the-pigeon

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by the-pigeon 5y ago
Not necessarily. That is just testing if COVID19 breaks down when exposed to mouth wash. For that to prevent infection you'd need contact between the mouthwash and the virus. So maybe mouth wash helps or maybe it's useless because
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by the-pigeon 5y ago
How does one's office environment relate to how many calories they consume? If you lift weights or do other strenuous exercise 3-4k calories a day is needed. The trick with calories is just to not consume more than you are using if you
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
The other than that may be happening is bots building legitimacy. Like if you want to boost your product with 1,000 fake reviews then you need 1,000 accounts that don't look like bots. Meaning they need to do a lot of different activit
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
This headline is intentionally misleading. They put a Merc 11 filter on a box fan. The Merc 11 filter outperformed Dyson. Not some homemade filter. And duh? Any air purifier where the air actually goes through a filter is going to perform b
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
Research has said eggs are good for the last 20 years. It was believed they were bad due to their high cholesterol and cholesterol was considered bad across the board. But modern research shows it's more complicated than that.
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
Is your dietary restriction list from a doctor or internet research? I would definitely consult with your doctor and not apply general study conclusions to your own diet considering you had a heart attack recently.
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
Your entire staff would never ever leave at once UNLESS you really messed up big. Thinking anything otherwise is ridiculous nonsense. This specifically reminds me of when a company I worked for fired my two developers by making it so they c
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
Ideas are so cheap and easy. Implementation is a long hard road. And where you learn your idea was vague enough that it had almost no value. And only through painstaking iteration can you turn it into something with value.
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
And sometimes they are both misleading. I used to think if I read through media with opposing biases then I'd understand the real story. But in most cases there's just a huge amount of relevant context missing even if the articles
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
How is journalism such a sad joke that things like that are "normal"?
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
This is a very common myth in business. Bonuses in most situations lead to a decrease in productivity. https://hbr.org/1993/09/why-incentive-plans-cannot-work https://smallbusiness.chron.com/bonuse
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
Alternative alternative theory, the chipmakers are stuck. Chipmakers have been crawling forward with progress for years. Meanwhile in house chips like Amazon's and Apple's have been coming out that seem to be miles ahead. The gene
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
In particular, when COVID19 was first spreading but we knew about it back in February countries could've easily contact traced to flush it out and then quarantined all incoming travelers to keep it out. But most countries deemed those
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
The point though is that this article decrying the influence on science by industry is itself influenced by industry and shows this by not using neutral terminology.
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
That's just software versus hardware. If you have a solid software platform you can scale it up to millions of users at very little operation cost per user. But a robot? You have a very significant cost per unit. Not to mention lots of
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
> My naive theory is that clothes are designed to break faster and faster and some older clothes have a quality you can’t find anymore, hence vintage has an aura of good quality old stuff. Two things going on here. First just the general
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
> The quality of CGI, special effects, resolution, cameras, etc. are constantly improving Aren't we already at a diminishing returns point though? In fact I think most people would agree there's lots of movies from 10 years ago
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
Huh. I've had the opposite experience of this author. In my 10 years are a software developer we've made amazing strides towards making sense out of the software itself and the data flowing through my systems. Honestly I feel like
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
Why exactly? China has shown time and time again that China will do what China feels like doing. Meaning them committing to doing something 10 years doesn't mean they will do it at all. We clearly don't really care about climate c
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
As someone that's worked remotely for the last 10 years I don't understand decisions like this. What's changed? Dropbox is a web company and I'd expect the majority of their management to know about remote work tools pri
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
> Almost a year into the grand work-from-home experiment, businesses are still adjusting. Huh? More like half a year...
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if this was a goal but they should really figure out basic recommendations first. I just bought a power washer. I bought it on Amazon. Amazon easily knows I now own a power washer. And yet Amazon is giving me a
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
My only thought for practical use would be to checkup on a pet while you are away from home. Since if the pet has feel roam of the house you can't necessarily see if from a stationary camera.
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
The opposite can argued too. That children who don't use tablets have shorter attention spans and worst social skills. The "natural is better" argument is not research based. Society has long preached that things like reading
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
Doesn't really say anything useful. It is just bringing up that various hostile parties could have known about the ammonium nitrate being there and had motivation to blow it up. Which yeah duh. But having the motivation and the means t
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
My own view is that "They offered exclusivity monetary incentives." should be completely illegal. Everyone should get the same rates with no lock in or out. In media terms if Netflix can stream a movie for $0.40 per stream then ev
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
I have no problem with villains fighting other villains. Epic Games is obviously just out to profit more. But this is a war that we all benefit from if they win. Sure I'd love to see someone like the EFF change this. But the reality is
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
Expanding on this. The idea that a large platform like iOS can only have apps loaded through a market place controlled by the hardware manufactured is clearly in violation of the spirit of anti-trust laws. However there's no legal prec
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
This could be great news. Might finally get the ball rolling on a court case to stop the huge app store abuses by Apple and Google.
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by the-pigeon 6y ago
Yeah this is the way it always will be. Speed is determined by business requirements, not capabilities. I have hundreds of opportunities for optimizations in my apps. I could make them fly. But the business side says the current speed is go

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