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by insickness 2mo ago
To keep people engaged, social media platforms have shifted from showing you content from people you know to prioritizing viral content. The algorithms know viral content offers an endless stream of entertainment that keeps people scrolling
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by insickness 9mo ago
It's one thing to enforce contracts but another for government to dictate how private platforms monetize their own property. If ads make the service worse, the answer is competition and exit, not government bans. No one is forcing you
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by insickness 1y ago
Public photography is not a crime, nor should it be. However, that doesn't mean your likeness can be used for just any purpose.
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by insickness 2y ago
I subscribe to Bertrand Russell's hypothesis that the earth was created five minutes ago. Events that you remember do not necessarily have to have happened; memories were put in our minds. Impossible to prove wrong.
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by insickness 2y ago
The only reason I do it is because if you get on the plane last, there may not be any room for your bag in the overhead compartment near you.
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by insickness 2y ago
Based on the grammar and spelling mistakes in your post, I suspect that your written communication skills might be holding you back. It's quite easy to paste those paragraphs into ChatGPT and say "rewrite this." It will provi
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by insickness 2y ago
You can't say that from these statistics if the statistic in Norway does not include murder by spouse.
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by insickness 2y ago
This is a slippery slope. These policies had a vast affect on the lives of millions of people. Business were shut down. Schools were closed. People were instructed to stay in their homes for years. Simply saying, "Well, we made our bes
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by insickness 2y ago
That's why I didn't see Dune 2 in the theaters. No way I can sit for three hours straight. It's just not fun after two hours.
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by insickness 2y ago
> Fully automated luxury mansplaining It's surprising to see gendered, pejorative language thrown around in an article that has nothing to do with gender.
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by insickness 2y ago
6 years is not enough jail time for this.
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by insickness 2y ago
New York City had laws on the books until 2017 banning dancing in bars that don't have a "caberet license." I remember going out to bars and seeing signs on the wall that said "No dancing." We thought it was a joke
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by insickness 2y ago
> If kids and young adults lose access to piracy they will develop other interest Entertainment is a lot more fungible than these companies realize. Pour cold water on movies and people will watch TV. Dampen that and people will play vid
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by insickness 2y ago
> Dating sites can do a "DEI" and brute force more variety into skew percentages of click throughs through mere exposure effect. Why stop at forcing people to choose different races? Let's force women to date men who are s
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by insickness 2y ago
As anecdotal evidence, I went on a strict keto diet three months ago and my mental state is far more stable. When I have a cheat day, I feel noticeably more anxious.
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by insickness 2y ago
To be fair, there are both positives and negatives. The positive is that the barrier of entry is almost negligible. For less than 20 bucks, anyone can get their song onto the largest platform in the world, accessible to anyone on it, in day
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by insickness 2y ago
From Wikipedia: SLU-PP-332 is a compound which is a potent but non-selective estrogen-related receptor (ERR) agonist, acting most strongly at ERRα with an EC50 of 98 nM. It was found to counteract metabolic syndrome in mice, suggesting a po
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by insickness 3y ago
How do you define 'unethical conversation'? I have a hard time visualizing such a thing. Sounds like unpopular ideas or ideas you disagree with.
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by insickness 3y ago
Great animated 10 minute video of him summarizing his ideas: https://youtu.be/OqmdLcyES_Q?si=fljPKtgaU9XoHczZ
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by insickness 3y ago
I drank orange juice with every meal growing up. I'm not overweight but I feel like it may have contributed to the severe acid reflux I experience now as an adult.
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by insickness 3y ago
While 23andMe may not be culpable, they certainly look culpable, particularly to the layman. Their messaging in response to this is terrible.
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by insickness 3y ago
I've been riding an electric unicycle for years and I don't think I've gotten a single negative comment, aside from riding somewhere (they thought) I shouldn't have. But those same comments would have been directed at a
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by insickness 3y ago
To be able to actually ride, it took me about two weeks, practicing 30 minutes per day. But then I was still pretty wobbly for a month or so.
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by insickness 3y ago
Did you even read the article? The point was that it's a false dichotomy to say one side believed the science and the other side didn't. Just because someone questions a specific measure, doesn't mean they don't read the
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by insickness 3y ago
I'm friendly with people at work but I tend to keep boundaries on what I share. I wouldn't, for instance, discuss a romantic problem with them but I would tell them what I did for fun over the weekend. When I was younger I was mor
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by insickness 3y ago
There are a multitude of supplements with clinical evidence to support their efficacy that are neither #1 nor #2. These include caffeine, ginseng, various vitamins, etc. If you go to examine.com, they analyze the strength of the studies and
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by insickness 3y ago
The problem is with insufficient QA and processes in place. If a coder delivers code that is insufficiently tested before deployment, the onus is on the product owner. It's the reason "owner" is synonymous with "person w
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by insickness 3y ago
Of course wealth is power. If you have 10 million dollars and I don't, you have more power than me. You can do many things I can't. But perhaps you did cancer research for 20 years and found a cure for cancer while I spent my mone
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by insickness 3y ago
> As a society, we should prevent "escape capital" to be a thing. Why, though? You always hear people say that one person having too much wealth is a problem but rarely hear a good reason. Just because one person is richer, doe
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by insickness 3y ago
> it should be very hard to fire people At will employment exists for good reason. You can quit your job at any time for any reason and your employer can fire you at any time for (almost) any reason. There are a very narrow set of circum

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