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This type of report, and the comments here echoing it, should worry Apple.

Years of bad decisions and neglect for the Mac have added up. The bad keyboards, touch bars, unnecessary port removals, etc, it feels like the company forgot who the "Pro" Mac line is made for. I hope they course correct but fear they won't.

And statistically speaking, the poor are overwhelmingly very obese, whereas the wealthy are fit/thin. Fitness is a new class indicator.

Over 80% of Americans are obese or overweight, largely due to lifestyle choice, food addiction, and food abuse. Obesity and related disease are by far the leading cause of death and illness in the USA, it's an extraordinarily costly epidemic that nobody wants to acknowledge.

My opinion is that justifying postgrad is hard, unless it's something you have strong passion for that also requires the degree program to achieve (ie; teaching, medicine, law). A few exceptions being if an employer is paying the entire cost, or if it's a top school where the networking value is extremely high.

> I'd like to apply myself with technology and be a part of building something.

Why can't you do that now? Why is grad school a necessary step for this? Can you learn the skills yourself, build something yourself, start a business, or work at a tech startup? What's your goal?

If your goal is to immerse yourself in tech and be a part of building something, what if you spent the equivalent time (18-24 months) in SF/bay area working at tech startups instead of going through a masters program?

Sounds like Vancouver, Toronto, Seattle, etc, where tons of capital flight from China has poured into real estate that sits vacant

> Despite that, I'm not sure what there is for us at HN to discuss. Maybe how divorce effects successful businesses?

I hate the gossipy implications of these stories, and they're legitimately sad news, but there is plenty to discuss that is relevant to HN

- How this could impact Amazon, Blue Origin, etc

- How challenging relationships are

- How difficult it is to stay together through major life changes, in this case they married before Amazon and are splitting now with Amazon being one of the worlds largest companies... imagine that journey together?

- How divorce/breakups effect people

- How relationships/divorce/breakups effect businesses, financial decisions

etc

I find this to be sad news, divorce is typically devastating for everyone involved.

Finding a life partner is incredibly difficult, someone with shared values that you can trust for life and with your life.

Great idea, but how is this monetized or supported? What are they doing with the data?

You have been indoctrinated and you are repeating propaganda talking points with zero basis in reality. There is NO DATA to support any of your claims. Because you have been indoctrinated you are probably at the point where no amount of evidence would convince you otherwise, a bit like a flat earther being flown into space to look at the planet.

Nonetheless, we can try using some data. Here's a massive retrospective cohort study on 500,000(!) patients clearly demonstrating there is an absurdly low risk of addiction from legitimate prescriptions (0.5%):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29343479

Virtually no overdoses are from legal prescriptions, and virtually no addiction is from legal prescriptions. Abundant data and evidence shows this repeatedly.

Now let's go ahead try your hysterical logic with some other issues:

Why do people drink alcohol?

It's because they're hooked on alcohol. How did they become hooked? They started drinking legally available alcohol! Sometimes they bought the alcohol, sometimes a family member or neighbor had the alcohol and it was handed on or stolen!

The US is awash with alcohol!

Or, let's take a legitimate crisis, the obesity epidemic. Why are people so fat? Why do people eat so much?

It's because they're hooked on food! How did they become hooked on food? Because they ate food which is widely available! Maybe they ate food at a restaurant, or at home... maybe it was stolen or given to them!

Look how many people are getting alcohol or food free from friends and family!!

Why do people have a beer? Or drink a glass of wine? Or smoke a joint? Why do some become alcoholics? Or eat junk food? Or overeat in general? Why are so many people unable to control their urge to eat too much, leading to 85% of the population being overweight or obese? Why do people sit in a sauna? Or go to a concert? Or meditate? Or exercise? Why do some people become addicted to exercise? Or stare at their phones all day? Why do some people become addicted to a screen or video games or social media?

Why do people do anything? It's all the same fundamental reason.

That's because the city is overly tolerant to blatantly harmful activities, public indecency, and antisocial behavior, not because of drugs.

Your link largely supports my statement. For example this graph:

https://d14rmgtrwzf5a.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/od2...

Overdoses have increased because of fentanyl being sold falsely as other drugs or mixed with other drugs, and that happens because it's cheaply imported from China by anyone with internet access and the desire to do so. Overdoses are NOT because of a marked increase in use of drug use or addiction, there is always a segment of society that will use drugs, be addicted, and participate in these activities.

We're deep in a moral panic while simultaneously ignoring the real problem (imported fentanyl), thus the complete inefficacy of the ongoing overreactions form society and governments.

Homelessness is a legitimate crisis that needs addressing, it is severe in every west coast city.

There is no 'opioid crisis', it is a new moral panic fed by hysteria from media and politics. There have always been drug addicts and drug users, and there always will be.

Let's not forget that obesity is also socially contagious, and there is tremendous social pressure to conform to obesity, which is why if you're less fat than fatter people, they will publicly shame you for your lack of comparable obesity with comments like "you need to eat a cheese burger" or 'get some meat on those bones' etc.

> Most people can fast without doing the surgery.

Very few fat people have that level of self control. That's why they're fat in the first place.

And here's the source minus The Verge ad covered regurgitation:

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/micro...

https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/

source study minus the reblog regurgitation, which doesn't even include the source link

https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/jscp.2018.37.10.751