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by carrier_lost 7y ago
I agree. Sacrificing your mental health for your physical health is counterproductive to the goal of whole well-being. Obsession is harmful. Moderation is key.
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by carrier_lost 7y ago
Paul Graham is entitled to his opinion. I am a professional journalist and I disagree. Journalists use the word "embattled" the way Merriam-Webster defines it: "characterized by conflict or controversy." Typically it app
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by carrier_lost 7y ago
"remember that all the non-tech people ask the tech people they know what to use. And tech people are who set up their family's computers, deploy software widely on business networks, etc." As a techie who has set up and&#x2F
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by carrier_lost 7y ago
These shutdowns might hurt Google's brand among the tech-savvy community that uses edge products like Google+ or Chromecast Audio (never even heard of that before today). But everyone I know still uses Google search and Chrome. Most us
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by carrier_lost 8y ago
Lapham’s Quarterly: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org
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by carrier_lost 8y ago
The menu on this site is essentially what a website's index page used to be, back in the early days of the WWW. It was, generally, a listing of a website's contents, modeled after the default directory listing that a web server pr
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
I like the Ivy Lee method for to-do lists: https://jamesclear.com/ivy-lee Bonus: No app required, just pencil and paper.
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
"- No way to add a stop" You can add a stop, but it's limited to gas stations, coffee shops and restaurants. Why? I don't know.
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
Article mentions companies by name: "This is just an advertisement! Shill journalism!" Article doesn't mention companies by name: "The reporter didn't include any specifics! Lazy journalism!"
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
Best of luck to you! You already have achieved a major milestone: Actually doing something. Lots of people say "Maybe I should do X..." or "If I were to do X, here is how I would do it..." Fewer people actually do the wo
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
I wonder how much Google pays PC manufacturers to have Chrome as the default browser. A few years ago I purchased a Lenovo laptop that had Chrome pre-installed as the default. The desktop shortcut label was simply "Internet Browser&quo
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
Interesting point! I hadn’t thought about wildcards in aliases.
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
Outlook.com offers aliases too: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-or-remove-an-em...
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The Overmonitored Nursery(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
Being "nibbled at by a few" could be beneficial when it comes to privacy. Using many services means no single service has a large amount of data about you.
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
You might not be important now. But you might be "important" in the future due to your affiliation with a political group, religion or even your skin color. You never know which way the political winds will blow. And data is kept
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
I appreciate Bruce Schneier's pragmatism and his acknowledgement that the problem is bigger than an individual can reasonably be expected to solve, if that individual wishes to participate in modern society. Too often, privacy concerns
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
I'm admin for several news sites. We chose a third-party plugin for comments because it offers easier account management for the user and better spam filtering than anything home-grown, and like any third-party plugin, we don't ha
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
"why would anyone pay attention to the papers when it seems completely remote and irrelevant to people's lives?" Local elections directly affect people. Local boards and councils set tax rates and allocate money to schools, p
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
This seems like a good case in favor of Privacy Badger's model, where content blocking is based on the number of times a domain tries to track you across websites, rather than a blacklist of URL patterns and file names.
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
I had not heard the term "browsewrap" before this but that part is very interesting in and of itself.
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
This is clever! Also worth praising: This site is free, loads quickly, doesn't require a user account, and has an easy-to-understand privacy policy.
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
I think it's the best of the series, but I find that when conversation turns to Harry Potter, I'm often alone in my view.
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by carrier_lost 9y ago
Newspapers sell ads based on impressions. Similarly, reporters want more readers to see their work. Better Facebook surfacing = more clickthroughs to newspaper content. More clickthroughs = more readers, more ad impressions. More readers al
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by carrier_lost 10y ago
"uncritical readership" I'm guessing you've never worked for a news organization.
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by carrier_lost 10y ago
It's in the Opinion section. It's not supposed to be an objective presentation; it's there to make a point.
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by carrier_lost 10y ago
In Windows 10, Microsoft Edge is used to view PDFs.
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by carrier_lost 10y ago
"The most time-consuming things often can't be totally cut out, but they can be systemized or delegated." This is a big part of it, and it makes the comparison between Musk or Branson and an average Joe a bit disingenuous. Th
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by carrier_lost 10y ago
There was a later version of the NES console that was smaller than the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_...
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by carrier_lost 11y ago
Yahoo Messenger for iOS: https://appsto.re/us/DOV0-.i

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