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by sosborn 6y ago
“Cellulose is cellulose,” regardless of if whether it comes from wood pulp or celery, says Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a group that advocates healthier, more nutritious food. He say
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Do you realize that you can have ads subsidizing free services without any tracking or using any third-party services?
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Uh, Japanese schools are way more prison like. There are some positive attributes (as you mention), but overall it is not a great system to model.
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Another way to look at it is that "timestamp" = "permalink", which is a fairly common pattern (I'm not trying to imply that it is intuitive, just that it is common). Once you are at the permalink you have a range of
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Conflating tax with profit margin is a bit muchthough don't you think? If Facebook wants this, they should be willing to indicate how much margin they make on every ad buy they happily take money for.
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> that is just wishful thinking Of course it is. That's kind of the point of my comment.
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> I want these two plunders to rot because people have done time for far less serious non-violent crimes. I would rather the lenience they experienced be extended to those who have done time for less serious crimes.
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I’m with you on the SPAM protection, but I find the tabs and threading to be god awful.
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I really have to marvel at how well planned this whole series of events is. This wasn't some knee jerk move by Epic, it is calculated and very well executed.
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> while providing little value other than being a payment processor, for which the normal charge is less than 2.5%. Would you consider providing a large number of paying customers "of little value?"
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Thank you for getting the zamboni song stuck in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkJbvv3pHg
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What's really interesting (scary? sad?) is that the "issue" would never come up if the cast was all men.
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Booting to USB is an option.
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IMO “good working ethic” is only about doing your work and doing it well. It doesn’t mean anything about working continuously for 8 hours.
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I’m genuinely curious, what innovations could there possibly be for sails beyond increasing surface area or either the sails or the keel?
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Does the number of tests influence the number of deaths?
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The would buy ARM because they believe it can result in long term profits.
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> educated and technical folk I see the come up all the time and I can think is, maybe the HN crowd isn't as special an intelligent as it thinks it is. I enjoy it here, but let's not get too full of ourselves.
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> some people take all precautions The problem is that "some" isn't enough. Everyone needs to work together. sigh
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It's not a conspiracy, but anyone that has worked in or with a newsroom will tell you that panic and fear sell newspapers (or clicks). Reporters get judged on article engagement and being humans, they optimize for the metric that they
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> Wouldn't it make the least sense for advertisers to spend money showing ads to people who are already in the market for their product For manufacturers? Sure. But what about storefronts? Having the best price won't matter if
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The thing is though, it isn't bait and switch. Everyone know exactly what it happening. I remember learning it when I was 7 - it isn't difficult. I get that it's weird if you aren't used to it, but it really isn't t
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> They work REALLY REALLY hard to get people to use the website. And the telcos make it REALLY REALLY hard to use the damn website.
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Bassists are great because you guys don't get bogged down with traditionalism like us guitarists. Active pickups? No problem. Solid state amp? No problem.
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My opinion as a father of two: Putting up roadblocks to accessing these materials is good. Some things really are damaging to young minds. However, I'm not stupid. At some point they will get exposed to this stuff and if my children pu
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Morning show, For All Mankind and Beasties Story are worth the time IMO.
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Anyone interested in Polynesian exploration would enjoy learning about Hōkūle‘a: http://www.hokulea.com/voyages/our-story/
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The marketing corollary is that metrics only tell you what happened, they cannot tell why. Yet somehow, entire companies have been built on the promise that they can answer the "why" by looking at the metrics.
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When you create a new rails project, the tooling for JS is set up, but none of that gets used (Turbolinks the only exception) unless you write or include JS code. The tooling does not affect the user experience one bit.
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JS in rails is entirely opt-in.

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