iamkroot

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by iamkroot 6y ago
I only use a third party app to browse Instagram, which both blocks advertisements and stories. I keep the main app on my phone and only use it to create posts of my own. Whenever I open it I'm amazed at the sheer quantity of nonsense
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by iamkroot 6y ago
> Instagrams doesn't have a traditional share button to drive virality like other major social networks. And that's a big reason why it's the only social networking app I still have on my phone. Please never change, Inst
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by iamkroot 6y ago
I don't think anything else that I've seen or read has properly conveyed the scale of the universe the way these images do. They did and still do stagger my imagination.
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by iamkroot 6y ago
Yes, this very much so! Getting food provided for me at the office has more personal value than just the strict monetary benefit. Eating food that someone else bought for you just feels better than eating food you bought for yourself. Try t
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by iamkroot 6y ago
He wrote a very thoughtful explanation of it on his website.
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by iamkroot 6y ago
Have you tried dark reader? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/darkreader/
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by iamkroot 6y ago
The American Medical Association, which is a rotten cabal. Fantastic podcast about them by freakonomics: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/nurses-to-the-rescue/
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by iamkroot 7y ago
Etcetra Gift Yoo-effy Wuh-get Sifs
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by iamkroot 7y ago
Just recently I was telling my brother that I cannot ever trust book recommendations from authors, because they never hand out negative reviews. I understand why they do it, of course, but it saddens me that the people I most want to look t
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by iamkroot 7y ago
See, that's exactly how I feel about being up in the early morning! The rest of the world is still asleep and I get it all to myself.
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by iamkroot 7y ago
As in, a majority of the people should be earning the minimum wage?
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by iamkroot 7y ago
My boss also only has power over me in the context of my job. They have exactly zero power when it comes to all other aspects of my life.
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by iamkroot 7y ago
Then don't have any! People get so prickly about discussions about children, like they're scared someone is going to press gang them into parenthood.
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by iamkroot 7y ago
It's not free, it's subsidized by the government. An important distinction.
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by iamkroot 7y ago
If you could discharge student loans via bankruptcy nobody would get a loan. No financial institution is going to hand out 5 figure loans to a teenager with no credit history, no job, and no marketable skills.
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by iamkroot 7y ago
It definitely sounds fun to me. You're engaged in a very game like experience and getting paid for it.
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by iamkroot 7y ago
I continue to be surprised at how few people have heard of fbpurity[1], a fantastic browser extension that blocks all Facebook ads and lets you filter out specific types of content (links, memories, etc.). It's dramatically improved
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by iamkroot 7y ago
Have you ever reached into a hot oven and grabbed a sheet of tinfoil with your bare hands? The foil is 350F (or hotter) but you don't feel anything because it's so thin and flimsy. There is not enough mass to hold enough energy to
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by iamkroot 7y ago
Agree, if the signal is strong enough to reach a cell tower there is no way you could hide it from someone who was looking for it.
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by iamkroot 7y ago
How? I don't think there's any way a phone could know if someone has a spectrum analyzer looking at it's antennas, so it wouldn't be able to distinguish between a user enabling airplane mode because they want to vs. some
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by iamkroot 7y ago
My pet theory-without-evidence is that diets like keto or vegan succeed largely because they force people to radically reconsider every single thing they're eating. When you impose harsh restrictions like "no animal products"
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by iamkroot 7y ago
Why do private investors need protection? Why can't they be held responsible for the foolishness of their actions?
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by iamkroot 7y ago
There cannot be any doubt that the world is in a better place because of the presence of antibiotics.
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by iamkroot 7y ago
It shocks me how many people get upset when you tell them that you avoid following the latest daily outrage that the news media presents us. A while back I realized that exactly nobody spends time "catching up" on daily news if th
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by iamkroot 7y ago
I absolutely agree. Every now and then I open up a link that and me too disable my adblocker and if I can't bypass it in <5s I just close the tab and move on. There is very little on the internet that is completely unique and of int
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by iamkroot 7y ago
Yeah this is the only explanation I've ever heard. It's the same reason why you avoid acute angles in the design.
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by iamkroot 7y ago
Which is why the "cheap" products are important. Without them many people would not have access to a wide variety of goods.
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by iamkroot 7y ago
You can buy stuff that lasts, it just tends to cost a lot more than the mass market products. Consumers have voted with their wallets and the markets have responded. If consumer behavior changes, the markets will to.
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by iamkroot 7y ago
> (if you don't count the medical, legal, or funeral bills if you get caught) I see this anecdote/joke tossed out every time a gambling cheating story appears, but I don't think I've ever seen evidence that such retri
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by iamkroot 7y ago
I would never use someone's own website as my sole source of information, that's just begging for trouble. I search out as many different sources as I can find, including voting history, town hall transcripts, interviews, endors

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