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by birksherty 9y ago
I disagree. e.g. Doping in sports. Should we allow everything? Then people will start using all kings of drugs for money and fame. This will encourage everyone in the future to use them. Also, athletes who want to participate without drugs,
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by birksherty 9y ago
All humans are effected by these distractions of modern communications. We all check them too often and notifications break everyone's focus. Our brains are built like this. When something happens suddenly, we focus on that. May be bec
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by birksherty 9y ago
Everyone has better things to do. You are not addicted because you did not use them like they are supposed to. Addiction is built-in in these apps from every possible way. There are lots of information on how they do that. Your comment is l
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by birksherty 9y ago
This is not a replacement for actual search engine, but I use this userscript and I love it. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-d...
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by birksherty 9y ago
Everytime sexual harassment by comes up from women, they are demonised in HN. And this is the reason these issues are coming up. What's wrong with Ellen Pao taking about it? You very skilfully changed it into her "personal brand&q
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by birksherty 9y ago
Personally I want to disable "swipe down to refresh" system wide and instead have a button at the top of those apps. "on sites very clearly constructed around the mechanism" Browsers have refresh buttons for that.
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by birksherty 9y ago
I'm not saying there are no other factors. But, lots of studies have showed sugar is highly related to diabetes, heart disease, mental health etc.. And here you are saying avoid sugar only because of calorie. Like there can't be a
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by birksherty 9y ago
"because sugar is calorie-heavy". That's it? What about all the studies that shows high consumption of sugar leads to diabetes, heart disease, mental health etc.? Who knows what is true any more? May be big sugar companies ar
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by birksherty 9y ago
"I much prefer the current state of affairs to the way things were a decade ago" It's what the developers say. Every developer has latest macbook, works on a shiny new office with AC with all the bandwidth and gadgets. And th
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by birksherty 9y ago
You used everything to denounce the story. Your comment itself proves that sexism exists even here not in a separate world. Women engineers in Uber were not from that world and they had the same sexism. But, of course people will find some
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by birksherty 9y ago
What? So many mp3 players uses lot more cpu than something like foobar, doesn't matter if that cpu is not used for decoding or not. So, some people uses an lighter player that does the same thing.
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by birksherty 9y ago
That's why I love Firefox's Reader View button on the address bar. I click it even before the page loading completes and instantly clean view.
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by birksherty 9y ago
I have a slow connection and loading animation made me feel it's fast. Whereas no-loading-animation pages seemed like it stopped working for couple of seconds before showing information. Agree with performance on first time loading. Fa
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by birksherty 10y ago
Here in India we eat mainly river fish, not seafood. So, does it also have the same issues?