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by marklubi 5y ago
Viruses always weaken over time. If they kill their host too quickly, they don't spread.
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by marklubi 5y ago
The site has slowly been turned to mostly clickbait headlines, and outrage comments. It's not just turned that way lately though, it's taken several years. Things used to be hopeful and encouraging around here. It's not tha
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by marklubi 5y ago
> I am not allowed to use Advertising Channels to defame a brand. I am not even allowed to mention a brand. At least, this is how it is in my country ("enforced" by Reclame Code Commissie) where a committee that oversees the Ad
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by marklubi 5y ago
> Selling harmful things is profitable. Opposing harmful things is expensive. Because of this asymmetric warfare, and because we are human beings more concerned about other human beings than concepts like brand awareness, it seems like r
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> Then why is Coca Cola allowed to promote their proven harmful sugar juices in that space, but am I not allowed to oppose that promotion in the same space? You are certainly allowed to. Pony up for the ad space if you want to promote t
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by marklubi 5y ago
> The race to vaccinate enough people is frankly impossible considering how politically charged it became. Fucking Republicans. Please take your politically charged discourse elsewhere. This isn't the right place for mudslinging lik
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by marklubi 5y ago
> We lived in a house with lead for a few years. I had my kids tested every six months. > It worked, we never saw elevated lead levels. How does testing them for lead levels result in them not inhaling or ingesting lead?
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by marklubi 5y ago
> it would take time, as in MANY years So just like the time required to create the COVID vaccines that are "safe" and "effective"? Snark aside, I'm exhausted hearing how hard it is to do some things, but other&#
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by marklubi 5y ago
Except that sometimes talking with someone doesn't yield any results aside from "I dunno", "whatever", etc. They're looking for the piece that says "here's an attractive idea" that gets that some
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by marklubi 5y ago
How did we get to the point where so many people would rather risk unknown side effects of a free vaccine that hasn't been fully tested? They're putting themselves at unknown levels of risk. /s (sort of) I find the constant
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by marklubi 5y ago
> Somewhat rhetorically - what value was the owner providing if he wasn’t getting up on the roofs? Owners take on the risk of providing a stable paycheck for their employees, and far far more beyond that. In the vast majority of small b
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by marklubi 5y ago
Pinterest is another one that exhibits this pattern. Infuriating.
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I recently tried to introduce my son to them, but he just couldn't get into the series as it wasn't fast paced enough for him in the beginning. Out of curiosity, and because of my praise for the series, my dad decided to give it a
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by marklubi 6y ago
You stated three possible reasons, I added a fourth possibility. My statement was a fact about correlation, not causation. Perhaps you could provide us with some details about how education is not biased based on sex?
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by marklubi 6y ago
Perhaps a fourth explanation... The vast majority of teachers are female, so maybe their teaching methods are favorable to girls
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by marklubi 6y ago
This reminds me of an early ML study about detecting skin cancer from pictures with a high accuracy rate. The problem was, that with the ML, they ended up building a ruler classifier, because most of the pictures with skin cancer happened t
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by marklubi 6y ago
They might be being rude... But are they winning? Probably. The banks and hedge funds are playing the same games they've been playing for years and years. Someone new has entered the picture and changed the game.
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by marklubi 6y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, other than the fact that others can't comprehend what you said. There are a lot of people out there that don't feel the need to spend money to be happy.
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by marklubi 6y ago
> Not just to engineering, but also the training and performance of all the track stewards - first person to put a fire extinguisher on the wreck was 7 (!) seconds after the crash. That's unbelievably fast. The crash was at an acces
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by marklubi 7y ago
To follow on this, I've had more "wow" moments with Flutter than from any of the tech stacks I've ever worked with. Flutter is a breath of fresh air after building and maintaining the same app over and over again for sev
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by marklubi 7y ago
As a Mustang enthusiast, this branding is terrible. It muddies the waters of all that they've built with the Mustang brand.
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by marklubi 7y ago
Thank you for this comment, it's spot on. You're not the only one that feels this way. I love the deep dives into a given topic, but at some point it just becomes too much and/or uncertain/divergent.
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by marklubi 8y ago
For iPhone, you can force-press on the keyboard (on newer phones), or just long-press on the space bar. On an iPad, you can use two fingers on the keyboard
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by marklubi 8y ago
Who are you to decide what's fair?
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by marklubi 8y ago
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-476_dbfi.pdf
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by marklubi 9y ago
Speculating here, but I suspect that it's an app in the "background" that is causing the issue. As much as I like Sonos, it exhibits bad behavior with its background task that requests priority audio. If I have the app even
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by marklubi 9y ago
Can we get a less click-bait title as well? The two companies filed amicus briefs, they didn't join the lawsuit. The current title implies that they joined in.
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Ask HN: Why so much negativity?
12 points by marklubi 9y ago|10 comments
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by marklubi 10y ago
It looks like the comment you were replying to was trying to equate dealing with oil changes/maintenance to poor customer support in an ongoing relationship. I don't know that I can fault them for feeling frustrated with Apple&#x2
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by marklubi 10y ago
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