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Great point. Intuitively it makes sense that sending kids out when you expect a bunch of their peers to be there is different from sending them out into empty streets. Thinking a little more about why this intuition holds: it's because once upon a time you were sending them out into a community, where they would learn the tried and tested practices by example. Once the link of cultural transmission is severed, it's hard to bootstrap it back again, even if you had a bunch of families that wanted to try.

I do this and it is powerful, but I find that not being able to swipe/autocorrect my mobile typing in Termius makes things pretty painful.

This is all helpful but I felt like it skipped past a critical part - how do you "extract the range my manager is looking for"? Presumably your manager has to stick to the polite fiction that estimates are a bottoms-up process, so what questions do you find helpful to get a sense of the number your manager/leadership team had in mind?

Yes, and none of that matters when the money runs out and you can't convince investors that your business will bring them a worthwhile return in an environment that includes all of those outside forces.

This really feels like a glimpse at where video games are going, I felt like I could really enter into the character's role because what I said actually affected the dialog.

That said, I ran into the same issue someone else mentioned where I really struggled to get my phone to accept single words without a sentence context, the color reading challenge was incredibly frustrating.

True but I think there's still an element of falsifiability to a teacher's evaluation of an essay that doesn't exist in an oral exam or interactive discussion. An essay is an artifact and if a teacher is giving student A worse grades than student B, a third party can look at that artifact to see whether it's remotely reasonable. A 1:1 discussion or an oral defense is much more subjective.

Not saying this is a fatal flaw, but there is a bit of a tradeoff there.

It's a fair point about how awful recipe sites look without ad blockers, but this part is just plain incorrect:

> You can tell just by looking at the URLs that those sites are going to be worthelss blogspam.

At least two of the three results in the screenshot are from legitimate baking sites (Cookie and Kate, Sally's Baking Addiction) which are generally trusted sources online. I don't know anything about the third. But Google seems to have actually done a good job of highlighting recipes from reliable blogs.

The points about the compromised experience on those sites due to intrusive ads remain.

> Counting calories. Say your weight is stable and you start eating a single extra piece of sandwich bread every day. After a year, you’ll gain 3.8 kg (8.3 lb) of fat. Almost no one counts calories that accurately.

I'd argue that one big benefit of counting calories is that it teaches you that a single piece of sandwich bread contributes a surprisingly high amount of calories to your diet. This potentially empowers you to minmax your plate with the things that will get you the most enjoyment/satiation for your calories.

I agree that Google is well-positioned, but they were also well-positioned to take advantage of these synergies with Google Assistant for many years and I would say that that did not meaningfully materialize in a way that was helpful to me as an Android and Google ecosystem user.

I had a Withings for a couple years and ended up frustrated with it. The tiny screen meant that many notifications took so long to read I often just got my phone out instead. But the worst thing was the lack of a "find my phone" feature.

I switched to the Garmin Vivomove and have been very happy with it. It looks fantastic IMO, the transflective screen is big enough to be useful, and it has only the features I want. The only downsides are that the Garmin Android app is not as well designed as the Withings app and the battery life is only 4 days or so instead of a week, which feels like an awkward amount of time.

This doesn't apply to the content complexity finding, but the finding that "product reviews which are in top search results are more likely to contain affiliate links than product reviews which are not" can also be explained by the fact that if and only I am getting a bunch of hits on my product reviews, I'm incentivized to monetize that with affiliate links.

Sure, the board has the prerogative to stick to that interpretation of its mandate if that's their motivation. But it looks like they won't have much of a company left if they do. Maybe they are fine with that, I guess we will see.