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So he is going to sell chips which provides the perception of safety. And become the AI gatekeeper while he's at it.
Before: Every time a message arrives the phone makes that noise, and a little lamp is lit in my brain which stays lit until I pick up and unlock the phone and look at the message, answer, etc.
After: The phone is in silent mode all the time. When a message arrives I get a little tickle on my wrist - I just glance down and see who it's from and the lamp in my brain has nothing to do anymore. I even sometimes forget to pull out the phone and answer the message later.
It's easier to leave the phone out of reach, I feel less need to have it on me. It's great having a phone which never makes a sound. If a call comes in I see it on the watch and can reject the call from my wrist and optionally send an SMS instead. And podcasts are not interrupted by annoying pings.
It's a Garmin, so only have to charge it once every 10 days or so, and there's not much to do on it.
I used to bike to work but as soon as I sat down at my desk I felt like I was cutting my body at the waist. My lower body/legs were some kind of passive appendage stuck to my chair.
The first week of working while standing I kept looking for a chair to sit on, it was really distracting and I felt tired.
I bought a saddle stool with enough height so that I can transfer back and forth between standing and sitting. The stool has no back support and my legs are still fairly straight (like sitting on a bar stool) so my body is still much more active than just sitting in a chair.
Definitely life-changing. I have suffered from lower back pain all my life. If I have to go back to sitting in a chair for more than a few days I feel my back starting to lock up. In the standing/saddle configuration this doesn't happen.
Here is a random example: https://shop.lfhair.com.au/product/saddle-stool-ch-841/
I have heard the line "If I don't build it somebody else will." from an engineer working on multi-million dollar weapons (think F-16).
I can only decide what I do with my time on this earth. Everyone makes that decision for themselves.
If I google "pulmonary fibrosis reversal" a number of things come up although they all appear to still be in the research phase. Never say never.
Source: http://www.zdnet.com/article/ssd-reliability-in-the-real-wor...
All the code I write is unpredictable when compiled. Such is the life.
This strikes me as severely reducing the S/N of the social networking space - if this gets popular, which I assume is your goal, then a large percentage of tweets will be generated automatically. Now permutate this machine-generated "social" information with all the tools springing up to analyze tweets and derive all kinds of useful crowd-sourced insights. It all becomes that much more diluted with less and less information actually created by a live, thinking human being. This might be the start of a trend - tools which tweet automatically based on incoming tweets, creating that feared endless loop which you cannot detect because you only control one participant. Oops, some kids are out trampling on my lawn, gotta go.