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It's theoretically more reversible, but dependent on identifying epigenetic factors that can practically be counteracted or at least lessened (and don't have significantly adverse side effects.)

In reality, it will probably just mean a bunch of snake oil 'epigenetic health supplements' on the shelves that don't actually do anything.

I normally only get tweets leaning towards one side of the political spectrum. I read an article and liked a tweet, and suddenly found myself in a mirror-image alternative universe.

The echo chamber is real. For all its potential, Twitter is no way to learn about the world. But the same goes for any web site with algorithmically served content.

They left an opening for you, carpe diem!

I heard Hawthorn just lost a lot of people and has a bunch of openings.

Did you read the actual deposition? The linked article is not clear on the exact details, I don't think it's possible to come to any conclusions from the article alone.

The iPhone example is an interesting one. I would say that was still a 100% legit demo, because Jobs was demonstrating the actual working features (rather than say bring up screenshots of a web browser and claim to be surfing the web.)

I can't tell for sure whether the Telsa video is closer to the iPhone demo or the Nikola semi demo (which was obviously way worse.)

The best of all time IMO were the old G4 silver Powerbook keyboards. The response felt great (both tactile and cushioned?), and the scalloped keys felt great to the fingers.

That keyboard was probably too thick for the modern era though.

Batteries on Apple laptops have always been pretty easy to replace (if not RAM and storage), just not swappable on the go. No glue, just screws- not sure if that's changed recently though.

For me the worst part was not my lap but my left palm (2013 MBA.) We had carpal tunnel, someday there's going to be a new syndrome that comes from constant heat being applies to your palms while using a laptop computer.

The last few years of Apple notebook revisions have been pretty incremental, until the M1 arrived. I was happy using 3-4 year old MBA's because the user experience was not that different, but the M1 models were a night and day difference- better battery life and better performance, cooler operation with no fan.

Seems practically impossible- if not technically then definitely from a business standpoint (why were these potential gains unrealized for so long?)

I also use both, Simplemind is a fantastic mind mapping app.

For smaller scale mindmapping though, I am finding Canvas very usable already for such an early release. The ability to easily link or embed to markdown files (or create new ones) is really nice, and I like having all my work in a common area. Community created plugins will also dramatically expand the app.

There will always be advantages for the dedicated apps as well, but this is going to be a great option for many.

Your comment really resonates with me (as a general point, not specifically about OP article which is about note-taking as a whole.)

For example, when a Youtube creator makes videos about new PKM apps/systems, they are getting secondary benefits that ordinary users are not. Tinkering with new apps can be fun, but often not worth the actual trouble of learning and converting over to a new app/system. Worse, it can be a source of procrastination in itself.

But the Youtuber pushing out monthly videos about the hot new thing is accomplishing their main purpose of making new Youtube content (which is of course fine.)

I personally started using Obsidian late last year, and have no real desire to look at anything new. It works great for me, and the active plugin development community provides enough new shiny stuff to try out at every now and then. ;-)

LOL, I first read that as you would always try to hit the crow.

Guess I'm not as smart as one...

Can we just all be universally lukewarm from here on out?

The fundamental issue is, is carbon dioxide an air pollutant? This is not so much about interpretation of the Clean Air Act IMO, as it is about peoples' opposing views on carbon dioxide as a significant contributor to climate change.

Those who believe carbon dioxide absolutely is contributing to climate change and harming our planet would likely classify carbon dioxide as an air pollutant and thus believe the EPA has the power to regulate it. Those that believe otherwise are not going to consider carbon dioxide an 'air pollutant' and thus not subject EPA regulation.

This reminds me of the Pixel Qi screens that promised cheaper notebooks with really long battery life (and was used in the OLPC.) Today's backlit e-ink screens do seem more promising, although the versatility of a computer using a slow refresh screen really hurts it.

For the right price it could be useful and find its niche.

The Dana is great, but the regular Alphasmarts are particularly rock-solid and 2 AA batteries will last you over a year.

The Dana touchscreen isn't as contrasty, the backlight eats battery, and if you use up all your batteries you will lose your data without backups. It's all quite manageable of course (since as you say it's just a Palm PDA with a keyboard) and has much more functionality, but not as bulletproof.

(I'm just happy to participate in a Alphasmart discussion LOL.)

I think the logic was that in a 'zero COVID' country, the health risk associated with vaccination (for the elderly and vulnerable) was higher than the risks of COVID itself.

I'd hope they are trying to push for increasing vaccination of elderly now, otherwise there will be no end to these lockdowns.

I don't disagree with your logic (people would try to hide sickness), but they do have mandatory testing.

That's exactly the thing- it is almost always going to be a judgement call, so the worst thing in the USA was for it to become politicized. In China, a monolithic 'zero COVID' policy was easily arguably better than the USA's fragmented efforts and conflicts 1-2 years ago, but now?

The evolutionary path of COVID seems more likely to follow that of the Spanish flu than to become more and more deadly. What happens if the next strain is even more contagious but also correspondingly less dangerous (especially as natural and vaccination immunity continues to rise)? Yes, people still die but there are trade offs with all policies, that's why we don't have flu lockdowns.

Among prominent world leaders, both Putin and Xi Jinping were able to handily remove term limits for presidents (Trump also floated the idea plenty of times on Twitter, of course you have to win 2 terms first before you seek a 3rd.)

I am no expert on Chinese politics and the inner workings of the Communist party, but I thought this viewpoint from a Chinese dissident was interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/21/china-cai-xia-...

It's all been very crazy to me too, the only plausible factor IMO is the low vaccination of the elderly in China. Overall vaccination rate is very high, but among elderly it is lower. I guess the rationale at the time was that in a COVID-0 country, the risk of COVID itself is lower than health risks associated with vaccination for certain groups.

So now they are trying to prevent what happened in Hong Kong (which also had low vaccination rate among the elderly.) I would hope they are trying to vaccinate the elderly now though.

I feel like there's a significantly non-zero chance that after the lockdown is lifted, it's going to happenn again within a couple of months.

They are definitely succeeding at figuring out how not to do it then.

Maybe we can use Terra UST now.

They are going to start with Insane and Ludicrous self-driving modes, before graduateing to 'Fools Self Driving.'

I got locked out of my Gmail over a decade ago when it was just another webmail service (but with 1GB of free storage.) I believe there was some sort of unauthorized log in attempt, I couldn't find any answers or get any help from Google until I started googling for random Google employees and found a phone number for one.

He was a bit put off by getting my rando phone call, but I explained my predicament and he took the time to look into it and helped get my account restored. Thanks Google engineer guy!

This probably doesn't work in 2022 though. ;-)

Are you suggesting it would play out just like it is now by the US government, with indiscriminate bombings of Mexican cities and targeting of civilians? I guess anything is possible in geopolitics. And if the USA started invading Mexico and indiscriminately bombing civilian targets, the government could successfully sell it to some portion of its population.

Certainly it would be a horrific act regardless of the invading country- autocratic, democratic, socialist, capitalist, communist, western, eastern, whatever. And yes, the US government has done some horrific things in the past.

None of that makes the current bloodshed by Russia any less terrible, or excuses it in any way, right? I just ask that we don't kiss ourselves on that either.

It's like the opposite of '1984', and yet somehow the same.

Maybe so, but stockholders aren't responsible for company losses either.

I love KFP and this article as well, but this one seems a bit off?

> "One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it." > Life Lesson: You bring about what you focus on, whether good or bad.

Oogway tells Shifu about his vision that Tai Lung will return, in response Shifu orders that guards and arms at the prison should be doubled to prevent Tai Lung's escape.

Oogway then response with that line, which is basically saying no matter what he does, he's not going to prevent Tai Lung's escape. So the quote seems to be more about the wisdom of accepting your current circumstances so that you can better deal with them (the quote about stilling your mind comes right after.)

Then Russell Brand goes and reads Greenwald's words, it's like a horrific game of telephone.

> Yes and so am I. So are 90% of us talking about the issue here. We have no business talking about biolabs. And yet it seems like all of the experts of biolabs are here on HN to tell us all of the nuance they've learned over the.... last few weeks since Putin wanted us all to be talking about Ukrainian biolabs.

Winner winner chicken dinner!!