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by vjk800 1y ago
> Yet when NPR runs non-stop Walmart articles [1], often in a neutral to positive fashion [...] Among the top results in your link are: "Pasta meals from Trader Joe's and Walmart may be linked to a deadly listeria outbreak&quot
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by vjk800 1y ago
I think the first one is better. What's the purpose of having all the text crammed in a thin column in the middle of the page anyway? If I'm reading the page on a wide screen, let me use all of the motherfucking screen.
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by vjk800 1y ago
I didn't even read the article, but the answer is clearly zero.
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by vjk800 1y ago
Slate Star Codex' take on Adderall (and ADHD) is a good read: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo... In short: no-one "has" ADHD. We just decided that people on the low
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by vjk800 1y ago
What is the motivation for people doing this? Is it just for the lols or are they making money out of this somehow?
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by vjk800 1y ago
If you think the time spent traversing all that space is completely worthless. Otherwise it makes sense to make things dense so that people can mostly reach whatever things they want to reach by walking a short distance or taking a quick tr
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by vjk800 1y ago
Oh yeah, public transportation is fucking horrible. Still, it is basically the only viable way to support a large population density and not turn everything into a wasteland of parking lots and car lanes. Let's face it: cars just take
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by vjk800 1y ago
> Given the supposed 50+ year lifespan of such a battery Surely the lifespan is almost forever. It's just a tank full of sand and some heating pipes. Maybe the pipes and/or control electronics needs to be replaced occasionally,
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by vjk800 1y ago
What exactly does this chip do?
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by vjk800 1y ago
Is there something of practical value you can do nowadays if you know about shaders and all this low level graphics stuff? I'm under impression that if I want to make an actual game, it makes no sense to do any of this stuff myself bec
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by vjk800 1y ago
Communities don't scale. This is the reason why nobody has done and why you couldn't get rich forming communities. Communities are handcrafted to accommodate the unique personalities of the people involved. Communities involve act
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by vjk800 1y ago
A person whose every interest and opinion gets validated by the world would indeed be very happy. Imagine just talking about whatever the hell happens to interest you to people and everyone paying attention and even paying you good money fo
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by vjk800 1y ago
Well, the same geographic proximity also shapes us so much when we are kids that it makes sense that it's a determining factor in friendship. It's not shallow at all since geography determines almost everything in our lives when w
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by vjk800 1y ago
> then in our 20's more or less have to make a mad dash to establish a place to live, a career, a partner, etc. What is weird, from the historical perspective, is that we need to do all those. I come from a rural village and almost
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by vjk800 1y ago
Steam sales are an important piece of this. I always buy a bunch of games from Steam sales, knowing full well that I'm not going to play all of them. The things is, I don't know which games I might feel like playing in the future,
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by vjk800 1y ago
How did you implement this? I can't figure out what these instructions in the article mean: "Exercises of dry swallowing in the bridge posture lasted for 4 weeks and were performed ten times per day (Fig. 2). The exercise was perf
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by vjk800 1y ago
Now that I think about it, that's true. The same of IRC and MSN Messenger. Since being online all the time was not the default state of things, people only turned those applications (or even their computers) on when they actually wante
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by vjk800 1y ago
There are games that are still good 30 years after the publication and there are games that were good then but seem unimpressive now. The latter category often includes games that did something new and innovative for the time it was publi
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by vjk800 1y ago
I've tried spaced repetition systems several times. The problem that I always discover is that I don't really have stuff that's worth memorizing. Things that are actually important I remember without trying and for the rest o
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by vjk800 1y ago
> Other than that, the main difference is the very wealthy having a mentality of getting people to "take care of problems" to a much larger extent. For example, routine tasks like cleaning. An upper MC person might have a weekl
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by vjk800 1y ago
Sounds like you've never done compliance.
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by vjk800 1y ago
This is really just part of a bigger trend of tech homogenizing the culture and language across the world. Smaller languages have suffered from the dominance of English long before AI. Most of the content in Reddit, X, or any internet platf
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by vjk800 1y ago
I use Office software at work daily and I don't understand how that piece of shit can be so fucking slow. It's a serious productivity sink too; I often procrastinate small tasks just because I know half of the time doing it is spe
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by vjk800 2y ago
> Let’s be real: improving load times doesn’t directly impact the bottom line. Selling Shark Cards (GTA’s virtual currency) does. Companies optimize for metrics that show up on quarterly earnings calls, not for goodwill or user experienc
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by vjk800 2y ago
This is the reason. I've fixed old electronics myself sometimes and quite often it's doable and the spare parts usually cost approximately nothing. However, paying someone 50 euros for half an hour worth of work to fix a thirty eu
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by vjk800 2y ago
They probably do some sort of promotion targeted to the retailers. I don't know and don't really even care. All I know is that I don't see any beer ads on TV, outside, or anywhere else really, and I wouldn't mind if the
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by vjk800 2y ago
> * Total fantasy to think you wouldn't fall afoul of free speech, both legally (in the US) and morally. Some limits exist on advertising exist in most countries. Do they respect free speech? > * Absolutely zero thought has been
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by vjk800 2y ago
Physical activity gives an outlet to stress, and people used to get way more of it. Stress and physical effort are supposed to go hand-in-hand; you feel stressed, which gives you a boost of adrenaline, which you need to physically fight bac
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by vjk800 2y ago
Bacterial, fungal and parasitic load has lessened, for sure, due to sterility of the environment, because many of those come from exposure to animals and plants. But viral load from viruses that spread from human-to-human and live exclusive
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by vjk800 2y ago
I don't know what it looks like from the perspective of someone in the field, but just as someone who is interested in this sort of stuff, it seems more and more plausible that quite many of diseases that have grown more prevalent in t

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