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by nostromo 4y ago
Apple tightening privacy while TikTok is eating their lunch... Not to mention the Metaverse is/was a giant distraction.
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by nostromo 4y ago
As noted in the article, usually they just use shitty thin paper.
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by nostromo 4y ago
If you're crashing on a friend's couch, you're not homeless. Everyone cohabitates with family and friends at some point in life. It's very different than sleeping on the street.
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by nostromo 4y ago
There are beds available. That's all you need to know. When police go to an illegal camp and say, you need to go to a shelter, it's not accurate to say they have nowhere to go. They do have somewhere to go. Handwaving this away
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by nostromo 4y ago
> The lawsuit alleges that the city violates state and federal laws, its own policies and homeless individuals’ rights by “punishing residents who have nowhere to go,” They have shelter beds available. People need to stop repeating fals
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by nostromo 4y ago
"Remember me" is an out-of-date concept. If you do use a shared device, you should be using your own user profile on that device. Or, at least, your own browser profile. You really shouldn't be logging into your sensitive ac
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by nostromo 4y ago
YouTube likes and dislikes are now pretty similar to Facebook likes. It's not there to help you, the user. It's there to make the content creator feel popular. That's why YouTube removed dislike numbers and Facebook never h
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by nostromo 4y ago
Did the US become more stable during Covid or during the financial crisis? No - quite the opposite.
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by nostromo 4y ago
If you're worried primarily about wrongful convictions, don't forget that we only solve 50% of murders in the US. Wrongful convictions are tragic, but the 50% of murderers that are free is also tragic. https://www.theat
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by nostromo 4y ago
Besides tanking all asset prices initially - that actually could pave the way for more inflation. US federal debt is 30 trillion dollars. If the federal government had to pay 10% interest on its debt, it’d require almost all of federal spe
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by nostromo 4y ago
> down massively 23.52B Expected Revenue 23.20B Reported Reported Difference: ~1%
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by nostromo 4y ago
It's also common for them to say that this apartment has "just been rented," and then show them a completely different apartment for their clients. Usually these apartments are both worse and more expensive.
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by nostromo 4y ago
YouTube is mostly consumed on mobile and in their app where adblocking is more difficult.
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by nostromo 4y ago
If you want to watch YouTube without ads on your phone, go to the website using the Brave browser -- it works perfectly.
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by nostromo 4y ago
I wish they'd use less plastic. It's hard to find anything from Patagonia that uses environmentally-friendly materials. Perhaps they can research a way to make performance fabrics that are better for the earth. Allbirds has been
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by nostromo 4y ago
This is a common complaint. The reason they do it is because... it works! It can be counter-intuitive but this is often seen in recommendation systems. In music for example, the song most likely to be played after a song is... that same s
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by nostromo 4y ago
Amazon seems to have taken a different route. Keep margins low and don’t make too much money in order to starve any potential competitors of capital. Of course - you still need to grow revenue for this to work - just not profits.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Yesterday I noticed that happened to a reputable paper that recommends against boosters for young people. Posted, front page, flagged, dead… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32820934
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by nostromo 4y ago
Bottom line is they don’t recommend Covid boosters for young people as the harm outweighs the benefits.
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by nostromo 4y ago
This is the blank slate fallacy, but about food. Human populations have natural variations -- and even if we all ate the same foods, some populations would be heavier than others. Imagine if you looked only to food to explain why the Dutch
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by nostromo 4y ago
In dollar amounts, yes. But what matters in this analysis is calories, not value.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Fertilizer imports. The US makes its own fertilizer, Ireland does not. Without fertilizer, crop productivity goes way down.
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by nostromo 4y ago
The graph shows they are actively harmful though. They’re not a little bit better - they’re dramatically worse.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Incitement is already illegal. SWATing and making true threats are also illegal. What we need is not nuking entire websites from orbit because they have bad actors, but actually upholding the law via law enforcement. Private corporations
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by nostromo 4y ago
If SWATing is the weapon of choice for harassment mobs, then fix that first. Note that this particular SWATing wasn't in the US, it was in Canada -- so it's not necessarily even a uniquely American problem.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Jackson is in a death spiral. It’s been shrinking for decades and the people who leave first are the people with income, money, and opportunity. The people left are increasingly poor, on public assistance, and simply don’t pay enough in ta
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by nostromo 4y ago
The actual paper states things more clearly. > In this trial the primary outcome did not differ significantly between the trial groups. > Secondary outcomes generally favored psilocybin over escitalopram; however, the confidence int
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by nostromo 4y ago
Direct link to the image: https://go.nature.com/3q56P5U
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by nostromo 4y ago
This endless catastrophizing, something you're taking part in, is a big part of the problem. Trump isn't Hitler and Antifa burning down police stations is not the Warsaw Uprising.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Popper is literally talking about Soviets and Nazis marching into your country and killing dissidents. It's ridiculous to extend his thinking to our modern and relatively mild transgressions.

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