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"welfare state" is a weak criticism. You're talking about a population that historically faced oppression and displacement. Given the context, doesn't make sense that a monthly check is the cause of alcohol addiction.

Anyone have a link to an effective air filter? So I can order one and benefit from the placebo effect. Preferably on the 'zon so I can get 2-day shipping.

Is it not arrogant to think engineering is the profession that all minorities aspire to?

I think Jack's ideas usually should be new companies and not changes to Square or Twitter. I also am disappointed that Vine was shuttered when TikTok is basically the same thing and now is a massive social network[1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/01/instagram-vs-tiktok/

"Lures"? If this was a SV company it would be "empowering consumers" lmao

I've always assumed I have zero privacy on all social media apps. I am more worried that if the next few major social media apps are all Chinese, then the Communist Party of China will control what the world sees and believes.

no plz elaborate

> I know it's unpopular to say, but most poor people are poor for reasons related to their genes, personality and upbringing, not because of the system.

Some kind of implied false dichotomy here. Is upbringing unrelated to the system?

Yea there are people who enjoy the act of training and people who do not. Personally I'm the former but it's easy to understand why people don't want to turn a game into work.

Didn't fully understand the statistical analyses tables in the paper because college statistics was a long time ago, but to me it seems like other variables had way more effect on life satisfaction than commuting time. To me those charts imply that having a partner (or being married) and having an education improve your satisfaction way more than adding subtracting 60 minutes to your commute.

If we're able to weight correlations of different life parameters with life satisfaction, where is the "how cost-effectively to maximize your satisfaction according to statistics" guide?

All my coworkers commute 40+ minutes to have a larger house for their family and a slower pace of life than in the city.

This seems like pretty biased against commuting. Is it because everyone here is salty about having to commute to SF or Silicon Valley because rent is prohibitively expensive?

Ok have fun performing psychological experiments on your brain using "informal" merriam webster definitions

By what metrics?

That is a brittle spirit

"headspace" doesn't mean anything

"Headspace" is presumably legal? And it's not a defined medical or scientific concept.

> and really ensure your mindset ("set") is positive and open

Everyone says this and it's little more than bro science. So if you have a bad experience from the drugs, it was because you weren't in a positive headspace? Sounds like No True Scotsman.

> ... the other is people ordering the real thing, repackaging it with fake from aliexpress and returning for full refund.

Can't you do this to a retailer?

> More enterprising folks sign up as Amazon supplier, register for some expensive products, ship real thing once or twice and then start throwing more and more fakes into their shipments, all nicely co-mingled by Amazon

Seems like a fast track to getting your account suspended. Why compromise a profitable business to basically skim off the top?

Can't see any confounding variables here! /s

> Hard work is deliberate practice. It’s not fun while you’re doing it, but you don’t have to do too much of it in any one day (the elite players spent, on average, 3.5 hours per day engaged in deliberate practice, broken into two sessions)

Let's not pretend like 3.5 hours a day of practice is not a lot. I completely agree that this is what it takes to be good, but try doing anything for 3.5 hours a day and then say that you "didn't have to do too much of it".

Square and Cash App now is your time. You talk about economic empowerment but are you really bout that life?

Paywall for irony?

Isn't it "do more now and deal with catastrophe"?

So in this world where every retailer does this I get to install N apps, re-enter my payment/shipping information N times, deal with N different return processes, update my credit card info N times when it changes, and have N questionably written systems know all my PII?

I honestly much prefer shopping on the Nike app over Amazon, but I'm going to go to Amazon to buy whatever I found on that app.

who hurt you?

> Democracy is nothing more than a system that replaces swords/bullets with votes. That's it.

Why stop at bullets, why don't you say aircraft carriers or something

> A majority of Cat@Net’s employees are understood to be disabled, allowing the company to derive substantial public subsidies from Poland’s National Disabled Rehabilitation Fund. According to the Reporters Foundation, the company has received about 1.5 million zloty (£300,000) from the fund since November 2015.

I thought this was the worst part.

The good news is Fitbit’s health data sucks so Googles not gaining that much.

If I was to experiment with inducing anxiety in mice, one of the things I would try is strapping it to a chair in-front of a backlit screen for 8 hours a day five days a week.

What other stimulants did you try and which ones worked the best?

So what did you do about it

25% of engineering managers are named Eric. It's science