akurzon

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by akurzon 5y ago
I completely agree. They've always felt unwieldy and annoying, emphasizing some bit of text from a few paragraphs ago that I had just read and was no longer related to what I'm reading now.
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by akurzon 6y ago
I think so, but for most people it doesn't stop them from using the platforms. And then the criticism doesn't amount to much.
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by akurzon 6y ago
I think I'll try this out, I definitely have a bad habit of opening up multiple tabs of comments at a time. It's pretty much just muscle memory now. And that's a tasteful loading bar. Thanks for sharing!
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by akurzon 6y ago
For anyone interested in a detailed explanation of fructose metabolism (and why it's bad for you), I'd highly recommend these two talks by Robert Lustig on the subject. The first one is about how the body reacts to fructose, and t
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by akurzon 6y ago
> I think that suggested to the Capitol Hill rioters that political violence was no longer out-of-bounds; rather, it was legitimate and necessary. I hadn't thought of that. I could definitely see it playing a role, especially since
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by akurzon 6y ago
> I want to understand why society (including a great many moderates) are only alarmed by illiberalism when it's labeled "fascism" (and conversely why we tolerate illiberalism in the name of combatting 'fascism')
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by akurzon 6y ago
This seems to be a fairly common perspective, and I'll try to take it at face value and respond to it in parts. Sorry if I'm late and you got a bunch of other lengthy responses already. > For example, a lot of people who have v
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by akurzon 6y ago
Thank you for sharing that essay, it was very insightful! I can see a lot of the parallels there. Precarity and "social cooling" are two very similar perspectives on the consequences of surveillance capitalism. It's still dif
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by akurzon 6y ago
Honestly I wasn't aware that Google Play Music was still around until I got an email telling me it would discontinued. I've been using YouTube Music since I signed up for YouTube Premium a few years ago, and I've been pretty
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by akurzon 6y ago
> This is a pretty big assertion that the piece casually drops without backing My understanding was that the results of the author's interviews were the backing for this assertion: > As the interviews made clear, people adopted
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by akurzon 6y ago
> I also tend to recommend his university course lectures over his public-directed material; I'm not sure why it seems more moderated, but I'd guess that professional accountability and contextual habits developed before fame h
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by akurzon 7y ago
I admit I may have had the tone of "you shouldn't think of humans on those terms," but I emphasize that the point I wanted to make was precisely that the reductionist economic perspective fails to describe how loneliness work
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by akurzon 7y ago
I'm glad you bring up this perspective; I feel that reducing these kinds of subjects to some analogy of market forces ends up being really dehumanizing. Especially with things like loneliness and social interaction, it seems that portr
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by akurzon 8y ago
I think this presentation about never talking to the police is relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE Pretty much don't say anything, true or otherwise.