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by smeej 2y ago
I was so disappointed this failed, and for what seemed like such an incredibly obvious reason. They tried to use the same viral "invitation only" system that had worked for Gmail for Wave, but apparently completely overlooked th
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by smeej 2y ago
...sell ads on it? Maybe for the docs who are willing to prescribe off-label? Maybe for other pharmacies? I don't know. Maybe it's not a viable business model, but there are certainly weirder things that make money.
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by smeej 2y ago
I wonder if some sort of coalition of compounding pharmacists might be up for making and retaining a repository. They at least make some money by helping would-be patients take these drugs, right? So even if it's nothing like Big Pha
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by smeej 2y ago
My dream tool allows me to create snapshots from either mobile or desktop browser, then read and highlight on my Android eInk reader or phone, then export my highlights and notes into Logseq...all without collecting all my data and selling
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by smeej 2y ago
I was expecting the blog post to be different based on the headline. It's really about an AI-powered tool that finds the links to things you want to refer to for you so you don't have to waste time looking up all your own referenc
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by smeej 2y ago
This is the kind of thing I think about doing every so often, before realizing it would take me a lot more time, energy, and money than I'm willing to spend to save 10 minutes once a week manually copying my work events from GCal to Et
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by smeej 2y ago
I can't work under more than three layers of management, largely because I've found that to be the practical maximum of managers who will care more about my results than whether I'm following the inefficient set of rules laid
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by smeej 2y ago
There wasn't anything intentional about my question. I just didn't understand what thebparebt commenter meant! I don't think I understand how your reply relates to the question either, though, because I was asking what it mea
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by smeej 2y ago
I think what both have in common is this: People who don't otherwise care about the sport will watch highlights of people smashing balls really far with sticks. And "people...will watch" generates revenue. People who are pas
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by smeej 2y ago
So it makes about as much sense to ask why 2/3rds of the galaxies are "upside-down" from our vantage point, because there's no clear reason it should be something other than 50% in a sample size this large?
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by smeej 2y ago
What does "above" or "below" even mean in the context of something without a top or bottom? Or are you defining "above" to mean "the vantage point from which the galaxy appears to be rotating in the dire
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by smeej 2y ago
This is exactly the dumb question I came here to ask. So now I wait with you for a less dumb person to reply. My clock certainly seems to tick in the opposite direction when I look at it from behind.
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by smeej 2y ago
Maybe it's just me, but if I worked for a school as close to Fenway as MIT, I sure wouldn't risk putting my name on custom bats for the Yankees!
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by smeej 2y ago
I also thought the reason you couldn't travel with unattached spare batteries was because something could bridge the + and - and create fire from a short, not because they were lithium. Like, traveling with my little power bank wasn&#x
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by smeej 2y ago
I feel like I'm having some sort of Mandela Effect moment, but maybe I'm missing something a lot more obvious? I've had portable charging battery packs for at least a decade. I wasn't special. They were common. But it&#x
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by smeej 2y ago
That doesn't make it OK.
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by smeej 2y ago
Slurs have no place on HN. If you can't find a way to express your displeasure without using slurs, do us all a favor and keep it to yourself.
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by smeej 2y ago
I like the idea! Mine aren't remotely as closely connected as software and hardware, though. Think more like social work and catering and property management and helping people secure their own bitcoin. I can make a case that I can do
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by smeej 2y ago
The reason I hate LinkedIn is because I haven't had one straightforward career path. I rewrite my resume to tailor it to whatever I'm applying to next, which generally means removing all the descriptions of each of my old jobs and
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by smeej 2y ago
I'm also in New England but grew up in suburban Denver and I think it might well just be a matter of the houses and neighborhoods' having existed before anybody got the bright idea to make HOAs. It's hard to enforce an HOA on
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by smeej 2y ago
My brother got rid of his when he saw the listening light on his Alexa devices turn on every time he asked Siri a question. His house is all Siri devices now. I don't know when else they're listening, but that was enough to make h
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by smeej 2y ago
That you think this solves it for me is exactly the problem. It's taking the one thing that was ever intuitive for me when it came to managing things in my life, mangles it into a dozen steps that aren't remotely intuitive to me a
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by smeej 2y ago
I just spent fully 15 minutes trying to find anywhere there's a simple list of what the 5 rules are. Couldn't get AI search bots to pull it up for me either. I don't know whether I'm more worried for her, that her work i
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by smeej 2y ago
Instead of being the one product I've ever found in this niche that actually is intuitive to the way my mind approaches storing information, tasks, etc., now I have to try to fit my brain around whatever structure they build into their
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by smeej 2y ago
I've played with it enough to know I don't intend to move forward with it. It takes so many of the things that were intuitive and functional for me, adds a ton of stuff I don't want and wouldn't use, and ruins what made
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by smeej 2y ago
I don't know if there's more to it than these two sides of the same coin, but every time I move house, when I pull something out of the box and go to put it "away," wherever it's going to stay from then on, I close
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by smeej 2y ago
If the mobile app could handle PDF reading/highlighting like the desktop app can, and especially if it could reflow PDFs like KOreader can, I would never use another tool for information management. I have loads of epub books that I
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by smeej 2y ago
The one logistical change I made that solved this for me was that whenever I have to look for something, as soon as I find it, it gets moved to wherever the first place I looked for it was. I take that as an indication that my brain's
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by smeej 2y ago
Seconding Logseq, though I think the move to database structure is going to ruin it for me. I'm one of those people for whom Notion is counterintuitive to the point of being completely unusable, and all I can suss out about this switch
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by smeej 2y ago
The typical sentence for attempted murder-for-hire in the U.S. isn't a double life sentence plus 40 years without the possibility of parole.

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