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inreverse··on Carbonized 1,300-Year-Old Bread Loaves Unearthed in Turkey
The entire website seems fake! The quoted archaeologist sounds like GPT.
inreverse··on A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote
Leaving aside the topics of authenticity and the questions' historical context, it's interesting that the article claims that "most" of the questions are impossible, while >80% have a single clear interpretation. For example, "draw a line under the last word in this line."
inreverse··on Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
When I was on Android I looked for a period-tracking app but could only find cloud-based ones, so I didn't track my period for many years. Appreciate you.
inreverse··on Mouse filmed tidying man's shed every night
did you break one up to check they weren't cocoons
inreverse··on New research shows Māori adapted quickly in the face of rapid climate change
It feels like they're implying rapid climate change killed the moas in less than 200 years, coincidentally right after human arrival. Nothing to do with being hunted to extinction?

Strange article.

inreverse··on Competition Is For Losers
Oh eek, I retract my comment!
inreverse··on Competition Is For Losers
The first paragraph is misleading enough that I stopped reading; there's no evidence that Thiel has NZ citizenship "as a hedge against the looming apocalypse" (?), and he recently sold that "500 acre estate".

He was given citizenship by a conservative-leaning Prime Minister in the hopes that he would invest in the local tech scene, which he has. The $50 million he invested is not a lot by silicon valley standards but it is a fair amount for New Zealand, and it went to some of NZ's best startups (possible bias, I worked at one).

inreverse··on The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
Our last level four lockdown was in April of 2020 - where are you getting your information?
inreverse··on Who Is Your Audience?
I don't know anything about photography but your clear-eyed writing made my day.
inreverse··on The Bullshit
Do you have any (including speculative) ideas that could explain why our news is so bad, given that most journalists are passionate about their work?
inreverse··on Does this medieval fresco show a hallucinogenic mushroom in the Garden of Eden?
The liberty cap is not a distinctive mushroom (small, round cap, brown). The amanita muscaria is beautiful and distinct enough that we recognise it in paintings hundreds of years later.

Perhaps the painter chose it for its beauty, or perhaps because it was both distinctive and psychedelic. No way to know. But the academics claiming that "the plant in this fresco has nothing whatever to do with mushrooms" are embarrassing.

inreverse··on Does this medieval fresco show a hallucinogenic mushroom in the Garden of Eden?
Interesting that Adam appears with no ribs at all then.
inreverse··on Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era
Money can be exchanged for goods and services.

In addition, work doesn't need to consume the majority of waking hours. If you have a high-paying job at a company with a nice culture you can spend ~4 hours a day or less working, with the rest of the time spent reading articles on the internet, browsing hacker news, occasionally replying to Slack messages etc.

inreverse··on Organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies
Are there any chefs who unify veganism with traditional cuisines that use lots of animal products, e.g. french or chinese? I would love to be vegetarian but I'm lucky in that my partner makes fantastic traditional food and I don't want to give it up.

Vegan modifications along the lines of 'substitute the meat in your burger for mushroom' seem depressing, like they're unengaged with the balance of flavours in the dish.

inreverse··on The Anxiety of Influencers
I would love the source for this. It seems too ridiculous to be true unless they're using a non-standard definition of 'influencer'.
inreverse··on Hydrofoiling
A similar company: https://freightfish.io/
inreverse··on The mortifying ordeal of pairing all day
I can only pair effectively if I feel fully comfortable with the person I'm pairing with, and I would not feel uncomfortable disclosing who meets or does not meet that criteria at work.

Software engineers tend to be less comfortable socially so I imagine other people share this perspective.

inreverse··on On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
That seems like it could be an interpretation problem where the definition of sex changes to only include penetrative sex in the context of the safe sex question.
inreverse··on Early-Retirement Update
Later in the article they divorce - I think the less-than-nuanced description of those beliefs is him looking down his nose at his ex-wife.
inreverse··on Tips for a Better Life
My recipe finding tip: google translate the thing you want to cook into the language of the cuisine you want, then search the result in youtube for an authentic recipe.

I learn by reading, but when cooking videos seem to work best.

inreverse··on Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?
Interesting, I didn't know that had been shown. Do you know any good resources to learn more about the 50/50 split?
inreverse··on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)
Not good at UX but the landing page is not following some basic conventions. The multiple saturated background colours are especially stressful.

Conventions which would help:

- add vertical padding between elements

- simplify illustrations or using icons

- use a consistent color palette

- use color sparingly

- at least one of black text and white background should be off-black or off-white respectively

- cookie request background should be a neutral color rather than yellow

- cookie request should be at the bottom of the screen rather than the top

- choose one hover event: animate the illustration or underline the text

- the footer should be at least 3 times the height

- replace "over the last year as of date" with "each year" then restore standard font weight

Fixing all of the above should take about an hour.

inreverse··on Economists who defend disaster profiteers are wrong
Was the minimum wage in, for example, New Zealand established to price out black workers?
inreverse··on Salary Stream – Software Engineer Offers
In my experience interviewers are looking for a detailed thought process with a comparison of solutions that demonstrates your communication, not just an optimal solution. Do you provide that as well?