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1% is a pretty bad rounding error, you might want to look into some better accounting software.

What it will take is for the US to start prioritizing human rights, at all? I mean, they're currently running concentration camps for children at the Mexican border, in their own country. It would be a bit rich if they start telling other countries what to do regarding human rights before fixing their own issues.

Do you have some statistics to back that up? Without statistics it's pretty just s much meaningless about how kids these days are lazy... A complaint which every generation has made since long before smartphones existed.

Betteridge's law: for any headline ending in a question, the answer is 'no'.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...

> In fact, that’s how the world was before the advent of nation-state

AKA the Golden Age fallacy

> 1 sat/byte

What's a sat?

> I'm sure it needs plenty of energy

So much that it has its own power plant, as far as I know.

Environmental issues aside, pretty cool to stand there in swimming trunks when it's -10 outside and there's half a metre of snow against the glass walls though.

How did you get involved with that? Did you just phone up and offer your services?

I'm gonna guess that they have very little to do with inches in the real world, and will in fact display at different lengths on different screens.

Or if it's to do with curing aging, cancer, HIV, or heart disease.

> even in the United States

The United States has become an oligarchy over the last few decades. It's basically the worst Western country that you could use as an example of freedom right now.

This is called the Roman Room technique:

https://m.wikihow.com/Remember-Lists-of-Words-With-the-Roman...

The Egg is the most famous story based on that idea, I think.

http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

It's simple. Avoid them, just as you should avoid processed meat.

Easy less processed food, and lots of fruit, veg, fiber, and protein from whatever source you like. That's the key to a healthy diet.

> While I have no urge to eat food for its ability to imitate meat (so I’m not the target audience anyway)

That's a very short sighted view. This isn't about vegetarianism. It's about the environmental crisis, and the overfishing crisis, that we're currently experiencing at a global level. I don't care whether you are vegetarian or not, we are all in the target market for solutions to these problems. That's what replacement meat and fish are about.

That's a pretty obscure reason to say that smartphones suck though. If you need more computing power, buy a tablet or a big battery pack, or use a laptop. Hell, log into a remote server and run your apps there.

95% of people who use phones don't need that much power and given how many people own phones they clearly find them extremely useful.

> Modern phones have big enough screens

Not all phones have big screens. Not all people want phones with big screens, and even though it's the current fashion that may change in a few years.

This argument doesn't work, especially on a societal level. Tech companies are spending millions on researching how to make people addicted to their apps, and it's working. If you can overcome that, good for you. But for society at large, it's working extremely well and should be regulated as a society wide mental health issue, just as cigarettes and pollution need to be regulated to prevent lung cancer.

You can also do this with a single email address and the + symbol:

jimmy+facebook@gmail.com jimmy+twitter@gmail.com jimmy+hackernews@gmail.com

all go to jimmy@gmail.com

> Even here on HN which is so user friendly.

Except on mobile. The UI elements are tiny, try closing ten comments without clicking the timestamp by mistake at least once.

Personally, I'm totally fine with that lost investment. Especially since it's likely to be temporary.

> even though we are not any kind of data collection company

Are you collecting data on your customers? If you are, then one of the things your company does is data collection, even if that's not what's in your business plan.

If you look for evidence to prove yourself right, then you will find it. Even if you're wrong.

I mean, that's great and all. But I actually want people to use my website.

> expressed as a percent of the population, and rounded to a whole number, is zero.”

That just means 'less than one in two hundred'. Which is not that rare.

This is quite the straw man argument. Most of those people either support this already or just have no opinion on it

> I feel like society is very much in uncharted territory here

Society has been in uncharted territory since humans existed. It's not 'more uncharted' because the dangers we face are social media and climate change rather than plague and poor sanitation.

There's quite a few countries where you need to show a passport to register a sim card. Not sure if Austria is one.

Bitcoin.org is not likely to be an unbiased source when it comes to the negative aspects of Bitcoin.

You need to approach this as an exercise in habit building. Build up a healthy approach to food in steps, not all at once. Saying 'I'm going to eat healthy from today' is unlikely to work.

Saying 'in 6 months I will have developed healthy eating habits' is a much better approach. Then build this habit step by step. First: reduce sugar. Build up a strong habit of refusing sweet things, one type at a time. Refuse donuts - or whatever, but pick one thing that will be hard but not impossible for you to resist. Once that's a habit and you no longer crave donuts, add soda to the list. Then add cake. In this time, you have to be very firm with these habits. In six months once the habits are strong, you can break them sometimes.