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by convexfunction 4y ago
You might wonder whether it's actually regressive for people who have college degrees (or who at least attempted to get one) -- overwhelmingly not the neediest people in our society, even if I do sympathize with how terrible our studen
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Ah, I think I get what you were saying, company A is billing company B hourly so employee of company A needs to track their time even if overtime-exempt. Yeah, not necessarily "rare" in tech, mea culpa.
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Just to be clear -- frequently incorrect even among HN readers? I would think one or more of these exemptions apply to just about everyone likely to read these comments who has a job, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding them.
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Yes, that is one of the complications, some roles are "salaried nonexempt". :)
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Edit: the downvotes would seem to mean my "often accurate" generalization here is not accurate often enough to be worth saying, which I'm willing to believe. No level of detail in a HN comment can substitute for hours of rese
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Homes are being used as investments by institutions and nonresidents, in the West broadly, because there's a widespread belief (especially among homeowners) that homes should have a large ROI rather than being more of a consumption goo
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by convexfunction 4y ago
It should've been (and almost surely was) some specific person's job to sign off on this thing being at least reasonable before deploying it, which they failed to do. Successfully redirecting attention from that specific person&#x
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Seconded -- I don't have much interest in reading the guy's own writing at this point, but I'll gladly read a concise summary that leaves out all the boasting since I assume there might be some actual "content" buri
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by convexfunction 4y ago
Would be cool if this is an exception, but yeah, there do seem to be far more "minor invents brilliant new X" news stories (surely thousands by now) than there are cases of these things actually seeing widespread adoption...
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by convexfunction 5y ago
Nicotine gum surely does have the same teeth-cleaning function as regular gum. And, now that I look it up, it seems there's basically nothing online that claims nicotine gum itself causes staining (results are mostly just a study or tw
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by convexfunction 5y ago
Probably goes without saying but vaping the nicotine would be the 80/20 approach here (or perhaps just 100/20), and I'll second that oral administration is also good. Lozenges in particular seem to have no downsides as long a
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by convexfunction 5y ago
I've been subscribing to Monthly Applications in Strength Sport for over a year now -- it's a research review primarily intended for competitive powerlifters/bodybuilders and their trainers, right at the intersection of &quot
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by convexfunction 5y ago
Very weird to frame crypto as contrasting with "an open source culture that, at least aspirationally, built software around ideas of abundance, post-scarcity, universal access, and equality". Were the "older grizzled engine
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by convexfunction 5y ago
As usual, the reporting I've seen hasn't involved any provably false claims that I've noticed, but it's been framed and selectively reported in such a way (again, probably mostly-sincerely) that most readers end up ver
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by convexfunction 5y ago
At this point I think the hate from journalists toward social media and tech more broadly is better described as "cultural" than literal economic self-interest. If you're a journalist, most of your colleagues believe everythi
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by convexfunction 5y ago
Did the studies show a negative impact in any meaningful sense, though? "Some teens report that Instagram contributes to or triggers to mental health issues" is my understanding of the most supposedly-damning finding; I understa
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by convexfunction 5y ago
Not that you explicitly claimed otherwise, but the focal point of the moment's discourse seems to be a small fraction of teens who reported suicidal ideation citing content they see on Instagram as the first thing that triggers suicida
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by convexfunction 5y ago
The current discourse seems to be based mainly on insinuations that FB/IG actually harms people on the basis of a small fraction of struggling kids reporting that they feel worse when they look at Instagram. But, would anyone have pred
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by convexfunction 5y ago
Yes, that's what I mean by "the law operationalizes".
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by convexfunction 5y ago
Maybe, and the author makes a similar point. I don't think the current discourse, based mainly on insinuations that FB/IG actually harms people on the basis of a small fraction of struggling kids reporting that they feel worse w
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by convexfunction 5y ago
I'd just love to see how the law operationalizes and the courts interpret something like "banning algorithms".
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“We’re not really asking for Facebook to control itself, [but] other people”(piratewires.com)
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by convexfunction 5y ago
The clearest take I've seen on this: https://www.piratewires.com/p/bombshell The money quote, in my opinion: > The thing is, we’re not really asking for Facebook to control itself, we’re asking Facebook to cont
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by convexfunction 5y ago
I don't know when or by how much the effect on life expectancy that obesity has is overstated -- funnily enough I think the same is true of smoking -- but one thing I'm more sure of is that obesity is likely to greatly decrease
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by convexfunction 5y ago
A very important caveat to the basically-true observation that some degree of energy expenditure compensation happens in a caloric deficit is that getting no physical activity appears to dysregulate appetite and make you far more likely t
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by convexfunction 5y ago
A slightly different but related question that hopefully everyone will find interesting, no matter what affect they attach to Amazon warehouse working conditions: Food service in particular, I think, is having a lot more difficulty hiring a
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by convexfunction 5y ago
You're betting this definition wouldn't have any serious unintended consequences? A hypothetical example: suppose it becomes a legal nightmare to have even heavily censored webserver request logs retained for any period of time if
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by convexfunction 5y ago
Re: downvotes: is there good reason to believe this interpretation is definitely wrong? I wasn't able to find any details on where this number came from, and while I'd like to give Israel's public health officials enough cred
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by convexfunction 5y ago
After researching a bit and finding this: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/israel-50-of-... I'm wondering whether this number is a population-level observational result that has more to do with someo
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by convexfunction 5y ago
I've lost count of how many times we've seen the same headline for different variants and relating to different underlying results, and this "less effective" headline always seems to get interpreted by people I talk to a

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