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Androids physical menu button let you get to all the options regardless of the app you were using. I really miss that.

It was a game. The sanity checks were added and workarounds were formed...

Sounds good to me. Let me input multiple questions but only send one at a time after a response is given. (Maybe hinted to me later, not automatically sent)

I was thinking about doing the same after I saw the parent. But just because you and I can does not mean everyone can.

I associate rural activities with increased wellbeing. Living in or visiting nature. I also associate guns with rural activities. I wonder how those states correlate with gun control.

Suicidal thoughts are often strong but momentary. If there is a gun available, one can take action on the feelings before they pass makeing a momentary thought permanent. Heartbreaking.

So my hypothesis is that the same restrictions on society and or culture that decrease the chance of suicide also reduce wellbeing.

Humans are really bad at estimating time. So it may just be consistently bad time estimation born out of optimism. The solution is still to double the amount of time you expect things to take so that you're closer to the mark.

Funny story, but you are right. I've never given a souvenir check. It's been a long time since I was a kid.

Your comment makes me want to argue both sides. It does should like they are offering more than the other payment methods, but the idea that a company should "tell customers that they shouldn't send money to strangers" really cracks me up. That seems like something you should learn before you are old enough to have a bank account.

Bingo, and I checked hacker news at least 10 times more than I would have just to see how many points I got for the above comment. I also spent way too much time carefully constructing the comment. 13 points, which is more than most of my recent comments.

Now, who's fault is it for being drawn in more than I want to be? I take responsibility for it and also agnolage my weaknesses for distraction. Maybe you could equate social media to a liquor store. Fulfilling a demand, serving the community, and also praying on and enabling it, in a bad way.

Most of the time I'm distracted by social media, I would be better served by sleeping.

I find the comments that rant against social media on hacker news amusing. Hacker news is a social media website.

"Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship." [0]

It's the same as a group on any other system, just different formatting. It even has karma which can suck you in...

I do not disagree with the sentiment though, managing the amount of time one gives to social media is tough. Picking good social circles and getting out of bad ones is tough.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News

My guess would be that IT would block streaming to reduce load and/or internet connection cost. Especially if you have a lot of people in the building.

Well said. I have seen a lot of sidegrades over the past 10 years!

I saw a clever idea on the internet for #1. Get two dish washers. One is always clean, one dirty. Eliminating the need to unload and put away dishes.

S Voice by Samsung, found on the Gear S3. It's a watch with a full color screen and a cell modem, an amazing bit of hardware. Voice command does not work well at all though. I would love having Google Now on it.

I could see a computer calculated life expectency with weight loss as an option to increase it.

Being told you are fat is not a good reason to loose wight. People probably already know they are fat. Maybe there are other reasons that could be communicated...

And Samsung Voice can't do anything well.

Very true.

Body armor is heavy and obvious, especially in warm climates. I don't think it would start an arms race. You would only wear it when you are attacking or expecting an attack. Not to mention it only protects your chest/back.

It depends on how far away, and what you were shot with... vests are designed to block hand guns, not rifels. It may not stop every bullet. A larger hand gun, say 50cal, has more recoil and is harder to aim with sequential shots, thus not practical... but feels amazing and is so loud!

I believe it would take a person down and possibly kill them. I've been told police are taught 2 to the chest 1 to the head.

From my quick googling, a great read: "...Among the accounts from those who have experienced being shot while wearing a bulletproof vest (and lived to talk about it), there is one consistent analogy to describe the feeling: being hit with a baseball bat. ..." http://www.ponderweasel.com/shot-wearing-a-bulletproof-vest/

An invasion is unwelcome. More accurately people are paying for the device and inviting the company into their home. As long as the guest does not break the trust of the host, they will be allowed to stay.

Wow, all I see are stars! It works on HN too!

I was thinking it was interesting the engineer received jail time. I've not researched at all, but I could see someone performing a job and having management tell them that it's all good with some over-their-head legal explanation, even though it does not seem like it to the engineer.

It's neat to see jail time trickle down though, seems like a better deterrent than a financial cost. It seems to me that it would be easier to believe the financial cost would not hit you, that you could get out of it or not have the cash. Where a jail time potential would make me think twice about anything potentially shady.

Sounds like harbor freight tools and YouTube, possibly followed by a call to a real plumber to fix the damage...

Idiosyncrasies is the wrong word.

The problem is that the watch is dependent on the phone for notifications. If the phone is off the watch will not get notifications for Gmail or Google Voice. I can setup the regular mail client but the I get the Primary, Social, and Updates Inbox from gmail instead of just the primary inbox. Google voice notifications do not come at all so i miss text messages to my google voice number which is my primary/public phone number. The workaround would be to port my number back to the carrier and use the carrier for SMS/Text messages.

ATT has number sync so calls to the watch and phone will hit each other, but it is not as smooth as you would hope and gets disconnected sometimes.

Battery life is much better using bluetooth than wifi or cell connection.

Just lots of little issues that are a pain to try to work around.

My goal was for me to have access to my important notifications but not have my phone "at hand" to tempt me.

Fair, I just checked and it looks like my number was already in the registry when they started getting worse a few years ago. (so adding it again probably did not cause the increase) You can use the site to see if you are already in, and when you were added. one of my numbers was added long before I had it.

I got a smart watch so I could stop carrying my phone everywhere. (Gear s3 with a cell modem)

Due to idiosyncrasies in how it works, I'm now stuck with both!

Yeah, social media is just too easy to use (and free). When people take the time to make a website, they often commercialize it, then it's not really a personal website anymore.

A good reminder that if a software company is given enough trust to auto update, keeping that trust us important. Seems the big boys have been breaching that trust a lot lately.

I call BS on the comments that say doing what you suggest is giving up... To me, "Liking" something implies expressing your opinion publicly, probably via Facebook. When I receive a job application, the first thing I do is check to see what the person has publicly posted. That's not surveillance. Before the general population starts to worry about surveillance, they need to think about the public image they are portraying online. I can't hire someone who posts stupid shit publicly. It could damage my business if my clients look them up.

No, their slogan was "always low prices" not lower.

Also it looks like they have/are changing their slogan, I did not read more to confirm... Just googled to confirm the slogan.