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For a certain kind of user computer UI really peaked during the CLI age. Reading text and typing on a keyboard is the fastest way to get data into and out of computers.

> Cash is also essential for grease/bribes. Am I not bribing enough people? I've never had to.

When I am having difficulty starting a task I start with making a list of everything that needs to get done to solve the problem. It always make it more manageable.

> It's pretty crucial to remember, though, that your current source of anxiety is probably just a red herring. Everytime I have anxiety it's my brain focusing on one thing to avoid…

It sounds like you need to adjust your expectations of your own work. Being tired is terrible for your short term mental performance and your long term health. It also increases th…

The problem is a lot bigger than coal power. One example, agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation and many of our current agricultural practices have questionable long te…

Antidotally I am a heavy airpod pro user, averaging seven hours a day. I have two pairs so one is always at full power. I have not experienced this problem.

My guess is that the damage to Apple's brand name that occurs with each replacement is larger than the cost of replacing the product. I once had an expensive brand of computer mous…

The neat thing about 10,000 bitcoins is that it can exist in your pocket.

Did people in Greece and Venezuela fair substantially better than peers that had holdings of multiple foreign currencies?

> They figured that in the worst case slapping a specific brand on a few hotels in a few major Chinese cities is a cheap price to pay. Did they do that?

While it's true the trump administration is very anti immigrant at, it is also very anti ccp.

While it wouldn't be exactly like HK, being a semi-autonomous territory of the US would allow the new goverment/economy to be in a unique position. Imagine, for example, if New-HK …

> This was shortly after the end of the cold war, after all, which demonstrated that such change is possible, if not inevitable. In 1997 most people wouldn't have thought it would …

The point is you are starting the comparison at the most convenient point for your argument. 75 years ago the United States was part of the allied powers that helped put an end to …

Currently people with a Computer Science degree have ~95% employment during the worst economic downturn of my lifetime. I don't need goverment protection for my job. In order to be…

Walmart really fails at providing quality food that isn't highly processed. I find much better quality, and often better prices on the grains and legumes that make up the bulk of m…

I always find the best local food sources from word of mouth. Usually there's not a large web presence because web is extra overhead, and high quality food has a much higher demand…

> Whereas, a lot of CS curricula today at least implicitly assume that you're comfortable with computer command lines, basic programming, etc. And, if not, you'd better get up to s…

> Is this meme the single greatest reason why the developed world has so few successful moonshots? I think you are experiencing a bias. The developed world takes a lot of moonshots…

The article talks about eye strain, and states that using the OS's blue light filter is a better way to reduce eye strain. The blue light filter significantly reduces the amount of…

It combines two things very important in American culture, outlaw activity and automobiles.

1. There's too many people violating local orders across the United States to arrest them all. 2. Putting them in jail is actually worse for their health than almost any other acti…

#2 is pretty trivial without very good sales figures.

Something happened between 1984 and 1992 where imagining a virtual world had to include large numbers of everyday people.