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The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you (2020)(lsa.umich.edu)
436 points by mrleinad 4y ago|162 comments
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by mrleinad 4y ago
I'll re-evaluate my views on him in that case. So far, my case stands.
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by mrleinad 4y ago
> I would argue that attempting to kill such platforms would be more detrimental, as it will push people to decentralized platforms that are even worse echo chambers I see how this argument would be true. Thank you, that's actually
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by mrleinad 4y ago
> If you’re spending a ton of time blocking / unfollowing Do you really spend hours doing that? I use twitter and really don't need to do all that maintenance, and there are TONS of trolls and nasty people. What are you doing o
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by mrleinad 4y ago
> Yes, as we all know Elon Musk is an extremely trustworthy person He refused to ban Russian media through Starlink when everyone was banning them and anything that smelled like russian. So I'd say he can take the heat for free spea
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by mrleinad 4y ago
> Nobody is barred from Twitter pre-emptively, and nobody is barred because their 'views are not aligned' Maybe so. What about branding accounts as "pro X" or "anti X"? Because Twitter's been doing that
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by mrleinad 4y ago
Never said I was. But neither you nor the government (nor me for the sake of argument) can decide what's propaganda and what's actual information. Let people decide that on their own.
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by mrleinad 4y ago
Who gets to decide what's propaganda and what is not? You? The government?
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by mrleinad 4y ago
Twitter stock price target for financial institutions is 30 dollars. They're shorting it, and giddy about the board rejecting Elon's proposal.
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by mrleinad 4y ago
Moderation makes sense when somebody is hijacking your platform and ruining the experience for everyone else. How does someone ruin anything for anyone on twitter, when you can just unfollow/block on your own, and follow whomever you w
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by mrleinad 5y ago
Just a small pet peeve of mine: do mosquitoes bite or sting?
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by mrleinad 5y ago
It looks great, I'd have to give it a try to be able to have an opinion on it though. Did you try PlainTasks? You might be able to borrow a few ideas from it too. Congrats!
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by mrleinad 5y ago
Well, it's part of the game, isn't it? Or if I buy and expect it to go higher, they'll rollback and reimburse me if it falls?
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Airborne Spiders Drift on Multiple Silk Threads(physics.aps.org)
1 points by mrleinad 5y ago|0 comments
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by mrleinad 5y ago
It reduces the earnings for the exporter from selling it abroad, effectively capping the internal price for the commodity so it cannot go higher than a certain price (it works on anything that can be exported)
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by mrleinad 5y ago
I think you'll see this going into effect before the end of the year.
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by mrleinad 5y ago
At no point the article mentions no use of fertilizers at all. Their goal was to replace synthetic with natural ones, which apparently have lower yields.
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In Sri Lanka, Organic Farming Went Catastrophically Wrong(foreignpolicy.com)
31 points by mrleinad 5y ago|17 comments
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by mrleinad 5y ago
I'm still trying to historically find one country where regime change was achieved by applying economic sanctions.
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Ask HN: Recommended Books on Geopolitics
1 points by mrleinad 5y ago|2 comments
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by mrleinad 5y ago
"ourselves" means Europe is on their own. Maybe not immediately, but soon.
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by mrleinad 5y ago
Maybe I used the term extinction too loosely. I meant the country as it is now would no longer exist. Not that there would be no people at all. For example, Russia would be split into different territories or smaller countries.
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by mrleinad 5y ago
I found a revelation to me yesterday[1], which was strikingly simple yet mostly overlooked in terms of the implications it has. There are countries with a lot of old people, and not enough young people to replace them as they go into retire
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by mrleinad 5y ago
Yes, because of this statement in the parent: > I said I had never heard of any bank offering the service of taking all the account numbers of all the bills I have to pay and paying them for me out of my bank account.
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Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages (2017) [pdf](greenlab.di.uminho.pt)
1 points by mrleinad 5y ago|1 comments
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by mrleinad 5y ago
In Argentina there's a service named "Pago Mis Cuentas" (Pay My Bills). You can add all your services (gas, electricity, cable, internet, taxes, etc). When there's a new bill for the services you added, it's display
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by mrleinad 5y ago
Can't you make deposits directly on the ATM? Where I live, the ATM takes your bills, counts them, and directly deposits them in the account you choose. No need to interact with any of those pesky humans.
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by mrleinad 5y ago
I tried it while on a trip to the states, and had the same experience as you. It was barely ok, and the taste was not great. Also, saved time from not eating a regular meal is not that much, cooking it is. As with many things, that can be f
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by mrleinad 5y ago
I'd love to count calories. I'm just too lazy to measure and research everything I eat, and the alternative is to have only processed foods that are labeled. It's too bad that we can't just live on Soylent (the actual be
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by mrleinad 5y ago
Not everything needs to be reimbursed, sometimes you'll choose something that won't work for you, and that's ok. That doesn't mean the author was dishonest at all, even if he was not the best writer. I think that's

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