This has a Silicon Valley episode written all over it.
Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology
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I think the "TV makes you dumb" propaganda worked just fine over time, and in big part because it was honest and non-aggressive (as opposed to something like DARE). I know it is just anecdata, but out of the people in their 20s that I know, very few have cable, and those usually do it because with their provider it is cheaper to have it bundled as opposed to internet alone.
Well it’s now YouTube that makes you dumb.
I would argue that YouTube makes kids way more dumber then TV used to.
Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology
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McDonalds is still a viable business. When Facebook goes, it will evaporate like MySpace did. And not a moment too soon.
I'm not too sure. I think there's a lot of value in a centralized identity management system. Facebook seems to have filled that role. I can see a near future where it acts as a sort of SSO for the web. That doesn't necessarily sound like a $550B company, but could still be worth quite a bit.
The number of sites that tie their cart to that horse is pretty low. Most sites offer their own authentication or offer multiple ones besides FB.
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#154"It will be aimed at educating students, parents and teachers about the dangers of technology, including the depression that can come from heavy use of social media." So, treating the symptoms rather than the disease, and at any rate nothing to do with these companies' pervasive and invasive data practices. Maybe they still have positions in their former employers, I don't know, but following the money will have to b…
Please don't post reflexively dismissive comments to HN, especially when talking about other people's work, and extra-especially when it's the first comment to a thread. You might have a good point, but the genre itself drowns it out in a medium-is-the-message way. Discussions are sensitive to initial conditions and we're hoping that HN can be better than that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I read the article before posting, it's not reflexive.
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it's not real egg and the processed bread-resembling muffin isn't very nutritious either
How exactly does McDonalds make eggs that aren't real eggs> I don't believe that.
There are carton "eggs" that you pour. The McMuffin really is made from fresh cracked eggs, though. I think they are delicious.
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It might be a mistake asking this, but what the heck is a 'chav' ?
It’s an English word for rougher lower class young men. People look down on them, it’s partially a class thing and partially how they dress and how they’re just boisterous. Don’t know what the equivalent word in the USA is but in Australia we say Bogan which is similar.
The Australian equivalent is a "lad". As in "eshays adlay".
Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology
#157> Apple’s chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, told The Guardian last month that he would not let his nephew on social media
Does anyone else wonder how old the child in question is? Much of the media attention has been framed as "Tim Cook wouldn't let a kid use social media", ignoring the fact that the statement was about one child—not all children. We can't really draw meaningful conclusions about Cook's philosophy without knowing if this kid is 9 or 17.
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Is an egg-mcmuffin with no cheese and no hash-brown really that bad for you? It's literally an egg on bread.
it's not real egg and the processed bread-resembling muffin isn't very nutritious either
Do you really think they'd be allowed to call it an Egg McMuffin if it didn't have real eggs? It would be a pretty clear-cut case of false advertising.
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I though that too "oh no look at those chavs" at MacDonald's Supersize me also did not see what happened to you if you eat a full xmass dinner every day for a month did it.
It might be a mistake asking this, but what the heck is a 'chav' ?
It's the British version of white trash.
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This. I think we should appreciate some idle time occasionally. But my brain is currently wired for maximizing time on computer, doing programming or relwted tasks.
Idle time is good. I have close to a one hour commute, each way. Just me in my car. I dont rush or drive aggressively so my mind can be relaxed. My mind can wander, be idle. Most of the time the radio is not on, or just serves as background noise. Interesting to find the replies in this thread that assumes I'm always trying to do something, when already 2 hours a day I am not.
I wasnt assuming anything. I was giving an example from myself.
Even when i drive my brain occasionally thinks about work, side project or some idea that i should definitely try.
Vacations are very boring for this reason, for me. It is not my thing to do nothing that challenges me in some way. Sitting at beach talking arbitrary things is not me, for example.