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by jcutrell 3y ago
They sorta still do this as a part of their business for sure.
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by jcutrell 3y ago
It’s so disheartening that you can have this much of a laser focused understanding of what you’re looking for and not be able to find it.
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by jcutrell 3y ago
This sounds so exhausting. I’m all for listening to enriching content while doing dishes etc… I have a vested interest in this as a host of a podcast… but sometimes, you just need to hear the dishes clink, the train wheels rumble, or the so
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by jcutrell 3y ago
Everything is easier and harder than you think it will be. It’s easier because humans tend to overcomplicate matters, when usually the simplest thing will probably suffice until you have serious demand for something more complicated. It’s h
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by jcutrell 3y ago
The health anxiety in me just found a whole new lifeline.
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by jcutrell 3y ago
I don’t think we should look at these people as the paragon of parenting. It’s easy to imagine that every decision they made is some blessed path, but that’s just a halo effect. It’s easy to engage in some magical thinking about Jobs or Gat
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by jcutrell 3y ago
Same here. I assume progressive rollout
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by jcutrell 3y ago
The problem is, it's _not advice._ People take different imperatives away from the same information. What does it mean that red meat causes cancer? Does that mean that all things being equal, high quality red meat should be avoided? Do
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by jcutrell 3y ago
Honestly, what I want to know in a headline like this is "what changed?" As someone who deals with health anxiety already, I have done my fair share of research on things like this. Aspartame, along with most other artificial swee
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by jcutrell 3y ago
What is the best evidence out there for what behaviors, products etc are, at a personal level, more dangerous? For example, I have a Breville Precision coffeemaker. How much plastic is getting leached into my daily cup of coffee? Should I g
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by jcutrell 3y ago
There are definitely people who land squarely in conspiracy theory land for this. For example, those who avoid literally all plastic, and won’t eat something that touched even the most stable forms of plastic, despite having little to no
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by jcutrell 3y ago
I think the point is that we don’t see the major spikes that the ubiquitousness of plastics combined with the alarm levels raised by headlines like this would theoretically produce. If plastics are indeed poisoning us, the hazard ratio seem
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by jcutrell 3y ago
Make sure you are asking about pickup trucks, not necessarily a moving truck.
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by jcutrell 3y ago
I dislike the wording of this title. It’s not about being “acceptable” - it’s about it being _necessary_ to afford. Sure, maybe they could go hungry for a few weeks… but this is such a predatory practice that preys on the psychology of stud
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by jcutrell 3y ago
I live on an airport - Id really like to do this.
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by jcutrell 3y ago
For people who say they have nothing to hide, I ask them why they have locks on their doors, passwords to their email, and clothes on their body.
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by jcutrell 3y ago
Someone should show this complete stain how much his average worker is working per dollar compared to him, and then take away his toys and put him in time out.
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by jcutrell 3y ago
Also, some people treat their inanimate cars with more loyalty and love than a pet, so it’s not really that weird.
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by jcutrell 3y ago
Fortunately workers can now say “I want to work from home because I like it better than your shitty office environment” and if the employer doesn’t like it they can go pound sand and find other workers. Honestly this works as a very nice fi
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by jcutrell 3y ago
This is actually pretty insightful - I have done something similar with splitting my obsidian data into chunks using paragraphs and headers as demarcation, but this solves a more interesting problem of nuance! I like it.
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by jcutrell 3y ago
Id like to propose Altman’s law: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit generated by linguistic AI is two orders of magnitude higher than it takes to create it.
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by jcutrell 3y ago
I’m not sure what the bias is here - maybe halo effect? - but the issue at hand is that the antibiotics are being used in a scenario where they cannot be effective. They are, in that way, a placebo to the same degree that homeopathy is, des
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by jcutrell 3y ago
I think there’s a chance here to actually tell them the truth. “This stuff is not studied to work. It is a placebo.” OP study says this can still be effective.
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by jcutrell 4y ago
This is a footer section which appears on multiple pages, appears below the comments and below a "browse notes by tag" section.
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Take this as a lesson - if you ever want criticism on HN, post something about messing with animations on a page. Scrolljacking is a cardinal sin around these parts. On another note - is it true that this would mean the animation frame func
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by jcutrell 4y ago
This is true, but it also ignores the economic reality: your employer wants to get things done, but money is their constraint more than time. If they can replace you, they are obligated to do so. This is a nice idea, but in economic reality
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by jcutrell 4y ago
If you can point to a title that is not backed by subjectivity, I’d like to know about it. The examples that tend to come up here are things like Lawyer or Medical Doctor. And yet, every person in those fields is still subjectively differ
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Lots of comments here are casually dismissing a ton of psychological research on this topic out of a sense of what looks like philosophical or intellectual superiority. That’s too bad; this is unusually prevalent in our industry. When do yo
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by jcutrell 4y ago
And yet, you will then adopt the identity of a person who doesn’t limit themselves with titles and identities. It’s a bit of a paradox but it works with how our brains operate: we use heuristics to understand the world. So labels will be ap
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Titles are not applied based on objective realities anyway, which is actually the point.

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