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kritiko··on TikTok kept list of users who watched LGBTQ+ content, former employees say
Previous discussion on WSJ reporting about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35836837
kritiko··on Ask HN: DIY ice bath equation for water cooling
It sounds like you have not done much research on this yet, but I'm sure DIY plans exist online given the popularity of cold plunges with athletes / bro science people (I don't know that there's actually much peer reviewed evidence on any benefit of this stuff).

The obvious answer would be "make a bunch of ice in the freezer" but I'm sure you could get more complicated. If you do go with a circulator, will you also be treating the water for reuse?

Edit: looking at reddit, it appears a bunch of people just turn their chest freezers into the plunge tank? Check out r/coldplunge

kritiko··on TikTok tracked users who watched gay content, prompting employee complaints
The article seems really wrong on this.

E.g. there’s a big trend of congratulating companies for allowing users to opt out of Mother’s Day / Father’s Day ads, which requires companies to keep list of sensitive data about user’s relationship to parents. Similarly, FB has the “interested in” field on profiles… maybe some platforms don’t expose this to advertisers, but they all collect that data.

kritiko··on American travelers are being charged up to 3 times more for vacations
They're the #1 result on Google and they run ads on seemingly every podcast or YouTube channel I watch. I think they're fine.
kritiko··on American travelers are being charged up to 3 times more for vacations
I think this is a different phenomenon than the parent comment -- some of these 3rd party sites seem to update more slowly than the airline's pricing. I.e. it's rare that a 3rd party actually holds airline tickets these days.
kritiko··on The Air Force has loosened its restrictions on body fat for new recruits
I found it interesting that they talk about body fat % when that’s notoriously difficult to measure. AFAIK only an MRI is accurate.

Then trying to Google what the actual test is, there’s a lot of advice about how to manipulate water weight to cut enough to pass. So this change is probably way better for those borderline people who were doing unsustainable stuff to pass.

kritiko··on BuzzFeed News is shutting down
To the extent that publications like The Atlantic have declined, I think it's because clickbait works, or at least it seems to if you're dependent on the online ads business model, so legacy publications have chosen to become more like Buzzfeed.
kritiko··on Weight loss relapse associated with exposure to perfluoroalkylate substances
The guys at https://slimemoldtimemold.com were interested in a PFAS theory of obesity, but they seem to have moved onto lithium as a greater area of focus.

My counterfactual: wouldn't you expect ski shop workers to become super obese? They're exposed to huge amounts of PFAS in ski wax.

kritiko··on You Can Have the Blue Pill or the Red Pill, and We’re Out of Blue Pills
"The first step is to buy time to upgrade our 19th-century institutions for an A.I. world"

As influential as Harari (recommended by Bill Gates and Obama) and Harris (featured heavily in The Social Dilemma) are, they don't have any prescriptions here for improving our institutions.

kritiko··on $300000 feels like $100000 in SF, NY and Honululu
where do you live?
kritiko··on Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
The public education system in the US is ~6 hours per day, ~180 days per year. Of course anybody with the means is supplementing that.
kritiko··on Whole Foods closes San Francisco flagship after one year, citing worker safety
I remember that Ben Horowitz includes a lot of rap lyrics in The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Don’t a lot of tech bros love music that glorifies criminal behavior?
kritiko··on 3 years after Sprint merger, T-Mobile employs 9k fewer people
I really wish the article would name the spokesperson who claimed "We’ve upheld our jobs commitment," when it clearly goes against Legere's testimony.
kritiko··on Substack Notes Launched
I didn't claim there was IP infringement. IG & lots of other companies stole the stories format from Snap. Makes it easier for users who recognize the ui, but it's still got to be galling.
kritiko··on Substack Notes Launched
The upside to writers would be traffic to their articles. Once you get to the article, you can have the usual subscribe overlay.

I think it does add some confusion to the product if notes become more popular than articles / comment sections on articles.

kritiko··on Substack Notes Launched
Looking at Notes, I get why Elon is so mad about it. They totally ripped off the Twitter UI.

I follow Ed Zitron's Substack, and he is also a prolific Tweeter. He seems to be using Notes the same way he uses Twitter, for shitposting. I'm not sure that's really in line with the tone of Substack.

kritiko··on People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30442059/

"Cannabis use doubles the risk of developing psychosis in vulnerable people."

kritiko··on People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system
Yes, Freddie's review of the book that this article was excerpted from was previously discussed on HN.
kritiko··on Cancer and heart disease vaccines ‘ready by end of the decade’
PSCK9 inhibitors are already on the market. "Injection that greatly lowers your cholesterol" seems kind of like a "heart disease vaccine"
kritiko··on Why did Phreesia share my medical data after I opted out?
That seems like an unfair characterization of the front desk staff's job. In the pre-iPad days I remember being asked to do those sorts of questionnaires, but on paper on a clipboard.
kritiko··on What is really going on at Amazon Fresh?
Obviously this is in line with the history of the brand of a fancy, organic- and artisanal- focused grocery. (Does it have better profit margins than other groceries?)

My point was that Amazon could support another retail brand beyond WF.

kritiko··on Incompetent but Nice
Have you ever stewed over something somebody said to you?

Miscommunication or negative comments can have productivity impacts.

kritiko··on What is really going on at Amazon Fresh?
Whole Foods still has very strange retailing choices (afaik, you can't get standard Heinz Ketchup or Hellman's Mayo at the big one near me - just the organic varieties).
kritiko··on A VC bought the Flatiron Building and didn’t pay for it
The Continental, the fictional hotel where John Wick stays, is Delmonico's downtown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56_Beaver_Street

Edit - it's actually another building used for exterior shots, although Delmonico's was used for some interior shots.

kritiko··on Review: The Best Minds, by Jonathan Rosen
For additional context, deBoer has bipolar disorder and has been hospitalized. He had a manic episode in 2017 where he publicly made false accusations against another journalist.

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/i-would-like-closure-bu...

kritiko··on The 24 Hour “Do Nothing” Challenge
I'd definitely recommend doing a 1 day retreat before diving into something longer - some people suffer psychotic breaks and other challenging meditation experiences.
kritiko··on Google search for a local restaurant returns scammer’s ad as top result
> Google's never (to my knowledge) had a policy against advertising on keywords associated with another firm.

I think cloning a website would probably fall under their misrepresentation policy. “We don’t allow ads or destinations that deceive users by excluding relevant product information or providing misleading information about products, services, or businesses.”

kritiko··on I'm starting a zero waste grocery delivery service in NYC. Anybody interested?
If it's at all convenient, I would highly recommend joining the Park Slope Food Coop to see the ins and outs of a grocery business at scale. Members are also owners and workers, so you could get a pretty close look at financial statements in addition to seeing how the food comes in from distributors before it gets to the shelf.

Even with a focus on sustainability and use of bulk bins for some products, there's a bunch of waste. I am very skeptical that you could truly get to "zero waste."

https://www.foodcoop.com/join/

kritiko··on I'm starting a zero waste grocery delivery service in NYC. Anybody interested?
The department of sanitation is expanding composting to the entire city by 2024. https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/site/services/food-scraps-an...
kritiko··on How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong
You can order food in the Uber app - there's a big tab at the top in iOS.

I think there's huge pressure to "everything app" very disparate services. I've also noticed that Amazon now lets you pull up your Whole Foods code or pull up the Whole Foods storefront from the Amazon app.

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