nanidin

I de-AMP'd by switching my default mobile search to DDG.

The Seek app is one of those things that you can show people and they think it is magic, even in this day and age. I got my mom and my grandma using it!

This is reminding me a lot of participating in and running the ACM chapter at my university. I miss those days of being surrounded by bright, interested people working on whatever sounded fun at the time.

Qualia is your subjective experience of your senses - how can we discuss whether we see the color red the same way, or whether we smell a rose the same way? The core concept we would discuss is qualia.

Qualia is not plural qualities so I’m afraid I don’t see the connection, or the downside to using an expanded vocabulary for that matter.

The fact is that this person did not use the word alien in their original "joke" - they wrote "That's assuming Einstein was even human." They then proceeded to act like a bully or abuser would act - "Oh, it was a joke! I meant it as a joke and I forgot to drop the punchline until almost an hour later! You are so dumb for thinking otherwise!" As an older sibling, this is something straight out of older sibling 101 and I picked up on it immediately when I saw the interaction between sillysaurusx and oldstrangers.

There is no weird conspiracy here, there was just someone acting in an uncivil manner who was called out on it and who then kept things going.

I was actually expecting the joke to fall back on the fact that he was indeed a completely legal alien. Because he was, and that is humor.

A food scientist came to my high school and did a similar demonstration with us - except with different flavors of koolaid. Students reported red as cherry, purple as grape ... but they were actually the same flavor and only differed in color.

Good comedians don’t need to explain their jokes. Good jokes don’t need to be explained. Yet here we are.

I don’t think you’re arguing in good faith as “out of this world” did not appear until this comment.

This would be similar to calling Einstein a cow, then waiting an hour to say it’s because he’s outstanding in his field.

Counterpoint: I fact checked and corrected an article - the original article author misread the cited source and claimed statistics that were plausible but incorrect. In the process I improved the readability of the paragraph I touched up. My change was never reverted, and it was within the last year on a page related to slavery and human trafficking - so not exactly fringe, and subject to lots of eyeballs.

I would not be surprised if a lot of the people carrying forward the “Wikipedia is uneditable” meme have not even tried to edit Wikipedia at this point.

Counterpoint: I fact checked and corrected an article - the original article author misread the cited source and claimed statistics that were plausible but incorrect. In the process I improved the readability of the paragraph I touched up. My change was never reverted, and it was within the last year on a page related to slavery and human trafficking.

I suspect people complaining about reverted edits follow the same pattern as people leaving negative reviews online: people tend to be vocal when unhappy, and people that haven’t had problems aren’t motivated to do the opposite.

Counterpoint: I fact checked and corrected an article - the original article author misread the cited source and claimed statistics that were plausible but incorrect. In the process I improved the readability of the paragraph I touched up. My change was never reverted, and it was within the last year on a page related to slavery and human trafficking, so it’s not like no one was watching it.

9% of women with tinnitus attempt suicide, or 9% of women that attempt suicide have tinnitus?

I find it curious since I've had tinnitus since I was very young and it isn't life wrecking - but maybe that's because it is just part of my default life experience.

FTC/FCC are supposed to protect people from misleading stuff like this and level the playing field so that companies can remain competitive without resorting to dark patterns because their competitors are.

Hmm. I would expect them to have layers of security, with one of those layers being funds in a cold wallet with serious access control around it. If I were asked to insure them, the premiums and coverage would hinge on security layers and mitigations in place to prevent loss. I don't think it's unreasonable to have funds in a cold wallet.

I wonder what your statement would be if a hacker compromised the hot wallet and drained all of the funds?

Yes, but I only mentioned state tax. Are I Bonds subject to state income tax? The lack of state tax on T-bills was a great loophole for emergency fund growth a few years ago until yields dropped around the start of COVID.

I haven't done the research on I Bonds, but interest on T-Bills is not subject to state tax.

When I called in to reset my password last year, they read the answers to my security questions back to me…

These things still do happen - my SO was diagnosed with cancer in 2020. Her boss and the owner of the company arranged a $10k bonus, 6 additional weeks of PTO, and a 6 month paid leave of absence once she was done with treatment.

I do agree it isn't good to rely on the beneficence of overlords in general though, since they aren't obligated to continue to be beneficent.

95% only seems reasonable for thumbs up / thumbs down style rating systems. Too many people treat 5 and 10 star rating systems differently to require 95% 5 star ratings. Etsy and others should disclose the downsides to leaving a 4 star review at the time the customer is leaving the review. For me, 3 is OK, 4 is good, and 5 is PERFECT and is rarely ever given out on any system.

Earplugs gave you tinnitus? Do you mean earbuds? Earplugs are typically hearing PPE.

Anecdatapoint: I publish my email address in plaintext on my website and I receive very little spam. People are way overthinking the impact of putting their email addresses out there.

I would argue that there is a difference between low effort bulk spam and what OP received. The message OP received sounds like a fairly tailored request for expert advice, which is a great way to make $100+/hr to answer questions.

If you only want to receive messages from approved contacts, then use whitelists or stick to Facebook Messenger et al.

Your email address is an address that you published in the commit, and you published it in a public place. You can’t really fault someone for trying to get in contact with you via an address you published in a public place.

The message they sent you sounds like a consulting opportunity waiting to happen!

My state attempted to make pseudoephedrine require a prescription. One of the state lawmakers that was opposed was a doctor and he cited studies where phenylephrine was less effective than placebo. I wrote to my representative, who called me after voting for the bill to tell me that some sheriff told him phenylephrine is equally effective.

Every time you buy the stuff from the pharmacist, they're logging the purchase in a national DB and you're signing an acknowledgement that it's a huge felony to go beyond the limit. But they never tell you where you are vs the limit, and the limits aren't clearly stated. End result: chilling effect.

My mom timed her purchases incorrectly (family of 5 with mom shopping for all at the time) and went past the limit. After that she was flagged and had to have an actual doctor's prescription in order to purchase pseudoephedrine for 6-12 months. That is a HUGE hurdle for most people, and doctors don't want to see people who have cold symptoms. Heck, I was turned away from a CVS Minute Clinic recently because I had COVID like symptoms in the last 7 days. As in refused to see me, even though I had recently tested negative for COVID and had a fever + persistent cough.

In chemistry class we learned that decaf coffee is made using supercritical CO2.

> Certainly a lot of cancer patients died that way.

This was not my experience, n=1 of course. My SO came down with lymphoma in November 2020. All of the appointments with the oncologist and all of the appointments for treatment took place at a cancer center dedicated to treating cancer patients. Other procedures generally took place at locations that did not offer emergency services (think biopsies and port installation).

At no point during diagnosis or treatment were we turned away nor did we face long wait times. This was before the vaccine was available, so everyone was unvaccinated at the time. The biggest barrier was getting seen for "a weird pain in my back that is preventing me from sleeping" without going through the emergency room and contracting COVID while waiting.

No. When the average person sees an ad for something they just bought, it increases their satisfaction with their purchase (thus making them less likely to return it.) Also, when you’ve just bought something, there is a non-zero chance you will return it and want to buy a different model of the same type of item.

They also block right click.

I wanted to open one of the links on the site in a new tab. I right clicked, and nothing. They block right click! Why! To protect their precious?