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The Wikipedia article doesn't argue that this fear is encoded in our DNA.

I block distracting sites/apps from 6:30am-6:30pm, with browser extensions/app blockers.

It's a pretty simple and free solution, takes maybe 10 minutes to install and configure.

Yes there are fairly easy ways to get around the blocks, but 90% of the time I'm able to respect the block and so it saves hours of time daily.

Yes, they're A/B testing multiple things with NSFW content. Up until recently I was in the "you must use the mobile app instead of mobile site to see nsfw content" group. I'm not sure exactly when that changed for me, maybe a week or so ago, but I no longer have that requirement anyway.

Not having credit history will absolutely require you to take on a higher interest rate for your mortgage. It's probably 10's of thousands of dollars difference over the length of the loan, depending on how big the mortgage amount is.

I can't give a first hand account of either, but yes Woodstock '99 was generally considered much more violent than the original, which was expressed in various ways: vandalism/looting, setting fires, rapes.

Maybe the original festival had some similar instances but the intensity and frequency of them was considered much greater in '99.

I read your comment before it was flagged. I assume it was removed because you broke the first rule of this board: "Be Kind, Don't be snarky".

Your followup comment here also seems to break that rule. In general the combativeness you've added to your previous and current comment make for nonproductive discussions.

I don't, but regardless the US doesn't seem very close to direct democracy to me. So I disagree with OP when they say we're getting a glimpse of what direct democracy looks like right now.

It seems to me that since the rise of social media, politicians are voting in a way that's less representative of their constituents, not more. By that measure social media is bringing us farther from direct democracy, not closer.

Huh interesting, that does look promising, thanks.

I don't really view that as evil though, just basic market dynamics.

Similarly, CVS sells cheerios for $7 a box. I don't think CVS is evil, sometimes I'm just lazy.

One of the most Hacker News comments every written. A dismissive comment about a diy home project because you'd rather be critical of someone else than build something yourself.

Worth noting that carpenter bees are also furry fat bees, and often confused for bumble bees.

Carpenter bees tend to be a bit shinier, and at least around me, bigger. Which is how I can tell them apart.

That's the cool thing about science, it can't be refuted by one person's anecdotal experiences.

Seems like you're projecting a bit. I didn't see the person your responding to make any judgement about a life with a partner/kids vs one without.

What evolutionary pressure is giving an advantage to humans who can digest plastic? The article is talking about "bugs" as in microbes, bacteria. Not animals.

A lot of good advice here which you can try to implement, but at the the end of the day if this is affecting your day to day life then this is a mental health issue.

I would recommend therapy. They'll give you some similar advice as this thread, and also help you implement it, help keep you accountable, and help find if there's a further underlying cause.

The point is that their definition of active is inaccurate. You can be an active user and not tweet.

It's useful if you want to copy, say a bulleted list over, or keep various bold/italicized words.

I would say it's usually 50/50 whether I want to keep the formatting or not. But either way most applications support both copy with formatting and copy without formatting.

>2. That recent deterioration is most certainly embedded within a massive improvement over a longer horizon.

The point was that political discussion became more common on this board in the last five years due to this "deterioration." So whether things are better now than 60 years ago isn't relevant to that point.

>I wager the deforestation taking place in Amazon will have a much larger impact than the absence of this species of mosquito

That might be true but that's also not a reason to deliberately change ecosystems elsewhere.

The issue with mosquitos essentially comes down to risk management. The question is can we intentionally remove a mosquito species from the ecosystem while limiting adverse side affects. Deforestation of the amazon isn't relevant.

I don't mean to be pedantic, but we're not monkeys. We're apes, and so are chimpanzees. As you linked to, communities of apes and gorillas (as well as monkeys) do fight other communities. But it's not so clear if this constitutes war. For instance, the "war" you linked to lasted for 4 years and consisted of 6 deaths.

"This “us” vs “them” outlook is also mirrored in human behavior. While the Gombe Chimpanzee War isn’t exactly identical to human war, it is strikingly similar in brutality and allegiance to a tribe." https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/a-brief-histor...

"Animal groups do compete over resources, sometimes in an organized way, but “war” implies something more formal, Dan Dembiec, supervisor of mammals at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/160130-an...

This has been a standard IT policy for companies in the US for like 20 years. Probably 3/4 of the companies I've worked at over that time anyway.

"Almost impossible" seems a bit hyperbolic considering this is an article about a scientist who just made observations about underground behavior.

It's a hidden agreement between tech giants and their customers in that companies are so big and make so much money it's cheaper for them to lose the occasional customer than it is to provide adequate customer service.

As to when hn became a support page for this, at a minimum it was several years ago, along with the rest of social media.

The odds of a company making it that big are so low though, you're chasing lottery tickets with that outlook, which I suppose is still useful information.

Those group definitions don't seem all that well defined to me either. I would self identify as an infrequent movie goer (which I'm assuming contains the majority of movie goers).

The delta variant was confirmed in North America in April. So if you're an infrequent movie goer who goes to the theater once a year, and didn't go to the theaters during May of 2021, you don't fit in to any of those categories. That's going to skew the results and make it seem like a lot of people are likely lost, which I suppose could be true but I'm still looking forward to going back to the theaters anyway.

Yes activism is hard, which is one of the reasons why social media gave rise to slacktivism instead. It's a low effort gratification that is reinforced by ones social network.

It's one of the issues with subreddits as they get larger. Low effort "look how great I am for standing up to my boss" posts win the day.

>What is their incentive to give better reviews to some than others?

One incentive would be that they earn more money through affiliate (or the company is paying them) to promote one product over the other.

How does that disprove my statement? Microsoft essentially had a monopoly on desktops and software in 1996. Just because their market cap is larger now doesn't mean they weren't on top in 1996.

Does anyone really think Microsoft has as much influence on tech today than they did in 1996? They've clearly been pushed out by Google, Apple, etc, which is exactly what Gates was fearing would happen (although in this instance, the threat he feared was from Java/Sun).

When you're at the top there's really only one direction left to go.