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fredfoo | 1 year ago | on: Buh Bye Spotify

I doubt the premise too, but assuming you believed it, how low would music appreciation have to be in your priorities to be willing to develop that skill?

fredfoo | 1 year ago | on: Meta-Analysis: Weight loss requires >150 minutes per week of aerobic exercise

When examining studies of 8 weeks minimum they needed .5kgs of weight loss per week for the amount lost to be considered clinically relevant.. This sounds like an explanation of the mathematics of the rule system experts have agreed on to define clinically relevant amount of weight loss.

I would presume a metastudy of studies that averages twice as long would show half the amount of exercise needed per week for clinical relevance.

fredfoo | 1 year ago | on: Buh Bye Spotify

> That compression is excellent but its shortcomings are evident to trained ears listening via decent playback hardware.

Sounds like the kind of training that should come with compensation for life long costs.

fredfoo | 1 year ago | on: There are no pure cultures – we have always been global

> You want people to be fine with immigration? Tell them why it is desirable for them personally

This is also problematic. Quite often surveys get results that on average people feel their life is improving and the average is sinking in an alarming way. I doubt Musk feels his income is threatened by an insufficiently Aryan immigrant in Germany.

(If I have to go "give onto him' on X to use facts like Musk is associated with German neo Nazis while he can make up whatever false narrative to power he likes then it seems to me like we have found his real goal. Look up his friend's meeting in Austria.)

fredfoo | 1 year ago | on: The latest fake literary agencies

I don't think I could name more than a dozen countries that openly fight delusional thinking of a mystical nature, there's China, Cuba, Vietnam.

fredfoo | 1 year ago | on: Tesla reports 1.1% sales drop for 2024, first annual decline in at least 9 years

The quiet billionaires put up something they care a great deal about. Musk's nonsenses in the US can be interpreted many ways but his screwing Germany and the UK with his incoherent stoner thoughts is basically letting off steam at everyone's expense because a lot of people are too stupid to understand how compartmentalized success is and that he doesn't necessarily even know who he is talking about.

fredfoo | 1 year ago | on: Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security

I think the elephant in the room is the total lack of website/framework/library support Fido has. Trying to implement support on any random site is about as insane as rolling your own crypto and having the single sign on bolt on is sort of how people selling FOSS+enterprise want it.

The end result is that it was more a standard for them more than for direct use by the little sites, and password managers getting involved only furthers that enterprise industry standard feel.

fredfoo | 1 year ago | on: Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes

Cigarettes are the only form that is relatively easy to tax as they come with a standard dose of non nicotine that needs to ship with them to be accepted. Places that have tried to limit the volume of disposables or ban all nicotine liquid have found that it easy to smuggle a huge amount of value in a small space and/or to add purer nicotine at the last moment.

fredfoo | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

I think these are businesses development directions everyone talks about but are almost guaranteed to be a flop for any company that isn't already known in them. A few years ago everyone talked about big data hires even if they had about a GB of relevant data.

fredfoo | 1 year ago | on: The paper passport's days are numbered

This article seems like a baseless assertion to me. There are lots of fast track like systems that are basically equivalent to a return to the earlier practices of using licenses at borders. That wasn't anywhere near a viable replacement to the issuance of all passports back then and the same issues are present now.
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