it. After you've tried all of the major linux distros and you're still looking to play around with something different, the
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by el_cujo 7y ago
I'm sure WMF does some good stuff, but I'm sure the average donator just thinks they're donating to keep Wikipedia alive and online and has no idea about all of the extra stuff WMF does (and therefore needs money to fund). I&
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by el_cujo 7y ago
Looking at your methodology critically is crucial to all fields of science though, as is changing your conclusions and interpretations as more findings come forward. Dismissing someone outright for challenging something that has become dogm

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