jpistell

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by jpistell 4y ago
Just logged in to say thank you for the replacement. I'll be using it every day
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by jpistell 6y ago
An interesting excerpt A 2012 survey conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University asked a sample of Americans about their news-consumption habits, and quizzed them about U.S. and international political and economic events. They found that
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Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being(theatlantic.com)
1 points by jpistell 6y ago|2 comments
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by jpistell 6y ago
> That anytime you are provided with a service, like Facebook, for free, you are in fact the product being sold. That social media companies are basically giant behavior-modification systems that use algorithms to relentlessly increase “
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by jpistell 6y ago
Never heard anyone say French champagne here.
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by jpistell 6y ago
I'm curious about this as well. Seems just like a normal spell checker to me
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by jpistell 6y ago
Vae victis
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by jpistell 6y ago
> First, social address: I’m a white, cis, female, straight, abled Stopped reading there
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by jpistell 6y ago
> YouTube doesn’t tell you how much of the video you have watched, so my computation can’t differentiate between watching 1 minute of a 60-minute video and watching the whole thing. For that reason I count at most 30 minutes of each vide
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by jpistell 6y ago
Seven interviews seems a bit... abusive?
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by jpistell 6y ago
I have a long drive this afternoon. You’ve given me a lot to think about. Thank you.
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by jpistell 6y ago
> At first, this seemed like a crazy idea. Who would buy a color scheme for their code editors? I have thoughts like this all the time when I look at my github repos.
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by jpistell 7y ago
> Pai framed it as his own decision, with his announcement saying the chairman "proposed a major step forward... to protect consumers against spoofed robocalls." But in reality the FCC was ordered by Congress and President Trum