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Re: Dopamine Fracking

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

Aurornis wrote: post #276
PowerElectronix wrote: post #267

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It does, but as you really can't get money out of it in a reliable way by exploiting the user addictive behaviors, it doesn't have that effect on society. It's just a cool place to visit now an then an check cool stuff out.

Kind of interesting how many people don’t realize that the purpose of Hacker News was to be an advertisement for Y Combinator and their portfolio companies. You don’t see it as much these days, but YC portfolio companies can post privileged threads on this site for job listings, which in practice double as ads for the company. You’re not allowed to comment on them. I haven’t seen one for a while because I suspect eve…

Whatever the purpose was, that's not really the reality of HN as most of us experience it.

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Post by OneOffAsk »

> because just like in actual fracking, it is immensely harmful to the long-term health and sustainability of anything it is applied to

An otherwise good article, but weakened by this bit. Fracking and the use of natural gas is actually pretty great ecologically compared to the other ways we get and use fossil fuels. It got a bad rap because it probably really stunted US adoption of renewable resources… and it’s my theory the coal industry was behind the public damnation.

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Post by nick__m »

0xffff2 wrote: post #390
nick__m wrote: post #289

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What's the grade of the maple syrup you tried ? (the new grading system is stupid everything is grade A with a color name) In my opinion, The A golden is light and subtle, I don't know what it's for; it's the variety we sell in tourists, and to peoples that likes fancy bottles and higher prices! The A amber is great as a condiment in small quantities, for pancakes it's the best. The A dark is the best for cooking des…

I grew up with the fake stuff, and have lately done quite a bit of taste testing of the various grades of real stuff. Grade A golden is the only one with a distinct enough difference in flavor for me to care, and even then it's very much an acquired taste, not immediately and distinctly better. Given the stark price difference, my conclusion is that the maple syrup elitism is a silly hobby horse for people with too m…

There are 2 maple grove owner in my extended family (both are my uncles one on my father side and one on my mother side) so I never saw that as a luxury product and never had to acquire maple syrup at market price.

But I understand your point, if you grew on the fake stuff and considering how expensive maple syrup is, you have nothing to gain by training yourself to prefer the real stuff.

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Post by casey2 »

Can someone define dopamine? I'm also not very comfortable with re-purposing scientific terminology for memes.

My best guess is "guilty pleasure"

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Post by jschveibinz »

hattmall wrote: post #25

This has been happening in the real world for far longer. It's basically the experience of many modern cities, or even worse suburbs. Starbucks / Chipotle / Orange Theory / Target / Generic Brewery / Lime Scooter / Waymo / Subscribe N Save So much of modern life has been comodified to optimize for things that aren't necessarily what's inline with the users interests and certainly don't do anything for cultural robust…

I saw an interesting comment from the marketing gent Rory Sutherland. He calls it metric driven isomorphism. In other words, by collecting the same demographic data and redesigning products, all companies in the market tend toward some boring center that addresses the main needs/wants but reduces differentiation.

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Post by devilbunny »

LearnYouALisp wrote: post #366
corroclaro wrote: post #191

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For the record: you basically take a stick blender, the container that came with it, crack an egg, pour over some lemon juice, then blend while pouring in hot butter (use the microwave!). Takes ca 2 minutes, including the 1 minute 30s of microwaving the butter. Instant _real_ sauce hollandaise as the stick blender creates a vortex that emulsifies it. No need to hand whisk it over a bain-marie at careful temperatures.

Has anyone tried ultrasound (either probe or basin) for this mixing? I know it can be done for a finer substance

Why? A cheap probe ultrasonic mixer is $500 on Amazon, small, and would take forever. An immersion blender is $17 at Walmart and does it in seconds for a half-liter of mayo or hollandaise. If you need more than 500 mL of mayo but can’t just do a few batches, you are no longer in the realm of cooking at home.

If you want to do molecular gastronomy stuff, have fun, but it isn’t ever going to be a mass-market thing.

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Post by devilbunny »

gacgacgac wrote: post #324
westmeal wrote: post #112

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I don't know the real sauce is incredible compared to the fake stuff. It really is a massive hassle though :/

I make eggs benedict probably once a month or two. It's really fairly simple with an immersion blender. Comes together in like a minute. Timing the poached eggs and the sandwich elements is a little tricky, but not materially more difficult than, eg, cinnamon rolls from scratch.

If you’re making for family, poach the eggs in the shell with an immersion circulator as used for sous vide. The whites will not be quite as perfect, but the taste and texture are there, and you can store the cooked eggs (I forget the temp I used, but look around, there are examples) and the prepared hollandaise in a Ziploc at 130 F/55 C for quite a while.

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Post by hattmall »

jschveibinz wrote: post #405
hattmall wrote: post #25

This has been happening in the real world for far longer. It's basically the experience of many modern cities, or even worse suburbs. Starbucks / Chipotle / Orange Theory / Target / Generic Brewery / Lime Scooter / Waymo / Subscribe N Save So much of modern life has been comodified to optimize for things that aren't necessarily what's inline with the users interests and certainly don't do anything for cultural robust…

I saw an interesting comment from the marketing gent Rory Sutherland. He calls it metric driven isomorphism. In other words, by collecting the same demographic data and redesigning products, all companies in the market tend toward some boring center that addresses the main needs/wants but reduces differentiation.

Yeah, I mean, I've heard it called a lot of things, catering to the masses, least common denominator etc. It's really only a problem when it starts to consume so many resources in a given ecosphere that it pushes out everything else.

It's like a Times Square effect, Times Square used to be an actual interesting place, now it's just the bastard child of commercialization. It's happening or has already happened in most major cities and of course suburbs in the US. There's few holdouts, like Nashville, New Orleans and Atlanta that still are just somewhat untamable.

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Post by froh »

killerstorm wrote: post #143
froh wrote: post #22

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i got much more out of it and it's intelligently written I see this structure: * introduce dopamine fracking * the wonderful strawberry analogy to what we loose, personally, by giving in to the substitue for the real thing * how they (the author) managed to in baby steps turn down attempts at fracking _their_ dopamine: through awareness of what's happening and what were missing because of it so until there is some bi…

There's an unresolved tension within the article: * some parts of it imply it's about higher intensity, 'bigger' dopamine hits * while other parts talk about commodification, i.e. making these 'dopamine hits' as cheaply as possible, with as little other substance as possible Not the same thing. There's a connection - reducing 'substance' make it more 'pure' dopamine, also there's some loudness war between different s…

"commodification" (and "industrialization" and "over-consumption") were just alternative terms they tried before settling on "dopamine fracking". that's it. and exactly because theses terms are not synonyms at all and exactly because they fit worse, the author settles on fracking: squeezing a ressource out of our brains no matter the collateral damage, as you then identified.

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Post by hattmall »

genewitch wrote: post #377
VileSquirrel wrote: post #137

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> Where in Europe do you find large amounts of small stores? (and for real, not fake) I live in a small european town and all the followings are found less than 3 minutes away from my home: butcher, baker, shoes store, newspaper store, convenience store, barber. The town hosts a market once a week that sells more divers products, and many people do shop there. Some of the stores are owned and operated by descendants…

> I live in a small european town and all the followings are found less than 3 minutes away from my home walking, cycling, or driving? For where i live, in the USA, all three net me no shops. I have to travel 3.5km round trip to get candy and a cold drink at a gas station, ~19km to get fresh vegetables and fruit at all , and sixty-four kilometers to get to a "real" grocer. those are all round trip distances (had to e…

40 miles to a grocery store is not living in a "small town" that's living in a rural area or the country side.
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