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kozd··on Microplastics Are Everywhere - Here’s How to Avoid Eating Them
Do you hate your knives?
kozd··on Why America Fell for Guns
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
kozd··on Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say
Any recommendations for how to deal with this cycle? I find I fall into the same pattern you describe.
kozd··on Detect when your installed Firefox addons have changed owners
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/extensions-update-...
kozd··on M3 MacBook Air Supports More External Displays Than M3 MacBook Pro
Do these external display limits apply even when using display link monitors or dock?
kozd··on Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it
Essentially why is it like something to be this system of neurons modeling the environment and acting on it.
kozd··on Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it
But why should it be like something to convert short term memory to long term memory? Computational systems can convert data between different forms of memory but we don't typically believe consciousness emerges from this operation.
kozd··on Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?
Isn't this a category error? Just because my stomach lining is wet doesn't mean I'm wet.
kozd··on Capitalism and Cozy Games
Not agreeing or disagreeing with your larger point but garbage picking is an interesting example. Aren't there folks who volunteer to pick up trash/litter on the side of the road and in parks? There's definitely an incentive (maintaining your community and other emotional/less-tangible benefits of volunteering) but it's not quite being payed to do it.
kozd··on Amazon employee in Ontario collapses, dies after fire alarm sent staff into cold
This is not a reddit thread. Give the tired responses a break and read the HN guidelines.
kozd··on Amazon employee in Ontario collapses, dies after fire alarm sent staff into cold
Maybe dial back the snark. You seem to have forgotten to make any sort of coherent reply to what I actually said.
kozd··on Amazon employee in Ontario collapses, dies after fire alarm sent staff into cold
It's not like this is some isolated incident and Amazon's culture is otherwise healthy. The fish rots from the head.
kozd··on Natural Deduction in Logic (2015)
A big problem is it's practically unusable on mobile (at least for me) Clicking once via finger tap often results in multiple clicks being applied.
kozd··on To be great, be good, repeatably (2019)
See also Strong vs Weak link problems
kozd··on Is consciousness part of the fabric of the universe?
How could you not care about proving this to others? You seem to harbor some hope that you can talk to a passed loved one via this or a related means? If you could prove this isn't just lucid dreaming then you could have the help of other people interested in taking the same path. Think how many people you could help and how this would revolutionize science. Don't you want to validate the method by which you're investigating the world? Shouldn't that be step one? I'm completely dumbfounded by your response.
kozd··on FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power
Isn't the issue here short term vs long term consumer interest? It's all fine and dandy for consumers to pay lower prices because company A is eating losses to drive company B out of business but what happens after that.
kozd··on Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across life course (2006)
We also don't debug computer programs by looking at logic gates. We have abstractions built on top of that.
kozd··on We don't know what makes things sentient–so let's stop acting like we do
Why is it like something to be these abstractions?
kozd··on Harry Beck’s 1933 London Tube Map
Shouldn't jokes be funny
kozd··on Apple, Google and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for FIDO Standard
Are you a bot?

> "but you should only use the apostrophe (') to show you are joining two words. In this case, the words are "you" and "are", merging into "you're"."

Is obvious, unnecessary and condescending.

kozd··on Software Engineering at Google (2020) [pdf]
That seems to apply for blocks of text. I don't know that the same would hold true for code.
kozd··on Preventing Burnout: A Manager's Toolkit
https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/23/everlywell-food-sensitiv...
kozd··on Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back
Author?
kozd··on Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change
If you want your theory to gain acceptance, shouldn't you be trying to convince other scientists and not... people on Twitter via ad campaigns?
kozd··on When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code
Why no PRs?
kozd··on Wealthiest Americans pay just 3.4% of income in taxes, investigation reveals
If they want to step up the basis, shouldn't they have to pay capital gains taxes on the difference?

The estate tax's average effective rate of 17 percent (2017) is below the capital gains rate.

kozd··on Vanced Discontinuation
Getting rid of tiktock-est YouTube shorts or whatever they call it. Hated having that on my YouTube homepage and the official app doesn't let you remove it. YouTube Vanced does. I also pay for YouTube premium.
kozd··on The Inca Used Knots to Tell Stories
Seems that taxing negative externalities like carbon emissions would be good start
kozd··on Using hamburger menus? Try sausage links (2019)
Back symbol pointing left is probably less intuitive if your language isn't left to right oriented. Wonder if back symbols or back animations have ever been "localized" to orient based on the language used.
kozd··on Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams?
Obviously you give the reference a coding test
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