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fasicle··on Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed for 3 years
It will be interesting to see if the babies grow up with any side affects from the editing. DNA is hugely complex and changing some elements of it could easily effect other parts (I imagine).
fasicle··on Bunk bed is $1,200 a month, privacy not included
The co-living is split into 3 apartments per floor with 6 floors. People in each apartment (~6 people) share a kitchen.

The main difference to a regular apartment are the events in the building - yoga sessions, regular community dinners, weekly football matches, parties etc. Everyone in the building gets to know each other pretty quickly. Average age is about 29.

fasicle··on Bunk bed is $1,200 a month, privacy not included
I recently moved into a co-living space in Madrid and really enjoying it - I can see it becoming much more popular in the future. The social aspect for someone like me who moved to a new city is huge.

Living in a bunk is a different story - I've stayed in my fair share of hostels and honestly the worst part about a shared room is the snorers (even with ear plugs etc.)

fasicle··on Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you
I'm getting about 90% whitespace on the home page (using a Pixel 2). I have to scroll loads to get to the bottom 5% of content. Just an FYI
fasicle··on Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
I recently purchased the Samsung Galaxy Active 2 and am loving it so far. Fitness tracking seems to be accurate too.

Would be interesting to see the market share of Apple, Samsung and Garmin for smart watches.

fasicle··on WeWork's Adam Neumann offered package worth up to $1.7B to step down from board
"$185 million consulting fee"

Now that's a steep consulting rate, wonder what he bills per hour

fasicle··on Saudi Aramco Is the WeWork of Energy with Pulled IPO
And they are extremely profitable, unlike WeWork.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/business/saudi-aramco-pro...

fasicle··on Amazon is shipping expired food, customers say
Still usually the fastest / most convenient way for me to get products in the U.K.

I've personally never had any issues with Amazon in terms of quality, but would never buy anything from them I put in my body - I usually stick to electronics of value < £100.

fasicle··on Soli
Would be useful when cooking with mess on your hands and trying to scroll through a recipe.
fasicle··on Why Enterprise Software Sucks
Yeah me too, I find MS Word very useful too tbh. Not sure why higher level comment thinks people hate them.
fasicle··on Cryptocurrency Startup School
They have been talking about it and investing in crypto companies for a while.

https://a16z.com/crypto/

fasicle··on Have Online Reviews Lost All Value?
I've noticed this is particularly common on the Google Play store. Apparently the reason is reviews which go against what most people are reviewing are given a higher priority and more likely to be shown to potential users.

E.g. if an app is getting mostly 5 stars and you give it a 1 star, your rating will be more prominently shown in Google Play.

fasicle··on The Apple Store (2004)
I was wondering why the only other language they appear to have the store in is "en français", which you can change to at the bottom.

Then saw in the URL that it's their Canadian store so makes sense.

fasicle··on Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project Voldemort’ Dossier
SNAP have had a great last 12 months, market cap up to 23.65B
fasicle··on Thomas Cook collapses, stranding 150k UK holidaymakers
Thomas Cook to cost the taxpayer £100m for the repatriation of Thomas Cook customers - known as Operation Matterhorn.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/business-49770809

fasicle··on Ex-Facebook engineer mocks the culture and jokes about how he was fired
His other videos are worth a watch as well, so funny! Reading the YouTube comments to his vids is very entertaining
fasicle··on Ex-Facebook engineer mocks the culture and jokes about how he was fired
I actually think the way he advertises his products in his videos is pretty good, he does it so unashamedly
fasicle··on LastPass bug leaks credentials from previous site
Makes it harder to switch to another browser (I do also use the Chrome built-in password storage).
fasicle··on Being ‘Indistractable’
I second David Goggins’ book “Can’t Hurt Me”, inspirational read.
fasicle··on Parasite SEO
"Google can do whatever it wants" - wouldn't this be anti-competitive behaviour if they stated favouring certain sites in their algorithm?

I seem to remember reading somewhere that they get audited to make sure they don't do this, although can't find the link.

fasicle··on Parasite SEO
Domain Authority (DA) is a search engine ranking score developed by Moz that predicts how well a website will rank on search engine result pages.

https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority

fasicle··on [dead]
I saw your comment before being deleted and the line about people only using Brave if they are 'homophobic...' might have been part of it.
fasicle··on [dead]
Seeing 'Yahoo! Mail' at number 3 on that list is interesting, didn't realise many people still used it
fasicle··on Basecamp's Protest Google Ad
"it's easy to skim past them to the first organic search result"

From my experience, so few people actually do this. When I watch friends or family use Google, they almost always click on the first or second result without thinking that it is probably an ad.

fasicle··on Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier
How would a Tesla's initial torque compare to the Bugatti? Would the Bugatti reach 30 mph much faster?
fasicle··on Verified by Twilio
As a counterpoint, I've lived in the U.K. most of my life and very rarely get spam calls (maybe ~5 a year). When I do it's almost always people trying to sell stuff / services to my startup.
fasicle··on Cruise-line companies are building private Caribbean play zones
I talked to some of the locals, very mixed opinions although many saw the benefits to the economy of these big groups. Also governments will not always do what locals want as they might stand more to benefit from ships than the locals.
fasicle··on Cruise-line companies are building private Caribbean play zones
"How bad this form of travel is for... the visited cities"

I was holidaying in Split, Croatia when the MS Queen Elizabeth [1] docked and thousands of people descended onto the city from it.

The quiet city became absolutely packed with tour groups from the ship, completely ruined the atmosphere.

I guess the cruise tourists do bring in quite a bit of money from eating in the restaurants, buying souvenirs etc, so not that much of a negative for the locals.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Queen_Elizabeth

fasicle··on Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature
I wonder how useful this feature would actually be to the average listener.

I usually listen to Audible when I can't or don't want to read (e.g. walking or on a commute).

fasicle··on Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click
Yeah I do this all the time. Quicker than opening up MS Word to spellcheck.
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