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Re:Paper Map Sales Are Booming on Monday January 23, 2023 @08:40PM (#34497937)
I live USA, Stanford engineer, have an Android phone and will likely never have an iPhone. My other gender breeding partner has to have an apple, so I use hers at times and am appalled at how difficult things are. But if she can't facetime friends, then she will lose face. I get free phones, and see pays large fees for hers. Sorry, I pass. I work in finance BTW.

Ask HN: Product Needed – Willing to Pay

I'm willing to pay for a product.Product: Internet search engineFeatures: Give me check boxes so I can select: No ads, No Javascript, no autoload vids, forum only, wiki only, .gov only, .edu only, .org only, etc. (ie quick, easy, granular control over my searches).Code used: As lite as possible. No cutesy jiggly stuff. You can make modern design without all the JS and other crap. No tracking or...

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They are making their margin from the fancy marketing, AND from not having to talk with their doc about it. It is called the shame coefficient. Clearly prices can be had for significantly less as seen in a comparison site [1]

[1] vqRN : http://vqrn.com/Compare-Pharmacies-Viagra.html

Ask HN: Online Certs and Degrees Help

Greetings fellow HNers. I spend about half of every day volunteering time assisting disadvantaged teens and young adults here in Las Vegas.They are time, travel, and resource constrained which usually causes an impediment to further learning. I need help compiling a list for them of online learning resources that results in something that an employer will value.Thank you!

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Re:Ask HN: Getting a Cs Degree After 15 Years in the Industry? on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:18PM (#19212094)
Here is what I would do: 1. Find online degree at REAL university. 2. IF they don't let you challenge the final exam, then let the videos run on a separate machine while you work. THEN take final.

List of REAL universities that offer REAL degrees online:

http://ecampus.wisconsin.edu/

http://online.unl.edu/

http://online.missouri.edu/

http://bamabydistance.ua.edu/

http://asuonline.asu.edu/

http://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/

http://online.wsu.edu/

It took me a while to compile this list. They don't advertise. I'm sure there are others that I missed. Many good PAC-12 schools in that list!

Re:Oat Milk Could Change the Way You Drink Coffee (2018) on Friday February 08, 2019 @05:14PM (#19119183)
For men over 45, there is a correlation between milk and BPH (enlarged prostate and difficulty in urination). Farmers inject hormones (and other things), and the animal produces its own. All of these excrete into the milk causing irritation to the prostate and the resulting enlargement causes difficulty in urination. Same problem with whey protein powders and cheese. BUT! If the item is cooked, then there does not seem to be an effect. [1]

[1] http://vqrn.com/Prostate-Milk-Problem.html

Re:The rise of alternative milks on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @06:36PM (#19101328)
There is another reason to switch from milk. For men over the age of 45, there is correlation between the natural (or added) hormones excreted into the milk and prostate growth causing an increase in urination difficulty. [1]

[1] http://vqrn.com/Prostate-Milk-Problem.html

There is some anecdotal evidence that the ED drugs are being used less because of the canabis affect on the stage fright type of ED - relaxing. [1]

[1] http://vqrn.com/Erectile-Augmentation-Dysfunction.html

Re:Writing copy for landing pages on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @05:04PM (#18720190)
Hacker News landing page is excellent in that it gets me to the info/product immediately. I don't need to scroll though walls of text about Ycomb and endless stupid photos.[1] But for a first time visitor, there is a lot of "WTF?" because of no what/why being answered, which could be done in one sentence.

Craigslist's home page is excellent again because it gets you immediately into use, but it again fails miserably in the what/why question. [2] Just a single line saying "find stuff locally" is all it needs.

Example of a site that gets you into the product immediately and gives you a one liner that answers the what/why would be vqRN. [3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/ [2] https://www.craigslist.org [3] http://vqRN.com

Re:The internet war on sex is here on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:29PM (#18659596)
This is entirely uncool. We as a species are evolving sexually as the constraints of pre-marital and no-divorce are being rejected. Over 25% of babies in Denmark are now conceived by using sperm banks. [1] Men and women need new ways to feel whole and complete. At times this is by porn. Other times it is by using erectile augmentation pharmaceuticals. [2] So we need to make this EASIER, not HARDER! We are at a critical juncture in our sexual evolution. This could even increase depression cases.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45512312 [2] http://vqrn.com/Erectile-Augmentation-Dysfunction.html

Re:Universal flu vaccine remains ‘an alchemist’s dream’ on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @07:01PM (#18614051)
I've noticed that as I get older, I generally get sick less often and in less severity. This is probably because I have been exposed to so many variants through getting sick so often when I was young and also getting the flu shots yearly for the past 25 years. Seems like I've just built up a bit of a strong defense because my body's database of seen viruses is fairly long.

That all being said, I (and we) still need to be smart about reacting to an infection. It seems that reacting quickly with the cold meds can help the body react to the exponential growth of the infection. This seems to give the body time to react and catch up with the defenses. Waiting until the symptoms are the worst to take meds is the wrong process. [1]

[1] http://vqrn.com/Colds-and-Flu.html

Re:Ask HN: Can Aspartame cause diabetes on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @04:49PM (#18506389)
Anecdotal evidence from my personal experience. I am diabetic. After watching my body's response to aspartame, I dropped eating or drinking anything with it in it. It also caused a brain fuzziness where I had trouble recalling words and memories. This affect was also reported by a friend who was drinking lots of aspartame. Try to focus on non-sweetened or naturally sweetened. If you go for artificial, spread your consumption around to the various types to keep the negative effects minimized.[1]

[1] http://vqrn.com/Sugar-Free-Foods.html

Re:Web.dev by Google on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:07PM (#18463333)
Agreed! I love the text only sites. I would add text.npr.org to the list also. I am very tired of sites that spill media and JavaScript all over the place and add no real value, just to slow the site down or to make it completely unusable. A typical site of mine breaks all the rules of current UI design. [1]

[1] http://vqRN.com

Re:The promise and peril of gene drives on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @03:55PM (#18453856)
I am of the opinion of nuking blood sucking insects - major vectors of terrible diseases. Nature will find a way to fill in the food-tree. Yale University is discussing these issues from various angles [1]

[1]https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/editing-nature-a-c...

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