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by ebg13 7y ago
A gigantic image that fills my screen, and then teeny tiny text that I need a microscope to make out. This is design, I guess. Thanks, golden ratio! What ever happened to "Type is to Read"?
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by ebg13 7y ago
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20844394
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by ebg13 7y ago
> The method we developed images the eye multiple times to see whether it’s actually responding to changes in brightness This is new? In 2019? Really? I find that so hard to believe. > the process takes about 3 seconds WHAAAAT? WH
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by ebg13 7y ago
Having been in oddly many very different bicycle accidents of varying levels of catastrophe, I have a hard time believing that rotational forces are a real problem and not something made up by marketers trying to sell a new widget. Helmets
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by ebg13 7y ago
> It took me 20 seconds to find one example on Amazon: That product in fact does NOT say that it is FDA approved, nor does it say that any of its ingredients are FDA approved. So it is not an example of "stamp the FDA approval on
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by ebg13 7y ago
> It is difficult to imagine what would be marketed over the internet like this that requires FDA approval and isn't at least a bit slimy Except that actually getting FDA approval suggests to me that it isn't slimy at all.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> One loophole that dietary supplement companies will use to stamp the FDA approval on themselves is... Can you link to a supplement that claims to be FDA approved as opposed to claiming that some included component has been approved f
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Why is "FDA approved" being treated here as a boogeyman by the parent? Only because they assume that the original commenter said something untrue. The original commenter never said anything about supplements.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> The FDA says they cannot be used this way but they are. 1. Where does the FDA say that you can't say "Made in an FDA inspected facility"? "Made in an FDA inspected facility" is not "Made in an FDA approv
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by ebg13 7y ago
> The FDA approves that ingredients are “safe” to consume Only for food and drug ingredients. The FDA has no such process for supplements. They FDA only evaluates supplement products after public health concerns arise from a product al
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by ebg13 7y ago
> It means the supplement was in fact reviewed/approved by the FDA The FDA does not "approve" supplements, period. https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/it-really-fda... "FDA does
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by ebg13 7y ago
> > was FDA approved > it sounds like your client is selling dietary supplements The FDA doesn't "approve" dietary supplements, so either the person you're replying to is lying, ill informed (which I suspect
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by ebg13 7y ago
> They don't have to ... have an HR department for their employees Uber has something like 22,000 actual employees. They definitely have to maintain HR departments.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Can you really say you're in open source, if... ...your source is open? Yeah, probably.
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by ebg13 7y ago
Huh. It's a telegram bot. https://github.com/ro31337/libretaxi
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by ebg13 7y ago
> it’s a warning sign Or it's not, because your preconceptions aren't universal? Is there a factual basis for this other than "I don't like it"? > Comparing this to avoiding black people based solely on the
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by ebg13 7y ago
Being odd is not a crime. What any one person would do is often not a strong indicator of what is right. A lot of people also like to distance themselves from black people. Them being black is not the same as knowing that they're vio
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by ebg13 7y ago
> He was already covered extensively in the media for raping under age girls When? The caption on the photo says "early 2000s". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein says that the accusation lead
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by ebg13 7y ago
The digging is skilled, but the assumptions that go with them don't appear to be supported? > "John Brockman knew. Here he is with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s rape victims on one side, and alleged abuse coordinator" Being p
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by ebg13 7y ago
Yes.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> I wouldn’t characterize him as a “ruthless dictator” You mean except for the part where his opposition periodically gets assassinated?
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by ebg13 7y ago
Do you realize that you are asking "Why do other people like things that I don't like?" Answer: Because taste isn't universal.
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by ebg13 7y ago
So this compares a new model 3 to a new Camry. But on the principle that most people buy their cars used, I'd be more interested in a breakdown of the ownership cost of buying 1-5 year old vehicles. The purchase price on ICE vehicles g
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by ebg13 7y ago
I mostly agree with you, but it should be flagged because it has "could" in the title, which turns it from news about something interesting into bullshit speculation.
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by ebg13 7y ago
You can't have free and fair elections when the opposition periodically gets assassinated.
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by ebg13 7y ago
He probably means like in "GIF".
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Ji (pronounced gee) The "g" in "pronounced gee" obfuscates your intent. Use IPA if you want to clarify pronunciation.
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by ebg13 7y ago
Ironically, none of the images on the page are loading right now because of "Error 1101 Worker threw exception". So, you know, caveat emptor.
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by ebg13 7y ago
And then of course there is Anthrax dust. http://lepo.it.da.ut.ee/~cect/teoreetiline%20seminar%2001.10...
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Far easier Easier isn't the right metric. It's far less selfishly obnoxious to the world to not actively harass random people just in case one of them might be ok with it.

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