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by nend 4y ago
The Wikipedia article doesn't argue that this fear is encoded in our DNA.
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by nend 4y ago
I block distracting sites/apps from 6:30am-6:30pm, with browser extensions/app blockers. It's a pretty simple and free solution, takes maybe 10 minutes to install and configure. Yes there are fairly easy ways to get around th
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by nend 4y ago
Yes, they're A/B testing multiple things with NSFW content. Up until recently I was in the "you must use the mobile app instead of mobile site to see nsfw content" group. I'm not sure exactly when that changed for m
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by nend 4y ago
Not having credit history will absolutely require you to take on a higher interest rate for your mortgage. It's probably 10's of thousands of dollars difference over the length of the loan, depending on how big the mortgage amount
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by nend 4y ago
I can't give a first hand account of either, but yes Woodstock '99 was generally considered much more violent than the original, which was expressed in various ways: vandalism/looting, setting fires, rapes. Maybe the original
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by nend 4y ago
I read your comment before it was flagged. I assume it was removed because you broke the first rule of this board: "Be Kind, Don't be snarky". Your followup comment here also seems to break that rule. In general the combative
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by nend 4y ago
I don't, but regardless the US doesn't seem very close to direct democracy to me. So I disagree with OP when they say we're getting a glimpse of what direct democracy looks like right now.
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by nend 4y ago
It seems to me that since the rise of social media, politicians are voting in a way that's less representative of their constituents, not more. By that measure social media is bringing us farther from direct democracy, not closer.
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by nend 4y ago
Huh interesting, that does look promising, thanks.
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Ask HN: Email client with an opt-in inbox?
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by nend 4y ago
I don't really view that as evil though, just basic market dynamics. Similarly, CVS sells cheerios for $7 a box. I don't think CVS is evil, sometimes I'm just lazy.
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by nend 4y ago
One of the most Hacker News comments every written. A dismissive comment about a diy home project because you'd rather be critical of someone else than build something yourself.
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by nend 4y ago
Worth noting that carpenter bees are also furry fat bees, and often confused for bumble bees. Carpenter bees tend to be a bit shinier, and at least around me, bigger. Which is how I can tell them apart.
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by nend 4y ago
That's the cool thing about science, it can't be refuted by one person's anecdotal experiences.
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by nend 4y ago
Seems like you're projecting a bit. I didn't see the person your responding to make any judgement about a life with a partner/kids vs one without.
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by nend 4y ago
What evolutionary pressure is giving an advantage to humans who can digest plastic? The article is talking about "bugs" as in microbes, bacteria. Not animals.
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by nend 4y ago
A lot of good advice here which you can try to implement, but at the the end of the day if this is affecting your day to day life then this is a mental health issue. I would recommend therapy. They'll give you some similar advice as th
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by nend 4y ago
The point is that their definition of active is inaccurate. You can be an active user and not tweet.
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by nend 4y ago
It's useful if you want to copy, say a bulleted list over, or keep various bold/italicized words. I would say it's usually 50/50 whether I want to keep the formatting or not. But either way most applications support both
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by nend 4y ago
>2. That recent deterioration is most certainly embedded within a massive improvement over a longer horizon. The point was that political discussion became more common on this board in the last five years due to this "deterioration.
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by nend 4y ago
>I wager the deforestation taking place in Amazon will have a much larger impact than the absence of this species of mosquito That might be true but that's also not a reason to deliberately change ecosystems elsewhere. The issue wit
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by nend 4y ago
I don't mean to be pedantic, but we're not monkeys. We're apes, and so are chimpanzees. As you linked to, communities of apes and gorillas (as well as monkeys) do fight other communities. But it's not so clear if this co
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by nend 5y ago
This has been a standard IT policy for companies in the US for like 20 years. Probably 3/4 of the companies I've worked at over that time anyway.
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by nend 5y ago
"Almost impossible" seems a bit hyperbolic considering this is an article about a scientist who just made observations about underground behavior.
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by nend 5y ago
It's a hidden agreement between tech giants and their customers in that companies are so big and make so much money it's cheaper for them to lose the occasional customer than it is to provide adequate customer service. As to when
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by nend 5y ago
The odds of a company making it that big are so low though, you're chasing lottery tickets with that outlook, which I suppose is still useful information.
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by nend 5y ago
Those group definitions don't seem all that well defined to me either. I would self identify as an infrequent movie goer (which I'm assuming contains the majority of movie goers). The delta variant was confirmed in North America i
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by nend 5y ago
Yes activism is hard, which is one of the reasons why social media gave rise to slacktivism instead. It's a low effort gratification that is reinforced by ones social network. It's one of the issues with subreddits as they get lar
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by nend 5y ago
>What is their incentive to give better reviews to some than others? One incentive would be that they earn more money through affiliate (or the company is paying them) to promote one product over the other.
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by nend 5y ago
How does that disprove my statement? Microsoft essentially had a monopoly on desktops and software in 1996. Just because their market cap is larger now doesn't mean they weren't on top in 1996. Does anyone really think Microsoft h

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