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(...)a recently graduated researcher at Harvard who set out to test the privacy paradox.
His conclusion: We do care about our privacy, even if we don’t always act in our best interests.
It would help and also show professionalism IMO if the author wouldn't just link other oversimplified articles from NYT when quoting science...
If a plane has 200 seats, and 400 people are willing to fly a given route, the airline sends 2 planes. Make it 401 people, they'll send three a day. That means each person who flies or doesn't brings the count closer to the next threshold, where the number of planes flying changes.
Of course, this is oversimplified, not as instant as I described it, there are price politics and what not, but you can still very much say the climate footprint of each passenger is (total plane print/passengers). The idea is not to make super accurate global calculations but to quantify individual behaviour without employing a super computer.
Sports is very unique because it is a lot more physical than intellectual compared to just about anything else. Meaning there are completely different aspects at play when it comes to being top brass.
Prominence in arts and music seems to only be loosely correlated to the raw skill itself. Cue everyone's favorite meme about modern paintings which are just lines.
This means for the average reader this seems not really relevant at all, because there is no proof you can project anything from these people right and wrongdoings to "normal" careers. How to become a top notch wind turbine mechanic? How can I become "that embedded systems guy"? Until someone got more on that, I'm sticking to the 10000 hour thing with a breath and depth that feels right to me...
The term "Anti-Pattern" is not used in a vacuum. Instead, it usually refers to a specific term, like >Usability< or >Static Websites<, for example. If I refer to usage of fuzzy, thin fonts on mobile as an anti-pattern, it does not mean every artistic collage with this feature is automatically shit. If I live in 1820 and tell people not to use metal for horse riding gear, I'm not judging the possibility of a superior means of transportation made out of metal.
But for 99% of the people who just want to build something with a technology, not revolutionize it, the word is still a good metaphor to guide to the right path in the given time and place.
Of course, as most things, anti-pattern defining shouldn't escalate in dogmatism, but I don't follow the conclusion that the metaphor itself is destructive or bad...
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For example, the installation is a window where you just click through the settings, not some command line jungle, to give you some kind of feeling of Mint. Under the hood there is of course the full power of Linux.
Personally, the switch brought me to discover i3wm (https://i3wm.org/) which is a fundamental different way of thinking about your screenspace. Not affiliated, but if you currently have an open mind about your workflow, I can highly suggest it for frontend-dev. Basically, windows automatically fill all available screenspace, which is awesome for the plethora of terminals you tend to have sometimes as well as resizing graphics/webpages.
Have fun whatever you do :)
I have high hopes for it, since the experimental version already worked quite well for some time. Still, Unity was one of the reasons I got Win10 on an external hard drive...
It's quite a dead meme, but with things like photopea, Blender, smooth Linux VsCode version, stepping stone distros like Mint and now Unity the year of the Linux desktop might come!
This suggests some fundamental difference compared to the US which maybe should be changed instead of a third party band-aid app with lots of problems, but again I don't know this difference and thus will refrain from judging...
Really though, it baffles me how people can bring degrading postcard quality into a discussion with stakes of a few billion human lives with a straight face...
It compares the existing system with an hypothetical system. Means, people will project their current suffering onto the former while projecting their hopes and dreams on the latter. This screws the results in a major way. If this proves anything it is the profoundness of the "grass is greener on the other site" effect.
Also, I don't think casting a plethora of political, social and ecological phenomena onto some kind of hypothetical binary switch is gonna provide any valuable insight. Also also, especially in the US "socialism" is used to describe things that an European would see as some kind of base condition, like affordable dentists, while it's also serving as the description of the politics of thoroughly fucked up countries. This gives the word very little substance.
I'm a bit disappointed that this kind of "here are some numbers: 36, 1, 0.64" kind of article gains this much traction on HN...
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Some time ago there was a scandal because apparently they create profiles for content creators which aren't signed up on their platform and accept money on their behalf. Afterwards Brave spouted very dubious arguments with things like ominous legalese to HN comments with an "trust us, we're nerds too" vibe.
From a cynical perspective, it looked a lot like smoke and mirrors from an entity currently sitting on a pile of money acquired by impersonating people.
From a cynical perspective, it looked a lot like smoke and mirrors from an entity currently sitting on a pile of money acquired by impersonating people.
"This webpage works best in Our Browser™️" was just a pointer to the user for a faster experience. It came at the small cost of crippling the web for a mere 15 years, probably costing a few billion hours user time wasted at horrible UX bred in a hostile corporate controlled environment.
AMP is just the same all over again, just with a singular player which might just be too big to fail. Oh, and also this time things like the information source of the western world is at stake, not only fan sites of specific locomotive models by some geeks.
But at least my websites load....slower actually if the page was properly built[1]!
[1]https://digiday.com/media/google-amp-beat-facebook-instant-a...
You can literally use https://source.unsplash.com/random/800x600 (with or w/o the dimension) and get the same result, one level less abstract.
Meanwhile, filter() in CSS provides both greyscale and blur with way more power.
I like your homepage - but what does this add to my workflow?
Especially when you read them as paperback they take out all the haste. You can't "refresh" them. The style tends to be less lurid, because it is pointless to write an hot article with Tuesday's information if you print on Sunday. Topics are way more broad in my experience but still capture the Zeitgeist of current topics in whatever culture you live in (it has to be a good newspaper, of course). There is of course a certain desire to read everything, since you paid for it, but it's finite: It is not a permanent rat race to read all the news, when you're done, you're done.
Even if you don't use whatever paper you get to it's fullest, you will still realize: You do not actually become an "informed voter" by knowing the exact updated body count of some colorful tragedy on the other side of the world. Reading one well researched multi-perspective article with depth will do just fine!
The "clicking" device is not really the bottleneck in 3D design. Some people prefer normal computer mouses (high DPI), a 3D mouse (maps to 3D more directly) or touch (intuitive) but whatever.
The crucial part is key presses, all 3D software I've ever encountered can only be used in a efficient manner with intense shortcut using. On an iPad, that's hard, u either sacrifice a lot of screen space for non-physical keys, or use and external keyboard, at which point a laptop/desktop is better; especially with the second key element of smooth 3D editing in mind: GPU and CPU.
To what end? Becoming an informed voter? Don't think so. It's entertainment, just like watching the video. It just sounds less socially acceptable.
Literally all of the EU have a massively lower rate and in none of the countries it is remotely illegal to criticize the government.
In Germany for example, you have multiple programs on TV dedicated to make political satire of current politics. On basically tax funded TV.
And you won't have your name published for criticizing the white house [1] like in the country some people apparently unironically think of as the place with the most personal freedom.
[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/15/white_hous...
Spotify restricts the amount of songs you can skip to 10 in the free version. And next they play you an ad where they stage the (premium) feature of unlimited skipping as some revolutionary game-changer for music players. This anti-feature has literally no other upside for Spotify other than annoying users into subscribing. Which is all completely fair, since it is free after all but I can't find any mechanism which is more to the point of
“Provide incentive for prospects to sign up for freemium but do not provide too much value so that free version of the product is enough.”
If you say the embargo solves the problem of fueling a boogeyman enemy to rationalize military spending and fuel nationalism, then I would say it's a quite elegant solution.