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by robg 10y ago
Smart watches are different though - like giving everyone the same pair of shoes or jewelry. At least the phone you could use if you wanted to. Something that goes on your body is pretty different.
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by robg 10y ago
Price point is actually quite good. Battery life is terrible. After that though, what are the features that say you have to have this thing? I honestly can't name any. It's my phone with worse features.
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by robg 10y ago
That only a small minority will wear... EDIT: So the people voting this down think a majority of Google employees (e.g. >50%) or large minority (20-49%) would wear this thing if they received for free? I'm genuinely curious. But I&#
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by robg 10y ago
I've been studying these trends closely for the last five years given our startup's survival depends on the outcome. In short, I don't agree. It's looking more and more to me that we're in the middle of the Palm and
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by robg 10y ago
Why are YC companies having more difficulty raising Series A than they were a few years ago?
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by robg 10y ago
I'm very familiar, thanks. I didn't say these efforts didn't work in some cases. I pointed out that the early beta testers were the wealthy. That said, minors are still getting psychotropics without their consent and where th
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by robg 10y ago
I'm surprised these reviews don't include the recent history of science funded by the wealthy - eugenics, asylums, lobotomies, thalidomide, and now kids taking psychotropics. That doesn't mean the same will be true of CRISPR
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by robg 10y ago
This is the topic I've been most worried about. My only solace is the brilliance of the Framers of the U.S. Constitution. They planned for a wide variety of government failures, knowing full well of how democracies fail. The freedom of
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by robg 10y ago
Just so we're clear, 412 people have voted this up in 2 hours, with another 226 comments, but not one has signed the petition? EDIT: I just signed the petition, and with email verification, and it's not showing up. Anyone else
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by robg 10y ago
"The only thing that stopped keeping up are salary increases" That's a pretty big only.
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by robg 10y ago
Neumitra - digital medicine into daily life - Boston, MA We're hiring data-driven engineers including: - Embedded developers for real-time biofeedback and sensor fusion - Mobile developers for hooks into apps for daily life management
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by robg 10y ago
Sleep is physiologically the recovery from stress. Two sides of the same physiological coin - the autonomic nervous system. Sadly, there's little work on how stress affects sleep and vice versa. Typically they've been separate aca
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by robg 10y ago
Pretty much textbook science from animal models. Stress wrecks havoc on typical brain functions including memory, learning, attention, even decision making.
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by robg 10y ago
I live with mental "illness". With respect to the brain, the diversity is our story. The types and subtypes are challenges on how to live, past and beyond the diagnosis.
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by robg 10y ago
Neumitra - digital medicine into daily life - Boston, MA We're hiring data-driven engineers including: - Embedded developers for real-time biofeedback and sensor fusion - Mobile developers for hooks into apps for daily life management
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by robg 10y ago
And hopefully to the Supreme Court!
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by robg 10y ago
One upside: Peter Thiel on the Supreme Court is a sorely needed perspective on so many levels. Every current justice went to the same groupthink law schools and never worked outside the system.
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by robg 10y ago
Neumitra - digital medicine into daily life - Boston, MA We're hiring data-driven engineers including: - Embedded developers for real-time biofeedback and sensor fusion - Mobile developers for hooks into apps for daily life management
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by robg 10y ago
Perhaps it's me living in an area that used to be mostly boarding houses, but I do understand the concerns that hotels and homes have different impacts on a neighborhood and community. Zoning laws exist for that reason and many, many o
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by robg 10y ago
He's underestimating their push into medical research and apps. It's $3 Trillion in the U.S. every year and they are further along than any other of the Big Techs. This: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles
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by robg 10y ago
I turned everything off years ago. Still off today.
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by robg 10y ago
Neural implants are only a matter of time and money. Good to see someone making a bold bet here and with his own money and time.
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by robg 10y ago
Title change suggestion: Bad brain training has limited scope. The question remains what good brain training would is. Paired with electrical or magnetic stimulation? There's almost all fertile ground here and, I believe, our great adv
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by robg 10y ago
Neumitra - digital medicine into daily life - Boston, MA We're hiring data-driven engineers including: - Embedded developers for real-time biofeedback and sensor fusion - Mobile developers for hooks into apps for daily life management
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A New Understanding of How Movement Decreases Stress(theatlantic.com)
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by robg 10y ago
True. Alcohol and sedatives work really well. Both are addictive. Best natural approach appears to be exercise, which also helps us sleep better.
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by robg 10y ago
I was trained as a neuroscientist, took me over a decade to realize two important, basic, biological facts I wasn't taught: 1) Stress is always on - always. It's the survival instinct that can be reduced but not turned off. 2) Sle
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by robg 10y ago
Likely affects every 6+ so they are trying to get by without a recall unless there's some user handling that's the cause. Luckily in Apple store my swap was under warranty and they tried to run tests, but didn't seem successf
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by robg 10y ago
Me too, relatively quick swap if under one year warranty. And then I had it happen again with the replacement device within days. The second swap was even faster as I explained I had the problem with the last phone too. The Apple store re
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by robg 10y ago
The biggest question is always: Who pays? It's in a company's interest to pay for a sleep coach for any worker with sleep difficulties. But sadly health is not yet seen as part of operations/productivity, even in the most mod

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