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it's partially driven by scale. Take a good product and have it get accolades on the review sites and on reddit. The flood of sales triggers the manufacturer to find ways to cut costs. Saving ten cents doesn't matter when you sell
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I have a different take on the cause: everyone has been eaten by the liability monster.
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I highly recommend low profile switches for those who haven't tried them. They weren't really available in many models until recently and they're a big step up from standard switches if you're more used to laptops.
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I trd lrnng t tp lk ths as a shrtr wy f lrnng shrthnd, u cn tr t yrslf. Cms prtt fst.
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3y ago
List of phones in 2023 with screen sizes under 6 inches: Zen phone 10 End of list
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I've started donating blood and eating cabbage regularly on the story that those things are good at getting crap out of the system and good for me otherwise anyway.
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Mealsquares, a nutritionally complete meal bar made from whole foods. v1.0 soon.
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Sahara solar panels were economically viable according to multiple studies, and there have been some limited plans made, but it has turned out politically non viable so far. Transmission losses are smaller than often assumed.
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I think most video games are too structured to really qualify as play. This would be why more freeform games have been such surprise smash hits.
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Not really, it's mostly gathered from cluster headache forums online.
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just a heads up that microdosing dmt (non psychoactive doses, just a mg or two) are game changing instant cures for some forms of cluster headaches. Can be worth moving to a locale where plant based medicine has at least been decriminalized
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excellent point that the noise should raise probability of measurement/set-up/equipment issues
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It has been proposed that alternative mechanisms besides SC can create diamagnetic effects. I think we're waiting on more informed updates because the people with the competence to comment on this are probably working furiously in a l
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quick googling appears to indicate that it was produced in trace amounts as a consequence of other experiments at that time and only was investigated in and of itself in larger amounts more recently? Awaiting more info from better informed
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Not what you meant, but the answer is because they are a profit center for the college.
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One thing mostly not addressed is just how hard it can be to receive social opprobrium for pushing against things that are obviously broken but act as important foundation for current social reality. Even small amounts of contrarianism can
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Bikes in cities are inseparable from enforcing rule of law, which the US has little appetite for.
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Exposure therapy would be huge. Existing exposure therapy apps have been run by people without phobias themselves and have shot themselves in the foot by advertising themselves with big vivid pictures of phobia scenarios guaranteeing that t
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Let's get angry at economic indicators we have little understanding of. All of them are normative and should do what I say.
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Bullshit jobs are often about obfuscating liablity with extra layers such that the information that would render someone liable can be split up between several different people.
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A lot of frustration around the vagueness of online guides to DP. Here are the chapter headings from the Practiceopedia, an out of print guide to using deliberate practice principles in music training, with much broader applicability for mo
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Maybe so if you missed the author and his experience in the hurry to summarize his concepts?
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latency and refresh rate are different.
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wondering how they deal with the issue that the face starts moving before we start making sound. I guess the network latency will help.
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There is a deep liability tradeoff structure all up and down the joint stock corporate structure that has co-evolved with the legal apparatus that regulates it. Shareholders are in a symbiotic liability laundering relationship with executiv
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the balance on this is pretty clear afaik, people are consistently undershooting their desired fertility outcomes.
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zero/low dairy consumption is associated with higher all cause mortality
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The UK seems to be at the fore front of deindustrializaton
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While our system directly incentivizes deception, please keep in mind that any particular instance of deception is due to the moral failing of the person involved.
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I run a health food company[1] and when going to trade shows to interact with reps from the big ingredient supplier companies it's all about touting that everything is 'Legally GRAS' or Generally Recognized as Safe and '
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