Except even just viewing a post leaves a trace, whether a the service chooses to display view counts or not. The webhost knows how much traffic they're getting, and those numbers help them set rates for advertisers.
None of that matters one bit to the average Reddit poster: the person who creates a text post without any links. If any value is captured from that lurker, it all goes straight to Reddit.
They're categorically different media, it's not just a matter of quantity. You could sum up 1000 pictures of bananas with the word "bananas", or you could spend 1000 different words describing nuances and context in just one of those pictures. Something is lost (and something is gained) either way.
Toddler speaking gets impressive/surprising quite fast, whereas the drawing usually does not. The most surprising thing about most toddler drawings is listening to the kid describe it or tell you about making it.
The consistency of descriptions is particularly surprising to me. Like you got a roughly circular collection of seemingly random scribbles, but they can tell you exactly which parts of it correspond to the person's nose, hair, arms, eyes, etc. And the descriptions seem to stay the same if you ask about the same picture on different days. Still not sure what to make of this phenomenon but it is fascinating.
I think the point about productivity is less about people's 'burbs to downtown commute and more about say, the trucking industry. Trucks drive at or near the speed limit for much of their long highway routes, and over those distances, a slight difference in average speed can mean a big difference in arrival time, and throughput of the whole system.
Did you read the article? The first evidence it examines is roadway deaths vs speed limit, and the author concludes "there is little correlation". I'm not saying I agree with the article's conclusions, but it's easier to trust someone who shows some evidence than someone who just suggests that evidence which supports their conclusions exists.
I just take 'little correlation of deaths v speed limit' as an argument against speed limits in general. Otherwise, what is the point of raising the issue?
Also, he says:
'10 times as many people die on UK country lanes than on motorways. This furthers our evidence that motorway limits have less effect on deaths than other roads..'
Comparing country roads to motorways? A country road could be one car width or two car widths at best, with vehicles driven, often, erratically in both directions with little warning of obstructions or oncoming traffic.
A motorway is 3 or 4 lanes of vehicles travelling in the same direction with virtually zero chance of anything coming the other way, usually clear visibility and advance warning of obstruction, etc
My memory of years ago is that comparing the survival rates of someone hit at 30mph vs someone hit at 50mph was a part of every driving test. And unless my memory is very wrong, there is an extreme correlation there.
Agreed. I think the distinction being made here is that it is whether it is an "unwanted foreign substance" at all. Some of the prevailing wisdom this article is countering portrays alcohol like vitamins (desirable and beneficial in safe amounts), rather than like high fructose corn syrup (undesirable in any amount but tolerable in small amounts).
If anyone wants to try something less fantasy themed, I strongly recommend hackmud (https://store.steampowered.com/app/469920/hackmud/), in which you play as a recently sapient program in the ruins of a network long devoid of human users. The community is very savvy and have implemented some complex stuff in and out of game, including bridges between all the popular text channels and mirrors of them on Discord (https://discord.gg/h5K5fYuuMj), so you can monitor and even play the game without being logged in (to hackmud, you would still need to be on Discord).
Because they are your public face online and the quickest route to your contacts. It is trivial to do immense reputation damage with access to that. Would you rather go through the hassle of getting money back after you were the victim of bank fraud, or getting respect back after someone posted hardcore porn to all your contacts or used your social media as a vector to spread a scam link?
