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by jmcgough 5y ago
What LG TV are you talking about? My old smart TV was "slow and laggy", but as soon as I upgraded to a mid-range model a lot of those complaints went away. I can't imagine trying to use a dumb TV now. We have four streaming s
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Same - I was a heavy Hearthstone player since beta, and was ranked within the top 500 for about six months towards the end when I was pushing to compete. But the Blitzchung incident left such a bad taste in my mouth that I quit the game and
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His nose was shortened over time even before the show came out: https://arthur.fandom.com/wiki/Arthur%27s_Nose?file=Vous.png
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Has there ever been serious long-term side effects caused by vaccines? Yes, a tiny number of people have had serious short-term complications from them, but I'll take five deaths over 3,000 deaths a day. mRNA vaccines have been well st
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by jmcgough 5y ago
If you look at the numbers, you're significantly less likely to be infected if you've been vaccinated, and hospitalization rates are 95% lower. The fact that we're seeing a good number of people infected after vaccination is
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ARG for promoting films / games kinda peaked as a guerilla marketing campaign then. Once it became less novel, less money was spent on developing them. But yeah they become a lot less compelling when it's solved so quickly and the
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Heroku is a good comparison. Beanstalk is a way to specify the resources you need without needing to understand aws very well - AWS automagically provisions things for you and replaces instances when they become unhealthy. Compare to CloudF
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Usually someone just discovers it for the first time.
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The problem would be solved if we had cleaner sources of energy. Get rid of coal and you're most of the way there. None of that requires us to change our way of living, it just makes certain rich people less wealthy. No scientist is ar
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Grindr has also been used by oppressive regimes to find and imprison gay people: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/10/02/egypt-police-lgbt-dati... Add that to 3rd party apps that can find your exact location (
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by jmcgough 5y ago
amazing, this hasn't been updated since ruby 1.8
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I inherited my grandfather's guide to France from WW2 - it's a really lovely little guide with clear goals, practical advice about the country and local customs, and enough information to figure out where you are and how to get a
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Dr. K is awesome - he makes a lot of mental health discussion more approachable and accessible. He's super smart and really into evidence-based approaches. I saw him give a lecture on the neuroscience of addiction once that I could onl
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by jmcgough 5y ago
We're approaching the point where we'll be scrambling to deal with increasingly regular natural disasters, heat waves, etc and too busy dealing with the immediate problems (because that's what constituents are crying out for
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Their solution to an aging userbase is buying out competitors (instagram, whatsapp) to prevent them from overtaking FB. FB bought Oculus because they're beholden to Apple and Google in the mobile space; if VR is the next major platform
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Adding to this - I did interviews for about six months and I don't think I ever saw a candidate who had a significant side project or open source contributions (at least not in the last couple years). It signals a potentially strong ca
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by jmcgough 5y ago
As mentioned in the article, they're available on https://goomics.net/ Super cute comics, though there's a lot of references to internal Google culture or figures that I had to look up at times to get the joke.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I just don't see things changing in bio sciences because the people who benefit from it don't want it to change, and the people who want it to change (labs without a lot of money, grad students, post-docs) have the least power cha
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by jmcgough 5y ago
This whole thread is a lesson in Poe's Law
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> Contrary to that, the highest grossing films of all time are mostly within this century and past decade now That's only true if you don't adjust for inflation: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/top_life
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Yeah, it's sad that we're losing unique and interesting languages, but most people only learn 1-3 languages in their life. It's probably economically better for them to focus on ones that are spoken by larger groups of people
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by jmcgough 5y ago
People will frequently downvote anyone who brings up politics for no reason, on either side of the spectrum, especially if it's bad faith arguments like this.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
The data does not show that it works, and it was on a very specific sample (pre-alzheimers or early Alzheimer's). The drug costs $50k so they are profiting from desperate people. And yes, it can make things worse: "Most patients w
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by jmcgough 5y ago
This is so messed up. Time and time again we've seen drugs that target amyloid beta fail to have any effect, and this one is no different. Not only were the studies inconclusive, but they were only of people with very mild Alzheimer&#x
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Before scihub, I was in a livejournal Neuroscience community that was mostly researchers - half the posts were "I don't have access to x article, can someone send me the PDF?" We need a better solution to Elsevier etc but the
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by jmcgough 5y ago
This logic assumes that it's cheap to get a trademark, whereas the parent says it'll cost $2000. This leaves small hobby stores like Cliff's with no practical defense against scams like this if they've only made a few th
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by jmcgough 5y ago
How does this compare to mobile homes in terms of price and use case? Many mobile homes are only "mobile" in the sense that it's delivered and installed somewhere - 90% are never moved again, because it's costly and comp
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Agreed. If this was a right-wing account taken down it'd feed into their liberal-run social media conspiracy, and there'd be an article about it on Fox New instead of the daily beast. I'd be curious to know what the strikes w
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YC startups aren't significantly different from any other startup at a similar stage.
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I think there's some truth to this, but the trans community is a really awkward group to try to fit into your argument. As a trans person, I think there's a lot of toxicity to the online trans community, and there's certainly

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