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by strict9 7y ago
After 15 years of not eating meat, the past 1-2 years have been a golden era of vegetarian options in the grocery store, restaurants, and fast food. Based on anecdotes and my social circles, the number of people completely avoiding meat has
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by strict9 7y ago
It goes even further. An experiment: go to the pet food aisle of a grocery store, and try finding a dog treat/biscuit that doesn't have added sugar. Treats labeled as "chicken" or "bacon and cheese" have sugar
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by strict9 7y ago
> More than 100 million adults — almost half the entire adult population — have pre-diabetes or diabetes. Though one can't pin this staggering number on one thing (the article mentions 10 factors[1]) sugar-sweetened beverages are a
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by strict9 7y ago
Your response here directly conflicts with what you say in the opening paragraph. Response to my comment: > "our device it not assisting police it arresting people for owning or even selling cannabis, just using it before driving.&q
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by strict9 7y ago
This is the first time I've ever hoped for the complete failure of a company featured in Launch HN. This is an ill-conceived solution to exacerbate an existing injustice: uneven prosecution of laws in the War on Drugs. Shame on you.
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by strict9 7y ago
There is an endless supply "infosec specialists" and "ethical hackers." But there is a massive shortage in motivated experts that ensure packages are up to date and fluent enough in code spelunking to ensure the app isn&
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by strict9 7y ago
Getting noticed. Maybe being briefly remembered. Most people don't use social media (or further back, blogs) to get paid or gain utility, they want to be noticed for something.
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by strict9 7y ago
I haven't tabulated it but if it's not those two it's usually a game or (more likely) sms, and a lot of news sites. As an aside, I honestly have little interest in snooping (it's boring) but on very crowded trains you ca
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by strict9 7y ago
It's 100% anecdotal but the observation has a 10-year run... I've been riding the same train line in Chicago for almost 10 years (Blue Line) and when I started I remember cringing that so many spent their free time scrolling faceb
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by strict9 7y ago
If I could make a feature request, one more removal: the giant fixed blue button in lower right. Still can't believe twitter designers thought covering content with a control is a good idea on mobile. Thank you for a wonderful plugin.
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Magic Square(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by strict9 7y ago|0 comments
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Amber Road(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by strict9 7y ago|0 comments
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by strict9 7y ago
>The datastream will include a specially designed primer, or set of simple scientific principles and data that would be common to all extraterrestrial intelligences, providing a common base of reference to enable those receiving the sign
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by strict9 7y ago
Since the early 2000s Apple's feature removals have been good--except for the escape key/touchbar fiasco. I've given it long enough and unlike the headphone jack which was painful but managable, the MBP with touchbar needs a
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by strict9 7y ago
They have a brand, but so does the CEO. He has a history of interspersing bizarre statements and conservative political views into earnings statements and other normally apolitical company press releases.
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by strict9 7y ago
Property tax payment dispersals are handled by bank, which is the rule and not exception in Chicago. And I promise you, assessments here have gone up orders of magnitude more than 2%. In some parts of the city it's gone up by 30%[1] Po
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by strict9 7y ago
>As for what’s pushing households to tap into their rainy-day funds, Deutsche Bank recently pointed to the 15 percent year-on-year increase in household interest payments. Levels of payments rising at a similar pace preceded the onsets o
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by strict9 7y ago
Weird how all of these think pieces pondering places and lifestyles available without a degrees only focus on healthcare and manufacturing. I've met numerous people in my 10+ years of software development without a degree. I don't
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Google employees protest retaliation with international sit-in(theverge.com)
27 points by strict9 7y ago|2 comments
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by strict9 7y ago
People frequently enter a forum/sub/thread/etc with a not-yet-completely formed opinion on an issue. Sometimes to learn more, sometimes to further convince themselves, very rarely to change their mind. When the right group of
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Apple Face-Recognition Blamed by New York Teen for False Arrest(bloomberg.com)
2 points by strict9 7y ago|0 comments
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by strict9 7y ago
Cannot wait. A+ product that stores struggle to keep stocked. It's been a long time time since I've admired a company as much as this one.
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by strict9 8y ago
They've given more and more nudges over the years to funnel people from IG back to FB. I have no idea but doubtful it's working, just smells of desperation. >badged notifications inside Instagram begging people to open Facebook
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by strict9 8y ago
Instagram remains enormously popular because it's not exclusively 1:1 mutual relationships, has a minimal interface/feature set, and most importantly isn't easily susceptible to outrage and anger gawking like twitter/FB
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by strict9 8y ago
It's popular because it's not an enormous junk drawer of features that tries to be everything to everyone. Their success was in keeping a design that was brainlessly simple and easy to use/understand.
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Google raising the price of YouTube TV, showing it's hard to compete with cable(cnbc.com)
3 points by strict9 8y ago|0 comments
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by strict9 8y ago
I guess that's the trend and there is no denying Amazon but I'd be surprised if past gains are as solid of a future predictor as this this article purports them to be. The seduction of avoiding traffic and human contact is undenia
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by strict9 8y ago
You're drawing attention via hair splitting and pedantry. For most people who use their browser to stream content, it's not a browser if it can't use that content.
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by strict9 8y ago
Because OP is using a Chromium-based browser which has only one option.
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by strict9 8y ago
It is in the article: >As far as I’m aware, Widevine is the only available DRM for a Chromium-based browser, especially so for Electron.

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