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Humans become less human and lose their understanding and capacity to value the natural world without simplistic sentimentality when they are divorced from experiencing it. There’s a balance. The world is already rewilding without segregati
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6y ago
It’s pretty trivial to disable most animations (and more importantly transparency!). I’ve been doing that on new MacOS installs since Jaguar and it only takes a few minutes. If you want to move quickly you’re probably already using keyboard
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6y ago
If you can’t get 4-aco but have access to mushrooms, search around for “lemon tek”, or “blue juice” cold water extraction. It can get you the psilocybin/psilocin without the body effect of chewing on mushrooms. Still not as easy to dos
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6y ago
I had band handwriting and spent some time with Write Now! which is a book teaching the Getty-Dubay italics method to adults. It helped quite a bit, but I’ve been meaning to revisit it and I think it would be great to pull PDFs into somet
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6y ago
Unpopular opinion, but after not owning a printer for around a decade I bought an HP Tango which is a totally wireless “cloud printer”. It’s small and has a nice linen case, so it looks like a book when on the shelf and not in use. I subscr
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6y ago
To the credit of the Shortcuts team at Apple, being able to visually select and define certain phrases for commonly completed tasks is helpful in this regard, but I’d guess only a couple % of the user base is even aware that Siri Shortcuts
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6y ago
I would guess that there are cohorts of kids across states or districts with different offerings of things like AP classes that could be matched on standardized test and SES scores.
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It’s important to distinguish that that quote is referring the prevailing findings on cognitive outcomes, while the research paper I linked to looks at non-cognitive outcomes, which do persist. I’m not an expert in the field but it’s an int
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Yes. > The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program > Past research documents the persistence of positive impacts of early life interventions on noncognitive skills. We test the symmetry of this finding by studying the persi
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6y ago
So many podcasts operate parasocially as well. Especially during COVID and negative polarization there is a high demand to be able to participate in interesting conversations. For lots of current events podcasts that have a paid tier, the m
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6y ago
Or just like Iran's nuclear program, they can extract more concessions if they are permanently 1-2 years away from deploying a search engine. Google's spot as the default search in Safari already earns Apple billions per year.
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6y ago
There's a good iOS app that converts playlists, and will help you resolve situations where an exact match isn't automatically found. https://songshift.com
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There is so much misremembering of the Microsoft antitrust case, especially by people who didn’t follow it closely at the time, and you’re very right to remind everyone that the core issue was asking the government to intervene to maintain
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6y ago
I believe in general purpose computers, I see them every day and I know they exist. I also believe in choice and experimentation when it comes to business models. If I want to buy some systems with trade offs and benefits that don’t always
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The point about hats is where do you draw the line on restricting access to a market? When does Fortnite become a platform that locks out hat designers or is perceived as taking too large of a cut from the hat store? If Apple did enforce fe
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The paid apps also subsidize the support and distribution of free apps. This makes the App Store and platform more attractive and helps developers in the end OTOH, it is pretty wild that Facebook has never paid a dime to Apple for software
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If the state hadn’t intervened on behalf of defending Netscape’s commercial interests we may have gotten decent open source browsers a few years earlier than we did. The market solved the problem in ways that the DoJ couldn’t have anticipat
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I subscribed to Spotify on their website for the same price as Apple Music, and their app works fine on my iPhone. Apple even distributes and delivers updates to the Spotify app on my iPhone for no cost to me or Spotify (well, Spotify does
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So many of us function as unpaid tech support for various family members. I do everything I can to push them towards iOS largely because the total inability to side load apps saves me time and money.
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Also, the consumer experience of a single well-maintained, and mostly safe App Store plays a large role in why iPhone users are comfortable spending more money on third party apps. Anytime the discussion around Apple’s take on subscription
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At this point it’s always important to remember that the DoJ lawsuit against Microsoft was largely about them abusing their market power by including a pre-installed web browser . In this case, the market came together to produce a solutio
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> Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo consoles. I fear they are similar in terms of gatekeepering to users and should be subject to whatever outcome Apple is. They seem a bit more open to begin with though so are likely to be less affected. Thes
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It would be even more accurate if Nespresso gave away free machines on amazon that could only heat water, expected Amazon to advertise them, ship them free to prime customers and handle returns and customer support, and also insisted that p
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I don't know why Limbsaver Airtech recoil pads aren't more popular. I put one on my T3x Lite after my first visit to the range and since then I can shoot a couple of boxes without issue. It's an inexpensive and practical fix.
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The claims do sound pretty loopy at first blush, but there have been several studies at this point, and the science PDF they host on his website is pretty interesting. https://explore.wimhofmethod.com/wp-content/uploads
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“fckgw rhqq2 yxrkt 8tg6w. There’s a name I’ve not heard in a long, long time.”
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Neither was publishing it an endorsement. Nor was it an endorsement when they published an editorial from an ISIS leader or going back some ways, Hitler. It’s important to know what politicians think. He could have easily Had it published i
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Or only one vowel at a time? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunoia_(book)
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The transition to ARM at AWS appears to be well underway. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/
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They were hardly cancelled though, they were more feted after the controversy. They went from the CMA to winning album of the year at the Grammys, got on the cover of Rolling Stone, etc. In many ways they vaulted from the country music back
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