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> That reliance on self-reporting — the teens' own opinions — as a single indicator of harm is a problem, says Candice Odgers, a psychologist who studies adolescence at University of California, Irvine and Duke University. That's because teenagers are already primed by media coverage, and the disapproval of adults, to believe that social media is bad for them.

And since when do teens care about the disapproval of adults? When I was a kid, video games were the terrible thing. I didn't know any kids who bought into that narrative—we knew they were harmless fun and kept playing.

Reminds me of an economics joke:

Two economists are walking down the street. One spots a $20 bill on the sidewalk. He bends to pick it up, but his companion stops him. "If there really were free money in the street," the companion says, "then somebody else would've picked it up before now."

I'm looking at a 4 hour interview in my near future, so yes I'd like remuneration.

But even more than that, I'd like an interview that doesn't take 4 hours.

Oof. Makes me glad my interviews with them didn't go very far.

I'm an introvert and my wife is an extrovert. She definitely struggled more than I did. But even I got to the point where I was cherishing any small opportunity to chat with a stranger.

A couple of months ago, I went to an old friend's wedding and spent several days with new people for the first time in over a year. About one and a half days in, I'd used up all that pent up extroversion and went right back to my normal introverted self.

It's certainly happening in China. Regional dialects like Cantonese—which you would still hear routinely in American Chinatowns—are slowly being replaced with Mandarin via the school system. These dialects are not yet lost, but within a few generations they may rarely be spoken. Why would they be when everyone learns Mandarin in school?

I looked into Bitwarden for work, but there's no password reset option for admins. I don't know how many times people have forgotten their password manager's password and I've had to reset it. Without that feature, Bitwarden is a non-starter for a corporate environment.

Through the confines of scheduling, I once found myself in the lowest level of biology and AP biology in the same high school semester with the same teacher. At first she was perplexed, wondering what the hell was going on. But once she got to know me, she realized it was a scheduling thing and that I did not really belong in the low-level class. It got to the point where I just napped through that low level course and she didn't care at all. She was a good teacher.

1) If you are having serious intentions of self-harm, seek professional help. No other advice you read here (mine included) matters until you've done that.

2) Forget Tinder, and other social media too. It's just something to make you feel bad looking at the rest of the world's highlight reel.

3) You're not yet 23. You haven't failed at life, because—frankly—you haven't had a chance to live any of it yet.

4) Get off screens and go outside. Go for a walk near trees in the sun.

5) If you've got friends, ask to spend time with them. Doesn't matter what activity.

6) If you're short on friends, start making some new ones through shared activities. Sports, hobby classes, fellow dog owners at the dog park, whatever works best for you.

7) Get your sleep, diet, and exercise in order. These are foundational to feeling good and doing well at anything else over the long term. Ignore them at your peril.

$5k/week is $260,000 per year, which would put a person in the top 98% of earners in the US.

I've long suspected that there is a glut of not-terribly-good UX people who continually create pointless redesigns to justify their ongoing employment. I can't remember the last time (maybe never?) that I saw a redesign and thought, "Oh, yes, that's so much better, I'm excited for this!"

If you're using uBlock Origin, here are some of the filters that the author, gorhill, uses to strip out things like Trending Now.

https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1375805467893624840

I've done this, but at the dog park. Not sure it works as well though—I hardly know anyone's name, just their dog's name.

I have the same issue. I want to expand my friendships beyond my employer, but I'm not certain how. I feel like I've got just enough time outside of work to spend time with my family, and very little left over to go to meetups or wherever else it is that people find new adult friends.

Print stylesheets are quite important if you're serving older demographics. I manage a site that frequently has content printed out and passed around, so the print styles must work. It has the added bonus that I never hear complaints about printing, nor requests to format content into a cleaner-looking PDF document.

> I’ve always been average academically, but when needed, simply outworked everybody and got decent grades.

Speaking as someone who easily got good grades without working hard, this is a superpower. Because sooner or later, the "smart" folks finally hit some barrier that they can't brute force with their brains. And when they've gone so long without have to work hard, they haven't built that skill at all. Many never get past the first real hurdle. I've struggled in my professional life to build the discipline I never needed in school.

The fact that you've learned to consistently put real effort into your endeavors will take you much further than any innate intelligence can.

I just find something very cold and socially undesirable in the idea that somebody can spend a lifetime putting in the work to get the home they want, only to be forced out because "society" decides they are no longer productive. I'm no NIMBY—those people shouldn't have the right to stop others from developing their own properties—but I'm not sure I like the idea of economic incentives kicking the least productive to the curb because it's "efficient".

In high-demand cities, the land is the expensive part—not the house on top of it.

I include 3 because Altman assumes it. Even if property values stay the same—or even drop—I think it would not be a fun situation for home owners.

As far as I can tell, it's not different. Unless you could consistently generate the 2.5% property value to pay the tax each year (in a world where AI has sent incomes to zero!), then you'll eventually lose your property.

Imagine: 1) I'm the owner of a single family home 2) My income drops to roughly zero because of AI 3) My property values go through the roof 4) I now owe 2.5% of these sky-rocketing property values every year, to be paid from my non-existent income

Doesn't this scenario lead to me either selling my "gifted" shares to pay property taxes, or ending up a renter at best and homeless at worst? I can imagine this proposal leading to greater concentrations of wealth rather than spreading it around.

Same. I can't remember why exactly I switched, but I recall space bar being more of a gamble whether I would pause/unpause or scroll down the screen. K seemed to work better.

I still encounter this as a grown adult. I'm working through a course on a programming framework I'm unfamiliar with right now, and several times have gone through a half-hour setup to encounter "Now that I've shown you the awful way to do this, here's a built-in way that's far simpler and less error-prone!" Extremely irritating.

If you're paying attention to what people are saying about the books "everyone" is reading, then sure, you can probably skip them. Lots of popular books I never read because I got 90%+ of the content from a podcast interview. But this doesn't answer the question of what you should read. Simply "not the popular stuff" could land you at an amazingly insightful but ignored classic, or a celebrity gossip tabloid you picked up at the grocery store checkout.

My wife is from Hong Kong and we've both got US citizenship. To get HK residency as well as US citizenship, our kids would have to be born in HK. We don't actively live in HK, and your anecdotes are making me wonder how feasible this would actually be within the time frame of maternity leave.

As a new homeowner who has never gardened before, I'm curious how to get started doing something like your hydroponics setup.

I'd love to try a split ergo keyboard, but 1) I have no interest in building one and 2) I have no interest in paying $300 for a fully-assembled one. There's got to be untapped market potential for fully assembled ergonomic split keyboards costing less than $300.

Sadly, I've had this same experience with Gatsby.

How to quickly open an app on Windows 10:

1. Hit Windows key and type name of the app. 2. Hit backspace until the app tops the result list instead of web results.

Does this make any sense? Nope...

After a bad reaction to a fluoroquinolone antibiotic, caffeine would cause a painful pins-and-needles sensation. Needless to say, I quit cold turkey.

That was over two years ago. I find that I don't miss caffeine at all. I am a slow caffeine metabolizer, so I couldn't drink too much anyway without getting jitters. I never actually felt awake or focused on caffeine.

Now that I'm on decaf coffee, I can drink as much as I want purely because I enjoy it. It was difficult to find high-quality decaf whole bean coffee, but thankfully I identified a couple. For a long time I used Slow Motion from Counter Culture. Lately I switched to Swings in the DC area because 1) they have at least three excellent decaf roasts and 2) I live a few minutes walk from them.