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

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Post by screye »

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…

> well in some geographies

That's the thing about service based income. You can't institute any protections in place, because the answer to everything is 'it depends'.

Instituting a minimum wage requirement for waiters shouldn't be stopped because some waiters make a whole lot more than minimum wage.

Same applies to delivery services. The culture, frequency and bills of each locality vary massively.

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

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Post by pwdisswordfish2 »

jmspring wrote: post #14

In support of my offline diversion from working too much. Been researching Hugel Kultur. Another approach to raised beds. Most of the research is around what organics in the area I live make sense. https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/many-benefits-hugelk...

As a German that name sounds suspiciously German, in which case it should be “Hügelkultur” (hill culture). I don’t know why the article gives a completely fantastical pronunciation. If it’s a loan word you can pronounce it however you want, if the article wants to make it look like a foreign word whose pronunciation needs to be explained, I feel like it should do it right.

The English wikipedia article has some PIE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCgelkultur

Unlike ö (pretty much the i in girl) and ä (pretty much any English a), it’s hard to find an example of the ü sound in English. I guess it’s somewhere on the gradient between the “ee” and “oo” in “new”.

Usually the most familiar ü-word English speakers are familiar with is “über” (over, about, above, also fig. in the sense of superior). I believe this is the fault of “Übermensch”…

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

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Post by abellerose »

The most interesting things I view online are from hackernews, reddit, etsy, advance.lexis, researchgate, medscape, sanctionedsuicide, and occasional youtube videos. Usually topics & areas of interested related to programming, law, medical, and homestyle activities like cooking & DIY projects.

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

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Post by reedwolf »

cambalache wrote: post #59
implements wrote: post #37

Arts and Letters Daily. No commenting, but kinda like a HNs for the Arts: https://www.aldaily.com/alt/

It is a good site with 2 caveats. It is center-right (this is not bad per se, but just be aware of the bias). With a high frequency, the summaries are terrible and misleading.

It's also highly opposed to the concept of artificial intelligence or anything resembling computational theories of mind.

I don't think they've ever posted anything that puts computers and modern tech in a good light.

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

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Post by EvanWard97 »

Took a break and have been thinking and researching idealized/better/pure ways of doing things. E.g. exploring alternative:

- number systems. Base 12 would be nice.

- systems of measurement. Adjusting the SI base unit to be even powers of Plank Units seems ideal.

- calendar systems. 12 month years, 5 week months, 6 day weeks (with an extra 5 or 6 day week at the end of the year) seems nice.

- time system. A new time system based off 12. Sub-units are 2 hours, 10 minutes, 50 seconds, 4.16 seconds, and .3472 seconds. Time can be a normal number then like A63.B8

- languages. Lojban seems awesome!

- coding. Replacing C and C++ with D and Rust, and Python/R/Matlab with Julia.

- taxes. Land value taxes really do seem awesome.

Probably over half this has been via Wikipedia.

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

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Post by PenisBanana »

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

Had (a Turkish language, my then target language) random wikipedia page as my home page for a while, a year maybe.

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

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Post by soared »

cdiamand wrote: post #13

A friend and I are curating a list of finance articles - http://topstonks.com Trying to keep it funny, edgy, and informative. If anyone knows of a place to find interesting articles on High frequency and algorithmic trading, let me know!

I'm a huge fan of your site's design. I'm too unemployed to stomach reading your content, but motley fool and deeper pockets are my two usual sources for finance reading.

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

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Post by PenisBanana »

pwdisswordfish2 wrote: post #19

If everyone's online activity and browsing patterns were made public it would destroy the profitability of Facebook, Google, and other companies conducting web surveillance as a means to generate revenue. It would also obviate the need to ask a question like this. We could just search through user histories and discover new things that way.

Hear, hear!
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