dynamicvariable

> I love HN sometimes. A long thread of nutritional bro science getting basic physiology wildly wrong, literally leading off with the comment “don’t listen to what those doctors tell you”? All kosher.

So you are agreeing with me? Not to take medical advice from anonymous internet sources? Seems like you are saying the same thing I'm saying.

> Highly appreciated.

The first rule of the internet is don't take medical advice from anonymous people on the internet. The second rule of the internet is don't take medical advice from anonymous people on the internet.

Ever waste days debugging a subtle bug introduced by C macros? It's PTSD material.

I love C but I will never understand why C has a naive macro system.

> I think one side affect of the surge of IT into advertising, is that it has become easier to measure exactly how well advertising works. By and large, it doesn't, very well.

I just don't understand the anti-social media agenda. The same people who for 2 years have been saying that social media advertising is so effective that it got trump elected are now saying it is ineffective. They demand that political advertising on social media be monitored because it is so effective that it gets presidents elected. Now, it's social media ad spending is so ineffective that these companies won't be around.

> What's happening to billboards and newspapers right now is probably coming to several other industries soon.

What's happening to billboards and newspapers is that ad money is flooding into digital space ( where the young kids are ).

https://www.iab.com/news/digital-ad-spend-increases-23-year-...

https://www.recode.net/2017/9/14/16294450/mobile-ad-spending...

Why speak so authoritatively about something you obviously know nothing about?