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.
I think that is great. FWIW I worked at Google and still have the original Dream phone in a box somewhere. And while I used iPads since the Android tablet experience never really congealed for me, used an Android phone until the iPhone 13 SE I currently own.
I am also a firm believer that everyone should "vote with their wallet" for the products they want, so no judgement, on my part, on folks who buy one product or the other.
In my experience I find that for every product I buy, the various choices all come with pluses and minuses. I go through that list and apply my own importance rating on each one and come up with my final choice.
My original comment was that Apple Maps are getting better, they were at one time a complete joke. I use maps on my phone all the time, it is probably the largest use of mine after "looking things up on the web" or "communicating" via text or voice. As a result of this improvement in maps, it made this particular choice (for me) a better choice on the iPhone than on an android phone.
I can tell that some people heard my comment above "if you don't own an iPhone you are stupid" or something like that. It certainly wasn't my intent. Never easy to know how something you say will be heard.
My other experience is that products that get "better" overall, supplant, then replace what existed before them. Whether it is TVs, cars, computers, or phones. I still have a Garmin Navigator in my car's glove box but I don't think I have used it in nearly a decade. And yet there was a time when devices of that form were 90+% of the market for "in vehicle navigation."
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]
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:
Upvoting this as some of the analytics programs look really interesting with a good mix of Traditional Statistics and Learning. Also the turion plus fees make them much more attractive than a boot camp with possibly better recognition. Thanks for sharing and doing all the hard work.
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]
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]
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]
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.
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]
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]
