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underdown··on I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services
It’s a hand out to advertisers losing uuids.
underdown··on Eat Real Food
Grain finished has higher fat content. Better marbling and generally grades higher. Wagyu is grain fed for a reason.
underdown··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
The ad industry is a quagmire of fraud. Assuming someone got value out of money spent is tenuous.
underdown··on Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?
Labor is typically ~33% of a restaurants costs.
underdown··on European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech
I make 4x in the US what I’d make in Germany.
underdown··on A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house
Well, now I’m convinced
underdown··on TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.
Putin already took the land, it’s not an issue of handing over anything.
underdown··on My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
Well done. I like it. Could use an indicator showing an attack is available.
underdown··on WordPress.org's latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin
At a minimum a plugin that Wordpress was forced to “fork”.
underdown··on Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
This is almost as embarrassing as data centers in space getting funded. lol.
underdown··on Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
The Pendleton civil service reform act of 1883. It effectively ended the spoils system that previously allowed what you’re suggesting.
underdown··on Private spies hired by FBI and corporations infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp
The 4th amendment should prevent them from spying on us without cause.
underdown··on Be careful what you test or deploy to Vercel
Vercel is sooo easy. Hook it to a repo and you’re done. It’s also cheap depending on use case. Edge functions are nice. Zero complaints from me as a customer for a little over a year.

I work with a small crew and having no server maintenance lets us ship more code. Really as simple as that.

underdown··on Review: The Guerilla's Guide to the Baofeng Radio
I read this book two weeks ago. This review is dead on. The book definitely sparked my interest to learn more. I take my technician exam next weekend. My one complaint about the book is the typography and spacing is pretty bad - at least the Amazon version I bought.
underdown··on Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
You’re describing a multivariate test. Two groups under two different algorithm variants. Multivariate tests still require control groups.
underdown··on JFK Assassination Records – 2022 Additional Documents Release
Is there a huge gulf? They are the three main crimes all drug cartels commit. Seems more like a natural progression than a gulf.
underdown··on Google’s apps to embrace iOS on iOS
Skeuomorphic design simply doesn’t work. Turning knobs and dials on a touchscreen? It’s a three dimensional interface slapped on a 2d canvas.
underdown··on Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle
I assume you mean deaths from swattings. There are swattings every year in Chicago.
underdown··on Austin cyclists split on sharing bike lanes with pizza delivery robots
More traffic in bike lanes means more dead cyclists.
underdown··on 1989 Yugo GVL: Performance Testing
This was my first car. It had a push button start and got 45mpg highway.
underdown··on Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’
I honestly can't tell if you're trolling. "La-tinks" is just as much of an anglo-ization as pronouncing it like "Kleenex". There aren't a lot of cases in Spanish where three consonants are mashed together. Especially not ending with an "s" sound.
underdown··on How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions
The business is incentivized to lobby regulators and eliminate price competitors.
underdown··on Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Instagram for children [pdf]
In the US it's defined by COPPA. Children's online privacy & protection act
underdown··on Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
He is still the president today, making your argument dubious.
underdown··on No More KYC with ShapeShift
You still have to pay taxes on unemployment income
underdown··on After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off
This is typically what companies spending 57m on ads do. Its less expensive per click/impression as fb/Google don't take a cut. More expensive to manage.
underdown··on Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
If ozonetel is trademarked it's generally against Google Ads TOS for competitors to use the term in ad copy. File a complaint.
underdown··on Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?
L-citrulline is on the GRAS list. There are dozens of supplements for sale on Amazon.
underdown··on Lessons learned from onboarding emails with no HTML styling
Tbh I've never optimized for reply rate so this could have been true for me as well. Generally selling dtc. Open rate and sales increased reliably 10-15%. Haven't done any comparable email marketing in two years so things may have changed since then and obviously my anecdata may not be true for you.
underdown··on Lessons learned from onboarding emails with no HTML styling
Emojis in subject line reliably increase open rate in my experience. Also others report the same:

https://www.outreach.io/blog/will-emojis-increase-reply-rate...

Maybe SO emails go over the top though

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