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by notadoc 7y ago
Suddenly favicon optimization is going to be the hot new trend, and some nonsense far will impress us all with an atrocious one that catches the eye. Bright red arrows, green arrows, red stars? Hmm what will it be!
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by notadoc 7y ago
> Facebook is just transitioning to becoming the digital equivalent of an oil company. Seems more analogous to a tobacco company. Some people think it's bad and they use it anyway.
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by notadoc 7y ago
Just their PR?
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by notadoc 7y ago
So, sociopaths? Or?
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by notadoc 7y ago
> What are men doing if not working? On disability? Homeless? Retiring earlier? Committing suicide? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... https://afsp.org/about-suicide
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by notadoc 7y ago
A large volume of research shows depression/suicide/drug abuse/etc are directly related to economic stress, but that's a much harder topic to address so it's ignored in favor of easy scapegoats and bogeyman.
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by notadoc 7y ago
> Stemming the flow of cheap fentanyl dumped into the United States by China OK, and how's the "war on drugs" going thus far? > Mental health professionals and managers at large drug companies need to start going to ja
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by notadoc 7y ago
Not too surprising. Suicide is a death of despair, which are closely linked to job loss, income loss, love loss, family loss, pain, etc. Easing any of those scenarios should help reduce suicide.
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by notadoc 7y ago
Try it yourself today https://www.haiku-os.org
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by notadoc 7y ago
Compared to other nations, is the US overmedicated in general?
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by notadoc 7y ago
Most predictions of the future are wrong
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by notadoc 7y ago
If you consume more calories than you use, you gain weight. Fat accumulation or loss is simple physics. Caffeine may have some small impact as do other stimulants, but often you see people consuming caffeine with large amounts of sugar or c
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by notadoc 7y ago
Depends on the job, but I would think for most people on HN 3mbps would be considered painfully slow, which it is. But even for the less technically apt, consider other common tasks that require speedy broadband. Something like restoring a
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by notadoc 7y ago
Apple News is yet another walled garden, it's not too surprising they'd remove the ability to customize your content experience beyond what they specifically approve, is it? Personally I still miss Google Reader and consider the d
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by notadoc 7y ago
> "(Nashville, Paris, Seoul, or Tokyo only count if you’re limiting yourself to those markets.)" LOL, as if Nashville is even vaguely comparable to the other three?
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by notadoc 7y ago
> I have also tried a strict vegetarian diet for 6 months with no real changes in blood work. Interesting. Were you a junk food vegetarian? Were the carbohydrates high glycemic? Or did you eat a ton of dairy?
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by notadoc 7y ago
> I find the 16/8 routine tends to work best for me personally That timeline as "fasting" is funny to me up because that is basically how people used to eat in 20th century USA, pre-obesity. You'd eat three meals a da
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by notadoc 7y ago
Well the vast majority of TV is horrible and/or very boring, so I'm not too surprised. There have never been more terrible shows to watch than there are today.
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by notadoc 7y ago
> Ideally I think I'd want a remote cabin in Montana with a high speed internet connection That's a fantasy unless you consider 3mbps DSL to be 'high speed'. And that's not even remote, that's often the hig
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by notadoc 7y ago
Windows 95 had an obvious UI, but was rather cluttered. The original Macintosh up through System 7 was perhaps peak of OS UI design, the simplicity and obviousness is a marvel. The modern Mac experience is no where near that simple, particu
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by notadoc 7y ago
> You can’t trust your users, they don’t know what they are running when they install software. Big Brother knows what's best? For decades the Mac has trusted the user, what would be different now other than the company having the l
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by notadoc 7y ago
Lifetimes of debt service is a lenders dream
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by notadoc 7y ago
Sometimes DDG is better, particularly when google tries to infer intent rather than just searching for the keywords typed. Sometimes DDG is worse, just generally, and sometimes much worse. Either way, I think DuckDuckGo needs a different an
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by notadoc 7y ago
And 1984 foresaw speech police, wrong-think, and cultural cleansing yada yada....
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by notadoc 7y ago
Not everything is taught in medical schools, which means there are gaps in knowledge. That can be problematic when a particular unique approach is more valid for a specific subset of patients. In those cases, the only way to learn how to pe
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by notadoc 7y ago
I think you have it backwards. Tons of "content" on StackOverflow is copy/pasted from another source, often some experts personal blog or a niche site, without sourcing to the original.
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by notadoc 7y ago
Quora reminds me of Yahoo Answers
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by notadoc 7y ago
A bit surprised it's not higher than that. Who browses the App Store?
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by notadoc 7y ago
That's the billion dollar question, particularly because of the individualization necessary.
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by notadoc 7y ago
I'm still disappointed they killed off Google Reader, it was an excellent product as it was, and it had so much potential to be more.

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