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More nuanced than that, I think. Brainstorming things you wish existed and writing about them doesn’t completely overlap with taking searches you’ve actually done and have ended up difficult to complete because of a lack or disparity of information and writing the solution.

What do you all do with the collected metrics over time? Do you store everything forever, drop everything after a couple weeks, or something on between? I've heard of people thinning out old data a bit (?) and storing it long term rather than storing everything. What's the usual thing people do?

That's good to know and interesting. Honestly I've felt the opposite, like it's not pushing me hard enough. But my experience so far has been on the Starting Strength and Fit For Life routines, so maybe those are designed to work out a bunch of muscle groups but not super push you. Once I'm done with this cycle I'm planning to move to one of the more serious ones and will keep your caution in mind.

"More substantive" technically, but really it's just a few short sentences that boil down to "some people think strategic default is morally questionable, others do not." I would be interested in a more substantive exploration of the issues though. In my perspective as someone who hasn't thought about it too much: Morally because strategic defaults (which contain an intent element) end up being paid for by other people not parties to the transactions, it brings it into a morally questionable area.

Breaking a contract by itself isn't morally questionable, but if you perhaps contract to provide PPE for hospitals in a pandemic, and then choose to not provide that PPE for no reason other than you don't want to (or it's more profitable to just not fulfill the contract) causing people not a party to the contract to be harmed, that's morally questionable. It's a very fact specific inquiry.

> Was it morally questionable when the same banks did predatory lending that went bad and got bail outs from the taxpayers?

Yes.

If course, I should have mentioned it in the original post. See above ^^^

Freeletics, there are some discount codes online as well, I guess from personal trainers with partnerships.

Definitely, I mentioned this in a comment below. The example videos/instructions are very good. But that only goes so far when you have to self assess how you're doing. But to be fair, I think your comment sounds a bit dire given we're talking about body weight exercises. It's pretty easy to tell that I'm doing, for example, squats or push ups correctly with the way the app and workouts are set up.

Sure, this one's called Freeletics. It was reasonably priced for a year (and you can find discount codes on Google). The feedback loop is _okay_ because although they have really stellar example videos on how to do the exercises, you still have to self-assess how closely you're matching the videos (there's no person that watches you or critiques). That's the only downside to the "AI" driven workout progressions.

Anecdata: I have always wanted to do a full body exercise routine, gravitating toward body weight exercise. I _never_ wanted to deal with personal trainers and didn't really know where to start. I tried a few step-by-step guides over the years and always lost motivation. Always, sometimes relatively quickly. I'm healthy, skinny and do a lot of aerobic exercise and outdoor activities (soccer, frisbee, etc.), but I always wanted to have better all around fitness.

I used the pandemic as an excuse to start an at-home routine. Purchased a workout mat and an app subscription. The app tells me what to do, when to do it, and increases/decreases the difficulty of the next workout based on how long any given set of exercises took me. (As an aside, it's pretty cool. I took too long to do a particular exercise, like squats? They'll backpedal a little and build up my ability to do squats with a range of other exercises, then back to be able to do what I couldn't before). Anyways, long story short, I'm going on five months straight of workouts three times a week and have noticeable increase in general strength and flexibility.

Previously I hadn't ever considered an app to be in place of a human personal trainer. And really being able to workout at whatever time is convenient for the day (as long as I do 3 days a week) really makes it flexible.

Sorry, long post, but the article is a bit devoid of any information so thought I would throw my relevant experience in there.

This has the unfortunate side effect of everyone thinking there’s something “off” about you. This can have detrimental effects on your career, even if you’re a billionaire iconoclast, but a regular person probably will face greater detriment.

Notably, the cognitive difference picking between having all the same clothes and having a variety of clothes that go together in any combination (various jeans, colors of tee shirts, etc) is nil, and has the added benefit that people won’t think you’re write because you’re always wearing all black (though I can’t promise they won’t think you’re weird for other reasons).

This seems...morally questionable?

There are plenty of FOIA requests where the responder simply has to do a quick search of digital internal records that already exist but aren't "public" in the same way that PACER records aren't "public" because they're behind a paywall. Further, it's no longer the case that "most" such requests require human intervention such as "perform[img] manual searches on non-digitized or poorly indexed data," though it is true someone needs to check for redactions. Think of the average case being like the high touch PACER option: someone takes your FOIA request, performs an internal digital search, checks to make sure results look good, and emails them to you.

I'd say in this way they're relatively analogous, though you're partially correct in pointing out some of the differences.

Yeah, that's basically what I said. My comment was more that outside of a normative sense, it's actually a good system.

I agree that they're public records, but you even have to pay reasonable fees for FOIA requests, which are also public records. There is some cost in maintaining and distributing the records. While it's true that the government could pay for it as a public service, and I believe they should, PACER is self-funded via these fees for now. In that regard, it's actually quite a good system, unreliant on annual budgets by Congress, but instead funded via the users at a pro rata rate for how much use a user gets out of it.

Notably, the information is free up to a certain threshold.

Person 1 and Person 2 are integral to the analysis. They can’t be forgotten since the entire thing is about them lol

This is a _very_ charitable interpretation of Person2's motivations. Person1 correctly called out something fairly bluntly, and the call out had (in hindsight, I didn't see the comment before this) a pretty good basis for the comment.

Person2 was very dismissive without even addressing the comment. That to me seems antithetical to "trying to uphold the tradition of trust and charity," though I'm pretty new here. I personally don't think a dismissive attitude and a snarky quip for no good reason is worth anything.

The most striking one:

Person1: "The posted has no substance and is pure regurgitation, it was probably written by GPT-3"

Person2: "Your comment punches below the belt and isn't welcome in a community like this. Maybe you're new here."

YIKES.

Outside Online is a consistent source of high quality, long form articles. I always enjoy reading them when someone posts.

No one made the claim that it did exist only in the legal system. This article is just about bias in the legal system.

I would probably first start with examples from different eras and try to build a statistical classifier on it without resorting to detectors. Those seem like big overkill for such a task.

I've never really used rss as a power user, but a long time ago subscribed to some feeds and tracked them in an rss app. I did that because it seemed like at one point I saw the rss logo everywhere and it seemed like everyone was promoting it. I didn't use the actual aggregator to look at the combined feeds, but I did have it all set up.

Now I can't remember the last time I saw a site promoting or even clearly mentioning above the fold that they publish an rss feed. I didn't know HN published one until now.

That's why I haven't argued with anyone claiming it's dead. It seems like it disappeared.

Hi, can you show me some metrics on the mother about whom you're speaking and the claim that their "children or grandchildren may not have to do so in the [f]uture." You seem awfully confident about that without any data to back it up, despite asking me for metrics on a similar claim I made. I hope that helps hold up a mirror to illustrate the difference between the burden of proof you place on others and the (lack of) burden of proof you place on yourself for the same things. (For the record I agree with the video, just illustrating the disconnect you seem to be showing).

Past that, you're definitely conflating typing on a keyboard with lacking resolve, and showing up with having resolve. I've been to plenty of protests with people milling around on the outskirts not really doing anything, and seen plenty of people bring the fire on social media.

Not that it matters for this at all, but because of social media I have become aware of opportunities to go out and use my skills to observe and film protests and that film has been used as evidence of police brutality that has helped get officers doing brutalizing removed from their posts. I don't want to get more specific than that here, and again it doesn't really matter for the purposes of this.

I went to something called a bio hacking village at a conference called "DefCon" a few years ago. I thought it sounded pretty neat but the thrust of whole thing seemed to be implanting various things like this, from key fobs to RFID tags to payment cards. Seemed pretty out there to me under the same argument you're making. The general feel seemed to be that the implants wouldn't go obsolete but I want so sure. Left me very skeptical of bio hacking. This was a relative large conference too, so I don't attribute it to just being a small fringe conference.

It _really_ depends on who the person is and what their duty to the company is. Your statement is correct for those unaffiliated, but I’ve seen a fair share of prosecutions for insider trading for those with a duty to the company.

Legally insider trading is something pretty specific involving having access to inside information that not everyone has access to. Courts have acted differently in different situations depending on duty to the corporation for those affiliated. However for anyone without a duty to keep the information public, you can trade on whatever information you want. Requires the information be nonpublic and that the trader have a duty (usually, an insider giving inside stock tips to a friend who makes the trades is still acting illegally).

Morally, it depends on your ethical framework. I don’t think insider trading that doesn’t fit the definition of illegal insider trading is immoral, not because it’s legal but because the legal definition is pretty robust as to align with moral culpability.

Ah I see, sealioning as below:

Sealioning - A subtle form of trolling involving "bad-faith" questions. You disingenuously frame your conversation as a sincere request to be enlightened, placing the burden of educating you entirely on the other party. If your bait is successful, the other party may engage, painstakingly laying out their logic and evidence in the false hope of helping someone learn. In fact you are attempting to harass or waste the time of the other party, and have no intention of truly entertaining their point of view. Instead, you react to each piece of information by misinterpreting it or requesting further clarification, ad nauseum. The name "sea-lioning" comes from a Wondermark comic strip.

You are asking me to educate you when you could just look at current events. If you're asking me to say "Protest X on Y date led to Z legislation/budget/change" then you know that's impossible, and in fact I can perhaps only think of a handful of times in U.S. history that this could be done. One has to look at the totality of the circumstances. I can confidently say, of course, that none of these changes would have happened without social media awareness leading to protests leading to action, and the social media awareness is close enough in the chain to be considered proximate cause. But, based on your lines of questioning and inquiry in your other comments, I'm guessing nothing will be able to convince you of this. See generally, from the definition of sealioning, "involving 'bad-faith' questions."

> How exactly is this the case; I keep seeing attributions to these events that have no real basis or clear definitive metrics for doing it.

Sorry, what are you asking for metrics on? What are you asking, "how ... is this the case?" These things have verifiably started happening or have happened.

I really fail to see your point and am seeing enough watch words/phrases ("SJW", "Outrage Culture", etc.) where I feel like I"m being sealioned.

The FBI has opened an investigation into Breonna Taylor's murder. The Redskins are changing their name. Many police departments are cutting budgets and in some cases replacing those police officers with social workers.

That never would have happened without the awareness brought to those and similar issues by social media. You can dismiss it as "SJW" echo chambers, but it appears to be working, perhaps to your chagrin.

Yeah, I really have to agree with this. Working with designers and PMs in my day job makes it clear that there's an experience put together on Instagram and it's not some Flickr alternative. Things are made to be fixed res and laid out as so by design.