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Photoshop. or Gimp.

I mean it's superimposing text, possibly at different fonts, sizes, angles; then combining various images, again possibly at different rotations, and then applying filters.

Tools exist for this.

A "meme making app" made sense when it was just top and bottom text over an image, but these people are basically saying they want a heavyweight image editor.

>it would have to be true that (they) ... are all simply idiots who are not as smart as you.

Peer pressure and advertising allow for many other possible explanations.

>for example, I did not try to evaluate arguments about “good carbs” vs. “bad carbs.”

That turned me off real fast.

>Perhaps particular types of carbs, fats, or proteins — e.g. refined carbohydrates, or sugars, or something else — are reliably linked to obesity. But I haven’t investigated any of those hypotheses yet.

That's much better, but implies the rest of the article doesn't address it. "Carbs" can mean broccoli or pure sugar. The difference between broccoli and sugar is "Complex Carbs" vs "Simple Carbs". Simple carbs come from things like sugar, they break down really fast and the foods that contain them tend to be very "Calorically Dense", or have a shitload of calories by volume.

EG a small blizzard from diary queen has 660 calories(1). That's the same as 4.3lbs of broccoli (2)

You can polish off a small blizzard after a meal. You cannot eat four pounds of broccoli in one sitting. 660 Calories is also a respectable size for a meal, given the generic daily recommendation of 2000 calories. Though again the blizzard's calories are being added onto a meal.

Carbs are not bad. Any kind of diet with a "silver bullet" to eat or avoid is overly simplistic and probably just preying on the hopeful.

Understanding what macronutrients are and where they come from and what they do, and eating a fairly restrictive diet is a solid and sustained way to lose weight.

For what it's worth, I don't think carbohydrates cause obesity. I think widely available overly sugary garbage food does. I don't know where you live but you'd be hard pressed to find a plate of steamed vegetables and grilled chicken downtown. You can get fast food though.

(1) https://www.dairyqueen.com/us-en/Company/Nutrition/Treats/

(2) https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/broccoli-raw-4255...

>In the case of maps, there weren't many great alternatives for a long time, due to Google sucking all the oxygen/profit potential out of the field with their excellent free offerings.

ianal and all that, but isn't somewhere antitrust- or monopoly- adjacent?

I know if walmart moved into a new city and started giving away hardware for free, then waited until all the local hardware stores had been shut down for 10 months, and then jacked up their prices to 100 times what they used to be before going free, that'd be pretty illegal.

>Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

I'm sure you meant to phrase it differently but in its current form, your comment comes across as more snarky than substantive or civil.

Is there a good way to find these free laptop scams?

I'm looking for good use cases to sharpen my selenium skills and like wasting scammer's time.

>The cruelty of both individuals and regimes that forcibly separate children from their parents, detain and imprison people they regard as "alien" or "unworthy" under horrible circumstances

I thought I was in for a nice long story about history but it's just someone on reddit calling the Trump administration nazis again.

No thanks, not interested. Not hacking, not news.

Not like I'm the arbiter of what makes it on this site but I don't come here for emotional bait and political... anything, really.

This is frustrating because I expect wikipedia to be neutral.

Clean, pure, informational; the opposite of "7 reasons $politician hates America".

Honestly when a group like wikipedia makes a move like this it just undermines my trust in them.

Then again it's not unreasonable to look at every information source with narrowed eyes.

Generally I think you're right, but Seneca may have said that before Oprah did.

I've been in a couple of those trials.

They make it very clear that the drug has already been tested extensively and also do fairly extensive testing on you to make sure your vitals are within the "normal" range.

I got a very clear impression that they're not throwing pills at the wall to see which one sticks.

I'm also working at a startup that's had three names and just as many products, funded by a VC who's just going to start another one with most of the same people whether this one works or not.

It doesn't matter one bit if this startup fails. The drug was pretty clearly indicated to work by the time a person swallowed a pill.

Different worlds.

Anecdotal but I feel like I'm that kind of person but absolutely don't want to run a business.

The worst case scenario of my own business is the whole thing crashing and me having to reorganize my life to accommodate whatever job I can find before my emergency fund runs out.

The worst case scenario for being an employee is getting fired. Pretty much the same outcome but much, much harder to hit.

If I want to start a family or just have a stable enough career to (essentially) never worry about going broke, I'll take the latter. That personality profile just makes keeping a job as simple as hitting the bare minimum requirements (which you habitually blaze past).

I don't think anyone believes a strike is a great business move.

Strikes are to be avoided if possible but they're a forcing function to improve work conditions, not a strategy to boost revenue.

This isn't a good article.

The title is distilled clickbait.

The 3 simple tricks in the article don't have their value or necessity proven in the article; they're just stated.

The conclusion of the article is "I built an app"

>As we have finished the alpha version, we are calling it as a success. We need 5 more weekends to upgrade the design before we launch beta. Want to be a part of it?

So it's essentially marketing couched in mediocre productivity advice.

I think a lot of people would be very interested in a job posting with a tagline like: "We don't have ping pong or topo chico; we have eight hour workdays".

If I saw that, saw a clear description of the thing they're building and reasoned that it provides value to someone, I'd be over the moon.

>Voat has fulminating hate boners and tumbleweeds, and literally nothing else.

I go there and I can tell you this is categorically false. No one's asking you about "the JQ" in the gardening or painting communities.

There's a lot of VERY unpalatable content on voat because its free speech and censorship policies allow what nearly no one else will, but to claim that's literally all that's present there is just a case of finding what you set out to find regardless of what's there.

Freedom means accepting the existence or discussion of things you don't like.

I think you're wrong when you say people don't want freedom or a no-censorship environment because reddit is popular. What people want and what people will tolerate are very different things.

Good shilling (or "guerilla marketing") is hardly detectable, whereas people that complain about it are trying to draw attention. That could explain why cases of one are more visible (regardless of the actual frequency of either).

Good shilling is hardly detectable. Front the logo on a can of coke and leave it in frame (next to a ring maybe) while a couple kisses, post it with the title "happiest moment of my life".

It's subtle, you can use photoshop to make it, and anyone who would call you out on it can easily be framed as whiny and paranoid. They don't have the funds to buy influence on the thread anyway, so you could just slide their posts and avoid dealing with them if you wanted.

I'm not saying anything about how often this stuff actually happens (because no one will tell you they've done it so metrics aren't possible), but I will say only the most obvious plays can get caught. But enough about that, let's just talk about Rampart (joking there, I think AMAs are basically stated to be promotion, it just popped into my head)

I would be astonished if google was not recording every bit of data they could from google voice.

They do text transcription for voicemails; I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't have text transcripts of all calls that went through google voice as well.

I have similar concerns about google fiber, although I don't have the evidence to back any of it up.

Fair enough, but I have a hard time google maps is building this system purely out of altruistic intentions, and not to sell us on the locations that pay their way into the "hip local venue" group a la yelp.

It tends to isolate people into self-reinforcing communities, many of which have two things in common: They have an enemy that they demonize, and they admit no wrong.

Not all communities are like that, but when communities (and now that I think about it, especially ones where your comments can get some kind of point or reward) get big they trend towards that. Possibly because those behaviors are low-hanging fruit in terms of your comment earning points. Points feel good. No one likes to admit it but they do.

If they just said that I'd respect it more than I do after 1500 words of self aggrandizing nonsense about how no other typeface reflects "their brand's personality".

This is why people make fun of silicon valley. Your new font isn't changing the world and it's not adding value to anything. Certainly not adding value equal to its cost.

The installation process isn't the sum total of the point there. Known-good is better than unknown, all other things equal (and not to sound condescending but they basically are).

It's low risk but frankly it's even lower reward. If their goal was to distinguish themselves, perhaps they could do it more effectively through something people would notice.

I think the fact that this new font has an installed base of 0 counts against it's versatility.

I think the fact that a negligible amount of the general public could pick the new font (knowingly, not by guessing) out of a group of 9 other sans fonts counts against it's ability to distinguish the airbnb brand from others.

This is a really odd place to leap to from "google is going to show how much time you spend on the phone and in each app".

It's also a good reminder of why having a bit on your phone that reminds you how long you've been on it is a good idea.

Too much of the internet is toxic.

I get a local newspaper that shows restaurant openings and closings; it seems like a much better fit for that kind of information than something global like google maps.

Google maps should be answering two questions: Where is it, and how do I get there. "What's cool and new in my city" seems like a feature that's being shoehorned on because it's a possible revenue channel.

>asking locals

I like that for hippie reasons like building community and a sense of connection to other people, but I'm also a little disappointed I didn't instantly recognize that the objectively best way to know "what the locals are doing in their neighborhood" is to "ask them"

The first pass of filtering is both people liking each other (okcupid and tinder both require this)

The second pass is her sending the first message.

I figured something like this would exist, but I don't think it's very useful.

I've walked the dark path of trying to implement "pickup artist" material(can't imagine that'll be received well), and I can say that:

  A) an objective approach works (if you're humble and willing to recognize/adjust for failure)
  B) there's a torrent of snake oil out there
  C) you learn a lot when you try this stuff. A lot.

A lot of that material is laughably bad, but the general formula of "know your value, be confident and unapologetic about what you want, be ready to accept 'no' quickly and gracefully" is the buried gold. Maybe it's just me but grinding through failure after failure after failure taught me those things.

You can't buy them, and if you don't have them, it shows in your behavior.

You can't have someone Cyrano de Bergerac your way into a date by behaving that way, because in the end the girl shows up and meets you.

Furthermore, the proposition that this is a service for people who don't have time to send messages in these apps doesn't hold water. Not having the time to respond promptly is an asset. Bailing on some conversations is an asset. You're a busy man with a lot going on, not a desperate man glued to every prospect.

That's my two cents.