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Must everything be subject to such extremes these days?

> The computer mouse I bought recently gives me great satisfaction, and I've never once derived satisfaction from any ads for it.

Respectfully, you are keying in on rather mundane purchase to argue against his claim. All he’s saying that interest in a brand will supersede the interest in the actual product. The funny part is that it’s blatantly obvious today, but maybe not so much during his time. As a speaker, I do agree with you though, he had a knack for pointing out the obvious for people who would encounter his material fifty years later.

I think what he means is that Manhattan alone does not comprise the entire city.

Could you recommend a good entry-level book on evolution? Nothing pop-science though, please.

Thank you for putting the effort into this response (and everyone else too). I think that some people may be under the impression that I’m trolling by trying to court the delineation that I’ve mentioned.

I’m not here for that.

Thank you for your detailed response. I was under the impression that “evolution” suggests a gradual process or development toward a given attribute as opposed to the sheer presence of the attribute “from the beginning of time”, so to speak.

It is oppression.

I’m asking this in earnest: do you have any information that supports the notion that the behavior of the pronghorn was a result of evolution and not something innately (i.e. immediately) present within the species?

> There is never a definitive core belief or core morality that everyone agrees with.

If you mean to use the word “everyone” literally here, then what you are asserting is unfair to human nature (people dissent). If “everyone” is a matter of virtue-based consensus for example, then I beg to differ.

> because the religion is not defined by what it originally was or should be, but by how it's actually practiced by people who self-identify as its followers and who are conventionally identified as such by everybody else.

How Terrifying.

Edit (let me explain): This comes across as a very democratic way to describe something that is predominantly undemocratic.

This is ideological hardball…I don’t know if I can explain how within the limits of what HN considers appropriate exposition. But I would not be surprised if this is sets off a trend that will be waged in opposition to other forms of reinterpretations in law and general society.

You know what…I sort of agree with you. You’re on to something.

In my experience, it just isn’t a proper “share your personal site” thread unless I come across yours. The timeline is a very nice take on the traditional blog archive, where posts are organized by the date of the subject matter itself instead of than when it was published. Nice.

The service itself is interesting. The branding…is not to my taste.

I think that some people may be able to get behind the service by virtue of its usefulness alone, and either are unbothered by the branding or are even attracted to it.

And then there are some people who are totally put off by the branding for various reasons, be it because they perceive certain political/ideological undertones behind it or just think that it’s immature and are even aghast that other HN users (who are predominantly middle-aged men, presumably) find it appealing.

To criticize the branding, puts one’s self in a position where one can either make a statement that can either be perceived as “politically incorrect” or insensitive, or reconciliatory (“I understand why people like it, but it’s not for me, I should’ve kept my opinions to myself and let people have their fun.”)

There is a sad irony behind that link…If I had to pay for bookmark management, it’d be Pinboard. What are the advantages?

> Then when it ends [(a)] there will be another war somewhere else that America at the very least will supply arms to [(b) mainstream media who supported the war will ceremoniously backtrack from their previous positions.]

I think this is being downvoted for being off topic from the main article though, as far as I can tell. Strong point nonetheless.

These are…products.

My guess is that there’s a Reduce Motion option in the accessibility preferences like on iOS.

Came to post this. Haven’t yet tried their Hammerspoon-integrated feature but I’m interested.

Ahem.

Sources should be in the show notes of the corresponding podcast episodes.

Personally, I learned this from Dr. Andrew Huberman…

https://podclips.com/c/why-andrew-huberman-avoids-caffeine-f...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedFitness/comments/qaq6z4/dr_...

Sources should be in the show notes of the corresponding podcast episodes.

Anecdotally: I can tell the difference.

Author uses Honk. His criticism is valid.

Sharing an idea and looking for an audience are not mutually dependent motives.

I’ve found that consuming Web content via RSS encourages more responsible use. The sweet spot between the fire hose and the desert is your own discretion. I couldn’t imagine subscribing to a feed like a news outlet that feels compelled to publish stories on every single event. I would however, subscribe to an individual’s feed, who aggregates news and other commentary on specific or a few related topics to compliment blog subscriptions and what not. The likes of John Gruber and Michael Tsai and Cory Doctorow seem to be among the few online who do this.

For example, I would subscribe to a heavily curated Linkhut (https://ln.ht) feed or something like someone’s micro.blog page that doesn’t consist of “status updates” a la Twitter/Mastodon.

In writing this, I’ve come to the realization that while I used to hate Twitter threads when they first became a thing…I still dislike the idea of them…but there is something worthwhile about fragmented, short-form streams of commentary that can point to larger bodies of work: concept maps, articles, Web books, PDFs etc.

This is an odd sentiment that I don’t have a counter argument for other than the beautiful UI of the app shown is worth hosting alone.

It appears that in this case, litigation is avoidable. The project would be purposely engaging in a legal battle at their communities dime over some names.

> After that it always ends in hard to parse research papers, specifications, jumping around the source code of multiple libraries, debugging or reverse engineering. If I get lucky I might land on a 15 year old blog post that no man has seen since inception and it describes exactly what I wanted to know.

What you’re describing takes a lot of time and nerve. Those are two of the foremost requisites of the pursuit of knowledge.

The Web is working. It’s enabling you to even access those old manuals via the Internet Archive, papers via Sci-hub, source code on GitHub and of course that old blog post on page 7 of a DuckDuckGo query.

The Web works y’all!

If he expects people (me) to read or read about his online PhD thesis then I think he should’ve chosen a font with a larger x-height. Reading the type feels like peeking through a dense bush during a hail storm.

Oh yeah...this is along the lines of what I'm after. Thanks.

As a vertical scroller I am indifferent to this decision. What matters to be is what Yomu and GoodLinks offer: changing the line height and exporting highlights.

The default leading in Apple Books is decent, but I switch fonts at a whim and many require adjustments. And nothing is more irritating than copying an excerpt from a book and having to remove the extra text about the title of the book, the book’s author and the copyright information.

Plus the way Yomu exports highlights is really interesting.