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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
A common enough mistake :) Re. your other comment though, I'm not sure the NYer has ever cared about worrying what conservatives will think about their contributors, at least not in my lifetime. I just read a lovely new Zadie Smith ess
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
Given the cartoons and references to fact-checking, I assume this is about the New Yorker (and not the NYT as another commenter suggested), but I'm a bit surprised because the New Yorker has been one of the most vocal outlets speaking
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
Another head-scratcher from the link you shared: > ...the progressive default that change==good, never honoring tradition or asking why it often prevails. As a progressive this "default" is certainly news to me...
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
Learning to relax your pelvic floor is helpful too. You should be opening the door, not pushing things through it :)
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
Many chronic conditions are also "chronic" now but just two or three generations ago were either a swift or slow and painful death sentence. We see more adults with <insert major health problem here> because now they actuall
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
Case studies suggest otherwise, at least for most people. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/05/10/to-see-and-not...
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
I have to ask... why the extra lettuce? At In-N-Out I sometimes ask for less lettuce because I feel like it's unnecessary filler compared to the other ingredients, lol. Maybe they've just been giving my unused lettuce to you...
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
Does it actually? (Genuine question.) The article doesn't get into specifics about how the block is implemented, but I wouldn't be surprised if there is some non-trivial way around it. Or, conversely, I'm unsure if other dece
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
> Also it has a high opinion of Bryan Ferry. Deeply untrustworthy. Whoa, whoa, are we talking Bryan Ferry as an artist, or Bryan Ferry as a guy? Because I love me some Roxy Music but have heard that Bryan is kind of a dick.
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
I thought it was interesting/telling (but maybe not surprising) that the AI-generated stories scored the highest according to reader rankings, yet pinged to me as immediately flat and generic. But I really liked the idiosyncrasies of a
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
It's "discrimination" when it helps people the admin doesn't like, but it's mandatory to actually discriminate against people the admin doesn't like.
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
I dunno. I can understand OP's point, but in an era where bullshit runs rampant at every level of society, it's hard for me to agree that "We need to hear these guys out" is either a priority or a generally good idea.
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
Sure, but TFA makes clear that any benefit to workers from tax-free tips is laughable compared to the numbers of times the restaurant lobby has fucked them over, by repeatedly killing attempts to keep wages low. It's not even throwing
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
I scoured their website to look for any clues about how it might (allegedly) work and got a fat lot of nothing. > Rest constantly monitors room air quality, using a proprietary algorithm to pinpoint any tobacco, marijuana, or nicotine pr
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
This output reads like a knockoff SCP entry to me... which is unsurprising because I'm sure there were plenty of SCP entries in its training data. https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ If you're unfamiliar, here's a
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
There's a particular Instagram ad my wife always sees for a graphic tee with a design that we both love, but the vendor selling it is (according to Reddit reviews) garbage. The infuriating thing is that no one else seems to sell a shir
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
Cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectic behavioral therapy, EMDR, acceptance and commitment therapy, family systems therapy, biofeedback, exposure and response prevention, couples therapy...?
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
Plus, 24/7 access isn't necessarily the best for patients. Crisis hotlines exist for good reason, but for most other issues it can become a crutch if patients are able to seek constant reassurance vs building skills of resiliency,
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
> it really is only an option for the elite, which is fine if you're counselling people from similar backgrounds, but not when you're dealing with people from lower socioeconomic classes with experiences that weren't even
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
I had the same thought about crypto/NFTs... Before AI exploded it seemed like that was the "big topic" on HN for a long time. But there may have been less Show HNs for crypto since it has fewer applications.
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
They do talk to conservatives a lot though. Many recent episodes interviewed Trump voters and sent reporters to Republican rallies to hear those "good points" from the source...
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
Considering another of today's rulings came down in favor of religious opt-outs for kids in public schools, and that that case came out specifically because parents didn't want their kids exposed to books with LGBTQ characters i
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
Some stuff would definitely either slip through the cracks OR tarnish the reputation of legitimate users. What happens when someone's device gets compromised by a botnet that silently clicks ads in the background or turns that device i
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
With something like that it's tough, though, because they sold those as an _exfoliating wash_ product, but if you take away the beads it's not exfoliating anymore. So you'd either have to rebrand it to remove any mentions of
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
To back that up: > The most common synthetic food dyes in the U.S. — including Blue 1, Blue 2, Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6 — are all approved for use in Europe. They use different names for them there, which may account for some of th
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
To expand on "great public health successes": folic acid supplementation is particularly important if you're pregnant, because it significantly reduces the odds of having a baby with neural tube defects like spina bifida (whi
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
Not sure why you're greyed out, because you're correct that those were literally exfoliant face washes. (No real loss in phasing them out because there are much better ways to exfoliate than rubbing your face with little pellets
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
I'm a little biased, but as a tech writer who doesn't think they'll be made obsolete by swaggerless LLMs any time soon I strongly agree. If you've written enough docs and sufficiently internalized all the stylistic best
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
People also call it "the curse of knowledge," and yeah, being able to empathize with the non-expert is both an ongoing effort and a learned skill. A lot of my job as a tech writer is basically acting as a shock absorber for user f
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by spondylosaurus 1y ago
I see in your review that you also mention Docs for Developers, which gets a +1 from me as a documentarian :) https://docsfordevelopers.com/ Although truthfully I'm not picky. If you're a developer and make any co

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