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by fossuser 6y ago
I think this is a strawman. It can be true that meat provides a lot of good nutrition. It can be true that the human cooking/eating of meat led to better nutrition and development in ancient times (when people ate less of it). It can a
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by fossuser 6y ago
It's not that the line is drawn 'in theory'. It's that they think they've drawn it in the right place (usually humans on one side and everything else on the other). I think this is pretty empirically wrong and I don
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by fossuser 6y ago
> "On a side note: I'm not vegetarian. I simply agree with those who are." This was my position for a long time until finally making the jump at the beginning of the pandemic (vegetarian, will rarely eat fish sometimes). F
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think you’re arguing a bit of a strawman and you and the person you replied to probably agree with each other. The accumulated debts, and helping out each other makes sense given the needs of the community and dependence on each other for
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by fossuser 6y ago
New versions of the new design have a raised white circle around the menu button which makes it obvious which side is the top (if you couldn’t tell from feeling the trackpad). People on HN complain about this a lot, but I’ve used it for yea
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by fossuser 6y ago
I’d probably do something that’s a large dial like an Apple Watch crown for volume that takes up most of a square remote and you push down for mute/unmute. The other buttons I’d have on it would be power, and input switch. I’d have an
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by fossuser 6y ago
I don’t think so - Apple has a better supply chain, more committed users, more scale, etc.
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by fossuser 6y ago
Maybe one that isn’t tied to a box that stuffs ads in the UI?
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by fossuser 6y ago
Agreed - Apple could easily charge 3-5k. The LG TVs I mentioned cost that much. They could offer three sizes. Mini, Normal, Max. They could use it as a jumping off point to own the “living room” if they wanted.
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yes - I wish Apple would just make a TV. Call it a living room screen or a living room monitor or something. Make it OLED, dumb TV, instant on, Apple TV box plugs in. Separate box with front facing ports that connects to screen with one cab
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by fossuser 6y ago
I tried to use tweet bot for a while, but I couldn't stick with it.
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by fossuser 6y ago
Sometimes it introduces you to new people though that are interesting to follow (usually because people in your network liked their post or something). I find this generally valuable. If you want to be extreme about it, you can put everyone
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by fossuser 6y ago
> "They're just perfectly fine machines for what they cost." Sure, but I don't care about the 'crap' segment of laptops. I want more options at the Macbook price point. People often talk about System76 as if
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah if you aggressively block, unfollow, and curate Twitter can be really great. I think it's super cool to be able to interact with different people doing interesting things (a little like HN, but it's easier to remember who the
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah I’m with you that even in the categories I mentioned there are problems. System76 comes up a lot, but to be blunt they seem awful. Bad resolution displays, generally terrible build, bezels, etc. I think there’s a market for a really go
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by fossuser 6y ago
Neat - I wonder how it’ll turn out. It’s weird how little there is in the laptop space that’s actually good. Macs, Thinkpads, maybe Dell XPS? Everything else sucks. It’d be cool to have another high quality option.
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by fossuser 6y ago
I guess I wouldn’t stress too much about it. It gets better.
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by fossuser 6y ago
I agree that confidence is important. The other stuff does matter too though. It’s better to recognize that rather than pretend it’s all confidence. The girl that canceled the date didn’t do so because I wasn’t confident, she did so because
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah I think this is a general truth (and it’s the inverse for women, where it starts easy and gets a little harder). Early twenties dating for men is hard, particularly in a skewed place like the bay area. If I had to guess it’d be about s
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by fossuser 6y ago
This is a good example of why I’m long Amazon and short Google. Though Jeff Bezos stepping down worries me a bit. Google doesn’t care that much about their customers. They mint money from their web ad monopoly. They don’t have aligned incen
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by fossuser 6y ago
The short and true answer is that it sucks, but it gets better as you get older. I ended up going shaved head at 25, late twenties were better than early twenties (also I think that's just generally true for men and dating). The other
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think there's a difference between a parent saying, "You should consider the economic ROI of what you choose to study, the risk of success/failure, and what life it could lead to" vs. "be a lawyer". If your k
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by fossuser 6y ago
There's a great Sci-Fi short story by Ted Chiang called, "Liking What You See: A Documentary". It's about a reversible procedure that inhibits the ability for people to detect prettiness 'calliagnosia'. They ta
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah, I think some people are clueless to this context. Even in more direct ways. I remember getting yelled at in middle school because I would show up late to early morning jazz band practices I had to be driven to. I was ready to go 40min
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by fossuser 6y ago
This is bad reasoning. The existence of balding celebrities does not mean that balding has no affect on sexual attractiveness. A lot of celebrities are famous for reasons other than attractiveness. Balding and bald are also different (which
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by fossuser 6y ago
Cool - sounds like you have the context. I just remember adults yelling at me as a kid for things like this. “You should take responsibility.” Etc. At the time I didn’t know what to do. I wish I had just said, “I have no control over my lif
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by fossuser 6y ago
Sure, in that specific case I’d agree it’s a flag. But there’s a general truth to sexual attractiveness in there, and it’s better to accept the reality as it is and adapt. Sometimes it's better to just learn the dance: https:/&#x
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by fossuser 6y ago
> “If it helps anyone else out there: no one else thinks about your hair besides you.” I had a girl cancel a date when she learned I was balding (she explicitly told a friend this) so there’s a reason men feel bad about it. That said, sh
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by fossuser 6y ago
It gets beaten out of you and the easiest response is to just give up and wait it out. “You don’t want to do this anymore? You need this for college, you shouldn’t quit everything you do, I wish I could have done this” etc. Eventually it’s
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by fossuser 6y ago
I’m not sure how that’s relevant?

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