jpistell

Just logged in to say thank you for the replacement. I'll be using it every day

An interesting excerpt

A 2012 survey conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University asked a sample of Americans about their news-consumption habits, and quizzed them about U.S. and international political and economic events. They found that those watching the most partisan television news sources—on both the left and the right—were often less knowledgeable about world events than those who consumed no news at all.

> That anytime you are provided with a service, like Facebook, for free, you are in fact the product being sold. That social media companies are basically giant behavior-modification systems that use algorithms to relentlessly increase “engagement,” largely by evoking bad feelings in the people who use them.

Fascinating. Twitter is a public health hazard

Never heard anyone say French champagne here.

I'm curious about this as well. Seems just like a normal spell checker to me

Vae victis

> First, social address: I’m a white, cis, female, straight, abled

Stopped reading there

> YouTube doesn’t tell you how much of the video you have watched, so my computation can’t differentiate between watching 1 minute of a 60-minute video and watching the whole thing. For that reason I count at most 30 minutes of each video, even when it’s longer than that

Dang, would have been cool if they kept that data

Seven interviews seems a bit... abusive?

I have a long drive this afternoon. You’ve given me a lot to think about. Thank you.

> At first, this seemed like a crazy idea. Who would buy a color scheme for their code editors?

I have thoughts like this all the time when I look at my github repos.

> Pai framed it as his own decision, with his announcement saying the chairman "proposed a major step forward... to protect consumers against spoofed robocalls." But in reality the FCC was ordered by Congress and President Trump to implement this new rule.

This process should have begun years ago. What the hell is Ajit pai doing?