bigDinosaur

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by bigDinosaur 4d ago
If someone is supposedly concerned about being recorded, having their privacy invaded etc. but they're too lazy to change the wifi password and deal with the trivial inconvenience of changing it on other household devices then in this
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by bigDinosaur 6d ago
As a parent you should absolutely think about what kind of expectations and behaviours you're setting up for the future if 'if they enjoy it then it's worth the money' is teaching kids. Sure it's not perfectly clear
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by bigDinosaur 9d ago
The US has been by far the largest funder of medical and other scientific research since WW2 which has benefited billions immensely.
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by bigDinosaur 13d ago
The marginal return on education spending decreases fairly quickly, but obviously becomes zero at the point by which there are not enough hours in the day/year/decade to cover every single topic that humans know about - no matter
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by bigDinosaur 14d ago
You can define any word to be whatever you want and thus have linguistically correct predictions that are functionally useless.
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by bigDinosaur 22d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell#History "1954 – The first practical photovoltaic cell was publicly demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.[27] The inventors were Calvin Souther Fuller, Daryl Chapin and Gerald
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by bigDinosaur 23d ago
If there's a single unifying fault to the unsuccessful people I know (for any definition of unsuccesful, including my own failures) is that they're precisely bad at working out why they failed - if they even think to ask the quest
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by bigDinosaur 1mo ago
It's a very confusing comment since Derek Lowe is a chemist working in pharma but is being referred to only as a science communicator which I suspect most people would consider to be an implicit insult.
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by bigDinosaur 1mo ago
This is untrue when private citizens are in conflict (legal or physical or whatever) and the dispute needs to be mediated or resolved. The 'root cause' may well be she said/he said and the legal system may well have need to r
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by bigDinosaur 1mo ago
This is not even an argument. 100 years? So you're admitting that almonds in California are clearly a sustainable industry that can exist in the long term.
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by bigDinosaur 1mo ago
Two completely unrelated things can indeed share some similarities at a very superficial level.
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by bigDinosaur 1mo ago
That's because the Californian almond industry is exclusively located in California, unlike the global data centre industry.
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by bigDinosaur 1mo ago
I'm not really convinced Metro was better than anything Apple at the time, even though it was refreshing and interesting. Was it actually easier to use? I didn't really find that nor see it with others.
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by bigDinosaur 1mo ago
I honestly fail to understand the relevance of "some people can't tell the difference or just don't care". Good (or not) for them?
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by bigDinosaur 2mo ago
I can't express just how profoundly culturally biased this is. There is absolutely nothing about Fahrenheit that 'just makes sense' to someone who grew up with Celsius instead. Your comment about granularity is also nonsensic
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by bigDinosaur 2mo ago
The biggest economy in the world and the richest country to have ever existed is not a developing country, although it is quite unequal. What you've stated is political rhetoric that you want others to accept as fact.
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by bigDinosaur 2mo ago
What you expect is irrelevant.
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by bigDinosaur 2mo ago
In this case all it required was to follow the link to their blog on their HN profile just FYI. Although your question was reasonable either way.
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by bigDinosaur 2mo ago
You expect people to start running at 5-6km/h which is about a fast walking pace? That seems unduly slow?
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by bigDinosaur 2mo ago
If having a 'good time' makes me a bad guy then I'm sorry to say but I'm okay with that. I, of course, don't actually agree that that's true.
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by bigDinosaur 5mo ago
There's plenty of evidence that it's tens of thousands, but it's absurd to even argue over those numbers when a government massacring any number of its own citizens is morally reprehensible (whether it's 5k or 50k). Ir
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by bigDinosaur 5mo ago
I simply don't believe that it generally produces graduates who 'cannot order food in a restaurant'. The phrases required for that are almost always simple. Perhaps you mean that the graduates do not necessarily know certain
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by bigDinosaur 6mo ago
Nothing with email can ever be an easy fix, although the idea is amusing. It is inherently the problem.
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by bigDinosaur 6mo ago
You dropped the second half of my sentence which pointed to a specific harm. You consequently argued against something which I didn't say. You are not arguing in good faith and this 'conversation' has clearly run its course a
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by bigDinosaur 6mo ago
If you mean 'should network TV be allowed to use behavioural psychology to manipulate people into being couch potatoes' then the answer is yes, that should be regulated against. Anyway, the way you talk about shorts reminds me of
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by bigDinosaur 6mo ago
I'm genuinely curious how one can look at someone using an app like TikTok and conclude that's not addictive. It's optimised in every way to engage people in behaviours that look like outright addiction. Anyway, sometimes &#x
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by bigDinosaur 6mo ago
Certain people/businesses deal with one-off things every day. Even for something truly one-off, if one tool is too slow it might still be the difference between being able to do it once or not at all.
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by bigDinosaur 6mo ago
Email?
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by bigDinosaur 6mo ago
I don't think your initial claim is well supported considering the size of domestic travel and entertainment sectors in most of the world (although I'll admit that the way people allocate non-work activities in many places may not
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by bigDinosaur 6mo ago
Domestic tourism is massive even in countries with terrible work culture like China, so your claim is not particularly strong. Either way, hobbies and holidays are certainly not unique to NA and Europe.

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