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Why is it “certainly a loss for users”? Many are likely to enjoy the ability to post without censorship on topics they care about.

Article says they’re still up year over year > 431,000 deliveries would still be a small growth year-over-ear[sic]

Seems like half of this is complaining about the low quality content that many people in our population genuinely enjoy, and the other half is complaining about the algorithm over …

> the most transmissible virus we have ever seen in the world It's not. Measles, for example, is more transmissible. > No other virus has had this level of death in the same timefr…

Can you expand on what's broken and how Stripe is trying to address it?

Similarly, American ash (white ash) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraxinus_americana I grew up in a neighborhood full of beautiful mature Ash trees. In the past 20 years, almost …

Yes, use them on frontend, backend, and mobile. They feed into an AB experimentation system which is the gate for shipping features and catching regressions.

Appreciate the link, it was an informative read. Based off what I read there, I don't think reducing burden on nurses to prevent burnout at any cost is the right response here. The…

Covid spread throughout the entire world very quickly. "Locking down harder" in any region simply delays the inevitable spike in cases once those lockdowns end.

I understand you are making the argument that removing mandates for masks at schools will lead us to have a shortage of medical practitioners? That seems dubious to me. From what I…

I'm sorry about your experience. I do wish your wife would have received better care, but I'm not sure we can jump to the conclusion that the experience you had implies mandates an…

I agree - I am worried about taking hospital capacity claims at face value though. From what I've seen, it was common for hospitals to report being overwhelmed even during flu seas…

Personally I feel like the Collapse movement is full of histrionics and hysteria, and for a while I was ignoring it. But the movement seems to have a psychological pull. Most of th…

I'm surprised by the antipathy towards both author and technology expressed by many of the top level comments here. Personally I found the piece moving, even from the first generat…

I use a Vim extension in my browser which converts 'j' and 'k' into scroll keys. I've found that on many sites which employ the modal overlay and suppress scrolling I can still scr…

My first hypothesis was like the others here - that it somehow screws with my brain chemistry to make me permanently dependent on it for my mood. Another possibility is that coffee…

I recently noticed the same thing about depression and coffee after trying to quit several times over the past several years. Even months after the headaches ceased, I generally fe…

I hope similar efforts at genetic modification can save American ash trees, which are being wiped out by the Emerald Ash Borer. In my childhood town in the Midwest my street was li…

I notice certain pattern among some internet communities. Extreme hype / popularity around a community, followed by degeneration (or increased visibility of prior degeneracy) of th…

There's a great SlateStarCodex essay on this called "Studies on Slack", where this tradeoff of investing resources in preparation for low-likelihood catastrophic events is examined…

This is explicitly refuted in the article. > In an early 2018 working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Christopher J. Ruhm, a professor of economics and…

I was introduced to Dvorak and the New World Symphony through the anime Shin Sekai Yori (From the New World). My favorite part of the New World Symphony is the largo, and found som…

Python is definitely more real-world practical. Most students will go on to learn it in future classes anyways though. An Intro class is better off preparing a conceptual foundatio…

My university has taken this approach. The main intro class is still Racket based, but they offer a Python alternative which satisfies the same requirements. I hope they're trackin…

Full disclosure - I took 3 classes in Racket: Intro to CS, Programming Languages, and Compilers. > Racket is not a very popular language in teaching communities This list of school…