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I've suspected for a while now that not many people on the Android team (and most Android manufacturers) are not actually incentivized to care about improving existing products/fix outstanding bugs

meremortalson Ask HN: Anyone else feel lonely during the remote workday?

No, I prefer work for work and play for play. I don't want to get lunch with coworkers or feign conversation more than I have to

meremortalson Ask HN: Books for Reevaluation of Life

I thought this was some philosophical parody of Man's Search for Meaning

meremortalson Parag Agrawal Texts Elon Musk

Musk also launched SpaceX to get humanity to Mars, Starlink for global Internet, Boring Company to decrease traffic congestion, and Neuralink to improve brain I/O

meremortalson A script to allow installing unsigned extensions on Firefox

Iceraven on Android makes an attempt to allow additional Firefox add-ons: https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

meremortalson Apps have become too good at their jobs

On iOS, Brave allows you to automatically redirect URLs. Nitter and old.reddit would be an ideal use case:

https://twitter.com/brave/status/1552063664920100864?t=JTcyu...

meremortalson Weezer's Lead Singer is still strong coding

Here he is demoing his cs50 project: https://youtu.be/3Kf4-zMNqq8

And Weezify, which he built: https://weezify.web.app/#nav/player/library

meremortalson Inter-brain sync occurs without physical copresence during online gaming

edit: maybe not "without physical copresence"

I believe something similar happens when musicians improvise/jam, especially Jazz:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

meremortalson Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy

Very helpful. Thank you

meremortalson U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback

> I'm curious if he is expecting an anarcho-capitalism type system or he's predicting wildwest/dystopian.

I believe he likens it to BLM Riots:Jan 6 every day, type of dystopia.

> I am intrigued about the cloud country. It almost feels like Estonia might be that place? Or perhaps their attempt?

He is super bullish on Estonia, IIRC.

The Network State is free as a PDF or to read online if you're interested: https://thenetworkstate.com/

meremortalson U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback

That's how I interpret his statements, at least. He goes into more detail in his book The Network State, but essentially says America is descending and the future will be the Anarchistic West vs Communist China. He advocates exiting most systems into a "cloud country" which would ultimately manifest in the real world (aggregate online over similar values, purchase physical land, etc)

meremortalson Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy

How does one find a doctor willing to prescribe these kinds of drugs for anti aging?

meremortalson U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback

Balaji says

[0] (on Jackson, Mississippi's lack of running water)

> There is no first world and third world anymore.

> There is the ascending world, and then there is the descending world.

> And this is the descending world.

[1]

> A similar phenomenon began right before the fall of the Soviet Union. Life expectancy for men fell from a high of 65 years in 1987 to a low of 57 years in 1994

[0](https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1564853661351628802)

[1](https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1564859125829230592?t=fYc...)

meremortalson Use AI to write a viral LinkedIn post

The result flashes for a second before being replaced with a grey background and "screen missing" text on my Android phone using Brave

meremortalson Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past (2018)

Wish Lex Fridman would interview Ted!

meremortalson Why aren't smart people happier?

Naval Ravikant asks, "If you're so smart, why aren't you happy?".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIht5-FwZUI

meremortalson Do hair transplants debunk the scalp tension-hair loss hypothesis? (2021)

Or Marc Andreessen

meremortalson GitJournal: Mobile first Markdown notes synchronized with Git

Ah, nice-- will give it another go! Thanks for building it. I enjoyed it so much prior that I even paid for the "Pro" version

meremortalson GitJournal: Mobile first Markdown notes synchronized with Git

I loved this for a while, then started having issues where it would hang upon attempting to re-sync all of my notes randomly on launch.

I switched to Zettel Notes which has been reliable and fast