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and-hion Spritely – leveling up the federated social web

Thanks, I appreciate the long reply!

Good luck with the project, I hope it will work.

and-hion Spritely – leveling up the federated social web

It looks interesting but I do not really understand what it does. Could someone put this into context and summarize it, please?

and-hion Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficult emotions, says expert

I'm familiar with your (1) and I think it fits extremely well with the negative emotion explanation.

At least for me, making a difficult decision that might have far-reaching consequences can be very uncomfortable if I don't have all the information. And it can be very easy to procrastinate because I tell myself that more information might be available in the future (even when that is clearly not true).

So, it's not so much that I search for an optimal strategy and more that I know there isn't one and I don't want to bite the bullet yet and make a decision.

and-hion De-Googling: My Progress

I don't think my Firefox has crashed in years on Youtube.

and-hion Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus prevalence

The author, Andrew Gelman, is one of the best statisticians of our times. And his criticism that they should have consulted an expert seems fair, since this blog post clearly shows that the study did not give strong evidence for a high prevalence of Covid-19. It might have all been false positives.

The off-topic comments make more sense when one has read the blog for a longer time. The author has criticized so many studies over the years that he must feel a bit of frustration by now. I guess the hacker news crowd wasn't the intended audience for such comments.