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toodlebunions··on Ask HN: People above 35, would you risk your job and start a company?
I know quite a few people who started companies successfully that were far older than 35. The idea that entrepreneurship is only for the youth is a Silicon Valley fantasy.

Save up a financial cushion and go for it, at any age.

toodlebunions··on Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped
So what's the best VPN that doesn't store or sell their user data?

Surely a new business opportunity if there isn't one good enough to recommend for privacy.

toodlebunions··on What happened to tablet sales?
My iPad collects dust. I use the iPhone Plus constantly though, which is nearly a tablet.
toodlebunions··on Americans are eating less beef
Chicken is better than beef, both in flavor and versatility.
toodlebunions··on Building a Hackintosh Pro
Eventually you'll likely give in and install windows.
toodlebunions··on Google Glass is getting a second life in the manufacturing industry
Medicine still seems like the best use case to me
toodlebunions··on [dead]
Loving the commenters here who didn't read the article. Is that what 99.99% of the internet does?

Spoiler alert: it's a parody.

toodlebunions··on Make America Singapore
The American health care system is a cash cow with absurd barriers to entry, the last thing they want are free markets, transparency, or competition.
toodlebunions··on Why Online Dating Sucks for Men (2013)
It's absolutely a numbers game. Increase your exposure for best results.
toodlebunions··on Why Online Dating Sucks for Men (2013)
It's a total sausage fest, your competition is extreme, and the quality of possible mates is usually very low. Avoid if at all possible.

Find something offline and social instead, do that and meet likeminded people. You will almost certainly have better luck.

toodlebunions··on Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about single-payer healthcare
Great point.

It would be good as a baseline, then companies can offer supplement plans for additional coverage or a wider network, similar to Medicare.

toodlebunions··on Study: Blended food prevented hunger for longer
Anyone who has had a smoothie has experienced this before.
toodlebunions··on Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
I have increasingly little hope that apple will make pro focused hardware ever again. The company does not seem to care about the mac anymore at all.
toodlebunions··on Ask HN: 50 job applications, 15 interviews, 7 onsites, and no offer – what next?
Work on your interview skills is my best guess.
toodlebunions··on Americans are struggling to pay off their auto loans
Those Americans are struggling if they're struggling to pay a car loan
toodlebunions··on Facebook Tweaks Its 'Trending Topics' Algorithm to Better Reflect Real News
Hard to imagine getting your news from Facebook.

If you want to be better informed, read a paper or two.

toodlebunions··on Craig Newmark donates $500k to reduce harassment on Wikipedia
Wikipedia has almost as many trolls as social media.
toodlebunions··on Paralyzed man regains use of arms and hands after experimental stem cell therapy
Amazing, stem cell therapy has so much potential.
toodlebunions··on Barack Obama Publishes Defense of the ACA in the New England Journal of Medicine
You have that choice right now.
toodlebunions··on Barack Obama Publishes Defense of the ACA in the New England Journal of Medicine
Do you mean the $10 trillion cost from repealing?

Here is republican senator Rand Paul on the huge budgetary expense of ACA repeal

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6AuIwR00T5g

toodlebunions··on Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs
Sounds good, would be better if it's adjustable.
toodlebunions··on iOS and MacOS Developers Can Now Respond to Reviews
When was the last time you browsed the App Store or read reviews?
toodlebunions··on American chestnut trees are “technically extinct”
They were all turned into peanut butter. True facts!
toodlebunions··on Peak Millennial? Cities Can’t Assume a Continued Boost from the Young
Eventually they will settle down and move to the burbs.
toodlebunions··on 2016 was not the hottest year on record when including the margin of error
There is no proof when you include this vague reassessment of the data.
toodlebunions··on How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World
Phage therapy is expensive and time consuming, unique to each patient and bacteria.

It'd be a tool, but not a broad solution.

toodlebunions··on How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World
This is a global health crisis waiting to happen. Incentives need to be created for pharma to create many new broad spectrum antibiotics. Longer patents, financial or tax incentives, even subsidies, whatever it takes.
toodlebunions··on 2016 was not the hottest year on record when including the margin of error
2016 was also not a year where the earth was proven to be round.
toodlebunions··on Consumer Reports now recommends the MacBook Pro after a software fix
Cool does the software fix add 32GB RAM option?

18 hour battery??? LOL! Come on.

toodlebunions··on US man pays tax bill using five wheelbarrows of coins
Who has time for that?
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