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by jshevek 7y ago
It is perfectly serviceable for reading, though it may lack some of the reading oriented features of other eink devices. I love the large size for some of my documents, which are unpleasant to read on smaller devices.
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by jshevek 7y ago
I have used the original, you can choose pen modes with varying degrees of pressure sensitivity. This allows you to take notes easily with whatever level of pressure you want, but also switch to a different pen if you want to draw a textur
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by jshevek 7y ago
To extract that, you had to go farther down the same page than this: > Book medium for a collection of words and/or pictures to represent knowledge or a fictional story, often manifested in bound paper and ink, or in e-books
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by jshevek 7y ago
[On the original, you could not] rotate the device 180 and use it normally, but you could click a toggle in the settings which would reflect the UI laterally, for left-handed people.
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by jshevek 7y ago
The original was designed for both hands in the software. I think it's likely the new one will be as well, and any insinuation by the author otherwise is probably wrong.
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by jshevek 7y ago
> why so many posts to hacker News about this today? Seems and feels like guerrilla marketing. Are you accusing the people who posted these links of being employees of Remarkable? If so, you could just look at their comment histories to
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by jshevek 7y ago
I took it as having an implied "...on an electronic device."
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by jshevek 7y ago
> This is a classic flat earth argument. ‘Because people are saying so...’ No. Again you reason by false equivalence. The shape of the earth is not determined by popular opinion. The meaning of words is determined by popular usage.
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by jshevek 7y ago
The situation is in no way symmetric, as only one party is claiming a non-standard limitation on valid uses of the language. The other parties are claiming both a standard and more permissive use.
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by jshevek 7y ago
People with integrity apologize based on their own actions, not their opinions of the qualities of the other party. I apologise to douchebags regularly, if I'm wrong, though I'm very clear about the limitations of the apology.
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by jshevek 7y ago
> Flattening the curve obviously improves the situation (even if it doesn’t solve it) Yes. The criticism feels like Nirvana fallacy to me. Let's aspire to flatten the curve, it will make everything less bad, even if we don't
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by jshevek 7y ago
> They suggest that currently, the medical system can deal with a large fraction (like maybe 2/3, 1/2 or 1/3) of the cases, but if we implement some mitigation measures, we can get the infections per day down to a level we
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by jshevek 7y ago
This kind of follow up comment doesn't help.
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by jshevek 7y ago
This would need to be opt-in, of course.
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by jshevek 7y ago
Limiting the quantity that can be purchased to a particular address or credit card or similar restriction can help with this problem. As can inflating the price (high taxes) for non-doctors who are purchasing preemptively. If you are sick,
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by jshevek 7y ago
Yes, I was reading about this recently. Another study compared zinc uptake into the cytosol for various extracellular zinc levels, with and without chloroquine. I noticed when looking at the data, that while chloroquine facilitated a massi
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by jshevek 7y ago
> treated it after the fact as if it was hype or hysteria I agree with everything you and the parent said, but there was also hype and hysteria on top of it all - especially among the communities of preppers, back to the landers, and ec
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by jshevek 7y ago
Thank you for doing your part. Every time you opt out, people may notice. The more you opt out, the more you may inspire others to do so. The parent's argument is a self fulfilling prophecy.
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by jshevek 7y ago
> If you're against the technology, don't waste your time opting out I'm not saying it's worth any particular persons time to do so, but opting out does send a kind of signal. The more people opt out, the better, in
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by jshevek 7y ago
Please try not to misrepresent other people's claims nor presume their experiences. > I mean, your point upthread is that you didn't personally believe all the good science of the last 30 years because of some "extremists&
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by jshevek 7y ago
How would you feel if I identified some quality that you have and decided you were not worth protecting because of the result it has on society?
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by jshevek 7y ago
I thought people were advocating for responsible behavior, not enforcement.
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by jshevek 7y ago
> I'm sure someone said something dumb Yes, just one person. Edit: I try not to engage with people who use this kind of rhetorical technique. If anyone else is honestly ignorant of and curious about the damaging effects that decades
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by jshevek 7y ago
> Then who are you talking about? This question is so strange I don't know where to begin. Should I look up the percentage of the population that are scientists? Should I pull up an Amazon list of books popular in the 70s and 80s d
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by jshevek 7y ago
Not all young people! But I have personally witnessed many young people speaking openly this way. When I saw the statistics for my age cohort, my first reaction was to feel cavalier. It was a few minutes before I thought about the harm I c
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by jshevek 7y ago
Let's try to reduce the damage on all levels, by all people? There's no need to choose between one or the other, government action and personal responsibility.
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by jshevek 7y ago
Both [your observation and mine] are true. I am not talking about mainstream scientists. Sadly, they don't control the larger conversations.
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by jshevek 7y ago
Do you mean flooded from some specific storm, or from rising sea levels? When do you think NYC will become flooded? I've heard predictions of a sea level rise of 50 inches by 2100, but I don't know how much the levels need to rise
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by jshevek 7y ago
Part of the problem here is that extremists have subjected us to at least three decades of climate alarmism poisoned by bad science and failed predictions. People who lack the scientific background to properly understand specific claims an
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by jshevek 7y ago
You are correct on the benefits of reducing stigma, but that is something else altogether. You response doesn't seem to have anything to do with my statement. Celebrating success is not the same as celebrating mental illness . While

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