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by microjim 4y ago
Am I rewarding people not bothering to read articles by summarising here? People that clicked to buy on fake products were given a coupon for potato fries with ketchup. This is a thing, according to the article, already - “fake door testing
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by microjim 4y ago
Pointless to squabble over the idea that there is some fixed 'proportion' so let me offer this - Body langugage and facial expressions are entire, distinct channels that primarily communicate information around emotion and attitud
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by microjim 4y ago
In a general sense yes agreed, but there's a genuine value to seeing peers in meetings that I didn't appreciate until I did more stuff that was in essence presenting stuff for feedback. For individuals choosing camera on vs. off w
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by microjim 5y ago
Let's do our best :D :D
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by microjim 5y ago
Interesting factoids in this article - electric motors consume a little over half of worldwide electricity, and there’s over 800 million sold every year. Would be curious about maintenance on these motors. The bearings would be the first to
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by microjim 5y ago
At the risk of us getting too abstract here, the trouble with said loop being weak is that it is difficult to link our actions and their impact on our environment. It is weak because the forces in question operate on a very long time scale,
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by microjim 5y ago
Would count this categorically as one of the ways we do not want to be using technology in the context of climate change, as it’s bypassing the negative feedback loop that already wasn’t strong enough to prevent us getting to this point in
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by microjim 5y ago
That information, alongside a comparison photo, is available in the first (very short) paragraph. The modification is to have them grow much shorter hair in order to tolerate heat better.
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by microjim 5y ago
High-fidelity telepresence here implying eye contact and 3D presence. Hard to get that without jumbling the data a bit in order to fly the photons in the right way.
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by microjim 5y ago
Title should be amended to something like 'Face-to-face, rather than shoulder-to-shoulder, enhances learning, innovation.' For a high quality face-to-face remote experience, I expect we'll start to see really impressive consu
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by microjim 5y ago
Found this part funny: > As I contemplated whether it could help me cope with the cold, it occurred to me that using this sacred technique to avoid discomfort might not be in line with its origins in Buddhism, a religion in which sufferi
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by microjim 5y ago
Scored 7 my first go but that was aided by one or two that were more or less had the same orientation and could spotted pretty easily.
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by microjim 5y ago
For that, you'd need to be convinced that exercise/strength training results in better health outcomes long term, and that better health outcomes are an important factor in emotional wellbeing. Supposing that, it is safe to acknow
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by microjim 5y ago
Agree. Expanding on ‘emotional damage’ - I’d say principally this would be softening the blow by not putting someone’s sense of who they are/sense of worth under threat. Failing that, you get one of two counterproductive effects: a) Th
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by microjim 5y ago
Whatever your take here - care to elaborate?
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by microjim 5y ago
Sorry - by ‘try again’ I meant build a new one and launch it
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by microjim 5y ago
Great news! I’m happy about this. Just curious - had this mission critically fail, how likely would we be to simply try again? Who needs to approve the cost for that? Would it be politically important to succeed currently?
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by microjim 5y ago
That first article references an essay called ‘Not all vampires suck blood.’ The link is dead, so I found a backup at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20610102
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by microjim 5y ago
Yep, exactly. Sure, I've left out medical reasons but principally it's not what most people have in mind when they talk about 'doing drugs' - even replacing aspirin with something psychoactive (e.g. SSRIs or anti-psychot
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by microjim 5y ago
Some subset of people do some subset of drugs in order to have an exciting/fun/heightened experience (e.g. cocaine on a night out to feel more confident and energised) Some subset of people do some subset of drugs in order to sett