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> Instead of simple, readable text-based menus, icons everywhere because they are "more intuitive". Navigation aids because, otherwise, "users get lost". I'm not especially dumb bu…

The studies you link to about Parkinson's do not support and/or contradict what you say here

> One product of mine takes reports that come in as a table that’s been exported to PDF Here's the first problem! I can't believe actual businesses think that a report is anything …

No one got hurt

Nice try, but getting 10,000 people to dig holes (e.g. gigantic infrastructure projects) ends up costing much more than what it takes for "one guy" to "design a microchip"

You might be really missing the point here in simply echoing the conventional wisdom of the last 100 years

I think they've grown up already awoken to it

look before you leap my friend

> Just more evidence pointing to the glaring truth that the mind arises from the brain, and that if there is anything like a soul then it disintegrates away within minutes, hours, …

I'm surprised that the definition of 'community' he uses here so strongly revolves around a shared identity and activity, and that what is shared is what defines a community. For o…

So their politics on freedom and privacy of blah blah blah non-cohesive ideology doesn't correlate with their actual stance on crypto. A politician being pro-crypto does , however,…

Why is it so hard to make software developer jobs that are humane and dignified, where you cooperate with people to make interesting and useful things that also provide a decent li…

wh-questions are different than polar questions, and in particular, saying "no" is infelicitous in most cases, and denying presuppositions is also different than answering a polar …

> Over 92% of Americans have health coverage. How many choose to use it, though, and specifically, how many are afraid to use it because of cost? I'd count "waiting for an appointm…

> Then why are there stories of Canadians crossing the border to seek care in the US? Because they got the scrap to pay for it and they can't quite get what they're looking for in …

Aside from the usury of US healthcare, even with insurance from your employer, dealing with the healthcare in Canada is a dream to the US. You might have to wait to see a doctor (m…

Exactly what I was thinking. I'm really looking forward to when the second read-through will call to me and what I'll get out of it then

"Generate wealth" means "make somebody's number go up" i.e. allocating real resources/capital somewhere, with the assumption that 1. allocating that capital creates a net boon for …

false equivalency

I don't think like this and no one really thinks like this. It is a shallow analysis that can only really be done after the fact and is, at best, a curiosity

I don't think it's especially helpful to use this kind of "let's look at an infinite timeline/every possible outcome" type of reasoning. What if a region's local economy crashes an…