aikendrum

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by aikendrum 4y ago
No one should have to watch She-Hulk.
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by aikendrum 4y ago
The issue with this is that advertisements don't exist to answer a question, or provide useful information. They exist to sell a product - whose efficacy, usefulness or appropriateness to the buyer is orthogonal to the effectiveness of
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by aikendrum 4y ago
One of two things will happen. Either someone will build a huge business on top of a really great RSS reader, gradually adding features to feeds that customise to compete with substack / twitter etc; until the point where regular old f
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by aikendrum 4y ago
Standup comedian is a freelance job. It's perfectly possible to be unable to perform and still be a comedian, whether due to lack of material or lack of opportunity.
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by aikendrum 4y ago
Bread and watermelon are incommensurate. Bread is a staple.
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by aikendrum 4y ago
That shopping is literally 36% more expensive.
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by aikendrum 4y ago
In common use average refers to the mean.
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by aikendrum 4y ago
Why "Of course". Likely the percentage of MISTer owner legally dumping retro cards small. It's a subset of a subset of a subset. Gamer -> retro gamer -> hardcore retrogamer -> hardcore retrogamer that has high enough
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by aikendrum 4y ago
Twitter started in 2006, they didn't add the retweet functionality until 2009.
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by aikendrum 4y ago
This is nothing to do with low or high income countries. Europe exists. I've lived (and had local phones) in Ireland, Germany and the UK. I've never had a spam call. I've had less than 10 spam texts ever. The US (from an outs
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by aikendrum 4y ago
There are countless people who I couldn't enumerate who I might be potentially interested. I don't want them 'recommended' or algorithmically forced on me, but retweets and quote tweets have effectively surfaced their wo
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by aikendrum 4y ago
This was my experience also. The 'migration' tools are very poor.
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by aikendrum 4y ago
That's a hell of a claim. Any citation for that? I could see Tiktok doing something that extreme, but it would be incredibly bad press for youtube. Simpler explanation might be that lower priced ads run against dubious content and that
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by aikendrum 4y ago
Two possibilities - 1 - we take actions that are preconscious and reactive, and add consistency in later post hoc explanations. Or 2 - the conscious reflective self is more like a saccade of attention moving between various systems operatin
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by aikendrum 4y ago
There are lots of (expensive) headphones that will last 30 hours or more of playback, including the excellent Sony mx 1000 line. They have great noise cancellation, and older versions are often on sale for a significant discount.
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by aikendrum 4y ago
I've seen several of the creepy / disturbing live videos described above - the begging family and the baby with the large deformed head specifically. Each have been shown multiple times, despite immediately reporting them. So this
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by aikendrum 4y ago
Seems like a relatively consistent, generally agreed on definition at least of 'investigative journalist' shouldn't be impossible. Something like... 'A news gatherer, who uses primary sources and triangulates investigati
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by aikendrum 4y ago
> I think most physicists think that if you started with a description of the positions and velocities etc of all the particles in a human, and put them into a supercomputer the size of the moon, and had the computer run a simulation usi