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by nostromo 6y ago
Don't "growth hack" your sign up, just remove it completely if at all possible, or push it as late as possible in the process (after the user has engaged with the product). This is one of the lessons of TikTok. Virtually ever
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by nostromo 6y ago
And people watching the video don’t realize that the questioner was referencing a very rude comment Jobs had just made about a team of Apple developers, that had just been fired by Jobs, saying they had not done anything for seven years.
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by nostromo 6y ago
I'm well aware... but in this particular sentence he or she is talking about specific Democrat, not the Democratic Party, and as such, seems grammatical.
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by nostromo 6y ago
In this case I don't see why it needs to be an adjective. By analogy, you'll more often hear "Texas senator Mr Bean" (using the singular noun) vs "Texan senator Mr Bean" (using the adjective). In any case, it&#
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by nostromo 6y ago
Installing a HEPA filter is better because it removes pollutants, like smoke, along with viruses and bacteria. A side effect people should be aware of is that living in a sterile environment can harm your children's immune systems, if
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by nostromo 6y ago
Please, please, stop reading and sharing hysterical news reports and go right to the data. Here's daily deaths in Spain: https://i.imgur.com/G84d20p.png All numbers about total reported cases from the spring are going
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by nostromo 6y ago
In most cases it seems US municipalities paid firms in China to take their recycling, not the other way around. https://phys.org/news/2018-07-trash-piles-china-door-recycli...
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by nostromo 6y ago
And what about land we use for food. And for watersheds. And for lumber and metal. And for electricity. The amount of land we live on is tiny compared to the amount of land we use.
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by nostromo 6y ago
It reminds me of a recent quote I saw in the news: "The top people in the Pentagon probably aren’t [in love with me], because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make
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by nostromo 6y ago
On a related note, DuckDuckGo's growth trajectory is amazing: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic Maybe a desire for privacy is driving this. Or maybe Google's increasing bias, or ad saturation, or AMP, or something e
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by nostromo 6y ago
The headline isn’t correct. There is $17T in US mortgage debt. The Fed has backed $2T of that via mortgage backed securities, up from $1T pre-Covid-19. That’s ~11% not 1/3. The article itself mentions this, but decided to use a mislea
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by nostromo 6y ago
Seeds on Amazon are an absolute joke and have been forever. There are so many fake seeds to completely nonexistent plants, and obvious photoshops, for sale. Some hilarious examples: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y16C9FN&
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by nostromo 6y ago
Russia’s economy is smaller than Canada’s and per capita it’s citizens are poorer than Poles. Russia is not a world power and hasn’t been for a while.
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by nostromo 6y ago
This article speaks in a very authoritative tone, but the assertions aren't fully backed by the research it links to. And it bothers me that the quote, "dramatically less likely" is not a quote from the linked research, but s
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by nostromo 6y ago
This is my experience. I had lower back pain while sitting at a desk when I was younger. Once I started lifting weights, and specifically doing heavy deadlifts, I've never had back pain again. Interestingly, a lot of people are afraid
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by nostromo 6y ago
It really depends. If you're single and under 40 it's not so bad. But if you have a partner, kids, and are a bit older then suddenly it can be quite expensive.
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by nostromo 6y ago
I wonder how many of those schools would kick you out for never showing up and failing all your courses every quarter. Maybe you could filter this list for those schools. Or perhaps you could subcontract our your schooling online and just p
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by nostromo 6y ago
Some companies are doing this, like Everywell. Testing is still a pain in the butt and gets pricey the more things you’re measuring.
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by nostromo 6y ago
One pilot study found that a big Vitamin D dose would cut the hospital length in half for people on ventilators. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939707/ The control group spent on average 36 day
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by nostromo 6y ago
If words matter, I'm not sure we should be calling this sort of academia "science" at all. Policy advocacy would be a better word.
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by nostromo 6y ago
The timing is certainly interesting... Presuming Airbnb makes it through the crisis, they're set up for many quarters of blistering earnings "growth" as things return to normal.
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by nostromo 6y ago
> Europe [has] done so well in the crisis UK, Sweden, Italy, Spain, and Belgium all have had more COVID-19 deaths per capita than the US. And France has a rate nearly equal to the US. UK, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Belgium, France, and Nethe
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by nostromo 6y ago
Why not Chuck Schumer, who has been winning elections for 40 years without a loss? Clearly one should care about the fairness of the election process, not that someone wins lots of elections. To say that winning multiple elections is the s
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by nostromo 6y ago
That's an absurd take. Lots of politicians have long tenures because they've won re-election. That is not the same as suspending elections.
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by nostromo 6y ago
The headline makes it seem like he's saying there will be no more elections ever. But in context he's saying there will not be a do-over election.
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by nostromo 6y ago
> this is all just a temporary thing, even if this pandemic meanders on for another 3-5 years. The last American urban exodus started in the 1950s and wasn't fully reversed until the early 2000s. Many cities never recovered in the M
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by nostromo 6y ago
Germany. They’ve done so well after privatization, they now operate globally and are the world’s largest courier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Post
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by nostromo 6y ago
The Election Identification Certificate is free.
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by nostromo 6y ago
And even if that exact term is present on popular websites, like Stack Overflow, Google still seems to have trouble finding those exact results regularly.
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by nostromo 6y ago
How does YouTube and Netflix get approved since Apple can’t verify every video on their platform, including videos that have yet to be published? This reasoning is beyond absurd.

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