DontBeADick

> The distributions of two other metrics of a meal’s health — salt and saturated fat

Did I accidentally fall into a time machine and end up in the 1980s?

My favorite "feature" of Chrome is the way it invites people to look through your browsing history every time they open a new tab, and there's no way to disable it. There used to be a way to disable it, but they removed it sometime last year.

Because users don't know what they want, right Google?

Almost nothing you said is correct aside from your basic description of the procedure.

Weight loss is rarely the primary goal of FMT and its efficacy in that realm remains unproven. Nowhere did the article imply that any of the things that made you "cringe" are necessary. And oral administration isn't objectively better than the alternatives, nor is it always an option since many people understandably find the idea of swallowing a "poop pill" rather repulsive.

> The kind that use proper spelling and punctuation, perhaps?

Don't you mean "the kind who use proper spelling"?

If you're going to correct someone, at least get it right.

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

> More to the point, who cares?

Did you forget about the entire city of Philadelphia? 14 inches predicted, < 1 inch actual snowfall.

The city is practically a ghost town today thanks to a botched weather forecast. Tons of businesses and schools closed preemptively because they were predicting massive snowfall totals with what seemed like absolute certainty. According to meteorologists here, it wasn't about whether or not we were getting snow, it was about whether we were getting 1 foot or 2 feet.

> But if you talk to startups, you find practically every one over a certain size has gone through legal contortions to get programmers into the the US, where they then paid them the same as they'd have paid an American.

The whole argument hinges on this unverified anecdote.

Sorry, but your personal experience isn't universal.

That title is mildly infuriating. Using the term "bomb" to refer to software when actual bomb threats have been made is the epitome of clickbait.

They addressed that in the article that you're commenting on but didn't read.

I stopped updating all my Google apps ~2 years ago because there were so many asinine, unintuitive UI changes with each new version. A lot of their changes didn't even conform to the standards recommended by Google (e.g. menu button locations). It's almost as if the UI team gets bored and decides to make changes just because they need to occupy themselves. And then instead of testing them with actual users, they just talk amongst themselves about how awesome their new set of obscure gestures and button locations are.

I'm afraid to buy a new Nexus because of how bad the application interfaces will probably be.

The guy never threatened to target children or reveal any information about them. Why is that so difficult for you to grasp?

Not to mention the fact that Asparagirl has intentionally interpreted his comments in the most sensational way possible, even going so far as to fabricate threats.

"Look into your personal lives, your families" somehow magically became:

> threatening to reveal details of the location of their children

There's clearly a great deal of stupidity on both sides here.

> Uber explicitly talked about going after reporters' families.

> The obvious implication is that they were going after her kids.

Obvious implication? I think it's more of a convenient assumption you're making to suit your own personal grudge against Uber.

The comments he made were clearly idiotic, but your eagerness to interpret them in the most extreme and sensational way possible is no better.

> "your families" = "your children"

I don't think that's a reasonable assumption to make. "Your family" could just as easily be referring to adult family members only (spouses, siblings, parents, etc.).

It seems like you're jumping to that conclusion solely because it makes his comments more inflammatory.

Where does the article say anything about children?

Are you reading a different article? None of those threats were mentioned in the one I'm reading...

Glad I'm not the only one who found this post surprisingly petty and immature. Not to mention egotistical -- seriously, had anyone heard of this until just now?

#hashtagsarestupid

You should try reading the article next time -- this post has absolutely nothing to do with suicide rates.

I guess your response is somewhat appropriate though. Like the company he worked for, you didn't even stop for a second to think of Xu as a human being, he was just a means to an end. In your case, that end being the collection free internet brownie points by posting a contrarian opinion.

It's surprisingly cheap/easy to put the whole thing together with things from Amazon and IKEA. For example:

    4x Olov 36" legs [1] = $60
    1x Linnmon 47" x 24" table top [2] = $20
    whatever small shelf will fit your monitor(s) = $20
    1x Adjustable Stool [3] = $85
    Total = $185

Just be aware of the heights. If you're over 6' tall, you'll probably need to put the desk on a $10 set of bed risers (or spring for the $30 Gerton legs that adjust over 40") and you may need the 6430HB stool instead of the 6424HB. The price on those should be within $5 though.

[1] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30264301/

[2] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00251343/

[3] http://www.amazon.com/National-Public-Seating-6424HB-Upholst...

Yes -- a tall desk and a tall chair to match it. Then you should have no need to adjust either unless you somehow become wheelchair-bound by an injury.

It also gives you the option of leaning halfway on/halfway off the stool with one foot on the floor (to avoid the awkward pelvic tilt that a lot of office chairs cause).

Cool, but why not buy a tall stool or drafting chair that matches the height of the desk instead of figuring out all these convoluted ways to lower the entire desk? The whole idea is to sit less, so it shouldn't matter very much how comfortable your chair is.

I use an $85 stool with my standing desk (the bare-bones kind you'd see in high school science classrooms), and I prefer it over any of the $300+ office chairs my employers have provided in the past.

(edited for clarification)

Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death is a great continuation of this topic. I only wish they were still around to see how right they were.

I thought I just read a few months ago that we'd have superconducting EM drive hoverboards any day now?

How disappointing...

What makes your matchmakers any better than a random stranger? Or a computer algorithm? Or a pile of bricks? I searched through your whole website trying to figure out why your matchmakers are worth my time and money but it doesn't seem like you've made any attempt to address those concerns, which is extremely odd since their matchmaking skills are the core of your business.

Am I missing something? Based on the (lack of) info on your website, your matchmakers really could be random people you pulled off the street.

Is Mediacru.sh banned from Reddit? I just saw a thread the other day where someone said the domain was blocked by admins to prevent it from competing with their preferred service (probably Gfycat).

Gave it a try on a chain of sporting goods store with several locations in my area.

Google: Correct hours

Yelp: Correct hours

Localmint: No stores found

Looks like you've got a long road ahead if you want any chance of making this work. I personally don't see any need for such a website since Yelp and Google have pretty much got it covered.

I wish I did, I've spent hours trying to find it again. If anyone could link to the study I'd be eternally grateful.

> b) People are too optimistic about their future behaviour.

I read about a focus group once where a company was asking consumers about different color tea kettles. They had tea kettles in a dozen colors and asked people which one they would purchase. The responses were split fairly evenly among all the different colors. At the end of the day, the people who participated in the focus group were allowed to take home one of the tea kettles for free. Almost all of them chose white or black.

A mortgage can be an extremely good investment, and a 0% car loan is essentially free money if you were going to buy the car anyway. My point is that there's no one-size-fits-all financial advice, and trying to promote the hip, rebellious "debt-free" lifestyle rather than educating people about debt really isn't doing them any favors.