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I've lost many beloved pets throughout my life, it's devastating for sure but i've also felt the pain of losing both of my parents, for me, it's not even close. You make a good poi…

I tend to agree here when i hear people equating love of animals with love of children and it kind of bothers me when people make such an equivalence. I've had many pets throughout…

I was sympathetic to her plight up until the 'personal impact' part. It seems to me that the author is using hyperbole when describing her physical/emotional impact on herself and …

There is evidence that meditation can help with anxiety/depression. I've experienced depression through varying life circumstances although never clinical depression. In these time…

> Americans they need to reduce carbs and fat and increase protein to move towards a healthy diet The majority of Americans consume more than the recommended daily intake of protei…

So your personal, cultural instilled, biased intuitions is what drives you? And you think this is more reliably than science? A methodology designed to control for such things, tha…

>Modern day humans no longer trust the instincts they have developed over millions of years ... or what kind of foods to eat. Really? This is a naturalistic fallacy. It's out preci…

This is hindsight bias. The markets could have easily went the other way. Market timing is notoriously futile. If you want to play "what if?" and pick arbitrary dates then he could…

I think the correct term is survivorship bias. I like this quote from Nassim Talebs book The Black Swan - "The cemetery of failed restaurants is very silent". I also very much like…

Exactly. Apple isn't just promoting ad blocking for purely benevolent reasons i.e "for the best web-browsing experience possible" - they obviously have other motivations.

>giving users the best web-browsing experience possible Do you really believe this is Apples paramount motivation? The only reason this is acceptable is exactly because they have n…

Premium products usually cost more to make justifying the price. The point being made is that the cost to manufacture the iphone isn't any more than say an android device, so your …

"20% of people paid waaaay too much for their cellphone" This seems, to me, to be saying that people are overpaying given Apple's huge profit margins.