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Please elaborate how air conditioning is going to prevent a destabilization of democracy around the world as millions of climate refugees run out of places to flee too?

All these discussion about APR and napkin math and installment is missing the point a bit, in my opinion.

My problem is not even that Edge collects unnecessary and allows what could be called a most intrusive third party add into its browser per se, I am mostly amazed by how incredibly tacky this looks and feels from Microsoft's side.

Like, imagine buying a Lexus and discovering they are advertisements for a cheap off-brand energy drink plastered on the interior.

I find it straight up incredible that Microsoft somewhat achieved to overcome the meme status of its browser after what, fifteen years, and now this? Passing on the the crown of being the lowest common denominator tech joke to someone else, gaining a little bit of market share and even one or two positive reviews in respected outlets...only to risk it all in this weird move of behaving like a shady car salesman for what must a be a double digit million deal at most, right?

Is there motive behind this comment other than to smear "the green movement" with a wall of text inherently hard to argue against in its massive entirety?

"The green movement" is in fact a vast multitude of movements, people and ideas, of which several would probably shoot each other on sight if given the chance. The reason it was opposed is certainly not that it is exceedingly bloodthirsty, inhumane or counter-productive.

Like, not so long ago mining companies deemed it appropriate to mount a machine gun on a rail and slowly roll through their workers camp as a response to a worker's strike and the US government god damn firebombed an apartment block to silence two dozens lefties. But somehow, a handful assassinations by individual radicals are responsible for "rightful opposition" of this supposed single green movement? We don't discount Computer Science even though von Neuman was a fanatic intent on nuclear eradication of Japanese civilians, yet we should discount this green movement because a B-promi said idiotioc things in a lifestyle magazine?

"The green movement" might not have the right idea to solve humanities problem and one may reasonably be opposed to some or even most of "their" ideas and plans, sure. But to say that this oppositions rightfully stems from the greens all being mean and dumb is facetious and bad faith.

This is the classic "everyone who does not know how to X is not a real Y". Every single software dev can make such a list. Very few reflect on the fact that no two of those lists look the same.

You can't know everything. Programming is about abstraction; so abstracting away devops is a feature (in some contexts), lack of that is a downside (in some contexts).

Nothing too concise, I am afraid. I think your best chance is to focus on a specific question that interests you. I will give you an answer in relation to some specific variables I did a deep dive on:

Video games and short term aggression: Enough findings for me to prefer giving my (not currently existing) children something to do that are not video games if possible, lest they learn unnecessarily aggressive behavior just by copying. However, probably not a mortal danger.

Video games and (adult/teen) addiction: Seems incredibly hard to track on a long-term base, as other people in this thread mention. Nothing is easier to color a bit to your liking than a meta analysis with small effect sizes, if you should be so inclined. On the other hand, good arguments can be made that excessive gaming behavior is very, very similar to excessive alcohol consumption, gambling or smoking - in regards to brain chemistry, slow drifting decline of societal function or even excuses made to the self. Thus, personally I treat gaming with the same seriousness as other potentially addictive things.

Hope that helps a bit, and good luck on your research journey. Maybe you even find some wider spanning reviews that are new, we live in a good era of terminating twenty-year studies :)

So they collaborated with EA, a company so infamous for anti-consumer practices like real-money gambling for minors that they are basically synonymous with "evil" within the gaming subculture and found out...that EA games make you happy!

If you are actually interested in this topic, there are a lot of reviews including way longer periods, variables and genres. Of course, you still have to apply the same filter to sift through moral panic and game ads, but this study is even if not biased still unnecessarily limited in scope. Not a good base for a discussion IMO...

How do you come to these conclusions?

If I am not unaware of some brand new research, the cause of depression is still either unknown or multi-factorial, depending on how cynical you want to be. The Wikipedia section on this reflects this:

"The biopsychosocial model proposes that biological, psychological, and social factors all play a role in causing depression.[5][28] The diathesis–stress model specifies that depression results when a preexisting vulnerability, or diathesis, is activated by stressful life events. [...]" [0]

Similarly, Cognitive Behavioral therapy which, well, focuses on behavioral interventions and has had astonishing successes with medium as well as major depression, often on par or exceeding drug therapy - and absolutely shining in combination with drug therapy.

As I said, I might be out of date on my information, but IMO depression is a bit too important too take weirdly partisan stances like "external treatment is claptrap" just because...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depressive_disorder#Caus...

Let's keep Red Scare propaganda out of this thread about something entirely unrelated, please.

Sorry, you are very underinformed in this case.

Sudan and South Sudan, Myanmar, Iraq and Central African Republic, just to name ongoing cleanings classified as actual genocides. Surprisingly, the continuously peddled "Yellow Danger" is not a good lens to get accurate information about the world...

Personally I like the ability to drive myself to the ER or away from an abusive spouse not being dependent on the false-positive rate of some device built by a notoriously shoddy car manufacturer, but to each their own I suppose.

Do you have a source for that?

That however goes both ways.

Some days you will quickly burn through six tasks on your list because they turn out to domino or all be easy or something else. Sometimes, a single item will take three days even with honest effort and deep work.

If "tasks done" is your metrics, you will get just as burned here.

As with all long-term habit building, I think the key here is identity forming. Be convinced that you are a person that (for example) cares about exploring their field with side projects and then ask yourself: "What would this person do?"

If you believe yourself, you will then both fight through your tasklist or do X hours of honest works and find that the actual system does not even matter that much.

"Meaningful contribution to the world" is now a high bar to clear? No wonder the suicide rates in the West are so high. We expect people to invest 90,000 hours of their life into a thing and are offended when they ask it to not be utterly point- and useless...

Are you seriously implying that "people finding a use for it" is somehow proof for doing good?

Like, that's such a giant leap I struggle to even call it leap. If someone would give the perpetually drugged up guys in front of my local McDonald's a bunch of Semtex-H, I am sure they would find it quite useful, but I also doubt that the world will become a better place.

Because otherwise people would just put a 1-frame endcard in their video with whatever they want to have as a thumbnail?

And if the thumbnail is picked randomly, you are just rewarding videos that show dramatic content with text overlay at all times. And the best-researched Tom Scott video might get randomly punished because the thumbnail is a brown-grey blur in the middle of a transition.

The existence of the medium "thumbnail" is not more of a problem than the existence of book cover. Breeding a healthy culture of what should be on it is the problem we should focus on, both by audience behavior and suggestion algorithm.

Pardon me if that sounds rude, but it is unfathomable to me why anyone would attempt to watch scientific/or medical discussion on YouTube (or any social media, for that matter).

My alarm bells start ringing if I read a paper and the authors are overly committed to pointing out the prestige of the institutions or seem to optimize for citations. What possible use could you get out of the discussion of "science" on a platform where flashiness of the thumbnail, shortness of message and flamebait are directly related to your income?

Yes, but we have an awful lot of new high points in recent times.

The earth is quite a big place and we are recording temperatures quite detailed since the 1850ies, so if we are accepting the null hypotheses of there not being a rise in averages, stochastic is rearing it's ugly head quite a bit since the early two-thousands...

The temperature in Canada is 50°C. People are dying.

It's not catastrophizing to point at a catastrophe that is embedded in a long row of other recent catastrophes and saying "That's a catastrophe".

Take any region, country or city, look up heat highs or averages.

You will inadvertently find that around half a dozen extreme events happened in the last two decades.

Since a giant political movement seems to be based on the unwillingness to read more than ~24 characters at a time, here is a beautiful chart that really shows this: [0]. It does not even have text!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warming_stripes#/media/File:20...

It is the point. People in Europe very much do consider train vs. plane. I encountered this first hand in personal considerations, family vacation planning and in a policy handout in a big corporation.

Given that figuratively all the causes of death in the Western World are directly caused (strokes) or heavily correlated (depression) with a sedentary life style, I am quite sure that regular hiking will massively improve life length and quality.

I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if people cared about the things that actually kill. Like, what if we would invest 300 trillion dollars into fighting prostate cancer instead of "terrorists"? What if we would design an entire education system around healthy sport instead of the prevention of "stranger danger"?

This is still whataboutism. I don't see anyone arguing that landmines are trivial or harmless.

The point is that they are entirely different concepts, and since this a discussion about drones, landmines have about much place in this thread as Tse-Tse flies, SUVs and low-head dams.

Thank you for saying "claims to". Copy pasting a response I made elsewhere:

This is making a mockery of accessibility.

It's the equivalent of having a company that actively discriminates against everyone not passing a internally developed test to check whether you are a "neurotypical" and then respond to criticism by pointing at the wheelchair ramp you installed on one of your entrances.

If I can't copy paste words from your websites to put them into a translator, if I can only use your website when I use one of the two corporate-affiliate-selected screen readers (not even platform-agnostic ones), when I can't look at your website from anything that does not have 4+ cores and a 4G or better connection...saying accessiblity is a "first class citizen" or even citizen at all is laughable at best.

This is making a mockery of accessibility.

It's the equivalent of having a company that actively discriminates against everyone not passing a internally developed test to check whether you are a "neurotypical" and then respond to criticism by pointing at the wheelchair ramp you installed on one of your entrances.

If I can't copy paste words from your websites to put them into a translator, if I can only use your website when I use one of the two corporate-affiliate-selected screen readers (not even platform-agnostic ones), when I can't look at your website from anything that does not have 4+ cores and a 4G or better connection...saying accessiblity is a "first class citizen" or even citizen at all is laughable at best.

You are wrong on a meta-level.

Both sociopath and psychopath are terms stemming from the early 20th century, where our main concern was to lable people ASAP and prescribe them a "cure".

No professional psychology authority uses either of those terms today. Instead, you get ranked on the Antisocial personality disorder spectrum. This has several advantages, like having an actual statistical body of research behind it etc.

So your random YouTube video might not be wrong in a sense, but more like someone defining what "miasma" or "bloodletting" is: Interesting, but essentially just a talk about medieval medicine.

I would urge you to refrain from (especially) diagnosing people based on public wisdom on psychology.

Yes, but then you should apply political pressure to better the US army, not go "welp, let's give everybody that experience".

I am not sure why that needs spelling out, but social issues are actually not resolved by making them a suffering contest.

Thank you!

I can't believe that not even HN can get tax brackets into their head. It is not a hard concept!

I agree with the author...partly.

Sure, <divs> and <spans> are not buttons and should not ever be used as those. Knowing and adhering to standards, especially when they are there for accessibility, is an excellent thing.

But in some cases, making links links instead of buttons (and similar scenarios) just means exposing internal works to the user. Say I have a SaaS with the classic "GET STARTED NOW" button on the landing page. Now I change my tech stack from something classic like Rails or Lavarel, where "get started" probably means a link to the signup page to some fancy JavaScript which triggers the action of overlaying a signup form. Would you really agree that the HTML for my "GET STARTED NOW" button should change depending on what kind of method my app uses?

That is honestly just the same old big tech story I've must have read a thousand times now.

Sure, it is a little bit more sinister than usual even, but that's just because the company in question serves a market with some very dark corners, like the assault featured in the article.

People here argue pro or contra porn prohibition or platform specifics, but it comes down to this: The Western world decided that giant multinationals sitting above countries, laws, ethics and responsibility holding all the data are the ultimate expression of the American Dream and should therefore exist undisturbed forever, growing bigger and bigger. Shit like this is just fallout from the gargantuan power distance between megacorp and human you get, by design.

Sure, there are probably ways to get PornHub to be sorry for that, make amends, change some rules. Whatever. Last week it was Uber discriminating, here it's PornHub violating, maybe next week it will be someone having his business destroyed because he associated with a scammer in 2004 again.

Every time there is juicy drama and a micro-outcome in this or that direction, but for someone reason the macro-problem gets mostly ignored.

On the other hand, it may be one of the last places left where you can actually naturally advice.

Stuff like...

"Oh I can tell you a thing or two about the legal complications of cubesat launches, my company did this for the last 12 years. [...]. By the way, this is our website"

...is probably more effective if a potential client stumbles over it than 100,000 "targeted" facebook ads, especially if you serve some highly technical niche.