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by the_af 11mo ago
That's an artifact of the health system (as an economic/insurance system), not of medicine itself. Chiropractors are different, the problem with them isn't the bureaucracy of insurance. Conflating medicine with how health sys
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by the_af 11mo ago
Words change meaning and definitions drift all the time. Language isn't static and adapts to modern times. Besides, this bizarre tangent about tradition ignores that this has some very practical downsides for nurses, it's not just
873.
by the_af 11mo ago
Fair enough. To be clear, I do remember watching long videos at 1.75X: Coursera's. By extension, I see myself watching "instructional" (tech) long-winded videos this way, but to be honest this is not the type of videos I usu
874.
by the_af 1y ago
Are your habits typical though? Playing long form videos at 1.75 speed? I suppose once you start engaging at hyperspeeds, you're making it closer to short form compulsive consumption. It'd be like speed reading a book instead of l
875.
by the_af 1y ago
I don't know if that's the only discernible difference. While 3 minutes is indeed an arbitrary limit, the difference between short and long form videos is very noticeable. Long form requires another form of attention, focusing mor
876.
by the_af 1y ago
> These people also have elaborate arguments as to why entities that might seem to meet every aspect of the definition of Empire even more than Israel-as-metropole does, particularly modern Russia, are not imperialist powers that amount
877.
by the_af 1y ago
This is easy to resolve: North Korea doesn't believe it has control over the South. The article is simply wrong, a variant of the trope of "those crazy North Koreans believe all sorts of things". They believe there's onl
878.
by the_af 1y ago
In order to determine if something is or is not "doing the thing" you must first know what "the thing" is. If it's writing your thoughts on your blog, then this is indeed doing the thing. Not doing the thing would b
879.
by the_af 1y ago
I must add: discussing (or showing HN) To-Do apps or systems on how best organize yourself to do the thing isn't doing the thing.
880.
by the_af 1y ago
Wow. It wasn't already running on Azure? What was it (or is it) running on?
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by the_af 1y ago
Hard disagree. (Also a correction: by original I meant "Secret of" but mistyped "Curse of"). I meant Return to Monkey Island (2022), which was no more abrupt a change than say, "The Curse of Monkey Island" (199
882.
by the_af 1y ago
> (which one may or may not find intolerably awful). "Motion smoothing" on TVs is the first thing I disable, I really hate it.
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by the_af 1y ago
In principle, I agree. In practice, I think the kind of blur that happens when you're looking at a physical object vs an object projected on a crisp, lit screen, with postprocessing/color grading/light meant for the screen, i
884.
by the_af 1y ago
Another example: pixel art in games. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of pixel art and retro games. But this reminds me of when people complained that the latest Monkey Island didn't use pixel art, and Ron Gilbert had to ex
885.
by the_af 1y ago
I wouldn't call it "fetishizing" though; not all of them anyway. Motion blur happens with real vision, so anything without blur would look odd. There's cinematic exaggeration, of course. 24 FPS is indeed entirely artific
886.
by the_af 1y ago
> A corporation is a person, not a human. Person is an abstraction used by law, but it has no direct relation to a human being. Most English dictionaries define person as a human. I think the legal concept of person ("legal&quot
887.
by the_af 1y ago
Yeah, nobody who ever mentions the DK effect (myself included) ever stops to consider they might be in the "dumb" cohort ;) We are all geniuses!
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by the_af 1y ago
Some pushback to this: I understand MMORPGS are addictive, but for some reason I was never hooked, so their "repetitive" aspect is a negative to me. For Assassin's Creed, it was so repetitive even within the same game (the fi
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by the_af 1y ago
I think ChatGPT is capable of giving reasonable medical advice, but given that we know it will hallucinate the most outlandish things, and its propensity to agree with whatever the user is saying, I think it's simply too dangerous to f
890.
by the_af 1y ago
> Did the government force YouTube to take down the videos? The article answers this: > YouTube, which is owned by Google, confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanct
891.
by the_af 1y ago
I don't think it's about UX at this point. It's more about critical mass. Unfortunately, YouTube is where the videos and audience are... yes, it's a Catch-22 situation.
892.
by the_af 1y ago
Well, that's easy: your statement is wrong.
893.
by the_af 1y ago
It has definitely aged, but I'd say it has aged a lot better than, say, Scott Adams' humor.
894.
by the_af 1y ago
My introduction to Dave Barry was Slackware Linux and the fortune cookie program, which greeted me with random quotes, often some humorous remark by Dave Barry. Because of this, I both like him and associate him with my early nerdiness.
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by the_af 1y ago
> In the first place, the existence of erotic literature doesn't prove this is true, like you claimed Everything we are discussing in this comments section must be understood in an informal way. I obviously did not "prove&quo
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by the_af 1y ago
> I think you're putting too much importance on the ability to visualize it. Almost all artists will tell you the ability to visualize is critical to be a good artist...
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by the_af 1y ago
I didn't mean it describes images, I meant it elicits them. If you cannot imagine what's happening, you cannot get aroused. Words are just words, they must conjure an image. Aphantasiacs often cannot imagine sensations either (at
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by the_af 1y ago
Hmm, no? The words must elicit images and sensations, otherwise they wouldn't work as erotica. Words are just words. If you cannot picture what they are describing, you cannot get aroused.
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by the_af 1y ago
I have so many questions to ask people with aphantasia related to sex, but it would get uncomfortably personal, so maybe best not to. The best I can do: do people with aphantasia only get aroused if the stimulus is present? Can't they
900.
by the_af 1y ago
It's like a photograph is an indirection of the thing that was photographed: not the real thing, but a good visual approximation. It's like watching a movie; the people are not there, but you still see them. The cinema is in my mi

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