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by kgin 6y ago
Most great chefs would be nothing without access to a grocery store, but that doesn't mean I can't learn more from that great chef than the 99% of the other people going to that grocery store who never learn to make amazing things
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by kgin 6y ago
There is a paradox here that while it's not important for you to know about 99.99% of the things that happen and are reported in the news, the fact that people are paying attention disincentivizes people in government from doing bad th
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by kgin 6y ago
This hasn't been my experience. I know tons of people who just revel is recounting stories about things other people did that were stupid or mad them angry for some reason, even years after the fact.
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by kgin 6y ago
I don't think you should assume that someone is intending to be positive towards you. But you should assume that someone, in their own mind, thinks they're doing the "right thing". If you assume people are evil and are m
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by kgin 6y ago
I guess maybe it’s worth remembering that even if someone is an enemy it is in conflict with you, nobody thinks they are “the bad guy”. If you want to understand why someone does what they do, you can’t chalk it up just to “they’re evil” or
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by kgin 6y ago
100% agree. Shows the power of wrapping anything in “freedom words” can get people to support it, even if it means putting themselves in harm’s way.
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by kgin 6y ago
I feel like there's something really interesting behind that choice that probably isn't that flattering to Facebook.
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by kgin 6y ago
Reddit has no shortage of problems, but it's the most civilized large online discussion platform by far. Moderation, partitioning of interests into subreddits, and the existence of downvotes go a long way to reeling in the worst things
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by kgin 6y ago
Vain = any person who does something in service of their appearance that I don't do
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by kgin 6y ago
If it's a direct tradeoff then yes, health wins. But you can care about both.
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by kgin 6y ago
The idea that more than 5% of people have any idea what they're consenting to when they click these buttons is silly.
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by kgin 6y ago
If you move somewhere with an intention of making a new life there in the place, then you're an immigrant. If you are temporarily relocated, usually for work you're an expat. If you follow a seasonal circuit for work, you're
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by kgin 6y ago
Finding housing for homeless people isn't a money problem. We just don't want to do it. We find/print money for things we want to do.
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by kgin 6y ago
Fark, Plastic, Metafilter Metafilter still exists, but the culture changed to the point where most discussions became a meta-discussion about how the discussion should be allowed to be discussed. And it just wore me out.
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by kgin 6y ago
Alone, this doesn't show anything. But following this population for 3 weeks should tell us a alot.
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by kgin 6y ago
Most amount of people in least amount of space = don't have an office at all.
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by kgin 6y ago
I must be incredibly lucky to know of two friends' family members with covid19, both above 65, both went on ventilators, both now off ventilators and recovering. Neither one in NYC, fwiw.
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by kgin 6y ago
React Native and Firebase or, if you want to be more independent React Native and FeathersJS
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by kgin 7y ago
It's worth putting a fine point on what you want to happen. If you have 50% "no shows", there are two main options: 1. More accurate RSVP lists, but fewer total attendees. Putting up barriers to RSVP (ticket prices, deposits,
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by kgin 7y ago
This is absolutely one of the hardest parts of a service like this.
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by kgin 7y ago
Heavy stuff.
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by kgin 7y ago
Not sure about the exact math here, but there is diminishing "returns" to the genes with every additional offspring. Going from "zero offspring" to "one offspring" is the biggest jump genes can make. Two is 100
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by kgin 7y ago
> chlorhexidine Pretty much guarantee almost nobody is using chlorhexidine mouthwash for kicks. This is not listerine-level stuff. This is what you use when you have a very severe gum problem.
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by kgin 7y ago
Everybody's a critic about study design, geez. Studies cost a ton of money. If you can get an interesting signal in a small study, that can be a good reason to invest more money. If you get s strong signal for a surprising result, it&#
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by kgin 7y ago
Dying isn't required for evolution. It's just that after you reproduce and get your offspring on their own feet, continuing to live is optional (for evolution), so no optimizations evolved to continue life far beyond that. Evoluti
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by kgin 7y ago
> Craig Callender worries that the analogy between black holes and thermodynamics has been stretched too far. Spaghettification
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by kgin 8y ago
Twitter is great for publishing information updates. It's terrible for having a conversation or reasoned debate. Almost all of the built-in incentives are the exact opposite of what you'd want if you were creating a place for conv
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by kgin 8y ago
This story is a great conversation starter that will spark a lot of great discussion. But it's so perfect, I have a hard time believing it actually happened the way it's told.
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by kgin 8y ago
> Remember the round cornered buttons? Yeah, I remember too. The only way it's okay for a designer to use them now is if it's #ironic. What am I missing here? The latest guidelines for Material Design and iOS have round corner
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by kgin 8y ago
That was my take away as well, which makes sense. I think trying to seamlessly merge functionality across any two paradigms is going to be tougher than sticking with just one or the other. But for any company with an existing app, mixing in

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