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It's all but guaranteed that if Reddit removes old Reddit and forces new Reddit on everyone third party web clients with ads that generate money for someone else will pop up and fill the gap.

Well they're pragmatists, so they'll recognize that pragmatically they need some way to fund their life and accept that as a cost they'll have to pay until they find something more efficient.

> Urban citizens may be desperate to get advice from an older, wiser person, but they don't want to turn to the guy they've worked with for years or the uncle who remembers the tears shed over a broken toy truck. Someone familiar might judge them.

Maybe it's a cultural difference, but excepting dysfunctional relationships the idea that your close friends and family are the wrong people to give you advice is almost dystopian.

"Oh uh... Hashim, we're using this new font now, I send it to you."

"What is wrong with Times New Roman?"

"Pah! Are we Romans? Anyway, the prime minister prefers it."

I'm not aware of any other solution.

I just assumed devs were testing it out; most devs love testing alternatives and even occasionally retesting them to see if the alternative has caught up to the de facto answer.

Yes and no. It's true, we ought to find ways to work together that rely on concepts like mutually assured stability instead of MAD.

And there's evidence of altruism's superiority even on a biological level. There are some species of bacteria that when they run out of food will form a protective spore to wait for better times or form a stalk to move to a new location to find food. Those whose bodies form the base of these structures are effectively sacrificed, even if they aren't intelligent enough to be aware of the act.

That said, it's simply undeniable that at the end of the day the force is the intrinsic and most rudimentary base of everything society has become.

Public parks, schools, social welfare programs, etc... All founded on a platform of violence and murder against anyone who challenges their authority.

To deny that is folly.

As a software solution there's a free program called Workrave that will help time micro breaks, stretches, etc.

I find it's helpful to have actual timers and reminders and it sort of helps me keep pace on how fast the day is going and how much time I have left.

"Some have posited that there are an infinite number of molecules outside of the one we call home. They vary in size and shape, according to multimolecule theory. In some of them it is said the hydrogen galaxy is in the outer section, some the exact center, and some have no hydrogen galaxy at all!"

"My biggest skepticism of this theory is that it has been proven here in our molecule we cannot create or destroy atoms. Insofar as we know no atom has ever been added or removed from our molecule in the millions of plancks we have observed the known molecule for and none ever will."

"And for there to be an infinite number of molecules beyond the confines of our own - each with their own strange and exotic configuration expanding and changing off into eternity - you would need an infinite amount of atoms and electron fields to properly bind the vast regions of atoms. And as it's been well proven, atoms in this molecule are finite and unchanging."

Kinda seems like he really just wanted to use the word.

It strikes me that the parents who install these apps are likely to be parents who are raising more challenging children.

That's not to imply they are bad parents, just that the kid went through a divorce, intense bullying, a change in schools, etc. and that trauma caused them to engage in activities that led to their parents installing the app.

I guess in a phrase have they shown causation?

"The problem with installing a roof on your house is one day it can be blown off."

I take this to mean anything private or sensitive said on Facebook Messenger should be considered breached?

Regardless of whether you lose them you pay taxes when you make a taxable transaction, being either exchanging FIAT to crypto or crypto to a different crypto.

China is definitely doing this already, more effectively than any other country they view economics and other alternative forms of warfare as the bread and butter of diplomatic policy and they are very good at mixing it with realpolitik when for example building islands or offering foreign aid.

Yeah, more resources for the newer generation and more adaptability from generations occurring more frequently. The extreme of this might be HIV or the common cold.

Precisely so.

The essence of the scientific method is taking what you think is true and proving it with a higher degree of accuracy.

This is why studies are repeated by other people, to see if the results match up.

IIRC their brain chemistry is more similar to ours than most other animals.

They do simulations and petri dish testing as well, what would a better method look like?

I wonder if I can hire a botnet to flag my competition out of business.

> Back in 2014...developers...could use relational databases with SQL interfaces, which are easy to use but they don’t scale well.

I'm skeptical.

While ironic, if you pay any attention to mission and vision statements in general for government/military organizations it's quite commonplace for such statements to change in opaque and confusing ways, especially so after any change in leadership.

Most of the time it isn't some dark conspiracy but rather someone with enough stars on their shoulder said "Why is this even in the mission statement? Every organization should do that so it's implied, what the mission statement really needs is..."

Well, one persistently active tab with a non-https site open.

I suppose you could configure the rogue AP to have one of those registration pages but the registration page tells them the WiFi will only work so long as they keep that tab open.

I like the term "correction", in that it's not over for bitcoin it's just now it's getting a more realistic value.

Using Stranger Than Fiction as an example in this paper rubs me the wrong way, maybe because it also accounts for about a third of the conclusion.

I like that movie, but it doesn't really add anything to the paper and even if it does I feel like this is the equivalent of saying "In Harry Potter a boy finds out he's special and goes on a magical adventure. Can we all find out we are special?"

It's more rhetoric than academic.

Very true about Facebook especially and you only have to look at the last U.S. presidential election to see how it can have dramatic effects on people's perspectives and expectations.

Echo chambers are a dangerous thing that people should be educated about early and often.

> "ripping apart the social fabric." ... "literally changes your relationship with society, with each other ... God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains."

I'm not saying he's entirely wrong, but a lot of what he's saying sounds very much like how TV was once described.

Really makes that seem like a simpler time when the concern of the day was that your OS came with an integrated browser.

I wonder if they couldn't institute some scheme where they flag subs as "dirty" or some more politically correct term when those subs contain offensive but legal content.

This would allow showing advertisers a checkbox when they post an ad that asks whether they are okay with showing their ad on a dirty sub.

Pitch it to advertisers as you'll reach more people for the same cost, but your content may be shown by user posts that some may consider offensive.

Some of it may also depend on where you live. A pay rate people in Western countries would scoff at may be a perfectly comfortable living wage in less fortunate countries.

There's probably some dip in the quality of products you get, but sometimes clients view shoddy and affordable as good enough... If they are even aware of the difference.

I'd be interested to see how this breaks down as a function of cost instead of raw numbers.

This would for example control for development environments and pet projects as compared to production projects running on the platform.