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A shame that having plain paragraphs and pictures does not work (Android dropped support since N). Commenting on the design, as a slow reader and non-native English speaker I felt …

The charts are not really " Why Americans Spend Much on Health Care", just "Americans Spend Much on Health Care (or More than Others and More than They Used To, Anyway)". Believabl…

If Apple user visits contribute less to the earnings of a certain class of websites (news sites, for example), then these could lose interest in the visitors and not optimize conte…

Just the threat that a big company has the capacity to lower prices drastically can keep small companies from entering a market.

Quality threads in HN: "But [outgroup] would disagree!"

Absolutely the right decision. If a topic has many smart people arguing both sides, then there is probably some merit for both, and you should not antagonize your coworkers over it…

I liked the old Android emoji much more and was disappointed that they lost the race for becoming the standard. It used to be possible to express the emotion of being content that …

I don't live in California, but I hear that if you do, and if you work in tech or academia, it is quite hard to find anyone in your social network who watches Fox News or listens t…

>There's nothing left to complain about He just needs to get his job back, get people in his industry not threatening him any more etc... Galileo also got the discussion he wanted,…

Yeah, writing about how conservatives are the worst? You'd probably have to get in line.

I think his point is, you can't fight all the battles.

You mean that boys like computers more --> they buy more computers (or nag their parents about getting one), or that parents are more prone to give computers to boys --> girls neve…

I actually think Galileo vs. religion is a quite fitting analogy for these kinds of issues today. There is a prevailing ideology that, if you are seen as disagreeing with it, and i…

"Not writing as well as Scott Alexander" is a pretty high bar you're setting there. While the document may have been influenced by that post, and while both authors seem to have a …

Note however that Gizmodo say > Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted The links that were removed are probably relevant. Some passages in the text even have quotation …