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Its not about how dim it is. Daylight is orders of magnitude brighter than any lightbulb out there and has different levels of color wavelengths. Dimming a screeen actually does the opposite of what you would get reading eink outdoors, even in the shade. This is why TV's and projectors have such a hard time reaching the required brightness levels to be seen in broad daylight.

Its about time. Can't wait to get one. Hopefully it would only be like another 10 years before you can watch video on one of these.

Economic/Political/Geological:

- US reelects Trump in 2020. Climbing gyms, lately increasing in popularity also become popular in Mexico.

- global warming causes endangerment and extinction of many species, but traditional oriental medicines extinct the rhinos.

- China, due for a recession now, does not go into a recession despite the real estate/housing bubble because Xi and his government continue to find more ways to manipulate their economy. Consequently, the Shen Yun poster factory expands into money printing.

- Avian migratory patterns shift significantly due to global warming, except flightless birds which begin deevolution into dinosaurs.

- Boomer retirement causes US GDP growth decline. Zoomers are to blame for being unproductive.

- The education bubble bursts. Millenials degree now worth nothing.

Tech:

- Deep fakes used to create fake statements by Donald Trump. Trump denies fabricated statements, and proceeds to create his own.

- Boston Dynamic robots find gainful employment and enter the workforce, but not doing something people can already do because human labor is too cheap.

- Bitcoin never takes off, but the price climbs erratically whilst its most significant contribution to the world: crypto mining greenhouse gases, double.

- 5g is implemented by all major telecommunication companies promising new technological capabilities, but its primary use remains dopamine injections and advertisement.

- wasm causes a mass migration of desktop preferred applications to the web. Despite the existence of wasm, Reddit gets slower and buggier.

- Javascript continues domination of the web. Hipster developers now prefer declarative programming over functional. React Declarations now lets you write directly in HTML.

- Uber introduces Uber Flight - innovating both flying cars and driverless cars. Uber still not profitable.

- Adam Neuman starts a shared-restroom company in New York. Masayoshi Son can't get enough of We Sh*t.

- First VR(or AR) based esports that requires physical movements enter mainstream gaming. Pro gamers in korea now indistinguishable from kpop.

- VR hand controllers continue to evolve making current designs look like the N64 controller.

- VR/AR finds commercial use outside of the gaming industry, but VR gaming still leads the market with Cubicle Simulator.

- AI used heavily in cgi, computer graphics, and animation industries. Animators now work for more hours and less pay.

- Online dating becomes even easier, swiping becomes too 2010's. Loneliness increases even further.

- Elon gets first man on mars, Elon bores tunnels and builds a base on mars. Elon builds solar panels to power base on mars. Elon establishes neuralink to mars. Elon is in endgame now.

Medical:

- Zoomers suffer from unprecedented myopia epidemic, root cause discovered - heavy screen use to blame. Fix of more natural daylight is never taken nor implemented. Luxotica remains in control of the eyewear industry.

- Despite all medical and technological advancements, eating your vegetables, exercise, fresh air, natural daylight, and contact with friends remains the best way to stay healthy.

Cultural:

- Basketball rules change due to the prevalence of 3 pointers.

- Disney remakes a remake. Disney also remakes Pocahontas using cgi, which is just Avatar with native americans.

- New form of rapping created even more incomprehensible than mumble rap.

RIP. Syd Mead was an inspiration for so many artists. I love the clean lines and crisp simplicity of the shapes he uses. It reminds me of design work by Dieter Rams, but for the entertainment industry.

I think for sure the rise of app and web economies have been the defining characteristic of this decade. They have had an unexpected monopoly on our attentions. From memes, to changes in consumer behavior, to social uprisings, to mass shootings, to instagram influencers, to determining elections, it would take a lot to convince me that there was not a single greater force that influenced us more in the past ten years than the side-effects of what came out of a few internet companies. Its almost hard to imagine what life was like before things like twitter, uber, spotify, youtube, and to think that they were either only a few years old or barely taking their first steps at the beginning of the decade is mind-blowing.

In hindsight, a lot of people might claim they saw it coming, but a lot of the things I see today are things I would have never predicted the "future" to be like, and were never things I ever heard anyone predict prior to the events happening. Seriously, all these amazon boxes everywhere? ... how many people saw that coming? For sure none of the real estate developers who poured millions into building all those shopping malls now lifeless like the coral reef on a warm 2019 summer day.

As for whats to come in the 2020's? clearly - flying cars, jet-packs, laser guns, self cleaning rooms, holograms, shiny pants, and robot servants. /s

If you're going to go through the effort of redesigning a faster layout, why not fix everything from the ground up? Why design a layout with key stagger still a property when we all know that it was a relic of technological limitations that are not nor will ever be present in any future keyboards?

It seems childish, but if you ever witnessed a bully use a small thing like chat color as a form of discrimination, you would realize even little decisions like this have huge implications on social development. We might not know what the original intent for chat color is but the reality is, believe it or not, wether you want to admit it or not, something as simple as the color of a chat bubble reaches way farther than anyone probably is willing to admit and likely will make a noticeable difference in the future grades and income and social standing of a child.

In particular, because chats with green are functionally different from imessage chats, it gives bullies an easy out for social exclusion.

The wise decision is to leave people like this and not befriend them, but children don't know that, and few parents do either. And lastly, there is evidence that show bullies succeed more at life at the expense of those they bully [1]. It gives ammunition to the people who are willing to use something as simple as color to discriminate in communication channels. The small weasly design decision, which might have been to bring more revenue to apple, empowers the kind of people who have no sense of empathy or live life selfishly disregardingly destroying the people and the world they live in.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3037427/why-the-office-bully-is-...

I didn't even know there were concentration camps in China. Thanks for sharing. If companies are going to shut out this sort of work in favor of free speech then we're headed for a dystopia.

YouTube was tricky for me too. Because so many tutorials are on youtube it’s hard to ban it. And you watch one it’s no longer blocked at least on that tab. Get “distract free tube” or something like that on chrome/Firefox. It gets rid of the side bar, trending, suggestions etc. basically everything but the video.

It doesn’t solve the deeper problem but it turns a time suck website into a productive one.

If you are struggling with social exclusion, and for no good reason, there is a manipulator in the ranks and for whatever reason the people in the group have no capacity to think for themselves. There are billions of people on this earth, many of whom have developed brains. Make your friends with those people, not the ones without the ability to formulate their own opinion.

When did tourism become so huge? I honestly don’t remember people talking about their trips and vacations much growing up, but I felt a sharp rise with the rise of social media. I knew of very few people who routinely went on crazy vacations and talked about it, now it seems like they are everywhere. Is it because of social status and the selfie zombie? I even had a girl refuse to talk to me because I didn’t go on these elaborate vacation trips. (I’m sorry but I grew up on handmedowns and not having enough food was a thing. I’m not going to spend a few thousand on a field trip when my parents back home are doing everything they can to save a few dollars).

I remember going to national parks growing up and they were never that crowded. I feel like it’s all changed. And now instead of people who go to these places to actually see and experience the place, they go there for all the wrong reasons.

I think one problem is that people don't realize they could not only survive, but live healthy, satiated, and even build muscle on a vegetarian diet(without protein shakes etc, just regular grocery foods). I feel like if more people realized this, they would consider eating meat more often. I personally love that I rarely have to worry about maggots in my garbage bin because there would be nothing that would be interested for them to be eating.

Yes but how many of them would donate a spare kidney for him if he really needed it.

People risked their lives for each other. I’m not sure that it’s the same case with people who like your selfie.

Well if it’s on a publicly available blockchain, the difference is that the information on how much money is in circulation, how much is being created, is all open to the public and verifiable. The information on how much banks are holding onto in fractional reserves should therefore be available and make cooking the books more difficult and allowing audits to be more accurate and hopefully regulations could exist to keep banks better in check.

Oh man, I never expected you to respond. These images are much better on Flickr, I like how you can actually click links to the hot spots.

Thanks for sharing. This deserves more upvotes. And all the respect to Eric Fischer who is more likely to be the author.

Yeah I get you, the human eye works logarithmically so we can see in very dark spaces, but that means the light necessary to see a computer screen is a fraction of what comes from daylight. People were not meant to breath hvac air inside an unaturally lit cubicle. Fresh air, natural light, and proper sleep cycles(up with the sun, down with the sun) I feel are my secret sources of power.

I have the first gen, which is nowhere near as fast as LCD. But looking at their videos it looks like they got the framerate to work at a much faster speed than mine which was leagues of improvement over a kindle. However, I'm confident that there will still be some lag between input and what you see.

They wrote their own software so that the display isn't doing a hard refresh every time the display changes, the downside is there is some ghosting, which is what the hard refresh on kindles will remove.

I use keyboard shortcuts extensively to the point where I rarely use a mouse so I can work with the low framerate of the first gen. It even forced me to get better with using keyboard shortcuts and now I have little to no problems with it.

I use a Dasung Paperlike Pro to do work on occasionally. I love it. It was expensive but personally it was worth every penny. Nothing beats coding outdoors with natural light. Pretty much the only thing its good for is reading/writing, but that has its own benefits.

I had to customize colors in vim as well, since you lose all the colors when you use eink, but that's only a marginal drawback.

During high school, I played a lot of morrowind and thought it was cool to learn how to pick locks. I had already known how to break combination locks, and I already taught myself to open traditional pin and tumbler locks. I saw a number lock with 4 digits and I couldn't help myself. Considering they were just numbers I thought to myself, this is a guaranteed crack. So every day before and after class, I would take a minute to mechanically go through about 50 numbers. Testing numbers is surprisingly quick.

It only took me like 3-4 weeks of testing a few numbers before and after class and I had it open.

The loot? A pair of used gym socks, shoes, and one of those math homework books you write in.

I foresee a serious International Tech War on the horizon.

This makes a lot of sense. High nit monitors, are extremely hot. (they’re basically light bulbs), and the hotter they get the shorter they last. In that case it makes a lot of sense to maximize airflow and heat dissipation, not just one or the other. And from a design standpoint it does so in a very thin space which is important because equivalently bright monitors are about a half a foot thick if not an entire foot thick. I’d imagine the effects are still helpful for a hot computer as well. People are really under appreciative about the design and engineering work that went into building the latest Mac Pro, the monitor (and even the stand), but I realize I’m probably in a very small minority of people.

Things like this is what prevents capable inventors from taking the necessary risk to develop a truly innovative product. My wish is for there to be better legal protection for entrepreneurs bringing new products to the market, in order to encourage innovation and long difficult r+d work.

My heart sinks every time I hear a story of copycats profiting off of the work of someone or some company that sank tons of hours and dollars into developing a unique product - going up down left right backwards forwards upside down right side up headfirst ass backwards - just to find a solution, and then to have all that effort once you’ve found the answer, be pulled from right under your feet because someone can do it better now that the answer has been discovered (because you put the hours to discover it). That’s just ducking awful. I remember seeing [this](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...) about a simple product and it made me so furious. The reality is it’s happening everywhere.

China and Chinese culture of designer knockoffs and blatant copycatting needs to start playing fair and follow the same laws as everyone else if they expect to deal respectably in international markets.

I’m wondering if with things like even the font being the same, wether or not the act of copycatting even registers as an offense to the people who do this.

And to make it clear my stance isn’t against Chinese people, some of my favorite people in this world are Chinese, it’s against a government that condones and does little, or turns a blind eye when a company is doing the equivalent of removing padding from a boxing glove. If we can’t resolve something like this through verbal communication and legal action what other options do we have?

No one who commented this far has read the article. Somehow this doesn’t surprise me, people only think of themselves.

The thesis is that to counter the effects of unemployment on mental health, you only need one days worth of work. As in, work is a psychological remedy for people who have not been able to contribute to society and have no place on the pecking order.

Giving the unemployed more work did little to improve their mental health much further. This article was not about your poor ass having too much work. And for some its even a status symbol to be so important that you are busy all the time.

A different way to think about this is if you pulled an inelastic chain tight to the earth, and closed the loop you would have the starting condition. Then, standing where you are you cut the chain, grabbed an extra yard of the chain and spliced it to the touching ends of the starting chain lying on the ground, laying that extra yard folded perpendicular to the starting chain wrapped around the earth. That extra chain added is now sticking out half a yard from the starting chain. When you think about it that way, and I ask you “would that extra yard make a difference?”, where does your intuition lead you? With that visual, I would say, that is a ton of slack, I could loop it around my body. I think this is really more about how you frame the question than some flaw in intuition, although I’m not trying to say humans have flaws with our intuition.

What you’re wrong about is the notion that markets dictate itself. Actually pretty much the entirety of America and possibly most of the rest of the developed world is wrong on this notion because the country and the rest of the world is so rooted in capitalism. It’s like crying about the fact that we are polluting the world with single use plastics and saying that we are powerless to do anything about it because individuals will always optimize for personal gain. The reality is we as people are people and every single one of us has the ability and capacity to choose to not use single use plastics. We aren’t dumb robots that absolutely have to follow this code of maximizing for personal gain. People as individuals, or organizations, or really groups of people of any size are capable of doing anything because at the base level, every single person has the capacity to make one decision over another, because we are people not robots. If we chose to keep the earth clean, we could keep the earth clean. It’s not impossible, and people need to stop believing that the only force is this blobby uncontrollable multicellular creature of human mass that creates cities, destroys natural landscapes, and kills rhinos. It’s at this level of learned helplessness where you (and I’m not crticizing only you, but pretty much the rest of the world) is wrong. If baby boomers collectively chose to help the next generation they absolutely could have done more to help the next generation. They just never believed anything could be done so they never really tried.

I looks like there's a lot of good code in there, and a lot of hard work so good job thus far. What I want to know is why is it so narrowly focused, as in all it can do is residential homes specifically, residential homes. Wouldn't it be better if it were a generic modeller/CAD program?

To be fair, what Magic Leap is doing is a few orders of magnitude more complex and innovative than what Juicero was attempting to do.

As in, its an industry that doesn't quite exist yet, there are problems that were never thought would be problems in the first place, and the whole concept of programming things for real time three dimensional overlay on a device that's light enough to fit on your head is kind of a bigger challenge than squeezing a smoothie out of a large ketchup package.

But I would like to see where and how the money is being spent.

There is surfingkeys for chrome. You press `shift+I` to go into into insert mode.

[surfing keys](https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys)

This whole article makes me question that statement. I hear it all the time, but passive aggression is a very real tactic in a bloodless war.