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by spanktheuser 5y ago
The mistake the author makes is to define the visual design around a generation. Which is like defining an visual design around gender. Both can be salient but it’s rare for either to be the dominant characteristic that centers a design. Ta
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Citation needed.
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It’s just insane. I had no idea until Covid triggered the onset of type 1 diabetes in my niece. I was fortunate to spent time with her a year later. Her mother and father seemed to have aged a decade from the stress. I can only hope that th
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The problem is that the business model of YT kids contact creators contains incentives similar to those of SEO farms operating in the Google keyword ecosystem. Good content is shouldered aside by low effort, low value, high profit messaging
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As they get older, you’ll also find YouTube Kids serves as the primary gateway for consumerism / corporations to begin influencing your child. Between Netflix / Disney+, the traditional 30s television commercial has effectively d
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It’s worse when you discover someone who sincerely behaves this way. I once spent two horrifying hours learning about the emotional journey of cat food from a young Purina brand manager.
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That makes some sense - US healthcare is great if you are wealthy and barely existent if you are not. Canada strikes me as middle of the road - moderate quality for nearly everyone. If you are one of the lucky 10% at the top of the heap US
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I’m not sure I disagree with your broader point, but I don’t understand how labor organizing equates with right-wing populism. To me greater efforts at unionization are simply a rational economic response. What am I missing?
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Rather than bet, you could try traveling to some of these places. I’ve been to Vietnam and Cuba. In neither country could you find anything close to child prostitution (I don’t think it’s possible to observe organ sales in the same way). In
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I used to have many, many strong opinions about the effectiveness of various therapeutic techniques. After living a little, I’m left with only two: that most therapeutic approaches are effective for a limited set of situations and individua
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As a longtime product designer in the process of refreshing my development skills, one of the things I appreciate about Rails is how transparent and evident it’s point of view is. Without too much trouble I’m able to understand both the job
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It's interesting that the consensus assumption is that he's been hired for value he'll add in the future, rather than the things he's already done to enrich Thiel.
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I'd argue that the buyers are getting a free ride by offloading the negative externalities of the purchase to others. So we have to consider the cost of climate change remediation, the cost of accidents etc. A study by the Technical Un
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To clarify a common point of confusion: what you seem to be describing (personal property, market economy) is not unique to capitalism. Market socialism is not command economy and involves the use of markets and money to efficiently allocat
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I long for a corporate messaging service that incorporates deliberate scheduling. Being forced to choose specific business-wide delivery windows, alongside a /discouraged/ urgent option, feels as though it would go a long way to a
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Curious about your reasoning. I immediately wondered what type of cargo would be suitable for this sort of launch system. I came up with a fairly short list. Fuel/water/perhaps food for interplanetary spacecraft destined for Luna
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An interesting question to ask one’s self: how many open issues exist in the private repo of the various commercial insulin dosing providers? How would one judge, at any given moment, whether Company A or Company B has the more robust soft
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Interesting study. The data collection & classification methods seem strong as does the underlying data set. However I’m unconvinced their analysis necessarily follows from the established facts. - Knowledge workers are treated as a hom
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Wonder what precautions they’ve taken to prevent jamming by superglue or two-part epoxy.
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Relevant song ‘bout how Johnny Cash ended up driving a “…49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 Automobile.” Recorded in 1976 as domestic steel & car manufacturing tanked in the United States taking Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburg and m
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If these companies fraudulently stole the identity of individual Americans why aren’t they facing criminal charges? The Francis Wilhoit definition of conservatism as a form of aristocracy seems applicable: “There must be in-groups whom the
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It’s interesting how people like the OP single out the two cures for the diseases of hatred & oppression: censorship and cancellation. And yet lack the courage to couch their ask in plain language: Let us say anything we want but never
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My former business partner back in the Web 1.0 days (hey D) had remarkable experience in scaling large systems. Studied under ast. Rolled his own ETL language to power primary research for a Nobel-prize winning social scientist. Could sound
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It’s also predicated on the existence of an economy which provides ample leisure for some while others labor ceaselessly at the edges of poverty. There’s a reason the Indian sub-continent lacked a food surplus, academic establishments, stro
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I don’t think you should be speaking for anarchists unless you are one yourself & embedded in that community. As a non-anarchist who is sometimes in coalition with them on certain issues I have a very different impression of their view
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This is probably true, especially given the state of the surveys (for example, it required less than 10 minutes perusal to uncover obvious bias against distracted-type ADHD diagnostic surveys and by extension, females with ADHD). Although o
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It's almost as if capitalism requires outcomes which are exploitative. Whether that is the labor force, the environment, minority populations, civil society, population health. Too bad no one has written a book or three looking into
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I'm struck that the commission directors proceeded despite the ample evidence they knew would surface should the corrupt firing be contested. It seems that don't fear personal consequences for their actions. Disposing of limited l
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I have family and friends that were military pilots (of WW II vintage through to the 1990s) and would argue that the shared style is due to factors other than imitation. Among them: • 1930s - 1960s (perhaps beyond) military pilots were sele
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Be careful extrapolating to the individual from studies such as these, as the study environments control for context while the real world does not. For example, I worked with an developer who I’d consider low on agreeableness. She functione

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