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Comment · 7 hours ago
I think the rarest words in your sentence are “information” and “sentence” yet you can drop both of those and figure out your meaning, especially if the sentence is part of a broader conversation.

“Rare words carry the most” basically conveys what you’re saying but just more vague. And I think that’s a really important distinction. Rare words reduce ambiguity and increase the specificity of your sentence, but they don’t necessarily carry the most meaning.

Comment · 3 days ago
Ah but the good news thing is actually nothing to do with Spain and everything to do with news in this era. It’s a problem everywhere that news is like 95% bad, and not because the world is getting any worse either.
Comment · 4 days ago
Comment · 4 days ago
If there’s really little barrier to entry to a job and a high pay, you have very little leverage as the job holder, if your bosses don’t like you there’s a hoard to replace you. It’s not a position I would envy.
Comment · 5 days ago
People used to shoot 100iso film without tripods or IBIS… (and still do)
Comment · 5 days ago
I think many viewfinders have a mechanism that can adjust the magnification of the viewfinder regardless of whether it’s electronic or not because it’s an optical adjustment. Old film SLRs even have this.
Comment · 7 days ago
I just wanted to mention that my criticism of the original post comes from a place of love for GrapheneOS and its mission. I really wanted to know what the official 12 banks are because I want to consider using one of those banks.
Comment · 7 days ago
This post is awful, the link posted here is to a social media reply and even that reply does not contain a list of the 12 banks, it does however contain a link to a much larger list of banks, which are supported but not necessarily officially supported.
Comment · 7 days ago
This post is actually really bad for a Hn post, it appears to be a reply to someone else hence the lack of context here, and the link appears to be a list of banking apps that are have some level of compatibility at all, not the official 12.
Comment · 8 days ago
I would argue that if we’re going to simplify English we should use one letter for i as in the sound used in knife, and one letter for i as in the sound used in niff, rather than having some other letter in a completely different part of the word (and later in the word no less!) modify the sound. How ridiculous our language is!
Comment · 8 days ago
I wonder why the e is needed on the end of knife or nyfe. Seems to me the way you pronounce it would be the same with or without
Comment · 9 days ago
I actually think it’s true that a barely majority of humans do prefer to conform or “be wrong together” than be alone, you only need to look at the increasing global polarisation and the way people stick to their team, to suspect it.

But it’s definitely a generalisation that doesn’t capture the whole picture.

Comment · 13 days ago
I like the content but I have to say the Mark Manson writing style is off putting.
Comment · 16 days ago
Regardless of whether you or I think it’s a worthy cause, I’m just pointing out that the police amplified her voice.

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