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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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

OP here.

First of all, thank you [and everyone here] for adding your thoughts.

The goal of using hyperbole in the title was twofold: 1. hope to get out of the slush pile of "new" 2. someone might have specific knowledge of a similar situation wrt apple. Even with the click-bait title, it just BARELY got out of slush with 3 votes.

My son and I had a good talk. He teared up a bit, but I could see determination to not get ripped off again. I think he will internalize that motivation to his benefit. He will not likely, though, submit his best ideas to contests. He does all the design, code, graphics and music.

OP here.

You weren't harsh. You had a clear point and made it.

If someone's on HN, I value his thoughts.

OP here.

First of all, thank you [and everyone here] for adding your thoughts.

The goal of using hyperbole in the title was twofold: 1. hope to get out of the slush pile of "new" 2. someone might have specific knowledge of a similar situation wrt apple. Even with the click-bait title, it just BARELY got out of slush with 3 votes.

Neither Apple nor Google are complicit, but they might have gone down this road before and have suggestions. My son releases his music through them so targeting them would make even less sense. [he's currently making car-payment/mo. on the music]

re: cloned it in a month. We were there and wondering why some people were taking copious photos. Also, they stripped out all of the artistry, and music [all made by son], and just boiled it down to basics. So yes, a month is feasible.

Again, thank you.

I need contract coding work at times. I can send that to you if interested? Also willing to help in any other way I can. I'm in US and can point you to people/places if you land here.

Will do!

What he REALLY wants to do is work for Notch, or some company that is doing a fun and interesting games or educational stuff. He likes team projects. Anyone need a 13yo beta tester that is into the digital game/educational world?

I had a talk with my son. He said he wasn't ready. I agreed. The angel said that whenever he feels he is ready, offer stands. Enough to put a structure around him and allow him to focus on products. One manager, one sales/bizdev...enough to cover their salaries for a year or two.

There was an old dinosaur pc game from the '90s that has since open sourced. He started from there, but opened each audio file in some application that allowed him to modify each. Some needed truncating, others attenuation, increased amplitude, etc. It was fun watching him mess with the analog signals. There was also a hard limit of media total filesize.