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wolco2··on Covid forced bookstores online. Can they survive?
Books, newspapers, magazines. Old physical medium is slowly phasing itself out. It's sad time is moving on but if you told me in the 90s I can have a single flatsheet off paper that will get the latest news from the internet daily I would be amazed. With phones I have a flatsheet that gets new pages by touching a screen. A virtual keyboard appears. I feel like I'm in the future.

Maybe we shouldn't look down on the progress we all tried so hard to make. It's not bad..

wolco2··on I Hired a Freelance Editor for My Blog (2017)
Perhaps you found your blog. Imposter syndrome blogs are rare and you can speak from the heart.
wolco2··on Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Covid-19 deaths
Vitamin D taken orally needs to bind with Calcium or Mg.

Sun Lamps may be a better option for the at risk group.

wolco2··on Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Covid-19 deaths
In fairness what the media deeds important and accepts as truth is as cherry-picked by some random newsroom editor.

That's why you see things like the Iraq war everyday on tv and then never again. People are still blowing themselves up over there. There is always a bigger story with a greater theme that uses daily news stories to paint a broader picture.

People who seek out truth themselves are more likely to find it.

wolco2··on Why everyone’s hoarding Mason jars
And the high cost of wasting jam makes local experimenting unwise.
wolco2··on Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months
I'm finding I'm using Amazon less as more retailers go online and offer better prices. Rarely does Amazon have the best price anymore.

I find their delivery times dropping.. Last order, I ordered and paided more for same day rush.. that came by the end of the next day instead. They gave a $10 coupon but I literally picked the product based on it arriving that day and would have made a different purchasing choose if I knew it was coming tomorrow.

wolco2··on ‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
Can this principle be universally applied?
wolco2··on Hire people who give a shit
Now that you mention this I've seen this pattern happen and it repeats. Usually all we see is the end: a medium blog telling us why they left so and so company. They always give a reason that sounds like someone is still figuring out why they left their "dream job" without ever getting to the core. This happens more with big companies like "Stripe" than we like to believe. We sell ourselves in the comments section on how great "Stripe" is to work at while employees are being crushed with 60 hour weeks.

It does show in the products. Great products like "Stripe" start out wonderful but in time slowly move away from that initial greatness into products that slowly get worse and the company lives on in a shadow of what they once were.

wolco2··on ‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase
The message was I can't believe people made comments with the points above. Everyone should be on the page that racism exists specifically against black people in 2020.

I don't think the parent poster was pretending anything the parent-parent poster didn't share.

wolco2··on Cease and desist for video on how to make “Grana Padano Style Cheese” [video]
China just put 200% duties on any wine products from Australia so it might be a good time to import the excess.
wolco2··on CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
In fairness if they asked that it would be exclude the human the way streetview maps works now
wolco2··on CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
She was so poor she couldn't get a nickname?

If food was scarce like it was in the western world in the 30s people are more likely to remember a favourite food. My mother ate boiled onions everyday the one time she had a piece of bread would be extremely special and a memory to cherish.

Those of us living in the western world now would have a harded time picking a fav food because there is so much choice.

Your comment has a lot of first world assumptions about third world countries through the len of time without understanding your own history.

wolco2··on Players to sue for hundreds of millions over use of their statistics
That would only count toward one person one club not a widespread pattern.
wolco2··on This is how Google will collapse (2017)
Growing with a dying core?
wolco2··on Doctors and Nurses Are Running on Empty
Burned out nurses and nurse feeling guilty and covering up for admin cost cutting doesn't help anyone.

From a nurse prespective it's a difficult choice and without a safety net people are forced into these choices. There is no easy answer now. I would not know what to tell them.

wolco2··on Ask HN: Would you find a browser extension that screens for toxic text useful?
No
wolco2··on A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)
You are explaining your point well. You would be happy with any of the 100. In that case your strategy of swipe all makes sense.

But if you want to increase your successful swipe % rate within a target group a different strategy of profile management is in order.

I believe the targeted approach is more successful for repeated interactions and perhaps a relationship where the swipe all approach would get higher numbers with more low quality matches.

The job conversation is a bigger discussion. Spending a day on a cover letter, custom sample application, researching history and changing your resume to fit each job takes time but also provides a lot of value when trying to form a connection in the interview.

wolco2··on A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)
Do you really want those 95 other women? If you ended up out with one of those other girls and a goth girl swipes back and you miss that opportunity are you still happy. Plus you waste an evening to beef up your goth profile to attract all 5. You could be using the time to research what areas have more goths and move.

If you want any girl, swipe everyone. In that case why not use the money you were planning on impressing this girl and just hire a girl for the evening. Your odds/costs will be less and relationship prospects about the same.

Let's say you swipe, find success and meet this person. Getting to that hook up finish will take much more legwork compared to if you are prequalified.

For job prospectives I find if I do that (apply to every job) you end up wasting a lot of time and energy in low chance opportunities or high chance but low quality opportunities. It worked when I first started but didn't work out so well after 15 years of experience.

wolco2··on Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
Rust is new.. the os software is older than the language itself and eol. Not surprised it wouldn't be tested or supported

Because of that I have less confidence rust will work better or improve my experience. So rewriting everything in rust worries me. It is an anti-selling point.

If a language is living in the now and targeting the future it might not be the best for those living in the past.

wolco2··on A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)
What about other women?
wolco2··on A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)
If he isn't targeting a group his odds are 5%. By hyper targetting those odds could be much higher

Randomly adding private ig profiles as a male probably has a 1-3% chance of success but as a good looking female that number probably jumps to 15%+. But if he was a goth had interesting goth photos that person will identify with him and add him.

Swiping everyone is just like emailing every company your resume. Spend sometime craft your profile and target who you want.

Want a ton more matches? Post a pic of your cat as your picture. Women may not find you interesting but many will want to meet your cat.

wolco2··on A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)
That's not logical that's thinking linearly. What are you even swiping at if you are swiping at everything?

You control the words in your profile, your picture. Want a gothic girl make your profile and pic match. Swipe only on goths profiles.

When you try to be everything you become nothing.

wolco2··on A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)
Men always had to chase after women why would online be any different.
wolco2··on A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)
Go use a smaller app or a smaller dating site.

Is tinderthe only site you use ? Why not go more niche. Are you Jewish, Christian, plenty of sites can be found. Are you into a specific sexual preference or gender? Plenty of sites around those...

wolco2··on A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)
The hookup problem has been solved.

The find someone who would fit in socially with me issues hasn't even been addressed by anyone.

The find a soulmate algo hasn't been written yet.

wolco2··on A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)
Women want the best 5%. If you are not in that group go to a smaller room.
wolco2··on A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)
Men wanted to sleep with 62% of women they saw.

Women 4.5% maybe.

This goes along with social norms. Tinder is a hookup app.

wolco2··on A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (2012)
Women don't use dating apps as much because they can't vet the candidate through social circles first. Men don't understand socially matching are more important compared to looks within a few points.
wolco2··on FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet
I would actually think you run Unix and would never question them. If they know the word Unix they probably aren't confusing it with linux.
wolco2··on How to use Reddit to get your first users
It does when the dials are turned up.

In your example the price of everything is too much to afford ever grabbing the food and running makes you a hero with strong morals.

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