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by gabemart 11y ago
> The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) > has concluded that the recommended average population > maximum intake of sugar should be halved: it should > not exceed 5% of total dietary energy. If we
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by gabemart 11y ago
I've had 10k concurrent users on a bandwidth-intensive app served statically from 3 $5 digital ocean droplets using nginx. CPU usage and memory usage were not that high. I agree it's not a big deal.
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by gabemart 11y ago
Not at all, I know only a tiny amount about this field myself.
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by gabemart 11y ago
The entropy count for each word represents picking one word at random from 2^11 choices of words. It doesn't have anything to do with the characters.
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by gabemart 11y ago
> To my knowledge, these are usually dictionary-based attacks, which would significantly decrease the "search space" to discover even a long, lower-case sentence. The xkcd comic assumes a dictionary-based attack. It points out
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by gabemart 11y ago
Progressive taxation is also a recognition that wealth has declining marginal returns. $1000 in marginal income generates less utility for the billionaire than it does for the poor working single parent.
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by gabemart 11y ago
The Youtube app "before" picture is very gory. A hamburger menu and the three-dots actionbar icon? That gives me a bit of a cold sweat. Common UI interactions on mobile devices are beginning to make me feel old.
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by gabemart 11y ago
I'm also in the UK. I will willingly pay a premium at Amazon for tech products just because the returns process is so painless relative to other online retailers.
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by gabemart 11y ago
How could it possibly be supported if you admit it has not been investigated?
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by gabemart 11y ago
> vitamin C has no side effects I'm not aware of evidence that this is true for megadoses (e.g. 10g per day, as you mentioned). Given that you are making a claim not supported by mainstream medical consensus (that megadoses of vitam
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by gabemart 11y ago
With AirBnB, you can pretty quickly assess the quality and safety of the apartment or room by reading about the local area, looking at photos of the apartment, checking for e.g. smoke detectors upon arrival, etc. If there's a problem w
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by gabemart 11y ago
> I know I could move over to Android dev, but since I use an iPhone it's not terrible interesting for side projects Fragmentation and the frequency of device- or vendor-specific bugs and other issues take a lot of the fun out of An
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by gabemart 11y ago
A minor point, but the app was rejected rather than "shut down". It's a shame, it seems like a neat application and I can totally imagine using an app like this to weigh spices or coffee beans.
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by gabemart 11y ago
> ask for the number in reverse, it's essentially impossible to repeat the same fake, especially if you've been drinking I would find this extraordinarily difficult to do in any state of mind. The only way I could give you the
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by gabemart 11y ago
> As a writer, I'd like you to maybe consider that the effort you put forward at least was self-improvement exercise in communication - as in, through practice and time, you had some realizations about how you want to present yourse
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by gabemart 11y ago
I haven't tried this exact approach, but I have tried an approach I would describe as broadly similar, but a bit less automated. I run a small ambient background noise app called A Soft Murmur [1]. It has been featured by some fairly h
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by gabemart 11y ago
This seems like a huge premature optimisation. Reduced-calorie diets result in clinically meaningful weight loss regardless of which macronutrients they emphasise [1]. For someone who wants to lose weight or maintain their current weight, e
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by gabemart 11y ago
It's still available for sale from the biggest herbal supplement retailer in the UK [1]. That fact alone makes this claim seem unlikely. [1] http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/product/holland-barret...
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by gabemart 11y ago
I would suggest you add "average" somewhere to the "x users per day" messaging, seeing as in your FAQ you make clear you won't charge extra or take a site down for a one-off spike in traffic.
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Raging Valley fires could mean swift new drone laws(bbc.co.uk)
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by gabemart 11y ago
Under such a system, a photographer would presumably have to register each photograph before hosting the image on her website, or risk losing copyright protection. This seems extremely onerous for a wide range of creative professions.
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by gabemart 11y ago
Stuff I've had on the front page before has received somewhere between 300-2000 simultaneous visitors, and between 10,000-80,000 total visits.
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by gabemart 11y ago
This is where portrait-orientated displays excel: http://i.imgur.com/D9MfvQN.png
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by gabemart 11y ago
> Can someone explain to me the appeal of this product? Why would anyone choose to drink a nondescript sludge over the plentiful ways we can get good, enjoyable & healthy food? Perhaps this is something you would never consider using
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by gabemart 11y ago
> Surely you're throwing away some of the speed benefits of parallel requests by massively-inlining everything? When you're loading less than 20KB of content, I don't think there are any speed benefits of parallel requests
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by gabemart 11y ago
> I can't stress this enough but please enable OTP on your accounts. Facebook, gmail, and even your Windows system if you are paranoid enough. Yeah it adds some hassle - but the value of increased security far outweighs the hassle.
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by gabemart 11y ago
It's a very beautiful presentation. In terms of performance, perhaps you could: i) use domain sharding for pre-loading all the images. ii) Keep the current system for loading and removing videos, but create a placeholder image for each
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by gabemart 11y ago
> Unfortunately, I need to make an HTTP request for every post (that's how the HN Firebase API works) What's the total size of the jobs data? Would it be possible to grab all the JSON from the API, concatenate it and then self-
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by gabemart 11y ago
>I would have thought the first thing to offer to paid users but not free users would be support! Unfortunately, this makes the free plan less viable as a demo for the paid plan. People who sign up for a free plan to test out the service
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by gabemart 11y ago
I like the clean look of your games. Was it tough building traffic when you got started? How did you go about it?

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