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biasedestimateon School lunch breaks in France can be two hours (2012)

I live in Denmark. Here, lunch breaks are 30 minutes, but instead people leave work and go home at 4pm.

biasedestimateon Men should abstain from drinking at least three months prior to conceiving

Perhaps important to note that this result comes from a lab experiment done on mice, with as far as I can tell N=24 mice split in a control and two treatment conditions. I would be very careful concluding anything from that study about what human males should or should not do.

biasedestimateon Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted

I am as happy as anyone about arrogant half-smart crypto bros being called out as the frauds they are.

It is still sad that a young person's life is taken away today. I don't think any type of nonviolent crime should get anyone a life sentence, especially not in a prison system as inhumane as in the US.

biasedestimateon Flatpak is not the future (2021)

If "the year of the linux desktop" requires turning linux into a windows/macos clone, I am happy to postpone it.

biasedestimateon Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making

I'd put my money on this won't replicate.

biasedestimateon Fast Minimalist Writing Tool

Why would anyone use an electron app as a minimalist text editor?

biasedestimateon Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”

At least they ask you for it, instead of tracking you until they can figure it out.

biasedestimateon Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap

Just switch to Mint, it is as stable / easy as Ubuntu and 100% snap free.

biasedestimateon Our VC told us they won't follow for Series A. At the worst moment

Maybe I used the wrong word. What I mean is this: Jobs and Wozniak started Apple because they were passionate about computers and had a vision about how they should be built. Page and Brin wrote their dissertation on PageRank and related topics before they started Google.

The people in the article seem to want to be entrepreneurs first, and think about actual business ideas after.

biasedestimateon Our VC told us they won't follow for Series A. At the worst moment

I am skeptical of "professional" founders. How can you come up with useful and feasible products in a couple of weeks without any deeper knowledge about markets, demand, etc.? To me this sounds mostly like business school kids throwing around buzzwords.

biasedestimateon A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe

falsehood n+1: it is a good idea to compile a long lists of falsehoods, based on information from random websites.

biasedestimateon Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?

Fully agree. Currently I can't even use custom keyboard shortcuts in FF.

biasedestimateon Ask HN: Hacker News is for tech, as X is for Y?

The place where academic economists hang out is econjobrumors. But it‘s anonymous and not heavily moderated and can be quite nasty.