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tdy_err··on CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads
My remarks were made in context where it is being claimed that “a new mystery ingredient” is cause for concern. I stated what ingredients are used as a point about how unlikely it would be for something out-of-the-blue to permeate the market.
tdy_err··on CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads
My remarks were made in context where it is being claimed that “a new mystery ingredient” is cause for concern. I stated what ingredients are used as a point about how unlikely it would be for something out-of-the-blue to permeate the market.
tdy_err··on Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking
> As most PC gamers know by now, the Epic Games Store has been signing exclusives to its digital distribution platform. Unfortunately, some of these games already had Steam Store pages, creating the expectation for some that it would be launching on that service in the near future. Now, some reportedly recent Steam TOS changes may very well halt this practice entirely.

- If you put up a Steam Store page, you can’t release the game earlier on another platform. - Any patches/updates must be released for Steam at the same time as they are on other platforms. - Games can be released on other platforms, but you can’t put up a Steam store page until 30 days before the Steam release or the game’s original release, depending on which of the two is earlier.

tdy_err··on CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads
Three are and have always been three components of e-liquid:

- propylene glycol (used in ice-cream soda etc)

- vegetable glycerin

- food flavoring

Besides proportions changing the only other variant is the type of flavoring. It's not actually too complicated. And If one of those ingredients was suddenly tainted people using vaporizers would not be the only ones affected, of course.

tdy_err··on Anti-handcuffs Protective wear to slow down police speedcuffs
Kent State Shootings - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
tdy_err··on Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again
There is a Face ID setting to require attention that you can disable which would then allow you to unlock the phone without looking at it. Of course, your face still has to be in front of the phone somewhere, but your gaze needn’t be on the device.
tdy_err··on Airmail suddenly requires a subscription for push notifications
It’s not about fixing the price as much as it is fixing the actual product. If someone pays for a product and then has it taken away by the seller —essentially a racket— it damages the validity of the marketplace.
tdy_err··on Spurred by Amazon, Supermarkets Try Swapping Cashiers for Cameras
E.g.: Theaters don’t allow entry without tickets.
tdy_err··on Why HBO’s Chernobyl gets nuclear so wrong
Something like just 10% of global energy is provided by ~450 nuclear power plants.

NASA conducted a study about how different energy sources impact human health and found that nuclear energy had the least affect on human wellbeing.

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/coal-and-gas-are-far-more-...

Nuclear research was killed in the 80's. We still use uranium instead of thorium, which not only outputs significantly more power but also cannot be used to creat nuclear weapons. Instead of engineering solutions we draft contractual promises to thwart weapons development.

People once dreamed of a utopia when reactors were first theorized. But, after a string of accidents, we grew too afraid to make anything better than light water reactors (which we almost didn't build at all until the Afghan wars caused oil prices to skyrocket) and we never got there.

tdy_err··on GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work
GitHub (CEO) claims customer support looked into this prior to any tweets FWIW
tdy_err··on A $999 monitor stand is everything wrong with Apple today
I think it's a misrepresented discount. Like, most pros have VESA mounts already. So they discount the monitor... So you don't have to pay for it if you don't need it.

But the message about that reason is not there and therefore it sounds like nickel and diming.

Instead we should consider it as:

$6000 for the monitor with stand OR $5200 for the monitor with VESA mount

tdy_err··on Urql: a GraphQL client library
No, I prefer writing an API endpoint and controller method for every resource I need to use on the client.
tdy_err··on The boring front-end developer (2014)
> without constantly waiting for webpack to finish compiling the code

We have 50,000~ LoC in our front-end and the Webpack development-server is rebuilding in 2-3 seconds.

tdy_err··on 60 days in jail for not paying a $2.75 subway fare costs the city $22,000
It's unclear why this is but a quick search will show that children are not required to eat at school at all, so they are free to eat at home or off campus somewhere too.
tdy_err··on Show HN: Hacker Feed – An iOS app for reading Hacker News
Consider supporting freemium software that you enjoy using —especially when maintained by individual developers— if you ever hope for it to be maintained.
tdy_err··on Show HN: Hacker Feed – An iOS app for reading Hacker News
Octal - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/octal/id1308885491?mt=8
tdy_err··on Show HN: My interview with patio11 and other profitable side project hackers
You may see a growth in audience if you extend your site styling to support mobile devices.
tdy_err··on Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try
Pausing based on time away from target tab rather than number of other-tabs open seems ideal to me. The Great Suspender uses this approach.
tdy_err··on These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people from passing (2011)
You just look at hiring trends.
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