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by yojo 5y ago
I’d love to see that software too, but most of the issues you describe (plastics, greenhouse gasses) had impacts that were non-obvious at the outset. Then they were controversial, then no longer controversial but heavily lobbied. At the sta
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I use a mask too, but it moves around when I sleep. Even properly positioned I haven’t found a mask that doesn’t leak around the edges.
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Not OP, but had the same experience several years ago. The answer is yes. If you want a cheap test, you can tape aluminum foil over your bedroom window(s) for a night (learned this from The Martian!). It will fully block all light, and you
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My dad’s dad hit him with a belt when he misbehaved. My dad spanked me with his hand when I was a toddler. Not overly hard, and not after age 4, but still. Do I think my dad could have made better parenting choices? Yes. Am I happy that he
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I didn’t mean to imply that lottery was the best system in all cases, just that it’s pretty much always better than first one wins. Though thinking about it more a lottery probably results in more total entries, and you might end up giving
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I’m hard pressed to think of any first-come, first-served system for allocating scarce goods that wouldn’t be better run as a lottery. The problem is that typically the person selling the item doesn’t care who gets it, so there’s literally
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It didn’t even stop then. My own city (Portland) has been regularly exceeding EPA lead action levels since 1998[1]. All they need to do is treat the water to raise ph like every other city with a large lead solder install base, but they’ve
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Does anyone finance these things? 1600 against 25k is 6.4%. Seems like it wouldn’t be too hard to break even in todays rate environment.
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At the very least IKEA must have shrunk the market for fully assembled furniture, especially at the low end of the market. Any company that does want to play there is now doing it at substantially lower volume, negatively impacting unit eco
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Can you expand on the “US foreign policy bias”? For the last couple years I feel like most of the Economist’s opinion of US policy could be summed up as “bungling”. E.g. they’re critical of the withdrawal from the TPP, the introduction of p
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Honestly it is the difference between having any coverage and none at all. If I just read stories from the front page of Google News I’d have no idea who Recep Erdogan was. I definitely wouldn’t have any idea of Turkeys current inflation wo
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You can stop that one! https://www.valpak.com/coupons/show/mailinglistsuppression Unrelated to my original post, but I have been on a quest to purge all the junk from my physical mail. It is a huge PITA, but in al
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A couple things, a lot of which boils down to them actually having journalists on staff who go out and research stories in person. A lot of digital outlets are just regurgitating Associated Press articles with little/no value add. 1) B
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The article leads with drawing a distinction between pop news and more traditional journalism: "To be clear, I’m mostly talking about following TV and internet newscasts here. This post isn’t an indictment of journalism as a whole.&quo
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Print ads are a lot less obtrusive for me compared to digital ads. It's literally just a piece of paper that I don't have to look at. They don't have inline ads, or sponsored content, or autoplaying videos, or any of the conv
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I definitely get a sinking feeling when I leave on vacation and come back to a two-issue backlog! There's more content in there than I typically consume in a week, so I've gotten more discerning on which articles I read. Skipping
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I've always subscribed through a third party (DiscountMags) and it's been painless. In fact I've had the opposite problem, where my Economist doesn't show up one week and I start cursing the USPS until I realize it'
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I haven't noticed this kind of bias in the US reporting, but my personal views skew moderate liberal so it might be hitting a personal blindspot. The main stances that seem to go against coastal US media I've seen are: 1) Trans ri
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by yojo 5y ago
I've definitely noticed having more background knowledge on major events. My wife still takes all her news digitally (mostly NYT), and I'm able to add a lot of color to her understanding of events when we talk through news of the
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I'm a firm believer in quality over quantity when it comes to news. Google News has gotten increasingly annoying though, forcing me harder toward the "personalized" results, the kind of filter bubble I'm intentionally tr
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Oh this is definitely me describing a failure mode of postmortems, not an indictment of the process generally. It usually happens with well intentioned junior teams that lack experience/perspective. I’m a firm believer in learning from
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That’s great, I’ve never thought of implementing “process refactoring” as a standard recurring process, but I will now.
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I’ve seen it a lot in well-intentioned post-mortems. Some bad code gets pushed to production and causes an outage. The responsible team does a thorough review, and in a bout of self-flagellation proposes a long list of extra processes that
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It’s too bad the manufacturers don’t just make APIs with swappable standard sized hardware instead of integrated systems. An average car lasts 12 years. How many 12 year old tablets do people want to use? My first car was a 15 year old beat
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When I bought my last car (Honda Fit), I was stuck with the base model because it was the only one without a touch a screen. I test drove the upgraded trim package. It was nicer in every way but the damn touch screen, which was a non-star
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Reading this I’m reminded of the debates around ORMs. At a basic level they drastically simplify your CRUD app. Until they make trivial errors no self-respecting programmer would (think N+1 queries), and then you need someone who actually u
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With climate change we will likely continue seeing more extreme weather events, so the point seems valid. The Netherlands isn’t exactly immune though. Utrecht also got a heat wave last year, though still about 10F less than Portland. There’
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Did you look at Portland, OR? I moved here from San Francisco, where I was terrified of cycling. Here there are lots of bike trails, complete streets reserved for bicycles (“neighborhood greenways”), and even a bicycle/pedestrian only
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Google is a large monopoly that subsidizes “free” products to burn a thousand mile clearing around their money engine. If Google maps was not free, there would be more of a market for competing mapping products. A mapping product has a natu
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Yep. The original top ad unit had a dark blue background, plus I think some sort of “sponsored” text that clearly delineated the ads. It has since become almost indistinguishable from organic results. Edit: Used to look like this: http:&#x

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