tylerjwilk00

Good bye free speech. Hello unbridled control and censorship.

Yeah. It's always a conspiracy until it isn't.

And the news pits us against one another because God forbid we all get along and work together. That would be the real threat.

Don't kid yourself. It was intentional. We should all be getting really worried about these platforms.

You feel that cold breeze? The future is coming and it's chilly.

Sure. Until public opinion is blocked and censored on the very platforms that need reformed. This is Monopoly 101. C'mon man!

Peaceful gun rights advocates doesn't fit the "Guns are bad, mkay." narrative.

Your comment caused a forgotten memory to pop up to the surface. Did you by chance happen to participate in the Zebulun Cyber Army Challenge(s) [1]?

Those games were very rewarding for a high schooler on the early internet.

[1] https://www.ca-zeb.com/

Cool project!

Feedback: Please reduce the range of your price filter. All the bounties are under the $500 range. This makes the range slider pointless beyond the first 1%. On a mobile device it's near impossible to select a meaningful range that returns results.

Solution: Make the upper bound max value a dynamic variable of the current highest bounty with some padding and rounding up to a nice number.

U=ceil(M+N)

Woah! Totally forgot about this. This was the go to chat client on all my Linux boxes back in the day. Was a great piece of must have software back when IM was the primary communication method among my internet friends.

Black Mirror, "Be Right Back", Season 2, Episode 1 [1] has this very plot.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back

Agreed. I wouldn't rule it out for mid to long term trends.

Estrogen emulating particles [1] are a candidate considering the short time intervals from article.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222987/

This only makes sense if your underlying assumption is that the less violent are reproducing more offspring now. Your reference study merely shows that the phenotypical traits have a strong correlation with the behavior traits (in at least foxes). This selection requires offspring but its seems the parent is referencing a hormonal change due to social behavior.

I agree with the premise, that social and environmental norms can influence hormones, but the fox study is a different phenomenon altogether.

I enjoyed this article.

However, one possible explanation is that much of what the article calls culture simply doesn't matter anymore.

Carriage Horse fashion seems stuck as well but people moved on to automobiles and then that went through rapid iterations. Maybe peak fashion or peak culture is a thing and becomes wasteful after a certain threshold. Also the fact all media is available at anyone's fingertips in a second means that they don't have to wait for the mass media gate keepers to finish milking trends before a new consumer identity starts being marketed because You can have Anything Right Now!

Were a less material society now so it seems inevitable that material culture will decline.

Many people do what is easiest and feels good not necessarily what is best holistically in the long term. The case could be made that democracy on a long enough timeline starts to deform for similar reasons. This paradox is close to the Paradox of Choice [1] in that time and effort seem to be limiting factors for choosing the best outcome.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

Agreed. It occupies some weird uncanny valley of design that is hard to pin point.

Indeed. An even more nefarious Dark Pattern [1] if the have a listener on the "mouse down" event and use it as the trigger.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern

A sovereign nation can't and shouldn't sacrifice itself to save another. It's duty is primarily to care for it's own citizens.

How is comparing the UI/UX of one OS to another OS _NOT_ relevant to an article about one OS UI/UX revamp?

If you only seen curated screenshots then prepare for disappointment. It is a random hodgepodge of UI/UX design patterns and toolkits. Theres few sane global design default so basically every app is just archane memorization as opposed to just groking the OS/Desktop design principles.

I've used Linux distros my whole life but I feel confident saying Linux desktop has surpassed Windows in usability.

I occasionally interact with Windows for family members and it always amazes me how wrong things are.

Indeed. It appears Cytokine Storms [1] are a big threat with Covid-19.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm

You might enjoy looking at society as one large organism [1]. Many biological patterns reemerge at this scale.

Imagine the pandemic government response as a large scale societal immune response. Inner city violence as a form of inflammation...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_organism

That's a fair shake and glad to read about this report's details. Reassuring knowing the thought that went into the decisions. That said, one scenario is a theoretical estimate (based on data from July) which we will never know for certain the outcome.

"One of every six custodial parents (17.5 percent) were fathers." [1]

That means five of every six are mothers (83.3 percent)

Seems bias to me.

[1] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

Agreed.

People think policy takes place in a vacuum or that those that write policy are so wise and fair that they have thought everything out.

Never the case.

I wish what you are saying is true but from my experience and experiences of others this is not the case.

The state almost always awards primary custody to the wife/mother. There's a deep bias for mothers to raise children in the legal system.

Even great father's are looked at as deadbeats in these systems. It's one area I hope the law progesses in in the future.

Serious topic but article is a bit overly mysterious. Never goes on to explain the mechanism by which the "poison" leches into the creek and kills the cattle? Where it originated?

Agreed. My only point is that your wager need not be limited to dogmatic adherence of existing religions. You can create your own God in a sense.

Ditto. Grew up in the middle of nowhere. The Web gave me access to libraries of information and the work of great minds. It sparked my interest in computers and put me on the career I'm still on to this day. Through other Internet technologies (IRC,IM) I was able meet and interact with other like minded individuals. It's still fascinating but some of the original magic does seem lost but perhaps it's just nostalgia.

If you strip away the dogma and cultural "decorations" of most religions the foundations are all mostly the same.