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esolyt··on Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn't (2014)
Plus, you don't have to be homeless to not have a refrigerator. Plenty of people live under a roof, but without a refrigerator.

With that being said, I believe American eggs can still be safely kept at room temperature up to several weeks.

esolyt··on Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire
Zoom requires installing a separate app. Why isn't that a dealbreaker but installing/using Chrome is?
esolyt··on The key to building an idea seems to be blind faith
From the section about Naming:

> Means something somewhat relevant to your company or is completely random.

Well, is there any other possibility?

esolyt··on European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings
Except there is no such thing as the EU Parliament. It is called the European Parliament:

https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/institutions-bodie...

esolyt··on The Gyllenhaal Experiment
No, you're not stupid.

"Skip" implies moving to the next item "Skip to results" is a confusing way to phrase it. I guess "Go to results" would've made more sense. Weirdly, the actual skip button is labeled "Show Me Another".

Apparently, it happened to a lot of people. It's bad UX in an otherwise amazingly designed article.

esolyt··on Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over
What's a better solution?
esolyt··on Apple needs to change iPhone’s call UI because robocalls are killing us
This solution would require using the phone in DND mode at all times. It's not ideal since you might actually want to use DND.
esolyt··on Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?
It's not just his politics. He has become a delusional an egotistical person.

He kept talking about how Twitter shadowbanned him for months. When he was on Joe Rogan's podcast, Joe Rogan suggested ways to test if this is true. He got upset and tried to change the subject. When pressed by Rogan, he finally said: "I don't really want to find out. I just like the idea that I am important to be shadowbanned."

esolyt··on Open Location Code
That makes sense.

"9C3XFWG3+2G" is barely any shorter than using coordinates, but "FWG3+2G, London" is significantly easier to read or write down than coordinates.

esolyt··on Show HN: Gmail Classic – CSS for Reverting Gmail's New Look
Wow. Actual black text on light background. Compact, readable, high contrast. I wish we could have designs like that instead of this modern grey text on grey background garbage.
esolyt··on Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good to Be Believed – They're Paid For
In the US, you can just put the package in an Amazon Locker with the return label printed on it. You don't have to pay for shipping.

I don't know if Amazon Lockers exist in Germany, but I'm sure they would reimburse your for the shipping cost if you ask.

esolyt··on Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good to Be Believed – They're Paid For
> I just can't imagine staying home for packages all the time

I'm not sure why you think people in the USA do that. You certainly don't have to stay home to get package. Nobody does that.

If it's a valuable package, there are ways to make sure it's not stolen, including using an Amazon Locker.

esolyt··on Let’s celebrate Hugo’s 5th birthday
Jekyll has gotten pretty fast too, especially if you enable incremental building.
esolyt··on States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules
> Note that the disaster area that is US regulatory overlap means passing a law like this is probably impossible without constitutional amendment.

Why would a law like that contradict with the constitution?

esolyt··on Habits of Highly Miserable People
> People can be unhappy without being mentally ill.

Sure. But some people feel unhappy all the time. Sometimes for years, sometimes for their entire life. In their case, it is a mental health issue. It's not something they can just shake off when they hear the age-old "you're depressed because you choose to be" argument by a smug author. This approach is outdated and it doesn't work.

esolyt··on Habits of Highly Miserable People
Basically during the entire post.

"misery is an art form, and the satisfaction people seem to find in it reflects the creative effort required to cultivate it."

"making yourself miserable is a craft all its own, requiring imagination, vision, and ingenuity."

"There’s power in making other people feel guilty."

esolyt··on How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Electric Scooters
I think the phrase is used a lot in the tech world, that might be the joke here.

http://hn.algolia.com/?q="how+i+learned+to+stop+worrying"

esolyt··on Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?
Yes. There is a reason why we don't have text based adventures anymore. Because we can have new ones with beautiful graphics and interfaces.
esolyt··on Amazon won't sell you a Chromecast, but they will sell a counterfeit
Miracast is a standard, not a product. There is nothing wrong with selling a Miracast device, however this particular device is blatant Chromecast rip-off, designwise.
esolyt··on Spotify Form F-1
"The IKEA effect is a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created."
esolyt··on JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
> Paintbrush is the macOS equivalent

Not really. It has many issues.

The left toolbar is not dockable. I find it annoying that I have to do window management withing a single application.

That and the fact that it asks for the canvas size everytime I launch it.

esolyt··on Apple Autocorrects Names of Some Medications to Names of Different Medications
Honestly, it's been a while since our partisanship has spread to arguments about tech. It never suprises me to see people are going to extreme lengths to defend Apple, even when it's a life and death situation.

"Re check your work before you click submit or send. Don't place blame on Apple."

"It’s pretty easy for a sysadmin to disable autocorrect"

Educated people aren't immune from this effect either.

esolyt··on Some Instacart workers to strike over pay that can be as low as $1 per hour
Unfortunately, Amazon Prime Now does the same. Tips are simply becoming "hidden fees".
esolyt··on [dead]
> “But don’t you want to? Doesn’t it feel like part of being a grown-up?”

Funny because driving age is 16 in most US states.

Not only it isn't part of being grown-up, it's not even required to be grown up to drive US.

esolyt··on Do Users Scroll? – People Don't Scroll
OSX by default doesn't have scrollbars either.

I had changed the setting though, so it was obvious to me that there is more content. But I can easily imagine people not scrolling down and assuming there is no content.

esolyt··on Sockey – A P2P multiplayer soccer game based on WebRTC
Looks like a remake of Haxball (haxball.com) that doesn't require Flash.
esolyt··on Gab is suing Google for allegedly violating antitrust laws
They're trying to gain publicity and strengthen the narrative "liberal California is censoring conservatives".

I don't think they care about winning this either. The kind of people who use gab would already know how to sideload an Android app or use alternative app stores. Besides, you don't need an app, the website does the job too.

esolyt··on Sublime Text 3.0
Sublime's startup time (even before 3.0) never failed to amaze me, especially compared to Atom and VSCode.

And now it starts even faster.

esolyt··on iPhone X
But a twin wouldn't be able to unlock my iPhone 7 with their finerprint.
esolyt··on With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold
They do because that's how most educated Americans describe their country to Europeans.
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