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gregoryexe··on 28% of Europeans Can't Afford a 1 Week Annual Holiday
lies, damn lies and...
gregoryexe··on 28% of Europeans Can't Afford a 1 Week Annual Holiday
FTA: "it is estimated that 28.3% of the EU population aged 16 or over could not afford a one-week annual holiday away from home in 2018"

Surely including 16 year olds is skewing these numbers.

gregoryexe··on Epstein Arrest Leaves Top Technology Figures Racing to Distance Themselves
Because the media turns everything into a witch hunt these days.
gregoryexe··on Disabling server-side logging of Siri requests
At Apple: "Ah, another request to not log anything, make sure you log everything."
gregoryexe··on Crannogs: Neolithic-Era Artificial Islands
Neolithic 1%ers and their elite lake front Crannogs...
gregoryexe··on As Climate Changes, Taxpayers Will Shoulder Larger U.S. Payouts to Farmers
Just like all the profits made from the "war on drugs" government will just view climate change taxes as a new source of revenue with no incentive to truly end the problem.
gregoryexe··on The Importance of Insect Suffering
lol you support an article that includes the following:

"consider the ethical implications of virtual insects, including insect brain “uploads” and insect-like artificial intelligences that will emerge in the next few decades."

gregoryexe··on Why does God need public records? In Alabama, that’s a real question
"In 2015, the federal government seized drugs the state bought illegally off the black market. The shoddy, shady sources for the deadly cocktails have become a weak spot death penalty opponents have leveraged."

wat?

gregoryexe··on The Importance of Insect Suffering
Millions of human beings are dying of starvation, but no let's fret about the insects we might step on while we walk across the lawn.
gregoryexe··on Being Bored Is Good
"Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" came on over the radio while reading this.
gregoryexe··on California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure
I'm confident it will be as effective as the do not call registry.
gregoryexe··on Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding
> No, it doesn't, considering it was documented in Scotland in the 1700s. The Plum Island facility was started in 1954.

Yes, it does. This strain was before unseen in the US so much so it's very name references where it was first seen in the US, regardless of where it may have been elsewhere in the world.

gregoryexe··on Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding
This article blames sprawl and climate change, but neglects the connection to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center right off the coast of Lyme CT. Borrelia has been in the US for ages, but wasn't known for causing the debilitating symptoms this modern strain causes.
gregoryexe··on Learning to Build Distributed Systems
"If you can, carry a pager"

Why a pager? I wasn't even sure that they still made them.

gregoryexe··on This Marketing Blog Does Not Exist
I imagine HN is an AI promoting other AI's, which in turn..
gregoryexe··on '1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell
Huxley yes, but mostly his emphasis on pleasure over pain and self in order to pacify the population. But designer babies are already here so he could end up being correct on many more things.
gregoryexe··on A way for startups to build a solid IT infrastructure (2017)
Just buy a couple Synology's, that will get you 90% there.
gregoryexe··on IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries
I would dare to add, "All according to plan"
gregoryexe··on Impossible Foods' next product is sausage
They'd feed us sawdust if we'd pay for it. As a matter of fact, they used to try just that.
gregoryexe··on Apple Defends Decision to Remove Parental Control Apps
Less time on your phone could equal less app purchases, less revenue for app developers, less loyalty to the eco-system. If everyone truly cut screen time down just 10% less a week, Apple would feel it through the app developers pain.
gregoryexe··on Apple Defends Decision to Remove Parental Control Apps
FTA: "The controversy follows comments last week by chief executive Tim Cook, who said that Apple wanted to see customers spend less time on their devices."

Talk is cheap and sells well...

gregoryexe··on Nothing Fails Like Success
lost me at hate speech is killing our planet
gregoryexe··on Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users
embrace enhance extinguish
gregoryexe··on John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar (2014)
with millions at stake, the truth is difficult to discern. When it's billions, you'll never find it.
gregoryexe··on Iron is the new Cholesterol?
Water is the new diabetes?
gregoryexe··on Chandra, the pre-teen who released a post-punk record in 1980
I listened to it and it definitely belongs on soundcloud.