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Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Post by TwoBit »

dyslexit wrote: post #30
wenc wrote: post #6

I've been trawling subreddits to get a ground-level view of common narratives that we hold on to but have never thought to collect data on. For instance, there's a common and oft-repeated notion that food delivery apps are screwing over drivers, not just restaurants. So I've been reading the Couriersofreddit sub to get the story from the horses' mouths: https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/ It turns you can make…

I'm very weary of resistor self-reported "data points". They don't often reflect real life for most people, or worse, don't even reflect really even for the commentor. I seriously doubt the person saying he makes $35-$40 an hour doing uber eats is any sort of real average even for him. On top of that a thread like that is more motivating to respond to for people who want to give a "fuck you" to Amazon or who want to…

I agree, though on the other hand reddit posters are notorious for being angry haters of anybody that has more than them, especially corporations, and greatly over-represent perceived negative aspects of them.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Post by dclusin »

dyslexit wrote: post #30
wenc wrote: post #6

I've been trawling subreddits to get a ground-level view of common narratives that we hold on to but have never thought to collect data on. For instance, there's a common and oft-repeated notion that food delivery apps are screwing over drivers, not just restaurants. So I've been reading the Couriersofreddit sub to get the story from the horses' mouths: https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/ It turns you can make…

I'm very weary of resistor self-reported "data points". They don't often reflect real life for most people, or worse, don't even reflect really even for the commentor. I seriously doubt the person saying he makes $35-$40 an hour doing uber eats is any sort of real average even for him. On top of that a thread like that is more motivating to respond to for people who want to give a "fuck you" to Amazon or who want to…

In the rare occasions I take an Uber I always ask about the economics of it. From my anecdata it seems like most have never done any modeling of depreciation or maintenance cost forecasting, even extremely basic like miles until major service required and how much it would cost. At most they factor in the monthly oil change, if they even do that.

Maybe some enterprising person on here could make a slick web app to help people estimate depreciation and maintenance costs, with a user interface that people with a high school diploma could understand.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Post by sawmurai »

austinl wrote: post #10
papeda wrote: post #3

I always rep Wikipedia's "random page" function [1]. Random page is especially useful if you are cooped up at home and can't access normal sources of randomness like close conversation with other people, the rustle of leaves in trees, sunlight filtering through passing clouds, etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Reminds me of the Wikipedia vital articles. I've been trying to learn German, so I've been picking one mostly at random and reading the German translation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles

Brilliant idea. I will use it to improve my polish!

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Post by nanomonkey »

Sign up for newsletters from interesting people, they'll send you down more rabbit holes than you'll need. Corey Doctorow, Robert Sloan, Tim Ferriss, Kneeling Bus, Jeremy Singer-Vine, The Convivial Society, Eric Weinhoffer and Peter Attia are a few to check out.

After that and Hacker News, I suggest setting up a decentralized media account such as Scuttlebutt, Beaker Browser, or Mastodon.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Post by gabagoo »

Longform.org is a good resource for longer reads, if you get paywalled just pass them through Instapaper first.

Also Arts And Letters Daily

Naked Capitalism daily linkdumps (morning + water cooler at 2pm) have plenty of auxiliary reading material in them

Slate Star Codex comment section is always popping off, some discussions are more interesting than others depending on what you're into

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Post by RupertWiser »

For mindless browsing when you’re trying to fill a few minutes, I’m quite a fan of Mix [1]. I believe this used to be stumbleupon. You simply enter your interests and it keeps suggesting related content.

[1] https://community.mix.com/blog/2019/2/27/introducing-the-mix...

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