thomyorkie

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by thomyorkie 8y ago
What a headline
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by thomyorkie 8y ago
It is short-sited to say advertising eats into the profit of the company. When done successfully, it allows for more goods to be sold which increases profits and in turn allows for more research and development and thus better products.
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by thomyorkie 8y ago
Advertising doesn't necessarily make a product more expensive except where something like cost plus pricing is used.
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
iOS 11.2.6. Its up to date. I can download it if I search for the app from the app store.
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
Downloading the app doesn’t seem to work on my iPhone 7. Just keeps saying it’s connecting to Apple Music.
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
Wonder how this compares in size to Dubai's flying taxis. This one seems like it takes up more space.
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
Based on what?
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
I used to feel this way until I started telling FB to hide or stop certain notifications. Now, most all my notifications are useful.
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
Thanks for the intro. Here is my address: xrb_34qo6c4ojif5ywoa6ymi3k3dwiukwdoutkxz4prniosbwmbgagrzjyds4c41
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Low-fat diet could kill you, major study shows(telegraph.co.uk)
85 points by thomyorkie 9y ago|76 comments
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
> If all giants agreed to open source under the “BSD + patents” scheme, cross-adoption would grind to a halt. Why? If Google released Project X under “BSD + Patents”, and Amazon really liked it, rather than adopting it and losing their r
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Amazon Is the New Tech Crash(dailyreckoning.com)
2 points by thomyorkie 9y ago|0 comments
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The Case Against Reality (2016)(theatlantic.com)
1 points by thomyorkie 9y ago|0 comments
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We're cooked: Earth's atmosphere to warm by at least another 2 degrees(usatoday.com)
2 points by thomyorkie 9y ago|0 comments
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Shigeaki Hinohara Transitioned to a New Career in His 90s(wsj.com)
1 points by thomyorkie 9y ago|0 comments
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We Evolved to Run But We're Doing It Wrong(news.nationalgeographic.com)
387 points by thomyorkie 9y ago|237 comments
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This woman just unveiled a new search company that might make Google worried(businessinsider.com)
3 points by thomyorkie 9y ago|0 comments
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
As someone who played 3 years of football in middle school and 3 years in high school and sustained 2 concussions along with tons of sub-concussive hits, I just hope that by there will be a cure for CTE sometime in the next few decades. Cr
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
How old was he when the early signs began?
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
This doesn't address parent's comment at all. You act as if there's no difference between calling people out for irresponsible behavior and Orwellian policies to control that behavior.
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Don't believe the American Heart Assn – saturated fats aren't likely to kill you(latimes.com)
9 points by thomyorkie 9y ago|1 comments
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
The difference is personalization. I never would visit a portal site like yahoo, but every morning I look through my Google Now feed. Relevance matters.
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
Probably appeals to people with different learning styles than you. Doesn't take much effort for you to stop the video from playing.
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Chemotherapy may spread cancer and trigger more aggressive tumours(telegraph.co.uk)
4 points by thomyorkie 9y ago|0 comments
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All Advanced Aliens Are in Happiness Boxes(omni.media)
3 points by thomyorkie 9y ago|1 comments
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
> Just hanged out. Just FYI, this isn't typical usage. People say hung instead of hanged in this instance.
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
I played around with Watson's visual recognition api and thought it was decent. Care to elaborate?
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
I'd say AI as a service or cognitive computing.
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by thomyorkie 9y ago
> Through an opening in the skin, the patient “clicks” the prosthesis onto a metal rod in the bone. So he has a flap of skin that just spreads apart and reveals this metal rod? How does he avoid infections?
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LDL “Bad Cholesterol” Indicates an Amino Acid Deficiency (2014)(healthimpactnews.com)
2 points by thomyorkie 9y ago|0 comments

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