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You've got some serious biases sending you some weird places in evaluating my posts. > 1) Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44813704 you regurgitate the classic Apple propa…

... a simple compound that was already developed and in-use, so the current patent (the one that's made it a big, ongoing news story and a kind of social phenomenon) is rewarding o…

Of course there's conflict of interest. I'd prefer we address all the things their actions motivated by that conflict of interest are shielding me from before we smack them down, t…

I don't want web apps on my phone (or, in an ideal world, anywhere else) so that's also a good thing. If they're not viable, it forces developers to make real apps or else just mak…

> I'm not a Mac user, but I wish I had Safari on desktop as an option today. Webkit browsers do exist on other platforms. They're far and away the best-performing sorts of actually…

It's the only reason you don't see a lot more broken websites on Firefox, which would drive its market share even lower. Lots and lots of Web development projects target Chrome, th…

Chrome did that three ways: 1) performing better and crashing less than mainstream alternatives (just IE and Firefox, then) on non-Mac platforms (so, most desktop computers) for a …

Counterpoint: Safari is by far the best mainstream browser, because it's got the only engine that gives half a shit about battery life, and because they push back on shitty feature…

... and drugs. And they had 86% adherence for a year. If they'd studied this farther out and it went the same way as basically any study that's done that, adherence would be a lot …

Yep, overeating (and, to some degree, not enough moving around) is the reason. True. But “just personally do better” doesn’t work very well when applied as a medical intervention (…

Yes, it’s a google away.

Run a study of your approach and show good results over a cohort for 2+ years and you'll make an entire sub-field of medical scientists very happy. [EDIT] It's not that your approa…

There's anecdotes, and there's science. Individually, there's (previously) been nothing better to suggest than "try harder (and, maybe, smarter)". Statistically it was almost usele…

Under-discussed benefit: being able to have all your clothes actually fit at the same time (no wardrobe scattered between your "skinny" weight and your "fat" weight and rarely bein…

I'd describe the effects as basically the opposite of self-torture. Self-torture is dieting/fasting without the drugs. With them, it's great. No afternoon light-headedness and diff…

It's great because we had no other way to address this problem at a population level. Not any realistic ones, anyway. Like, I figured we were just never going to solve it, given th…

There's a whole little online subculture of people in the US importing the precursors and making it themselves at home for dirt-cheap. I gather it's extremely easy and basically fo…

Any means of attaining weight loss at a similar rate will tend to do the same thing. Especially if you’re starting from quite-heavy, not just dropping 20lb or something.

Does there exist another source for a good, broad web index that can provide results like mid-'00s Google? I use DDG mostly but if I need to actually search the web I go to Yandex …

I'm 40 and it's been getting faster consistently since my mid-20s or so. I'd say a year now feels about as long as 3 months did c. 10 years old. Summer rolls around and I blink and…

> Even in this thread it’s more praise for Bandit than anger at Homer’s portrayal. Initially, and more-or-less consistently for the first 7-9 seasons or so before it switched forma…

I can't think of another cartoon targeted at that young an audience that I'd even consider sitting down and watching a half-dozen episodes of without a kid around, but I can imagin…

It's been like that since before "AI" (before ChatGPT's big marketing break-out) Google's revenue is largely from promoting scams and tricking old people into clicking ads that loo…

My boomer dad grew up poor & rural enough he started life with a dirt floor and outhouse, puttered around doing odd & entry-level jobs but nothing that could be called a career unt…

> It is a lazy dodge around the traditional responsibility of regulators to identify and regulate actual anti-competitive behavior when it actually happens Traditional since the ‘7…