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Why? Think of a guitar string. It makes noise as it vibrates. As you age, your airway/soft pallet/esophagus loses tone and breathing in and out causes vibrations which you hear as …

I believe that this comment is unintentionally the reason healthcare is broken in America. America is capitalist and federalist. That means either hospitals are for profit entities…

I joined and couldn't see my own face or bubble. I clicked around trying to figure that part out but didn't get it. I saw other people could easily publish content to the board and…

I spent 5 minutes working my answer and reading through the others, I had a lot of fun and still have no idea what the answer is. ;-)

I hadn't considered the "unfalsifiable" aspect of my comment. I think you make a good point. At a poker table you get a high number of events to check against but a presidential el…

The book Thinking in Bets points out that predictions are given with a % of certainty. If I say X party will win at Y% and Z party wins, it doesn't mean the model is broken.

I'm a grump but this isn't $9.2k in income, it is $9.2k in revenue before expenses and taxes. That said, you're out there doing the work, trying things and being transparent to oth…

"Oh, and by the way, responding to these kinds of issues with “if you wanted your voice to be heard, you should have turned on analytics” is inexcusable." Authentic question: how w…

Quora touches on this subject: https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Hanna-Barbera-dissolved

Your email to group admin@myrtlelime.com was rejected due to spam classification. The owner of the group can choose to enable message moderation instead of bouncing these emails. M…

I find the Overcast app pretty workable. In your blather situation, you'd just set forward skip to 30s and hit it a few times. Podcasts are for profit and so if you aren't paying..…

I love Stripe and am an early and long time customer. Everything about them is beautiful, simplified and easy - except Radar. For all the blogs and good intentions of the team, Rad…

No giraffes were harmed during the making of this ritual.

A group of workers who weren't making money decided to get together to increase the ask of the owner of the business. That's a big red flag that says "we aren't united in fixing wh…

just you. http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/zillow.com

And they have had opportunities to begin the process to fully opt in and haven't done so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum... We should help because the…

The original "echo chamber" memo was written clearly and respectfully. The message was set out to encourage debate and make progress toward understanding. This wasn't a fox news dr…

First they took the "nonimmigrant foreigners" and so I did nothing.

I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. Do we need enforcement here or do we need to change policy?

I wish there was a feature to double click a phrase and auto draw the ASCII box around it.

I'm sorry I don't, but my thoughts are with you and I think its great you are advocating for and supporting your father.

Capitalism works so well and abstracts away so much that articles like this can be written.

I keep coming back to HN for insights like this. Thanks for taking the time lawkwok.