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I'm not going to lie; that type of thing -- resigning right after getting promoted -- seems like something from some alternate reality fantasy world.

You raise a good point. I hadn't considered the amount of sitting hours required, where you're incentivized not to make stops to stretch your legs due to time to delivery constraints.

If the training were free and I was guaranteed a job, then I definitely would. I see little downside.

Maybe, but the reasons why can be flipped on food, though with more difficulty.

Namely stuff done to the supplement at the point of production which makes it appear to be something it's not. For instance, with respect to protein supplementation, a number of protein powders a couple years back were accused of fudging the numbers by pumping up the nitrogen count using cheaper amino acids, so rather than getting strictly whey protein, you were getting whey protein cut with cheap non-essential amino acids like creatine, glutamine, cysteine, glycine, etc.

Then there's contaminants to worry about, as I remember reading something about heavy metals making it's way into whey from China or something.

Technically they can do similar things with cuts of meat, but I imagine that's more difficult to get away with unless it's processed meat.

That being said, I still buy the cheap bottom shelf whey protein from walmart to make up for dietary deficits when I'm too lazy to cook beans or something.

This story seems on topic considering y combinator is a startup focused enterprise, so monetization discussions, in whatever direction, are relevant.

If you could afford to buy a ton of homes in Flint, Michigan then you could likely also afford to have the job of helping to fix Flint, Michigan, which I imagine while less lucrative, would still provide subsistence.

Sometimes we have to recognize the power we wield and use it to perform selfless acts.

Not saying you should move there and do that, but just that you're wrong in saying that you'd have no job.

Indeed. Many people fail to realize or acknowledge just how valuable those things are until they lose access to them.

You realize that verified accounts don't get all their followers legitimately, right?

All those folks you constantly see following you? Yeah, they're not doing that because they think you're swell; they're automated follows in the hopes you follow back,and then they unfollow soon after or some time later to lower their following count.

I had IPv6 with Time Warner, but then they merged with Spectrum and my IPv6 magically disappeared. My networking and internet infrastructure knowledge is limited, so I have no clue why they would would be incentivized to do that. This happened some time last year.

EDIT: The only reason I know this is because at some point last year I asked google what my IP address was and was surprised to find it was an IPv6 address, but then later on apt broke, because one of the packages (node?) was only checking an IPv6 address and so now whenever I update I have to force apt to use IPv4.

That's something I think about when buying mushrooms as well; there's the chopped mushrooms, and then there's the whole mushrooms, and the former always looks kind of worse for ware so to speak, as if the chopping process transmits bacteria from the blades to the mushrooms.

I buy the whole mushrooms for that reason and simply because they're cheaper.

People don't eat more veggies, because (1) The people forget about them and then they go bad, thus instilling a mental stigma about veggies, and (2) food deserts.

Pretty sure this is complete B.S considering the view of talking on the phone millenials and younger have. Like, there are literal memes about one being horrified and the sound of a phone ringing, which to me seems like a good indicator that we're talking less on the phone, so why would brain tumors increase?

Wait, what? Why would anyone challenge them on having that power? That's like someone challenging Congress's ability to change or undo a law. Was their primary argument in this case "NO TAKESIES BACKSIES!"?

Huh, interesting. I never considered pizza to be one of those markets that could be threatened by a franchise corporation.

I mean, I know there's Little Caesars that has their super cheap medium pizzas, but they're super cheap for a reason and pizza seems like one of those things people are willing to pay a little more for, because quality can vary quite significantly.

That (failure to keep the public welfare in mind) is not the goal of the system though, but rather a failure case due to antagonist agents both within and outside the system.

It comes down to money in politics, where said money is a necessity to maintain an agent position within the system. This motive alone is enough to turn protagonist agents within the system into antagonist agents against the system.

No, and it shouldn't be seen as the same thing, because a bicycle isn't a car. Context matters. This type of thing is known as an 'Idaho Stop'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop

Those types of sellers couldn't care less about reputation. Their customers don't come to them for reputation, but rather their low prices.

Oh, my apologies. I misread your comment.

Or maybe he and his team wanted to actually take the time to come up with a useful and intelligent response rather than a vapid response only meant for the spectacle?

What are you even talking about? His response to this issue was anything but "Crawl away from the problems". Did you even read it?

Oh yeah, I know the data gathered through the API isn't anonymized, but I was referring to what they sell to advertisers who don't use the API and just do business directly with Facebook, unless they don't sell any data directly to advertisers and advertisers just have to put in place certain metrics for whom they would like to target.

That's a really good point with respect to advertisers. Even on the competitor level, I'm not sure how they would use that data.

So worst case scenario is a conflict of interests between user privacy and business revenue. I think if Facebook wants to take effective action to correct this, they'll go beyond simply restricting the API, and give users options to limit which data of theirs they want to let their friends expose to third parties, because even when the API is shut down, someone willing to violate the terms of service can do quite a bit of data harvesting using fake profiles and social engineering to get people to add those profiles if some of the data seems plausible.

Granted, this method is slower, but still possible, and I think currently being exploited based on friend requests I've received through friends. I've asked friends if they knew the person, and they said they weren't sure, but they might because the information seemed similar; this is the same concept as a phone call spam technique known as "Neighbor Spoofing".

What I don't understand is, why would they turn a blind eye to abuse of their developer API if they offer their API for free and they sell user data -- which I assume is anonymized? -- to advertisers? Wouldn't that diminish revenue if advertisers could have just used the API to get around this?

Please correct any mistaken assumptions I might have about their business model.

What was the last supplement you saw that was patentable?

Supplements in general are vaguely effective and mostly unpatented, meaning that the only incentive for a supplement company to perform "research" is for the purpose of marketing that they have some sort of research, but it's against the law for them to say that their supplements do anything specific outside the vague "bone health" etc. claims.

Don't get me wrong, I take various supplements daily, but I'm also fully aware of how sketchy this industry is, especially where there are herbal supplements that were out there found not to contain any genetic material of the herbs the bottle was advertising.

Looks like, at the moment, they don't support deposits or withdrawals of the cryptocurrency you're trading, so if anything, they seem more like ETNs of the cryptos than the actual cryptos themselves?

I imagine it's for the reason you stated until they get the security protocols in order. Not sure how they're getting around SEC approval, unless it's something sort of like an IOU loophole where you can only sell the IOU, but not redeem it for the coins yet per their terms of service?

I have no clue.

Lol, yeah, I think everyone that had one of those must have climbed in at some point. Me and my cousins used to put the lid on and roll each other around probably giving us brain damage in the process. I think the last time I got in was after one time when my older cousins were torturing me by sitting on the lid and not letting me out.

I think my earliest memory was standing at the door to my basement with one hand on the door knob and the other hand counting, saying something along the lines of "I'm 3 now" or something. Either that or it was some sort of daycare visit. Order is difficult to remember.

As I began typing this I just remembered this football toy chest I used to have in my basement.

The earliest thing I don't remember for which there is (was?) recorded evidence of, is me as a toddler picking up giant carpenter ants and trying to put them in my mouth before a parent came over and stopped me.

I've been remembering a lot of my childhood lately. Perhaps it's due to recently adding DHEA to my supplement stack, though not exactly sure what the cause is, but it feels good and sad at the same time.

I've wasted a lot of my life due to reasons both within and out of my control.

In any case, one memory that came to mind recently was the ponzi scheme I tried starting around 4th grade -- I think it was? -- when playing around with Print Master Deluxe's fun "ye olde" paper background template. I called it "Joe's Money Club". The point of the club was that people would join and pay dues on a certain schedule, and we'd use those funds to try to make money. I'm joking partly about it being a ponzi scheme ... I think; the story is more fun if I play it up that way, but as I think about it, I don't think it was technically a ponzi scheme, because I do remember trying to sell ear plugs (my dad worked in a factory and had a ton of these packs of orange ear plug pairs). In any case, the club disbanded around a week later due to lack of interest, and I tried to give the money back from dues, but everyone just let me keep it.

Dear god ... that game makes so much more sense now when seen in that light. I can't believe I haven't made the connection before considering much I enjoy cellular automata.

They sort of are though. It's just that a person's importance isn't individually obvious, and only becomes obvious in aggregate.