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meremortalson Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you

Thanks for this idea, gonna have to start doing the same

meremortalson FDA approves first systemic treatment for alopecia areata

Same. Not much, if any, regrowth

meremortalson FDA approves first systemic treatment for alopecia areata

This is great, but note that Alopecia Areata is different from male pattern baldness

meremortalson Show HN: Voice Clones for Creators

Also, this timely announcement that Spotify has acquired Sonantic: https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/13/spotify-is-acquiring-sonan...

meremortalson Show HN: Voice Clones for Creators

https://github.com/BenAAndrew/Voice-Cloning-App

meremortalson Show HN: I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and online help system

long live webOS!!

meremortalson Abletone Learning Synth

Abletone is kind of cool though

meremortalson PocketBook Dissassembly and Root (2017)

Man this actually looks pretty awesome, despite the weird placement of the hard modifier keys. Wish updates were guaranteed

meremortalson Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

long live WebOS!

meremortalson California considers a shortened, 32-hour workweek for larger companies

How would this affect distributed companies? Would Californians receive special treatment?

meremortalson Robot scientist finds less than one third of scientific results are reproducible

Balaji Srinivasan recently discussed the importance of scientific reproducibility on The Knowledge Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlY8HICFiRs

meremortalson Ask HN: Do people at Google use Google things

Please give us an idea what Android collects

meremortalson Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?

Sorry -- I'm just a casual commenter, not a bibliography, but here are some others to get you started:

- https://lmgtfy.app/?q=mozilla+blog+social+justice&iie=1

- https://blog.mozilla.org/en/?s=social+justice

- https://blog.mozilla.org/en/?s=gender

- https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/first-steps-toward-lasti...

- https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozilla-racia...

- https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-removal-of-the-dissenter...

- https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mapeo-helps-marginali...

- https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/24/9202067/mozilla-ceo-chris...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28018772

meremortalson Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?

You're not very good at mind reading. I'm not advocating pro-bigotry. I just want a browser to focus on being the best browser, and not "fact check" for me.

I'd suggest Brave Browser

meremortalson Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?

The first that comes to mind is [We need more than deplatforming](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...)

There's a bit of discussion about it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25838861

meremortalson Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?

I agree with this sentiment -- Firefox should be a web browser first and foremost and not a social justice blog

meremortalson Ask HN: Have OCD, suffering from extreme procrastination, please help?

Sorry about your mother's condition. Check out Jordan Peterson's early lectures on YouTube.

Also lift weights and eat healthy

meremortalson Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only)

seems like she has covid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

meremortalson Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only)

SO insisted on the testing, not me, because she works around a lot of other people and children and did not know if she was contagious.

She also thought it would be helpful to know if exposure = any additional immunity down the road, since all of the facts constantly change

meremortalson Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only)

My symptomatic, boosted SO received 4 negative nasal-swab PCR tests (1 day apart each), given by a nurse, before finally testing positive on the 5th test. Seems totally unreliable

meremortalson Switching from macOS to Pop_OS

https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto comes close for keyboard shortcuts

meremortalson Ask HN: Remotely helping elderly parents?

ConnectWise ScreenConnect works great for me and my grandparents

meremortalson Kinesis Advantage 360

Currently use the split Kinesis Freestyle2. On macOS, Karabiner's "Mouse Keys" mod allows me to control the cursor by holding the d key and using hjkl for left down up right

It's relieved much of my wrist pain, and I always flirt with the idea of trying a full on Advantage

meremortalson A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech

What sorts of niche products? Things like DistroKid?

meremortalson DARPA Funded Researchers Accidentally Create the World’s First Warp Bubble

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09...

meremortalson Free public domain audiobooks

highly recommend @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader) on Android too

meremortalson Is Crypto Bullshit?

Is money bullshit? It's a shared myth

meremortalson Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?

> James Webb will observe proof of alien life nearby

Agree

meremortalson Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?

There will be more slow "disclosure" of UFO/UAP life

meremortalson Ask HN: What have you done to help with yearlong burnout?

Very inspiring. Best of luck!