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by disabled 5y ago
A banned book in Belarus, called "Paranoia", by Victor Martinovich, captures the situation that Belarusians are in. "In the summertime, in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, young couples rent boats. They float, seemingly aimle
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by disabled 5y ago
It is way worse than cigarettes, on so many levels. It is much more profound than one would initially assume. Social media and modern micro targeting advertising, which plays strongly into your individual hopes and fears (to maximize the li
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by disabled 5y ago
> I really don’t think it should change anything in risk calculation and preparedness though. If you have to use it, it still represents a complete fail for you as an outdoorsman. The downside is that their easy availability makes people
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by disabled 5y ago
Thank you so much for the compliment! I hope you see this new comment that I am making, in addition to the old comment! If you can please upvote or respond to this, so I know that you saw it, this would be appreciated! :-) * I should also n
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by disabled 5y ago
I have severe convergence insufficiency due to a rare immune mediated neurological disease affecting my peripheral nervous system. I see a neuro-ophthalmologist for this. If I have more than a few paragraphs to read, I either use a screenre
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by disabled 5y ago
By no means is Zagreb tiny. The metro area is 1.15 million people. If you are going to be that picky, then you are not going to find a digital nomad visa that meets your criteria. There are only a handful of western countries with high qual
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by disabled 5y ago
> In EU it's either extreme bureaucracy of obtaining it, or some other very odd requirement that quietly sinks the whole appeal. It’s called Croatia, which is part of the European Union. It is better than the Estonian Digital Nomad
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by disabled 5y ago
I have to say that I am lucky that I have a print-related disability, because I almost never need to go websites with ads. Services I get access to (no-ads): * 975,000+ books for $50/year (Bookshare.org) * 60,000+ professionally narrat
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by disabled 5y ago
If hiking on a trail even on the outskirts, EMS can have trouble locating you. I am from the Pacific Northwest, and I am quite hardy. You carry one so that you can be located in an emergency.
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by disabled 5y ago
I am glad that this story has a happy ending. But, as this poster stated (see comment tree here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24065803 ) there is no reason to be going into wilderness in 2020 (or 2021) without a Pers
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by disabled 5y ago
It should be noted that gambling needs to be viewed as nothing more than a form of entertainment. Back in the day, formal engineering schools offered elective courses on the mathematics of gambling. Just know that if you partake in the acti
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by disabled 5y ago
Wow, that neural voice sounds so much better than the TTS that I use with my screenreader for reading books with my print-related disability. Thank you for the writeup! :-)
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by disabled 5y ago
I’m the OP. I hope you become a US citizen just in case you need it (not just holding a green card). I agree with your assessment. I also have T1D. My neurologists and endocrinologists (I have 2 of each) are pretty sure one of my (very rare
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by disabled 6y ago
Sorry, but this is not relevant to this discussion. I refuse to flood this extremely long thread with details that are not relevant to the readers clicking on this thread. Please see my profile and email me instead, for specific answers.
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by disabled 6y ago
The Los Angeles Times wrote an excellent article about the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine situation, in layman's terms [1]. However, journalists need to stop calling it "blood clots" or "rare blood clots",
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by disabled 6y ago
Yep. There are a lot of exercise apps for the Oculus Quest 1|2. People sweat in them all the time, and they are OK with the possibility of breaking them. You can buy protective barriers to add a layer between the headset. However, the humid
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by disabled 6y ago
I work part-time and I am also an electrical engineering graduate student. I often watch lectures while exercising, for example, and simultaneously take notes. I use two methods for coding/typing/notes: voice and specialized keybo
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by disabled 6y ago
Thanks but this requires minimal setup and offers the most versatility. It does not require the technical expertise of setting up your own personal cloud storage. If you think that Playpulse ONE is some disruptive technology then you are li
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by disabled 6y ago
This is a very thoughtful comment and you are correct about the screens and the wantrepreneurs. But, for some people, using an indoor bike is the only way that they can safely cycle. This includes people like me, who have multiple health co
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by disabled 6y ago
There is even a better setup than PlayPulse One: a smart trainer [1][2] using a traditional bike with VZfit [3]. You get to train using a VR headset, like the Oculus Quest 2 while riding your own bike inside your house, via a smart trainer!
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by disabled 6y ago
I am so sorry. As somebody who has experienced pulmonary embolism, this is so scary. Make sure to never forget to take your blood thinning medicine. You absolutely must get the blood clots completely dissolved, and the blood thinner medicin
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by disabled 6y ago
It's not just a "blood clot" or some "rare type of blood clot". This was what I posted in this post about the European Medicines Agency acknowledging the AstraZeneca vaccine (which I was inoculated with) was linked
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by disabled 6y ago
It does have power over what it allows to be published, although it does not have the staff to enforce violations. As a Croatian-American who speaks Croatian, it is best to avoid the Croatian language Wikipedia pages about wars, with some m
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by disabled 6y ago
A lot of my work revolves around human physiology. I think a lot of that will be improved with very accurate, high resolution, and continuous sensors. When that happens (with BioMEMS of course for most cases), AI will be able to fill in a g
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by disabled 6y ago
Obviously causation doesn’t equal correlation. But, I should point out that your two paragraphs contradict each other, via logic. Also, I have a physical disability due to a 2 rare immune mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripher
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by disabled 6y ago
From the Guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/12/facebook-... : > "But it quickly became clear that no one was interested in taking responsibility for policing the abus
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by disabled 6y ago
Good for you, I guess. I hope it stays that way. This was a December 2019 article: E-bikes show distinct pattern of severe injuries: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebike-injuries-idU... > "The author
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by disabled 6y ago
> A bicycle is superior in virtually any category: range, security, acceleration, deceleration, max speed, cargo, maintainability. Also: Safer This is an October 2018 article from the Financial Times. Reading it changed my opinion on E-S
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by disabled 6y ago
No. It cannot. It is strictly an EEG device, which measures electrical signals from the brain. Also, any sort of electrical interference (from other electrical stimulation devices) will cause inaccurate readings. I am not an expert on this:
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by disabled 6y ago
OpenBCI is completely open source. Emotiv is a lot more difficult to deal with when it comes to interfacing [1]. The reference I provide is sort of old but it is definitely applicable to Emotiv products in general. [1] Emotiv issues: https

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