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notatcomputer68··on Phenylephrine Is No More Effective Than Placebo for Nasal Congestion (2015)
Why would you pop pills when there are perfectly good sprays?
notatcomputer68··on Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
Trivial for anyone who can click "host server" button in a multiplayer game / file sharing program / voice chat?
notatcomputer68··on Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?
Maybe they retire early because they are unable to work because they are dying.
notatcomputer68··on H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads
If you don't mind, which of them and how?
notatcomputer68··on Google Memo on Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company
Some other people have mentioned hiring people defensively so they can't compete. I don't know how true that is, but if it is... then making a redundant project means you need to be retained so you don't write clones for anyone else.
notatcomputer68··on The pros and cons of placebo buttons
I'll press if I think I can't jaywalk in a reasonable timeframe. If I can then no sense holding up traffic.
notatcomputer68··on Landlords forcing smart locks on tenants
Most people don't know lockpicking so while you are right in principle this will change things in practice.
notatcomputer68··on Economics of Spotify is making songs shorter
It doesn't have to be the artists optimizing. It could be that everyone makes whatever they want but those who happen to make shorter songs are pushed up and those that make longer songs are pushed out.
notatcomputer68··on Most “ugly” produce gets turned into soups, sauces, salsa, jam
As someone who was only briefly acquainted with the "buy ugly produce" idea in the first place and thought it sounded vaguely good. I never looked into actually taking action because I couldn't be bothered.

I do think they are being unkind and rude. There were too sides here the "scammers" and the clueless good people who got taken for a ride. Alienating the latter group is a mistake and will just make people avoid you because they will never be good enough for you anyway.

I on the other hand, feel vindicated in my apathy. "Trying to do good is a waste of time, the world is too ungrateful"

notatcomputer68··on When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling
They cost money for both parties though so in that sense it's fair.
notatcomputer68··on When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling
Sounds great for first job out of college not so great if you already have a good job.
notatcomputer68··on Guy Says He's the First Person to Attempt Editing His DNA with CRISPR
In the long term we should bee able to clean it up again. I'd be more worried about shorter terms
notatcomputer68··on Designers Spill the Beans: How to Make Your Own Logo from Scratch
Pick a nice font and color write the company/product name or an abbreviation.
notatcomputer68··on Disable Flash support by default in Firefox 69
It's a reminder that browsers are such huge beasts that no one can viable fork them when they feel the browsers are regressing.
notatcomputer68··on I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi
I'm not a lawyer yada yada but it says on my dollar bill that it's legal tender for all debts, public and private.
notatcomputer68··on How I Finally Hit 2000 on Lichess and Improved My Rating
Not everything is competitive
notatcomputer68··on The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia
My thinking is that people have lossily compressed images in their minds.

I heard chess masters are way better than normal people at remembering legal chess positions but no better than average at remembering illegal ones.

So I think it could be about learning a better representation with fewer artifacts.

notatcomputer68··on “In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart”
Software is eating the world and it's almost finished.

Decentralized software decentralized world

notatcomputer68··on It is fast or it is wrong
Irc has been on the market for a long long time, but slack won anyway.

Maybe the extra features saved users more time then they lost from running bloated JavaScript.

notatcomputer68··on It is fast or it is wrong
I'm always suspicious when people say something can be done. Why isn't it the default then? Because there is some drawback to that choice. But what is it?
notatcomputer68··on Apple needs to change iPhone’s call UI because robocalls are killing us
Busybody morality police would abuse this to deprive people of their freedom of telephone. Hard no
notatcomputer68··on Apple needs to change iPhone’s call UI because robocalls are killing us
>at this point these scam phone calls may be nearing the majority of the phone calls placed in the USA, so it's going to be a huge financial disruption to the carriers when they have to give up their game.

That's a shortsighted perspective. phone numbers will only survive if they solve the spam problem.

Many people don't pick up from unknown numbers anymore. It's just a matter of time before legitimate people stop trying to call as no one responds anyway.

notatcomputer68··on Students are turning to sex work for extra money
>so how are the men able to survive?

Maybe they(equivalently poor men) are not and therefore choose not to study?

Men do study at a lower rate after all

notatcomputer68··on Ranges, Code Quality, and the future of C++
Where are the local variables stored for a coroutine?

I do like new advanced features but we must not let them make us lose sight of the metal.

notatcomputer68··on Evaluation of five password managers
What I like about keypass is that it's not networked and not running in the browser, making the attack surface a lot smaller.

Keypassxc having such features(and apparently the old network protocol was vulnerable lol) is for me a strike against it.

notatcomputer68··on MailChimp deleted my account with no warning
That way of looking at it - that the company is lying but the individual is not - is fascinating to me.
notatcomputer68··on What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills
>Price discovery requires pricing some people out of the market. Period.

A well working competitive market doesn't charge the maximum consumers can bear. It charges cost of service plus a profit margin.

notatcomputer68··on Why are amplitudes complex?
Sure complex numbers are convenient for representing phase and amplitude.

BUT why is there a phase?

notatcomputer68··on Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Using It
First yes I think it does. Second this is more like paying people not to smoke a particular brand - they could change to another.
notatcomputer68··on Sam Harris deletes patreon account after platform boots conservatives
They are pressured by their payment providers. As for why they care I don't know.
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