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by headsoup 9y ago
I still don't understand how so much money gets raised for these ICOs in the first place. Then I remember people are often stupid and many other people like taking advantage of stupidity.
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by headsoup 9y ago
> I think it's more plausible that Apple will get their customers to care about whatever leads them to purchase products from Apple. I also think this. Apple definitely do not want to truly educate, as that would lead to people mo
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by headsoup 9y ago
Probably closer to 'cramming audiophile terms into every sentence' + 'Amazing'
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by headsoup 9y ago
Yeah exactly my point. People are now going to start arguing that the reviews are not 'audiophile' enough, even though the audiophile field has far more specific focus than what most people can appreciate considering hearing abil
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by headsoup 9y ago
Exactly, so instead of doing something to promote cleaning up pages properly, a band-aid is applied and nobody tries... > both ? They are competing objectives, so which has the bias is indicative of business priorities.
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by headsoup 9y ago
I think the biggest problem is that suddenly, testing and environment and tech etc is of immense concern when reviewing these speakers, where all the many product reviews before were taken at face value (by those likely complaining now). It
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by headsoup 9y ago
I imagine there are some shades of grey between 'authoritarian surveillance' and 'lawlessness'...
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by headsoup 9y ago
The goalpost that is in some way meaningful, which adjusting total consumption of 'whatever' for the sake of purely moving a number up or down isn't.
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by headsoup 9y ago
What if you're gaining fat instead of muscle? I think your version only works if the only metric required is purely -Kg over time, and doesn't factor in anything else that people might want to call it 'healthy weight loss&#x
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by headsoup 9y ago
So all food/non-food is useful to the body in the same way? Just so long as you burn it off? Is all energy expenditure by the human body the same?
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by headsoup 9y ago
Food is also harder because a) the healthy option is more expensive and b) sugar and heavy processing is in so much of the food available that it's hard to avoid, or sometimes even detect.
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by headsoup 9y ago
So I can eat just cardboard, so long as I don't eat so much of it that I can't expend the energy? It's nowhere near as simple as that.
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by headsoup 9y ago
Only if weight loss by Kg is your only metric of success. And dieting is by definition a temporary thing to fix an issue, rather than actually changing eating patterns and content permanently. People just generally don't want to do the
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by headsoup 9y ago
What does 'built for remote workers' have to do with anything here other than 'gigabit fiber everywhere?' What other features are specific to a 'remote worker town' that aren't available in 'conventi
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by headsoup 9y ago
I imagine the whole idea is that they don't obviously advertise a way to use a competing service... BTW, you can also search through StartPage instead by using !sp, or Bing, etc so there's nice flexibility there.
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by headsoup 9y ago
But doesn't it then just eventually become an excuse not to bother cleaning up pages? Personally I'm just wondering where the legitimate demand for this (slightly faster page loading) is coming from: Consumers or ad/data netw