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Who Needs a Peer Review?!
Beth Mole: That Florida “analysis” on COVID vaccines is-you guessed it-total garbage
Experts roundly dubbed the analysis "utter rubbish," "extremely misleading," and "comically bad." Some called the analysis method "terrible," and one epidemiologist called it "the absolute most batshit study design & analysis plan
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I Like Sketch, but There's No Way I Could Use it at Work
Nathan Snelgrove: Further Sketch News in Figma’s World
None of these developers are in love with Figma, and all of them hate Adobe, but Sketch being Mac-first immediately ruled them out for the teams I’m on. I wish Sketch took the Affinity route: build an amazing Mac app, and then build out
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The Last Chronological Feed Gets No Love
In a world of abundant content, I think algorithmically-sorted feeds are essential to seeing what's important to
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Tom Scott Has a New Podcast and of Course It Has Video
Tom Scott in his weekly newsletter:
You may also remember, a couple of months ago, I pointed newsletter readers at
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Half the Story
Abner Li: Google's Pixel Watch 'Metal Links Band' costs $199, and 'Metal Mesh' is $129
As spotted on Reddit, the “Google Pixel Watch Metal Links Band” is $199.99. […] It fits wrists 137-203 mm around, and is cheaper than the Apple Watch’s $349 to $449 Link Bracelet.
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Madden 23 is so Bad I'm Complaining About it on a Tech Blog
Ethan Gach: Madden 23 Problems Push Fans To The Breaking Point
It’s been over a month since Madden NFL 23 launched and was promptly dragged by fans and some NFL pros alike. Unfortunately, despite some updates, it doesn’t sound like the “most polished version” of Madden in years has improved a ton, and
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Even Meta Doesn't Want to Use Horizon Worlds
Alex Heath for The Verge:
In a follow-up memo dated September 30th, Shah said that employees still weren’t using Horizon enough, writing that a plan was being made to “hold managers accountable” for having their teams use Horizon at least once a week. “Everyone in this organization should make it their mission to
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How Much Would You Pay Not to Go to Trial?
Elizabeth Lopatto for The Verge:
“He was staring down the business end of what was likely going to be a very unpleasant deposition,” Talley says. “It was going to include a lot of things that, let’s just say, charitably, were extremely inconsistent statements that he had made.” Those statements have been called into question
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Different Debts Change Different Behaviors
From 2015, Can't afford a baby? Debt and young Americans
We [...] find that for the generation coming of age in the 2000s, student loans delay fertility for women, particularly at very high levels of debt. Home mortgages and credit card debt, in contrast, appear to be precursors to parenthood. These results indicate that
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Falling Short of Expectations
Dan Moren: The iPad isn't a big iPhone or a touch-screen Mac-so what is it?
When
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Improving Surround Sound and HDR Standards
Jakob Roettgers: Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats
Google is gunning for Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision: The company is looking to introduce two new media formats to offer HDR video and 3D audio under a new consumer-recognizable brand without the licensing fees hardware manufacturers currently have to pay
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Bothsidesism
Max Witynski: False balance in news coverage of climate change makes it harder to address crisis
Bothsidesism — also referred to as false balance reporting — can damage the public’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction and lead audiences to doubt the scientific consensus on pressing societal challenges like climate change, a new Northwestern University study
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Graphics Card Pricing Continues to Skyrocket
Alexandra Hall: Nvidia's New 4000-Series PC Graphics Cards Are Too Damn Expensive
So Nvidia has its viewpoint. But viewing events from the consumer side, it really feels like the costs of enthusiast PC gaming are continuing to skyrocket, and at a time when the costs of just about everything else are, too.
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This Isn't 2010, Don't Design Around Specific Devices
Thanks iPhone 14, designing for device sizes is dead
If it fits precisely on your iPhone Pro Max, it can now easily no longer fit on someone's iPhone Plus. You have to test both. And when a new device has another tiny change, you can add that one yet again.
Honestly, this is
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What You Choose to Speak Out About Matters
Kiona N. Smith: Cloudflare explains why Kiwi Farms was its most dangerous customer ever
In a short time, Cloudflare watched as Kiwi Farms mutated from a valid customer in need of Cloudflare’s protection from cybersecurity attacks conducted by people complaining about the “revolting content” it hosts to suddenly appearing to pose an “imminent threat
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Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children?!
Jason DeParle: Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty
In 1993, safety net programs cut child poverty by 9 percent from what it would have been absent the aid. By 2019, those programs had cut child poverty by 44 percent, and the number of children they removed from poverty more than tripled to
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The Oddest iPhone 14 Take I’ve Seen
Damon Beres: The iPhone Isn’t Cool
And—this is real—there’s a new “Emergency SOS” feature, which will allow an iPhone 14 to connect to a satellite and call for help if you’re lost or trapped, a victim of a crime, or imperiled by fire. Apple promoted this with a video of
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I’m Over the Mac App Store
Mac App Store: Mac App Store and investing engineering time
In the short term, I will definitely accept a hybrid solution. When faced with the choice, we need to focus our engineering time on the 90% of our users using the direct version. That reality is a bitter pill to swallow for a team that
