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I built a menu bar app for streaming DI.FM internet radio on macOS. Swift/SwiftUI, no Electron. The existing options for DI.FM on desktop are either the web player (yet another bro…

the configs, commands, and docs for this project are all different from those of your project? maybe you feel upset that someone has created a project similar to yours, but your ac…

n=256 undergraduates playing “The Ultimatum Game.” The headline (“fairness is what the powerful can get away with”) is a tad lofty given the methodology of the study.

Yes, I had the same experience. OP should refresh the design

What do you mean when you say the economic pie continues to shrink? Since 1960 American GDP has more than tripled in real terms (constant dollars): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/seri…

https://archive.is/8O3Us

Guatemala (arbitrary choice) spent 35% of their income on food in 2016, but 66% were overweight or obese. I don't know what's causing obesity, but it doesn't seem to be income, giv…

Let's assume this graph is correct. Why did humans 100 years ago consume fewer calories? The body is a complex system with many homeostatic mechanisms. We stop eating when we're fu…

"Is this really a mystery?" They address your question on the first page. Please read a few sentences of the article, or hey, even the entire article, before trying to refute it. A…

there are some fascinating hypotheses on what's caused the worldwide exponential increase in obesity in humans (and also some wild animals). here is the best summary i've seen: htt…

I don't feel like dying on the hill of Catcher in the Rye - while I think it's a good book and worth reading, I have no desire to write about it beyond the words I chose in my comm…

I read Catcher in the Rye as a teen and enjoyed Holden's angst. Now I'm approaching middle age. Last year I was looking for books to read in a language I'm learning. I decided to r…

cool story but: ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), PALM OIL, SALT, DRIED CARROT FLAKE, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF AUTOL…

Buffett's letter, released today, February 24, 2024: https://berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2023ltr.pdf

https://archive.is/Bta7m

The relatively simple grammar is a huge advantage. The major complaint I’ve heard from learners is about the spelling. It would be nice to reform the orthography, like the Academia…

Over 100 years is entirely possible in this case. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and precedent in the 2nd Circuit, the recommended total sentence will be stacked consecuti…

But see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30322179/ , a large meta-analysis that found no association between coffee drinking and Alzheimer's disease: We performed a dose-response me…

> In the US if you fake data you can become president of Stanford (for a while). One wonders: is the unearned time as an elite university president worth being humiliated by an 18 …