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by krrrh 9y ago
I mostly use data-only SIMs on my phone and make/receive the very few calls I need to via VOIP, which is almost certainly the near future. For instance in Myanmar, where they have only had widespread mobile phone service for a couple o
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by krrrh 9y ago
Apple's record on privacy and business model give me pretty high confidence on this one. Google may have an incentive to add call info to the profile they keep on you, but surely you're not thinking that they are as big of a priva
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by krrrh 9y ago
Mobile phones are called "Handys" in German. It's become such a satisfying and appropriate name for handheld computers, as distinct from traditional personal computers. In British English, they've always called cellphone
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by krrrh 10y ago
Do you have a link for that?
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by krrrh 10y ago
The innovation tax credits main purpose seems to be to lower morale of software engineers, enrich consultants, and keep a bunch of zombie startups alive for too long or help successful companies focus on something other than product and cus
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by krrrh 10y ago
> and audio files This right here. Music titles are bad enough, but titles and sources of podcasts and videos played through the headphones should be enough to upset even the most naive consumers. This amounts to a slice of your browsin
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by krrrh 10y ago
It could easily store and forward data the next time you open the app though.
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by krrrh 10y ago
Automation doesn't "create jobs". People's desires plus their creativity to supply new goods or services create jobs. Driving is a relatively big part of the economy, but it's nothing compared to what agriculture us
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by krrrh 10y ago
One interesting, and somewhat ironic, historical footnote to this, is that Milton Friedman was part of the group that conceived of and implemented employer withholding as we know it while he was working at the Treasury department. Though by
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by krrrh 10y ago
It's effectively the only cross-platform solution that works very well on all 3 major desktop platforms and both major mobile platforms. It seems like no one else has the incentive to take other platforms seriously. Especially, for any
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by krrrh 10y ago
rclone plus Amazon Cloud Drive might be an option. They do seem to have no limit when it comes to uploading data, but you can apparently run into soft caps if you try to download it all at once. Apparently Amazon has a lot of spare downstre
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by krrrh 10y ago
Arq is a well-supported piece of commercial software. It's a one time $50 license, but works with a half dozen different cloud services. Another commenter mentioned the open source Duplicati, which sounds similar. I haven't looked
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by krrrh 10y ago
So many people get their med cards because of a severe phobia of boring movies.
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by krrrh 10y ago
I would love a utility that watched for fast battery drops and then alerted me or automatically killed a process based on rules. The few times I've had battery issues with the new MBP I've checked Activity Monitor to find that som
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by krrrh 10y ago
It is definitely something that I miss. I would actually be pretty happy to pay a $15 premium for a USB-C cable that integrated MagSafe style charging LEDs into its circuitry.
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by krrrh 10y ago
I would definitely take it in if this is the case. I have had no problems with the new keyboard and have come to vastly prefer it to the old MacBook Air keyboard I had been using. I feel like I type faster on it and with greater certainty.
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by krrrh 10y ago
It's a good question. I've seen some studies that show better recovery from exercise if it is followed by a steam or sauna. I don't think we know enough to determine what the dose-response curve looks like. Related: the scien
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by krrrh 10y ago
This 2015 study on sauna use seems to point to something going on. There's a lot of speculation about whether heat shock proteins play a similar role in both hyperthermic conditioning and exercise (perhaps a form of hyperthermic condit
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by krrrh 10y ago
In addition to this interview with Ezra Klein, Harari was also interviewed recently by noted proponent of Vipassana meditation, Sam Harris, in a podcast episode released earlier today: https://overcast.fm/+BSCDk9Xmk
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by krrrh 10y ago
It's worth it. I've done two 10 day courses and you learn to develop your focus in ways that are pretty hard to believe without going through it. I know about a dozen people who have done the 10-day Goenka course. It is definitely
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by krrrh 10y ago
They still haven't open sourced the server afaik. The thing that is a problem with Telegram is that they market on their security, but it's not secure by default, or on group chats. Moreover, it stores chat histories, and if you a
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by krrrh 10y ago
The research on Ketamine as a one-shot cure is very promising too. Microdosing of LSD or psilocybin also has some interesting anecdsta behind it. There is definitely a lot of research to be done on these and other psychotropics like Ayahuas
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by krrrh 10y ago
Interesting point here, if you search old HN discussions you can find a reference, but 200-250ug is the effective dose for melatonin, and larger amounts have a slightly decreased effect. I know it's never sold this way, but it's s
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by krrrh 10y ago
One option is wearing blue-blocking sunglasses in the evening. It's cheap, and I know a couple of people who do it and believe it has helped with sleep.
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by krrrh 10y ago
Additional stats that makes this even more interesting are rankings of economic freedom from places like the Heritage Foundation.[1] Canada and the Nordic countries are on par with the US, and on many important factors ahead. It doesn'
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by krrrh 10y ago
You're speaking with unwarranted certainty on this subject. there is much that is unknown on this subject due to very sparse data, and the fact that cancer rates are already relatively high in the general population and affected by a m
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by krrrh 10y ago
A lot of big podcasters get people to use their Amazon link for shopping. It set a floor for sponsor pricing, because they had little incentive to sell an ad for less than they could make by promoting the affiliate link to Amazon on their f
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by krrrh 10y ago
It is laudable, and they definitely aren't going to get this level of concern from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Sovereign Wealth fund.
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by krrrh 10y ago
I've had my 2016 MBP for about ten days. Just used my air for the first time since then and couldn't believe how spongey and rattley the old keyboard felt. I know a few other people who feel the same way. Personal preference and f
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by krrrh 10y ago
As noted elsewhere in this thread. UK consumer law also forces bundled 6-year warranties on electronics which adds substantially to the costs.

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