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by telchior 5y ago
Could you explain a bit about what lead to the emotional harm? I'm not sure if it was the threatening email or not -- if the email had been as non-threatening as possible, yet a mandate was still put in place, would you have felt the s
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Taking account that this is unproven in humans -- it's enough for me to avoid soybean oil, as cooking oil choice is not very important for my palate. That said, which oils would you use for frying and baking? Most high smoke point oils
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I use Sublime Text for notes, but Org looks like it may be even better. Thanks!
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One explanation I've heard for this shortcoming is that psychology is almost fully focused on pathology, i.e. studying disease. So it's rarely going to give a good accounting of what happens in healthy populations. Difficult to se
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Lots of vague assertions about introversion and the need for human interaction here, but oddly, the author seems to have never asked the interviewees to list out all their interactions. Online is also just barely glossed over with no mentio
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So this isn't really about France in particular. Rather, the author is pointing out that France and Switzerland historically consumed more calories than the US with much lower obesity; and the fact that they probably got more exercise
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I pointed out that the Economist isn't that great in another comment, but turning around and leaping to its defense: It tends to give an overview of geopolitical events that do have some meaning. For instance, your entire idea of the P
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I agree, it's a great magazine. But don't forget that even the Economist is only providing a shallow overview of any given topic (despite the apparent depth); has a specific partisan viewpoint / world philosophy; and is frequ
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There's undoubtedly a flood of trash. But lower barriers to building games isn't making the game industry worse. Somewhat strained metaphor here, but think of energy. Cheap power generation helped the Industrial Revolution along a
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I think this burger restaurant metaphor is... really not great. Imagine instead that you've spent two years in a kitchen, working nonstop on a completely new type of food. You've discovered how to make something unprecedented, but
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Depends on your definition of success. Personally, I think if the developer is making hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, that's a yes; but I've met people who think if the game isn't a household name, it's not
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And you could find it yourself. But I'm mildly interested so... 2010: 1.5 billion pageviews per month, 4x-ish YoY growth: https://techcrunch.com/2010/07/19/tumblr-stats/ 2011: growth plateauing, sol
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I always disagree with opinions that 10+ year old games shouldn't be remade or have a successor because they're "tired" or have "been done". It's just a viewpoint that's incredibly out of touch with t
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As a niche site, sure, it has users. It died as a competitive social network, which is the context that I'm responding to this article in, since it distinctly asks in the headline whether Tumblr is heading back to "the top".
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Social networks (or anything else) don't usually climb out of the dead pool so I'd only assume one might if its user #s were rising. This article claims Tumblr has had a "a surprising boost in users", but without pointin
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You may not be looking at some change in HN so much as a change in the culture as a whole. Back in 2008, tech was full on optimism, save the world rah rah. Google's motto was still "Don't be evil". Zuckerberg was sort of
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Perhaps he's self-identifying as a tech bro defensively? That is: based on his age / appearance / employment, other people might dismiss him as just another tech bro, so he's just going ahead with a self-label to get it
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I try to use DuckDuckGo exclusively, but the results are often poor enough that I have to switch to Google. Just to be clear, I totally agree with all the criticisms of Google here; it's also awful and I'll often end up just doing
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by telchior 5y ago
Google "how to uninstall crapware for <manufacturer". You could figure it out on your own, of course, but you might miss something. I'll also mess with settings to tone down unnecessary aesthetic stuff, e.g. Windows Aero a
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Simply put, IAP is the business model and has been since long before Roblox became successful (or criticized). I can only think of two potential alternatives. 1) Advertising, but that would be even more fraught than IAP. 2) Subscription fee
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People inevitably develop unreasonable fantasies of what life could be in a field / relationship / situation far from their own. I feel you're being a bit unnecessarily cynical about how bad this kind of daydreaming is. Yes,
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I get your point but don't fully agree. For one -- I did not get cheap, subsidized taxis. I got a service that moved me from one place to another, yes. But it's incorrect to call that service "taxis", considering what th
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There's probably something to be said for human editorial in ranking sources. There are a finite number of actual news sources with actual reporting, and it occurs to me that your once your automated filter detects possible crap qualit
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I guess the new trend with talking about Big Tech is to ensure that you allow absolutely no nuance; everything <company> did is bad, everything it changed is for the worse, and it's all just a big con. There's not a hint any
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But he's not entirely wrong. Stewart calls out the NYT for being wrong on Iraq; and they were. Today they are still the newspaper of record (for a lot of people) and they're still devastatingly wrong about all kinds of issues, on
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I think you're right; there's immense potential value in news aggregation that goes beyond "this got the most eyeballs / articles". What do you think of the possibility of ranking articles by some metric? If there a
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On the contrary, it's incredibly common for people to want to believe that the ancients were somehow better or wiser than we are, or marvel over supposedly impossible feats (see: pyramids, Greek fire, occasionally semi-correct guesses