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by jader201 3y ago
The important bit: > The resistance was provided by positioning my head below my stomach in a kneeling posture. This required food being swallowed to be pushed up an incline. I began eating part of each breakfast (oatmeal) and sometimes
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by jader201 3y ago
Reading this one, though, this seems like a rare case where they're not trying to spin it as a positive for the customer. They pretty much just state what they're doing, and even ack at the bottom that there are other options. F
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by jader201 3y ago
I defended ads (to an extent) in a comment above [1], but it hasn't been received well (unsurprisingly). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36048236
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by jader201 3y ago
There’s a lot of ad hate in this thread — and on HN in general — that sometimes feels a bit naive. In 2004, I started a small website on the side that had no business value at all. It was just a small community of video game fans (specifica
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by jader201 3y ago
From what I understand (far from an expert), 10 hours on average (meaning sometimes more) sounds biologically unnecessary, and possibly will yield diminishing returns past 7-8. Of course, everyone is different and maybe there’s a reason you
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by jader201 3y ago
> It's possible to use a smartphone without social media. Unless you can block all of them, then I don't think so. And blocking them is a game of whack-a-mole, where every time you block one, they find another one. And even
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by jader201 3y ago
I don’t know. If we’re strictly speaking of nostalgia, I can still feel a very strong sense of nostalgia from things I’ve experienced as an adult, even experiences from just a few years ago — or even the previous year! This can apply to a t
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by jader201 3y ago
Not sure if you're serious or not, but in case you're unaware, there are a number of health problems[1] found from over-consumption of diet sodas (aside from anything this study has surfaced). [1] https://www.uclahealth
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by jader201 3y ago
I’m pretty sure that was a joke (but maybe yours is too?).
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by jader201 3y ago
In case you don’t visit the above link and discover the lists page[1] in the response, you may discover some other lists you didn’t know existed (like I didn’t). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
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ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers(deeplearning.ai)
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by jader201 4y ago
> Really? Are you reading articles sponsored by Big Ag or something? > Edit: downvoters really need to open up Wikipedia and read "Essential Nutrients" > This is a comical set of people downvoting me while literally
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by jader201 4y ago
> What is not ok is opt-out telemetry for … data from your vault. If I’m reading correctly, they’re pretty clear and intentional about not collecting data from your vault (regardless of opt-in or opt-out). It’s simply usage patterns
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by jader201 4y ago
As an EV owner, I'm not sure what problems you're referring to. Sure the infrastructure has a bit to catch up, but even without infrastructure, we're completely fine to use our EV for 90% of our commute (and our ICE car the o
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by jader201 4y ago
I'm not so sure. I think at some point, the cost of operating gas stations will fall below a threshold that it doesn't justify keeping them open, even if there is still _some_ demand. E.g. imagine if demand were cut in half -- I t
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by jader201 4y ago
Not even the feeling of time passing -- just the animation alone make me anxious. If it were just names floating by using the same animation, it would have the same effect, I think.
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by jader201 4y ago
I don’t think so. I’ve seen countless threads and front page articles about more bike-friendly, anti-car city development, as well as how suburban and rural cities requiring cars and more driving is definitely not a good thing. It’s very ha
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by jader201 4y ago
From 2 days ago (119 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35532479
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by jader201 4y ago
I moved from IC to manager for four years before moving back, and can agree with the points made here. Including the one about it being fairly easy to move back. Some ICs may find they are actually better managers, and some will find out th
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by jader201 4y ago
I was actually pleasantly surprised to see the "just don't connect it to the internet" comments, as most of these smart TV threads are usually full of comments complaining about them on principle, even though most of the worl
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by jader201 4y ago
For those that have missed it before, here’s a good write-up on Daniel Gackle (dang): https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
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by jader201 4y ago
> Screw it, charge $30 for the game and let it be a one time purchase, no micro transactions aside from content like new maps years from now, and no free version. People will still buy it because its mariokart, just like they buy the $6
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by jader201 4y ago
I've been using multiple generations of different console controllers for years, since analog sticks were a thing. Out of the 8 or 10 joycons (not pairs) that we own, more than half of them are affected by drift -- maybe approaching al
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by jader201 4y ago
No, it actually has something to do with my Twitter account. If I log out (without changing any extensions), I see "Twitter" show up as the author.
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by jader201 4y ago
For me, at least, I don't even see it signed by "Twitter". I see a "By" under the headline, with an empty space where the author should be. (Maybe it's since been updated/removed?) Which is even more ironi
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by jader201 4y ago
I’m starting to see early signs that some of those Black Mirror episodes really aren’t that far off.
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by jader201 4y ago
I this this is a fair point. I would argue, though, that 99% of the negative news (or most news, for that matter) will have zero effect on 99% of the population (e.g. focusing on individual crimes vs. aggregate crimes or a systemic crime pr
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by jader201 4y ago
> The Apple Watch wasn’t quite ready for launch either. Apple didn’t know how to market it or what the hell to do with it. It took them a few generations to zone in on health and fitness and the rest is history. The Apple Watch didn’t
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by jader201 4y ago
Apologies for the meta comment*, but I find it odd that an article with only 55 upvotes is still on the first page after 7 hours. Usually only articles with hundreds (plural) of upvotes survive the front page that long. Or maybe it’s just a
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by jader201 4y ago
What you’re describing is — almost exactly — like how the Rollercoaster Tycoon series works. You can click any visitor, and see all the stats for that individual visitor, including how happy, sick, bored, etc. they are. You can even see the

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