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by robg 3y ago
Not going to respond to the ad hominem flame war comments but I’ll just add, it’s about relative choices, hence why I still use a Fitbit. I can see how each public company makes money and can examine their technical decisions. I’ve been wor
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by robg 3y ago
This, Apple is not primarily an advertising company. I buy quality products from them that last, still using a 2013 iMac that has never had any issues. Even original AirPods work so well, I replace them as the battery degrades.
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Impressed that Apple pockets $18 Billion and still mostly protects privacy with reasonable UX choices. Nothing is perfect, but denying Google more data about me is one reason I’ll always stick with iOS over Android and why I’ll ditch my Fit
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Life After "Calvin and Hobbes"(newyorker.com)
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The Internet Could Be So Good(theatlantic.com)
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by robg 3y ago
This 1000 times. Why is it that we don’t optimize for brain power? The brain lacking sleep and under stress is designed to survive, not thrive. Our strongest muscle is weakest when we need it most to prioritize survival.
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Stress is weathering our bodies from the inside out(archive.ph)
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I had forgotten about the best list. It deserves a spot in the header IMO. https://news.ycombinator.com/best
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Giving people time to read stuff before it disappears.
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Karl Ziemelis, now chief physical sciences editor at Nature, handled the paper as a rookie editor. He says it remains one of his favourites — and one of the hardest to get in. Editorial approval for the paper was far from unanimous, becaus
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by robg 3y ago
Any call outs for ones that are especially comfortable?
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by robg 3y ago
When you deal with a*holes don’t be surprised when you’re covered in sh*t.
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Enabling Patient Access to Health Data for Actionable Results(healthit.gov)
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by robg 3y ago
As a neuroscientist who struggles with my brain wellness and health, I’ve developed a checklist for my own self-assessments: 1. How is my sleep? 2. Am I limiting caffeine intake? 3. Anything else affecting my sleep? Room temperature? Lights
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by robg 3y ago
Alternative title: Can you hide a child’s face from TikTok or Snap?
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P.s. Arizona could be a good test of the theory in the next Senate campaign, albeit with an incumbent going third party.
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Same problems? I don’t see that, it’s a local-ish constituency powered by national trends. States like New Jersey, Maryland, and Massachusetts all regularly flip governors between the two parties. Adding states like Colorado, Arizona, Dela
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by robg 3y ago
Folks jump to the presidency, but seems like the biggest value prop for a third party is winning a few Senate seats. Target 10 smaller, purple states with one major media market. 2-3 wins in one year gives six years to build momentum. With
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by robg 3y ago
When can we harmonize the two and call it “Statistical Learning”?
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by robg 3y ago
Should content moderators get psychedelics as part of their work demands?
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The literal shock to the adrenal system with trauma is this century’s cancer. We see it as decreasing expectancy of the last 30 years in the U.S. The fight for survival is a basic instinct that needs to be managed with holidays, nature, and
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by robg 3y ago
What laws did they break? I’m confused by the sudden interest in monopolies when the duopolies have developed over 20 years. It’s like after Microsoft government assumed Google / Facebook and Google / Apple and EBay / Amazon
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by robg 3y ago
It’s amazing to me that active air exchanges for filtering and even humidity are not well optimized as part of modern housing HVAC. Is it costs or simply system integrations? For instance, another big indoor pollutant is cooking fumes, from
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by robg 3y ago
If you have to choose, going to get caffeine or a nap, choose the nap. Best is to caffeinate then nap. https://lifehacker.com/naps-vs-coffee-which-is-better-when-y... .
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by robg 3y ago
The biggest I’ve seen is that talk therapies don’t work well if an underlying sleep concern is not addressed. Sleep as the parasympathetic nervous system is predictable from a more primitive model whereas a cognitive - behavioral model assu
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The autonomic nervous system is real biology that most psychologists don’t start with. While this article is based on textbook descriptions of the evolution of the brain in the skull, not seeing much on how the autonomic nervous system is
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by robg 3y ago
Especially since the master reptile - the adrenal cortex - is located atop the kidneys. Fight or flight is first an electrical relay to the hands and feet and heart. The brain in the skull and consciousness reflects upon what’s already happ
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by robg 3y ago
Brain implants feeding off our sensory and cognitive circuitry seems the century long challenge. Robots and bots are interesting distortion mirrors along the way.
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Does anyone have recommendations on people pointing out the wide epistemological limits of current and future datasets? I’ve been thinking about the limits of statistical AI for the last 20 years when I did my Ph.D. in embodied cognition. F
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Trash food deserves to be in the trash heap of history. That said, it’s great humanity learned to produce more food than we need then ways to process and store it for years later. Hopefully we’l never need that knowledge again.

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