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by skue 9y ago
1. They may want to introduce change gradually. 2. They’re probably well aware of the ample research into motion sickness. Not being able to see the direction of travel appears to increase the risk of symptoms for many. Sample citations (yo
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What We Mean When We Say Evidence-Based Medicine(nytimes.com)
1 points by skue 9y ago|0 comments
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by skue 9y ago
When arguing against a “common misconception,” one typically provides a source. You seem to be saying that Apple’s claims are not only wrong, but ObjC is somehow faster despite having to do more work. Swift has no runtime method table looku
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by skue 9y ago
> Before we start, Objective-C is a runtime-oriented language, which means that all of the links between your methods and variables and classes are deferred to the last moment possible to when your app is actually running, and this give
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by skue 9y ago
> We didn't choose this. A majority of voters voted against the current administration. That’s a cop out. Of course we did. The electoral college is our system. If it doesn’t work, then who but us should fix it? Even if you believ
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Apple Limits Lengthy iPhone X Testing for Most Reviewers(wsj.com)
46 points by skue 9y ago|61 comments
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by skue 9y ago
Prosecutorial discretion. Given the circumstances it’s hard to imagine someone thinking that the FB edits deserve prosecution. Can you imagine convincing a jury that this deserves a felony conviction, or a judge handing down any sort of mea
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by skue 9y ago
The problem with this is that any time you add a subclass to Animal, you need to manually update AnyAnimal to handle it. It’s possible to do this more generically, because you know the animal’s type in the AnyAnimal constructor and that’s s
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by skue 9y ago
> You expect me to both dedicate my time to writing the code for a PR, and then pay you for the privilege. No, better yet it would eliminate PRs from entitled users who think this way — who believe they contribute value by writing up iss
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by skue 9y ago
> important buttons I use multiple times daily, like those for brightness and volume adjustments, now require the use of two-step touch-and-slide actions instead of my preferred key-mashing. This is configurable. Just go to System Prefer
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by skue 9y ago
Very curious how they pitched this to investors... “We’re building a platform geared to low end devices that will become obsolete within a couple of years. Invest now, and be part of our team’s amazing journey towards acquihire!”
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by skue 9y ago
The issue here is the lack of IRB (Institutional Review Board), and what looks like an intentional effort to conduct trials in a neighboring country to avoid that requirement. An IRB is not run by the FDA. They are independent bodies affili
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by skue 9y ago
It's a shame they didn't bother to create a category for "Resists our suggestions and prefers to manage their own view list." Every time I've tried using Netflix, I've canceled in frustration. Their movie selec
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by skue 9y ago
Brave was founded by Brendan Eich, as his next thing after departing Mozilla. Many of us may not agree with his views on marriage equality (or at least his past actions), but I believe over the years he has demonstrated a strong commitment
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by skue 9y ago
Background for this proposal and discussion can be found in this repo’s README and additional docs: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-private-fields
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by skue 9y ago
Maps are beautiful and easy to read. But I'm deleting the app and figured I'd share why... * The Start Trip bar takes up too much of the screen for a feature I'll never use, especially when... * All activities are public unle
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by skue 9y ago
> That along with the bombshell assertion without evidence that the inheritance tax is the greatest burdens companies face today removes any credibility from the rest of the article. You disagree with one point [1] and question another,
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by skue 9y ago
No, it's really not about this one incident. United's customer service record has just fallen apart over the past several years, and many of us have had miserable experiences flying United. Every single one of my nightmare travel
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by skue 9y ago
How much? Well, those of us living in the Pacific Northwest just went through the wettest, cloudiest, gloomiest winter in our history.[1] But if someone gave us perennial sunshine and all we had to do was become a United hub instead of Alas
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by skue 9y ago
Seems pretty clear to me that this is just an intitial step. Echo Look as is may end up being very popular in its own right, but the end goal is probably to move beyond evaluating your existing wardrobe, and eventually making recommendation
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by skue 10y ago
So many comments about the economics. Why is no one considering major medical issues from a quality of life standpoint? Terminal cancer and hospice by 70? How do you want to spend those last 6 months, and what's the value in having an
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by skue 10y ago
"All the time" isn't that far off. "All this time" is more idiomatic, but the parent poster's meaning is still quite clear.
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by skue 10y ago
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13391886 which has comments. Mods can you merge?
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by skue 10y ago
Did you read the article? The only antibiotic that the bacteria showed sensitivity towards is not approved for use in the United States. And how is this article "scare tactics?" Sure, we have known about increasing antibiotic resi
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by skue 10y ago
Not a microbiologist nor an infectious disease specialist. However in med school I had an attending who liked to say, "The main difference between me and my patients is I know what page it's on." In that spirit, these seem l
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WikiLeaks proposes tracking verified Twitter users’ homes, families and finances(washingtonpost.com)
87 points by skue 10y ago|113 comments
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by skue 10y ago
> I'd like to politely clue you in that... If you really do want to be polite, then it's better to avoid expressions like "clue you in."
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by skue 10y ago
> It's strange to see this behaviour as someone living in Germany, where you are supposed to, by default, drive in the right lane if you are not overtaking another car or there is a traffic jam... That used the be the norm in the US
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by skue 10y ago
> > Mayer was probably too new and too scared to deal with this, especially when she had to think about her new baby. > OK, I normally think misogyny claims are over-blown and people are way too sensitive. But your comment positive
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by skue 10y ago
Wow. Shipping an extra NSLog statement in a privacy-focused app is an embarrassing mistake, but the response[1] from Pavel, Telegram's founder/CEO, should be the real story: > @k_firsov This applies only to texts that were copy

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