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by prirun 4y ago
I was a founder and play piano. The huge difference between these is that playing the piano is perfecting the task of playing the right keys at the right time in the right way. It's difficult because you have to train your body to ma
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by prirun 4y ago
> The problem with the title is that it might lead individuals to believe they shouldn't bother with getting a colonoscopy. You can't conclude that from this study at all. If your doctor recommends you to get one, you probably
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by prirun 4y ago
> I think the author is mixing chargebacks with PayPal disputes/claims as PayPal also takes a fee for chargebacks. What the article says is that PayPal allows payers to request a refund, which is not a chargeback and is free to the
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by prirun 4y ago
Google did this to me with GCS: they automatically updated my expiring credit card. It's not a terrible feature, but I think users should consent to it before companies do it.
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Paramount+ showing ads with premium subscriptions
13 points by prirun 4y ago|4 comments
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by prirun 4y ago
It's crazy to me that someone would pay for Verizon's highest-cost phone package that includes some streaming package when they could get a cheap cell phone plan like Pure Talk USA, Ting Mobile, etc. and buy the streaming package,
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by prirun 4y ago
> Focused too much on making a living in my teens and 20s instead of college and social life I did this too, to avoid addressing being gay. At times in my life I've regretted working so much, but in my late 50's I developed so
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by prirun 4y ago
I really hate getting automated messages on my birthday from places like insurance companies that require my phone number and birth date. I have even gotten them from companies where I applied for their service but didn't go through w
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by prirun 4y ago
Probably, but I'd dilute it. I usually gargle with OTC peroxide. For prevention, a Mayo Clinic doctor advised me to use daily nasal rinses because I was having trouble with my ears gurgling. He said nasal rinses are the best way to p
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by prirun 4y ago
The rich and powerful who run our country don't want an educated society. A society of critical thinkers is harder to control. Better to have sheep who are easy to herd. So if they managed to screw an entire generation with high debt
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by prirun 4y ago
This makes the most sense to me, esp considering it lets him avoid potentially messy depositions of himself and his billionaire friends.
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by prirun 4y ago
Hired a personal trainer who owns a private gym (not a large corporate chain personal trainer). Wish I had done it years ago to avoid back problems, but better late than never. Another thing I've tried, though less successfully, is to
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by prirun 4y ago
I don't regret never creating them.
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by prirun 4y ago
Yeah, sure. And the consumption tax the article proposes will never be repealed, even when inflation is controlled.
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by prirun 4y ago
I agree with this from the article: "Netflix already limits the number of simultaneous streams per account, forcing you to pay more if you want more. In other words, the “problem” Netflix is trying to monetize has already been monetize
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by prirun 4y ago
It would be interesting to find out: - if the brain shrinks again after the 2nd kid - if the change is permanent, or if the brain expands 5 years after having a child.
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by prirun 4y ago
> "All IP belongs to the company we’ll form. This is unilaterally severable by either of us for no compensation, after which we’d both be free to go our own way and do whatever we want, related or not to this idea.” Please don'
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by prirun 4y ago
With 2 co-founders, you have to agree on everything. That's hard. 3 co-founders let's you do a majority thing on decisions, but that IMO can easily turn into politics: you do this for me, I'll do that for you, we are better
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by prirun 4y ago
> The company pushed back and, in 2016, the FDA reversed course, saying that it planned to update the definition—which leads us to the proposed update this week. It took 6 years to update their definition of healthy? That's ridicul
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by prirun 4y ago
I have read that 2/3rds of weight issues is food intake, 1/3 is exercise. I can believe it, because if you look up how many calories are burned walking 30 minutes, it's 80-100 calories. By contrast, there are 150 calories i
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by prirun 4y ago
I bought a Kawai ES8, and while the sound was great, the action was unable to manage the Bach Prelude & Fugue #2 in C minor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcC4Thug-h8 Whenever your hand goes "in", there isn&
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by prirun 4y ago
10 people, sorry for the confusion
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by prirun 4y ago
> I'm using a custom domain with gmail and I've been happy with that for a long time but I always do wonder, why has no one challenged it? You've answered your own question: you're a happy, long-term customer of a fre
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by prirun 4y ago
IMO this isn't just a Twitter thing. When I ran a company, we had a public forum that, in the beginning, was civilized. As we approached about 2000 people, that 5% you're talking about became so much of a problem that we had to
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by prirun 4y ago
Keep in mind that when Amazon and other hosting companies buy bandwidth, it is symmetric: they don't pay a smaller rate for ingress than egress. Charging a lot for egress is just a way (IMO) to keep customers stuck on their platform,
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by prirun 4y ago
The next big problem on the horizon for the piano is that piano technicians are also a dying breed. Sure, you can get someone to tune it, but that's fairly easy to do myself. The problem comes when a damper is stuck, some notes need
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by prirun 4y ago
Pretty hard, because there isn't enough leverage in the smaller action of digital pianos.
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by prirun 4y ago
> Worth also mentioning, the key actions on higher-end modern digitals are also pretty damn good these days I've bought a few $1500-2000 digital pianos (Kawai ES8, Yamaha P515). The action limits tend to show up when you have to pl
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by prirun 4y ago
Image is from 2020 while the article describes current events.
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by prirun 4y ago
Not even a mention of the fact you now have an active microphone listening to you 24x7 if this feature is enabled. I guess that's already the case when Siri is enabled. Ugh, no thanks to either.

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