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> This sounds like an absolute opposite to hostile architecture trend that spawns public places nowadays. A lot of that user-hostile design in public space seems aimed at discouraging people from loitering/camping out, especially th
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UX Testing for Public Infrastructure(setharielgreen.com)
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It's a good question! I work at Glo and I'll take a stab at it. First, if you're already someone who uses stablecoins, Glo will do the same stuff that your stablecoin of choice does, and also provide some social good on top.
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I have it disabled by default, but just about every time a website doesn't function without it, I reenable it. The exception has been some clickbait-y/social media sites that I wish I spent less time on anyway, e.g. Facebook. The
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In my experience, if you ride trains in Singapore or Tokyo and then visit the US, the word ‘uncivilized’ really does come to mind.
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This essay was previously published elsewhere on 8/13: https://www.freethink.com/technology/crypto-argentina-black-...
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Growing up, when I got good at something, I was able to channel the gains in productivity into more free time. This gave me ample incentive to get good at things. In the workplace, if you get good at something, you are generally expected to
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This is the Jon Gruber who got in trouble for his candid comments about Obamacare and the American voting public: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/us/politics/affordable-ca...
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And a lot of turmeric has lead in it: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/08/ge...
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> In some cases, however, potential harms to the populations studied may outweigh the benefit of publication. I see a counterfactual claim ("may outweigh") and therefore an opportunity for some causal identification, i.e. a sci
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I’ve noticed a big decline in performance recently on my 2020 MacBook Air (pre-M1) — a lot more fan activity and some apps completely freezing (iMessages and Slack in particular, but also StarCraft a few times). I’ve been wondering if Apple
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Open Culture recently posted a link to Abbey Road but with only Paul's bass lines, but the actual content got taken down. [0] It was really cool though, in part because it's not nearly as precise as I would have thought, which mad
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You’re intentionally paraphrasing the Exit/Voice/Loyalty model right
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But the baseline probability -- that Google will shut Stadia down at some point -- is what, 80%? higher? So even 'straw-in-the-wind' evidence [0] consistent with that hypothesis is probably pointing in the right direction. [0] ht
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Ah so this might be non-obvious context — the fed’s mandate is 1) maximum employment and 2) stable prices, which the Fed has, historically, defined as 2%. So saying this in the press release is basically like if i restated my company’s publ
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I meant that they are trivially true in the sense that they, e.g., * restate the fed's mandate to keep to full employment * say that the fed will consult many sources when it makes its verdicts (I should hope so!!) * say that their ver
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Why does the Fed write the way it does? First, this article buries the lede. The first seven sentences are framing. Only sentences 8-9 are actually news. The next four are, again, context. The headline also does not actually say what happen
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by setgree 4y ago
Ok, it’s just an idea, I thought it was relevant to the situation at hand — I don’t think it’s necessary to call my lack of ignorance ‘remarkable,’ I actually have worked before :)
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The article says that Shopify is reeling from a post-pandemic fall in demand that the execs didn't see it coming. But forecasting is hard, and even if they had seen it coming, they probably would have needed to hire broadly anyway. O
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> The solution here is to never use a hidden or “privacy” card number with Google The author regularly uses the same CC with many other google services > The same credit card on the account, a corporate Mastercard from Brex, is attach
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Careful what you wish for. I find that StarCraft Anthology — the original which was released for free, not the remastered version — is the app most likely to crash my 2020 MacBook. When devs put this stuff on many years after the fact as a
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by setgree 4y ago
whoa this sounds interesting! Do y'all have a website? Have you gotten specific feedback about why completing the project would damage one's chances at getting a USA visa?
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Looking at some of the reasons that Tyler Cowen proposes for why meetings are so bad [0], it seems you don't like meetings whose purpose is any of the following: > to instruct everyone in the nature of an idea....“We need to get ev
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Wow is the mobile UX of PNAS bad — the cookie pop-up has no X button and if you click ‘continue’ — which I thought meant continue to the article — it directs you to the terms of service. If you press back, you see the same pop-up again. Lo
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When 20 people quit Basecamp, that got a Times article too [0] -- though also a lot of chatter on HN [1]. FWIW I agree with a different comment on this thread that Substack gets disproportionate attention in traditional media because its bu
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In the great short books category, Willa Cather’s plains trilogy books are like 150-200 pages each, they’re fast reads and the prose is excellent — I’d start with ‘O Pioneers!’
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> It's really hard to find fiction books, that are less than 500 pages. To play editor for a moment — your sentence needs no comma, and it’s easy to find fiction books with fewer than 500 pages ;) Was a clause omitted?
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This seems like a great idea and I’m glad to see you working on it! Just curious, of all the ways you might get this off the ground, what tipped the scales in favor of VC funding? Personally, it’s hard for me to imagine this becoming a Redd
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It's fun to see the author describe himself as a"massive Saturn fan since Christmas ’96." I turned 8 right around then, and my parents agreed to buy either a Sega Saturn or the N64. I don't think I cared which, but the f
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Greetings from Finch, flip flop class of ‘21 — I look forward to following along!

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