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I agree. Sacrificing your mental health for your physical health is counterproductive to the goal of whole well-being. Obsession is harmful. Moderation is key.

Paul Graham is entitled to his opinion. I am a professional journalist and I disagree. Journalists use the word "embattled" the way Merriam-Webster defines it: "characterized by co…

"remember that all the non-tech people ask the tech people they know what to use. And tech people are who set up their family's computers, deploy software widely on business networ…

These shutdowns might hurt Google's brand among the tech-savvy community that uses edge products like Google+ or Chromecast Audio (never even heard of that before today). But every…

Lapham’s Quarterly: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org

The menu on this site is essentially what a website's index page used to be, back in the early days of the WWW. It was, generally, a listing of a website's contents, modeled after …

I like the Ivy Lee method for to-do lists: https://jamesclear.com/ivy-lee Bonus: No app required, just pencil and paper.

"- No way to add a stop" You can add a stop, but it's limited to gas stations, coffee shops and restaurants. Why? I don't know.

Article mentions companies by name: "This is just an advertisement! Shill journalism!" Article doesn't mention companies by name: "The reporter didn't include any specifics! Lazy j…

Best of luck to you! You already have achieved a major milestone: Actually doing something. Lots of people say "Maybe I should do X..." or "If I were to do X, here is how I would d…

I wonder how much Google pays PC manufacturers to have Chrome as the default browser. A few years ago I purchased a Lenovo laptop that had Chrome pre-installed as the default. The …

Interesting point! I hadn’t thought about wildcards in aliases.

Outlook.com offers aliases too: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-or-remove-an-em...

Being "nibbled at by a few" could be beneficial when it comes to privacy. Using many services means no single service has a large amount of data about you.

You might not be important now. But you might be "important" in the future due to your affiliation with a political group, religion or even your skin color. You never know which wa…

I appreciate Bruce Schneier's pragmatism and his acknowledgement that the problem is bigger than an individual can reasonably be expected to solve, if that individual wishes to par…

I'm admin for several news sites. We chose a third-party plugin for comments because it offers easier account management for the user and better spam filtering than anything home-g…

"why would anyone pay attention to the papers when it seems completely remote and irrelevant to people's lives?" Local elections directly affect people. Local boards and councils s…

This seems like a good case in favor of Privacy Badger's model, where content blocking is based on the number of times a domain tries to track you across websites, rather than a bl…

I had not heard the term "browsewrap" before this but that part is very interesting in and of itself.

This is clever! Also worth praising: This site is free, loads quickly, doesn't require a user account, and has an easy-to-understand privacy policy.

I think it's the best of the series, but I find that when conversation turns to Harry Potter, I'm often alone in my view.

Newspapers sell ads based on impressions. Similarly, reporters want more readers to see their work. Better Facebook surfacing = more clickthroughs to newspaper content. More clickt…