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toper-centage··on How much do things really cost?
What is your point? Tomatoes are grown in sunny locations and usually watered artificially. So ungrown tomatoes are unwatered tomatoes.
toper-centage··on The human genome is, at long last, complete
Do junk DNA is like code styling and comments in programming.
toper-centage··on California study begins screening for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD
Just to add: pill form doesn't necessarily mean it's not pure MDMA; on the other hand, powder or crystal form doesn't mean it's pure MDMA. When buying illegal substances from unknown sources, the truth is you don't know what you are taking, period.
toper-centage··on Ask HN: What on-call benefits do you get in your company?
Isn't that an incentive to break things on purpose and be called in more often?
toper-centage··on EU Buried $400k Study Showing Piracy Have Almost No Effect on Sales (2017)
I'm the same as you. I subscribe to Netflix so long as there's something I'm watching, then stop. Then I might subscribe to something else. People that complain about having to pay for all services are just power users, and I think it's fair that I don't pay as much as them.
toper-centage··on Vitamin D supplements lower risk of autoimmune disease, researchers say
It's 0ºC here. The only exposed skin is the center of my face. I find it hard to believe 15 minutes of exposure are enough.
toper-centage··on Apple: Design Macs for Other Types of Professionals
I understand that this "something" is MacOS. If you're a Mac user, you're at the mercy of whatever Apple gives you. For a non tech person, changing operating systems might not be trivial. But even then, I would just advise the author to explore ecosystems that do provide them with flexibility and accessibility.
toper-centage··on Show HN: A simple tool to help filter recruiter spam
Quit linkedin then. Or at the very least disable notifications from it.
toper-centage··on Show HN: Hebrew Wordle
What are the rules then? I'm typing words and it's saying they are not legal words?
toper-centage··on When tracking your period lets companies track you
Age, sex, size and weight are needed to accurately count calories. Now, whether you should sacrifice your private data for some slight extra accuracy in counting calories, thst another story.
toper-centage··on I quit caffeine
Doesn't pre-workout contain a fair amount of caffeine as well?
toper-centage··on I quit caffeine
I never have withdrawal symptoms just cravings, usually after lunch. But I strictly drink maximum 1 cup per day, 2 if I didn't sleep so well, and when I feel my tolerance going up, I take a week or two of caffeine break to reset the tolerance. Cafeeine is a tool to me.
toper-centage··on UCLA Study Finds Laughter in 65 Species, from Rats to Cows
Is there any fundamental difference between poor people and rich people other than their privilege and riches? Could poor people send a space telescope to space?

Human animals have very similar tools to those of other social animals. We're just privileged to somehow be able to stack up our experiences to create science and technology. But isolated tribes in the amazon could never send telescopes to space.

So we're only special due to our circunstance. Our bodies are barely fit to stand and walk all day, we're pushing the limits of where we're supposed to live, and our diets are all wrong. But we make it work because our ancestors developed knowledge sharing to a global level.

Were just very lucky priviledged apes.

toper-centage··on UCLA Study Finds Laughter in 65 Species, from Rats to Cows
That's my main argument against flexitarianism. You can't be "kinda vegan" without leaving your brain in permanent stress due to dissonance. It's part of what stops me from adopting an animal, specially a cat.
toper-centage··on Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence
There's is good versionimg in confluence, and also good search. The editor is also nice (improved a lot since a few years ago). Compared to the mess that is JIRA, I actually like confluence.
toper-centage··on Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up
I wonder if by diffusion alone its been enough time that touching Elvis breath atoms is a certainty within a year?
toper-centage··on How do I open the Mercedes EQS’s hood?
Hopefully, brands like Fairphone and Framework have some level of impact in the industry. I have decided to never buy a conventional phone or laptop again that is not modular and repairable like this, as long as brands like these exist.
toper-centage··on Lab Leak 2.0?
But we never have the full picture. 2020 was a year where several countries closed their borders and restricted domestic travel. Many countries were not sequencing the virus. It's not that far fetched that we'd see a descendent of an ancient variant if it had been in hiding in some remote isolated village in a poor country.
toper-centage··on 'Amazon knows more about you than your best friend or your doctor'
That's because amazon seems to be optimized to show you popular items with big profit margins, more than "items you should like". It's ridiculous.
toper-centage··on Microsoft Edge is the top downloaded package on macOS Homebrew
You want to avoid Google for Microsoft? What is the reason?
toper-centage··on Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
Do you ever struggle with the parts of the bible that feel outdated in the modern context? I never read the bible by myself, but I went to Sunday school for 9 years and I remember struggling as a child to conciliate what I was being taught at school and at chruch, and specially ignoring the hipocrisy of the people lecturing the bible stuff not practicing any of that. I don't remember specific examples, as this was 15 years ago and I've since become atheist.
toper-centage··on Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity
Keeping that list doesn't make them money. Forcing you to buy new games does.
toper-centage··on Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity
> every console

Except the Switch.

toper-centage··on Show HN: I'm building a non-profit search engine
While Ecosia is not technically a non-profit, no one can sell Ecosia shares at a profit.

> Ecosia says that it was built on the premise that profits wouldn’t be taken out of the company. In 2018 this commitment was made legally binding when the company sold a 1% share to The Purpose Foundation, entering into a ‘steward-ownership’ relationship.

> The Purpose Foundation's steward-ownership of Ecosia legally binds Ecosia in the following ways: - Shares can't be sold at a profit or owned by people outside of the company and - No profits can be taken out of the company.

https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/technology/how-ethical-searc...

toper-centage··on We Are Go for Launch
Not sure what you mean. There are several telescopes out in orbit [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_telescope#/media/File%...

toper-centage··on ADHD Accommodations Guide
Accessibility is for everyone. Everyone is disabled at least sometimes.
toper-centage··on Twitter’s founder admits that shutting down the API was “worst thing we did”
I'm just going to ignore it until it either evaporates away. Web 2.0 was basically sitting on the same stuff as 1.0 (html+Javascript, server, database), just with more moving dynamic parts. Since web3 wants to change this, I doubt it will amount to anything.
toper-centage··on Face recognition is being banned, but it’s still everywhere
The annoying part is that there's no opt out. And when there is, it's obscure (you can express that to the staff), and makes you look hella suspicious.
toper-centage··on Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year
These are very old power plants that need to be decommissioned.
toper-centage··on DuckDuckGo is working on a privacy-focused desktop browser
They are not building a browser engine.
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