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Comment · 11 years ago
> The distributions of two other metrics of a meal’s health — salt and saturated fat

Did I accidentally fall into a time machine and end up in the 1980s?

Comment · 11 years ago
My favorite "feature" of Chrome is the way it invites people to look through your browsing history every time they open a new tab, and there's no way to disable it. There used to be a way to disable it, but they removed it sometime last year.

Because users don't know what they want, right Google?

Comment · 11 years ago
Almost nothing you said is correct aside from your basic description of the procedure.

Weight loss is rarely the primary goal of FMT and its efficacy in that realm remains unproven. Nowhere did the article imply that any of the things that made you "cringe" are necessary. And oral administration isn't objectively better than the alternatives, nor is it always an option since many people understandably find the idea of swallowing a "poop pill" rather repulsive.

Comment · 11 years ago
> The kind that use proper spelling and punctuation, perhaps?

Don't you mean "the kind who use proper spelling"?

If you're going to correct someone, at least get it right.

Comment · 11 years ago
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
Comment · 11 years ago
> More to the point, who cares?

Did you forget about the entire city of Philadelphia? 14 inches predicted, < 1 inch actual snowfall.

The city is practically a ghost town today thanks to a botched weather forecast. Tons of businesses and schools closed preemptively because they were predicting massive snowfall totals with what seemed like absolute certainty. According to meteorologists here, it wasn't about whether or not we were getting snow, it was about whether we were getting 1 foot or 2 feet.

Comment · 12 years ago
> But if you talk to startups, you find practically every one over a certain size has gone through legal contortions to get programmers into the the US, where they then paid them the same as they'd have paid an American.

The whole argument hinges on this unverified anecdote.

Sorry, but your personal experience isn't universal.

Comment · 12 years ago
That title is mildly infuriating. Using the term "bomb" to refer to software when actual bomb threats have been made is the epitome of clickbait.
Comment · 12 years ago
They addressed that in the article that you're commenting on but didn't read.
Comment · 12 years ago
I stopped updating all my Google apps ~2 years ago because there were so many asinine, unintuitive UI changes with each new version. A lot of their changes didn't even conform to the standards recommended by Google (e.g. menu button locations). It's almost as if the UI team gets bored and decides to make changes just because they need to occupy themselves. And then instead of testing them with actual users, they just talk amongst themselves about how awesome their new set of obscure gestures and button locations are.

I'm afraid to buy a new Nexus because of how bad the application interfaces will probably be.

Comment · 12 years ago
The guy never threatened to target children or reveal any information about them. Why is that so difficult for you to grasp?
Comment · 12 years ago
Not to mention the fact that Asparagirl has intentionally interpreted his comments in the most sensational way possible, even going so far as to fabricate threats.

"Look into your personal lives, your families" somehow magically became:

> threatening to reveal details of the location of their children

There's clearly a great deal of stupidity on both sides here.

Comment · 12 years ago
> Uber explicitly talked about going after reporters' families.

> The obvious implication is that they were going after her kids.

Obvious implication? I think it's more of a convenient assumption you're making to suit your own personal grudge against Uber.

The comments he made were clearly idiotic, but your eagerness to interpret them in the most extreme and sensational way possible is no better.

Comment · 12 years ago
> "your families" = "your children"

I don't think that's a reasonable assumption to make. "Your family" could just as easily be referring to adult family members only (spouses, siblings, parents, etc.).

It seems like you're jumping to that conclusion solely because it makes his comments more inflammatory.

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