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AjithAntony

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AjithAntony··on Why treating diabetes keeps getting more expensive
> obesity (BMI > 30.0) puts you at risk

BMI>23 if you are South asian

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/south-asian/

AjithAntony··on Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year
Yeah, They added and keep increasing the "broadcast tv fee", and added a fee for more than one digital adapter. So far still cheaper than Internet-only.
AjithAntony··on Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year
Yeah. For years, whenever the promotion ends, I ask for internet-only, and they counter with a discount if I keep cable tv. I'm certain they are doing this to artificially prop up the cable subscriber numbers. Content notwithstanding, the basic-basic tv service is so bad. You have to use their digital adapter becuase all the channels are encrypted and the picture is so bad becuase it is standard def coming over the analog input. The digital conversion happened 10yrs ago, why are they still expecting people to pay extra for HD? And even when you do pay for the HD service and special set-top box, the UI is terrible, and they compress the streams so it is not even the full quality anyway.
AjithAntony··on Bitcoin (BTC) is up by +22% in a single day, valued at over $14,600
> quickly transact value

Well now it takes hundreds of minutes, in which time the value of your bitcoin has changed, given its current volatility.

AjithAntony··on Interview with Mr. Money Mustache
$50k earner and $150k could have the same retirement schedule if they have different lifestyles. If both can live comfortably on the same proportion of their income, then they can retire at the same time. If both had expenses that were 50% of their income, for example.

If both want to live a lifestyle where they spend $75k, then the lower earner will never retire.

AjithAntony··on MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY
(On windows) A 70MB download for a terminal? I'm already suspicious. This better not be an electron app :)

A yearly subscription, too? ugh.

Edit: It is an electron app. Pretty, though.

AjithAntony··on MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY
FuTTY is my favorite fork https://code.google.com/archive/p/futty/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/futty/files/ https://github.com/FireEgl/FuTTY

Major features i like:

   * adb and cygterm support
   * ctrl-scrollwheel zoom
   * clickable links (always or while holding ctrl)
   * jumplists
AjithAntony··on Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Women Less Than Men
This was my understanding too. Women were given the the enormous and tedious task of transcribing programs onto punch cards and such. It required a large "typing pool", much like secretarial pools preparing letters dictated by others.
AjithAntony··on Why Roku’s IPO Will Be Worth Watching
> Chromecasts: You can give those to grandmas and they'll just work.

Having tried to train several "grandmas" on streaming media, Roku absolutely trumps chromecast for ease of use. They can understand an on screen interface and a remote. The paradigm shift of using a mobile device or a computer to drive the TV is a pretty big leap. And that is assuming they understand how to use the mobile device itself. That assuming they even have eyes that can see the phone screen, distinguish the very subtle visual elements and the dexterity to tap the little icons.

AjithAntony··on Why Roku’s IPO Will Be Worth Watching
I only see like one ad on the right of the channel list. And it is usually just promoting some tv series, which is a very relevant ad. Anyway, I spend like 10s looking at the home screen while I select the app I'm gonna watch. Pretty trivial. Half the time the add doesn't even load before I made my selection.
AjithAntony··on Why Roku’s IPO Will Be Worth Watching
The mainstream services, like amazon, hulu, HBO, and netflix, have very rich modern apps at least on the latest gen rokus. The older rokus probably lack the horsepower to use the newer apps.
AjithAntony··on Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Attraction
> YouTube Red

FWIW, I have YouTube Red, and this video says I need to buy a $150 season to watch it.

If anyone has hulu, here's a link

Star Trek: Voyager S4 E22 Unforgettable https://www.hulu.com/watch/441748#i0,p20,s4,d0

AjithAntony··on When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap almost disappears
I'd say both men and women at some level value themselves in their attractiveness to the opposite sex. Women feel value by being attractive to men. And Men feel value by being attractive to women. Men are attracted to women who display youth and beauty as a proxy for reproductive value, and women are attracted to wealth and status as a proxy for support.
AjithAntony··on When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap almost disappears
"Third world" enrollments might not be a valid comparison as STEM is seen as a road to riches. A valid comparison would be a country where women have the privilege of choosing to not seek money.
AjithAntony··on Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
You already interrupted them. Whether they have a minute depends on what you want.
AjithAntony··on Eating Clean is Useless
Agreed. In my midwest small town, the $1 apple isn't even the good apples. Bananas are preposterously cheap though. I'd still rather east two double cheeseburgers or two breakfast burritos than 5-6 bananas.
AjithAntony··on Blue Apron Plummets After Amazon Files for Meal-Kit Trademark
Food waste happens at every level of the food distribution system. Produce discarded in a field becuase it didn't meet some ripeness or quality standard(likely unchanged), produce that rots or is damaged during transport to local distribution channels(could be reduced by meal prep), food that rots or is unsold at the retail level (obviated by meal prep), food purchased by consumers that goes unused(obviated), and food waste that gets landfilled(instead of getting composted at meal prep place).
AjithAntony··on [dead]
Is the real news that they made him show up at all? :)
AjithAntony··on How I learned React Native in a weekend and shipped an app
Couple notes about the android app

   - the icon is broken, all I see is the green android face
   - when i log in to youtube, it says the log in is from an Iphone per my google security alert
   - the back and forward arrows don't look right.  They don't have the right icon to be a visual cue for back and forward.  They look more like previous and next.
   - would be great to handle full screen
   - video speed is not preserved when starting a new video.
AjithAntony··on How I learned React Native in a weekend and shipped an app
Works fine on android. This app is just a webview anyway, so it is effectively the same thing.
AjithAntony··on Hulu’s Live TV service to cost $39.99/month with ads, sources say
maybe the article has beene dited since :

>Thankfully, Hulu’s cloud DVR will give users the ability to fast-forward through the commercials in their recorded content – just like a cable TV DVR would.

>However, though both Vue and Sling’s DVR technically support fast-forwarding, the option is not always available due to rights deals. It will be interesting to see if Hulu’s live TV service faces those same issues when it arrives.

AjithAntony··on How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding
It had a case for "yes or no dammit!"
AjithAntony··on A man wouldn’t leave an overbooked United flight, so he was dragged off
I think one of the articles or tweets said that some passengers offered to go if they were given $1000
AjithAntony··on UC Berkeley makes course video content unavailable to public
Right. What was going through the head of the producers of those 20,000 videos, flouting the regulations for all that time.
AjithAntony··on YouTube to stop 30-second unskippable ads
What country are you watching from? Seems that others are seeing ublock fail.

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/5ua042/youtub...

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/295

AjithAntony··on YouTube to stop 30-second unskippable ads
> If giving out free videos

Are they giving out free videos? The content creator gets to choose how to monetize, right? The platform does allow for free, and the creator chose to get paid.

AjithAntony··on YouTube to stop 30-second unskippable ads
A long time back, HTTP Switchboard stopped blocking preroll ads, for me in the US. Is there a rule I can add back in?

Edit: Just figured it out. Blocking this with an adbock rule fixes it at as a logged-in user, in the US, using Chrome.

   https://www.youtube.com/get_video_info*
AjithAntony··on When Discs Die
Tell us how it goes! Looks like they sell special DVD or Bluray burners for M-Discs
AjithAntony··on Pandora is laying off 7% of its US workforce
Probably like 50% sales, 25% HR/Legal/Admin, 25% engineering/ops
AjithAntony··on Amazon Prime’s latest perk is a new Rewards Visa Card with 5% back
> That somewhere being people who pay interest by making the minimum payment.

Skeptical. I have done no research, but my instinct is that banks make more on the transaction fees than the interest. That somewhere is all of us paying higher prices to account for those transaction fees.

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