koboll

24 ms·

211.
by koboll 6y ago
The confounding factor here, I suspect, is the explosive growth in the sheer number of blogspam websites. Passive income coaches have been pumping out courses on affiliate link blogs for years now, so lots of people have dozens or hundreds
212.
by koboll 6y ago
>Fluorocarbons are also ubiquitous in water repelling in clothing. Some of the more expensive brands of outdoor wear have moved to shorter chain fluorocarbons, but they haven't eliminated their use. From Arcteryx: Are there any reli
213.
by koboll 6y ago
I'm glad a big-budget production is shining a light on that part of history. Extremely under-depicted and necessary to review and reflect on, especially right now
214.
by koboll 6y ago
> 23. (~This is not medical advice~). Don’t waste money on multivitamins, they don’t work. Vitamin D supplementation does seem to work, which is important because deficiency is common. Or just use examine.com -- it demystifies which supp
215.
by koboll 6y ago
>though it can get a bit crazy when you see 5-6 big and aggressive dogs appear in your street every day because someone feeds them Yeah, I got surrounded by a pack of 7 or 8 big dogs around dawn on the Golden Horn once. Was frantically s
216.
by koboll 6y ago
I wouldn't be so sure. Apple wants to increase their market share, and reducing risk so they can extend more credit seems like a great way to do it.
217.
by koboll 6y ago
Q is Jim Watkins, or perhaps someone close to him. He's the one who owns the site that Q (now, after the Christchurch shooting) posts "drops" on. I seriously doubt anyone from Trump's orbit is involved. Qanon was a huge
218.
by koboll 6y ago
Certain stances also carry more political risk than others. For example, if you openly want to make small changes to social welfare programs that make them more sustainable -- the kind of changes that would be a part of negotiations on any
219.
by koboll 6y ago
This was an especially tough race to forecast because turnout surged to levels not seen in a century, which included lots of new voters. Polls tend to focus on "likely voters", which is defined mostly by who's voted before. S
220.
by koboll 6y ago
>we need some sort of poll test to make sure people are educated on issues before voting. Okay, now start thinking about what happens when the political party you like least takes power and starts rewriting the poll test questions to adv
221.
by koboll 6y ago
This is bitterly true but also profoundly, maddeningly, horrifically sad. Death is monstrous. We can do better. We have to do better. And it's tragic that we probably will but everyone alive today will probably miss that chance by a sl
222.
by koboll 6y ago
You're right, and researchers are aware of this: https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/03/placebos-arent-needed-ch... Also, there is a very strong risk, given the global situation, that the longer placebo-con
223.
by koboll 6y ago
I am a little skeptical about how dire this will really be. Census takers are allowed to guesstimate if non-responses reasonably make them believe they are undercounting: >In instances where the bureau is unsure of the number of resident
224.
by koboll 6y ago
>They buy up office space in every major city, and then, rather than permanently stationing any teams there, essentially make all such spaces into private-access coworking spaces. Well, this makes sense, since IBM is effectively a consul
225.
by koboll 6y ago
You don't need to believe the administration is Satanic, white nationalist, or whatever else. It is politically advantageous for them if fewer immigrants enter the United States, because immigrants tend to vote for the other side. And
226.
by koboll 6y ago
It makes sense insofar as it's designed to reduce the odds of successfully obtaining an H1B. Remember, this was shepherded by Stephen Miller and others in the administration whose explicit aim is reducing immigration by every lever ava
227.
by koboll 6y ago
So... the title of this submission is wrong?
228.
by koboll 6y ago
It's a beautiful scam. They convince consumers to turn their cash into an in-house quasi-currency that they can devalue whenever they want. The only limits are consumer frustration.
229.
by koboll 6y ago
>While they do have power over users on their platform, they're voluntary applications that people choose to give control to for convenience and publicity. It's true a username isn't property, but there are some instances
230.
by koboll 6y ago
It's pretty simple to prevent neighborhoods from having to be "rebuilt" after a hurricane: require all construction to be concrete. Such laws are common in Florida and the Caribbean and probably need to be put in place along
231.
by koboll 6y ago
>We also agree that people prefer to donate money to specific causes they support rather than pay extra in taxes - I think this is a fair statement. I don't think this a fair statement at all. Imagine you polled Scandinavians and as
232.
by koboll 6y ago
This seems like a problem that would be better solved by something like: 1. Browsers build in a system whereby if a link appears dead, they first check against the Wayback Machine to see if a backup exists. 2. If it does, they go there inst
233.
by koboll 6y ago
Here's a good rundown from Science on why hydroxychloroquine has failed large RCTs: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/three-big-studies-di...
234.
by koboll 6y ago
Can anyone here help demystify how "oral calcifediol (0.532 mg)" maps to an equivalent amount of Vitamin D in the form you can buy in a drugstore?
235.
by koboll 6y ago
Reminds me of the way the US administration likes to use the term "China virus". Nothing ever changes.
236.
by koboll 6y ago
Right, but that's because I'm not owed 10x my monthly salary.
237.
by koboll 6y ago
Right, but under the definition of Unjust Enrichment as laid out in the article, it requires both a mistake + not being liable to pay. So there's a difference between "whoops I paid money to the wrong person" and "whoops
238.
by koboll 6y ago
Some might. But Tim Cook seems not to, because his answer, "We do not retaliate or bully people", was unequivocal.
239.
by koboll 6y ago
In all seriousness, TikTok's Gen-Z userbase played a big role in a huge embarrassment for Trump recently, and given that there seems no end to his personal vanity and vindictiveness, I would not be surprised if this decision was rooted
240.
by koboll 6y ago
One of the all-time great tripping activities, along with Rainbox ( http://www.axlrosen.net/rainbox/rainbox-large.html ) and Audiosurf

More ›