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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.
The food industry plays all sorts of games. Ever seen what's actually in "pork" sausages or "chicken" nuggets?
> 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 wi…
So presumably 12 when he said that.
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This is very true. In India McD has a more prestige positioning (not extremely but it's a luxury for the lower class, a treat for most middle class families, and a non-shameful food destination for the upper-middle class, and no one shits on McD food as being particularly bad for you. It's put up there with the food you will get from other similar joints (KFC, Dominos, Papa Johns etc.)—not a bastion of good eating bu…
In India you will have to find people who want to eat meat, to what I've heard. I think that's more related than "luxury food"
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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.
Do you read the ingredients of anything you eat/drink? This happens all the time. Read ingredients of "Apple Juice" or "Orange Juice" and it will often say upon inspection "Contains 12% juice" or something of the like. Yeah... your Egg McMuffin probably has SOME egg in it, but that's about it.
[0] http://static6.uk.businessinsider.com/image/54c920c1dd08950d...
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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.
I wonder if their rampant quest for click-money (annoying users with constant emails, useless spammy notifications, ads, sponsored content) is going to poison that well, though. I anecdotally know a lot of people in their early-mid twenties who have already deleted their accounts. If too many people start doing that, Facebook loses its one trump card.
This appears to have short term benefits (huge view counts), but surely it turns people off long term and impacts the brand.
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Maybe I missed the bulletpoint when I was born that said “you shall be productive every single second of your existence” Procrastination is a healthy part of live! Whether you do that on Facebook, poking your nose or playing chess...it’s all fair game!
I am reminded of an old zen saying: "Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and grass grows by itself."
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Can recommend Lichess [1], the puzzles are a lot of fun! I can also recommend Wordfeud (a Scrabble clone), and Duolingo (an interactive language-learning tool by professor Luis von Ahn (creator of reCAPTCHA)). But I can also recommend mindfulness, or listening to music which makes you relaxed such as classical or ambient music. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichess [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duolingo
Self-plug: I built a 5 minute word game for this very reason (diffuse mind time) that fits right in with your list of options. www.esoterica.io
Is there a chance to get longer words in the mix? I could be blind, but the longest word I was able to spot was 5 letters long, I think.
I feel like mobile gaming is Facebook at a smaller scale but 10x worse...not only are they trying to hook you but the hook is actively extracting money from you.
Both prey on our increased dependency on an instant dopamine release.
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>people are overwhelmingly on Facebook Is hypercentralization not a major problem of tech at the momemt, both in terms of security and freedom of thought?
Hypercentralization is a contributing factor (and indeed an enabler) of the main problem, which its the exploitation of attention. It is, in itself, not bad, and not in itself a problem. The same issue that this organization is fighting could also occur in an attention economy dominated by no major player.
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Do you read the ingredients of anything you eat/drink? This happens all the time. Read ingredients of "Apple Juice" or "Orange Juice" and it will often say upon inspection "Contains 12% juice" or something of the like. Yeah... your Egg McMuffin probably has SOME egg in it, but that's about it.
There was a promotional document a couple of years ago which describes each type of egg they do.[0] The egg mcmuffin is actually the best, as it's entirely just an egg, cracked and cooked from scratch right there. [0] http://static6.uk.businessinsider.com/image/54c920c1dd08950d...
Apparently it is has 1/3 of you daily allowance of sodium as well.
