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lonelappde··on The Year the Internet Thought I Was MacKenzie Bezos
Or just move it a few more sentences away from MacKenzies name, or possibly add some more HTML tag gunk to separate it, or out then author's name near the phone number.
lonelappde··on The Year the Internet Thought I Was MacKenzie Bezos
The tricky thing about search AdWords, different from AdSense, is that for search AdWords, ad revenue comes in when the search results are bad.

Snippets generate revenue due to brand loyalty in the from of future searches.

lonelappde··on Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19
That's not even wrong when you haven't specified anglenpf sun (latitude or time of day.)
lonelappde··on Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19
No. Avoiding a stroke spreads virus more than having a stroke and dying.
lonelappde··on Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-much-vitamin-d-is-t...

"According to the Institute of Medicine, 4000 IU is the safe upper level of daily vitamin D intake. However, doses up to 10,000 IU have not been shown to cause toxicity in healthy individuals"

Probably God to avoid testing the limit if you can.

Are you sure you are a "healthy individual", if you've already diagnosed a health problem that vitamin D can treat?

lonelappde··on Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19
Wow. 1 IU is the biological equivalent of 0.025 mcg cholecalciferol or ergocalciferol

Is there any nutrient that is essential in a smaller quantity than that?

lonelappde··on Researchers unveil a pruning algorithm to shrink deep learning models
Does a GPU run a pruned network slower than unpruned, or just not as faster as the modern shrinkages would suggest?
lonelappde··on Neiman Marcus files for bankruptcy
Why doesn't the property owner buy out, win-win?
lonelappde··on Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
Spolsky cashed out and left.
lonelappde··on Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
It's quite clear that Spolsky simply cashed out and went home.

The best way forward is for someone with a good reputation to take the content and launch a new server, as Spolsky himself always said should happen when SO one day jumps the shark.

lonelappde··on A passwordless server run by NSO Group sparks contact-tracing privacy concerns
Please also add "public demo" to the title. This wasn't a private server.
lonelappde··on A passwordless server run by NSO Group sparks contact-tracing privacy concerns
The deceptive healne, for one.

HN is also a "passwordless server" for non logged in users.

lonelappde··on The AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 CPU Review: A Budget Gaming Bonanza
What is "general purpose" computing at 30+Hhz?

710 plays 1080p YouTube and non-graphics intensive games fine.

lonelappde··on Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds
Housing was one of the successes of Soviet system. Tall apartment buildings surrounded by parks.
lonelappde··on Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds
Why would you expect UBI to survive covid-19? Who would go to work with a virus if they had free money? And what would they do with all that money when nobody wanted to work at a grocery store meat packing plant? At best, inflation would destroy the UBI value.
lonelappde··on Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds
UBI instead of welfare is a libertarian theoretical that isn't gorunded is people's real life concerns or particularly relevant to realpolitik.
lonelappde··on Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds
Problem is, we'll never cure cancer if no one is motivated to solve hard problems.
lonelappde··on Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds
It could be something as simple as a tool that costs a dollar and automatically checks out a popular book from the local library. And it's only in German and works with one library system.
lonelappde··on Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life
It's ok to ask follow-up Why questions.
lonelappde··on Surviving the Hits (2008)
Tomte keeps pushing this article, but nobody cares (except mods?)

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=surviving+the+hits

lonelappde··on ‘It’s gone haywire’: When Covid-19 arrived in rural America
Where are the unemployed foreign doctors?
lonelappde··on ‘It’s gone haywire’: When Covid-19 arrived in rural America
Because rural life is fundamentally economically inefficient, so they can't pay more. Transportation and overhead is too expensive. It only works if its subsidized by altruism of the urban economy, or a huge portion of locals learn the skills for themselves.
lonelappde··on The iPad's new cursor and keyboard
But there isn't a 1:1 mapping between where I am trying to tap and where my fat finger registers a click on a linear screen.
lonelappde··on Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More
The resources are trivial. If you don't like it you don't have to use the app that you chose to install.
lonelappde··on I got my first $50/mo customer
I assume that your business doesn't advertise, yes? Since advertising is a scourge that steals time and attention.
lonelappde··on I got my first $50/mo customer
On a scale of unicorn to Nazi, helping businesses connect with each other is pretty far from Nazi.

Im pretty sure almost every one on Cyberlead's list sends annoying "drip campaign" emails.

lonelappde··on I got my first $50/mo customer
What's the benefit?

Is someone getting a interview or a job because they have a trivial useless repo spammed with commits?

lonelappde··on I got my first $50/mo customer
Indentation is for short monospace code snippets, not blockquotes.

HN cannot render blockquotes, it breaks the page layout.

lonelappde··on Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the heart attacks and strokes?
You not have overlooked these details when you read the article:

> One study collected data from nine hospitals across the country, focusing on a crucial procedure used to reopen a blocked cardiac artery after a heart attack. The hospitals performed 38% fewer of those procedures in March, compared with previous months.

> At Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Dr. Malveeka Sharma has tracked a 60% decline in stroke admissions in the first half of April compared with the previous year

lonelappde··on Wanna Do Business in Pyongyang? Call Alejandro Cao de Benós
Does it matter if he believes it? What matters are his actions.
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