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Expanding on the Nintendo analogy: Magic Leap was/is building a killer gaming console, but with no games to play on.

It exists, but it's not that common. My uncle (in Belgium) had one in his house in the nineties, with mixed opinions. Every x years there's some hype around central vacuum cleaner systems in the building industry, but the excitement is always short lived: no matter the improvements, it's still vacuuming. And most people don't like to do that very often.

> I was itching for this announcement, not because I want to buy an iPhone, but because this will finally mean other manufacturers will start to make compact phones.

There are plenty of compact and competent phones. A Samsung A40 for example is barely larger than this new iPhone SE, but has a 5.9 inch display. A friend wanted a smallish smartphone and she's quiet happy with the form factor.

> It's strange that the list of buses is sorted by bus number and not by time…

You don't randomly hop on the first bus that arrives at your bus stop. You need the bus that brings you to your desired destination. The bus number is important to know you're on the right bus. Sorting by bus number makes it easier to scan for arrival time of the bus you actually need.

That’s too bad. I was really looking forward to go watch another spin-off or trilogy about the gardener who knew the dentist of Han Solo.

One can only hope that people finally get enough of the merciless milking of franchises.

I liked it. The presentation didn't bother me at all, maybe because I read the story on a relatively small smartphone screen. For smaller screens, the formatting works really well.

It was an entertaining read, well written, so kudos to the author for sharing his story in an interesting way.

Right now, the Firefox for Android version is still not available in the Google Play Store.

I've switched to Vivaldi on my desktop and Brave on my smartphone. For now. It's been three days and I'm still waiting for an official release with the add-on fix, can't wait forever.

How do you enable Normandy on Firefox For Android? There's no Normandy in the about:config.

This is such a gigantic mess, even for a very loyal Firefox user it's to swallow.

Not so in Firefox for Android. No normandy to find.

The advice in the article is very universal and not specific to early morning people. A night owl too can prepare his breakfast or lunch, make a plan or meditate before sleep and benefit from that. It takes just a few changes and the title becomes The Secret To Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Night Owl. So what, you wake up early?

That's popularity tracking, not curation.

Does anyone know the non-Luxottica options in Europe, where the market is much more fragmented across countries?

Not only a strict paywall, they're also planning significant price increases for their subscriptions.

I'm curious how this will work out in let's say two years and how this will reduce the current annual loss of 120 million. Desperate times, desperate measures.

Or they have their lunch a bit later, like 2pm. You don't have to have lunch at noon.

$150 with discount or coupon is still way too expensive. Where I live in Europe (Belgium) pharmacies sell the EpiPen for just $50. No need for a coupon, that's the regular price. It's even cheaper for some patients.

Without conversion data it's impossible say something meaningful about the effectiveness of the showcased landing pages.

The author gives several reasons why he likes the examples (creating curiosity, layout, using case studies, ...), but without data it's more about personal preferences, current best practices and common sense. No real secrets.

How is your cousin now? Any-long term effects because of this?

I've been using Aquamail on my tablet for years, it's a nice mail app and they continue to support is. I use it on my tablet for the swipe feature especially.

On my smartphone I'm using MailDroid Pro. Like Aquamail, I'm using it for several years now, steady updates and good support. The reason I use MailDroid on my smartphone is the anti-spam plug-in (they charge extra for that though).

You can see a similar simplification between good and bad in popular movies, like all the superhero movies. It's always the good versus the bad, and the bad can't be helped, they must be punished or -better yet - destroyed.

I'll always remember a quote from a cancer researcher/professor on tv: "You don't have to be an elephant to talk about elephants." Sadly I don't have an elephant's brain so I don't remember the professor's name.

Google's main business is advertising, search is just one of the vehicles to deliver the ads. Google wants you to see, watch and click as many ads as possible. The top search results are all ads and look very similar - more than ever - to real search results. And than you have Youtube, a gorefest of ads and unfiltered comments, with creators begging for likes and subs.

It's not just the consumption and how it affects you. You also have to consider the effect of your alcohol consumption on others, especially your significant other, kids, family or friends.

Maybe you're feeling fine with one bottle of wine every night, but I highly doubt your partner or kids feel the same way. You may not notice it (because your intoxicated, after all), but a bottle of wine does affect your behaviour. Forgetting things, repeating yourself, being annoyed more quickly, incoherent stories, some verbal aggression... all minor things you may not notice, but the people around you do. And they don't like it.

Exactly. Why shoud the health care industry, patients and physicians, trust a company with such a shitty attitude towards customer support? And why do VC's keep investing in a team with such a disdain for its customers?

That comparison would have been great. Annoying ads is one thing, but how effective are they? Modal ads can be really annoying, but some marketers claim that they are highly effective, especially for building a mailingist. Or do we hate some ad types because they are very effective?

The 15% seems fair. I'm not that familiar with the travel industry, how much more is that percentage compared to the commissions paid to traditional travel agencies pre-internet age? There were always,or at least very often, middlemen involved in the travel industry. Is the cut that for example Booking.com takes really that much bigger than travel agents used to take in the eighties?

I'm using earplugs to sleep (and to focus) for more than 25 years now. For a long time I've used the Quies Natural Wax earplugs. Some years ago I switched to Oropax Classic earplugs. Both are made of natural wax. Wax earplugs are easy to fit in your ear and don't press against your inner ear like foam earplugs. Oropax earplugs are a bit bigger than Quies, so they don't just seal your inner ear canal but also a small part of your auricle, providing an extra buffer against sound while still being comfortable.

I'm not sure self driving vehicles will magically make food delivery profitable. Sure, self driving cars can bring the food to the front of my door or house, but how will the food get into my place? Maybe that's okay for a sandwich for one person, but a soon as we're talkang about a complete meal for two or more people, it becomes a completely different story.

Are people really willing to pay a premium delivery fee, only to have to carry the heavy or hot packages themselves into the house, elevator, appartement? In the rain, cold or snow? In the dark?

Self driving food delivery has a 'last mile' problem. Sure you can transport the food to my sidewalk that way, but how do you get it to or over my doorstep without ruining the whole convenience experience, in a sustainable and profitable way?

With all the extra funds that the NHS will be getting thanks to Brexit, paying for that lesson won't be a problem. /s

It looks really great. It would be nice if 2-factor authentication was standard (startup/professional) feature, now it's enterprise only.