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The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity

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Post by holografix »

ekianjo wrote: post #157
noam87 wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Were they irrelevant? -- I see plenty doom and gloom in my history books and, hell, twitter feed. It was just a few decades ago that 80 million people died in a single war.

yet the world did not end. Countless prophecies aboutvthe absolute apocalypse have gone and passed. So yeah it is by large irrelevant.

It's not a given that it did not end... think to yourself what would happen if Nazi Germany had developed a nuclear bomb ahead of the Americans?

If even the US government couldn't resist obliterating 2 cities in Japan with Nukes can you imagine what the Nazis would have done? There would have been zero consideration for the loss of human life, possibly large areas of continental Europe and the US would have been bombed.

I think "the world did not end" meaning "it never will despite what's been said and done in the past" is a really dangerous miopic notion

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Post by inetknght »

OJFord wrote: post #67

Why do I need to enable cookies to see any content here? I'm genuinely asking, because there's an informative error message, so it's clearly deliberate; I just can't understand the motivation. Edit: the only human-readable cookie is 'machine_last_seen', perhaps that's just considered a really important statistic...

I ask the same thing any time a site doesn't work without javascript

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Post by carlob »

whitepoplar wrote: post #166

What I really want: an ultra high-end cell phone that has a camera built in. Phone calls, SMS, photos, and that's it. Differentiate on build quality, great design, and minimal features.

Nokia 515, I'm sure you can still find it on ebay

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Post by Iv »

cheapsteak wrote: post #171
Iv wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was in high school when I first read this opinion (I did not remember it was Socrates though). Also, I learned that Gaul, pre-roman France (where I lived), had a society where the priests/judges, the druids, were forbidden to write down their knowledge. It fascinated me. The idea that books, that were more or less revered depositories of knowledge, could have been seen as anti-intellectual at one time. It pushed me…

Recommendations on intro texts for poetry?

Do like most people these days: learn song lyrics! Songs are really poetry. Some have very deep meaning and good flow. Some will probably resonate with your own feelings.

Otherwise I have only bad recommendations in French, but I learned almost all of Cyrano de Bergerac's play and still remember maybe a third of it. In it, "La ballade du duel" flows very well and "la tirade des nez" is a classic that is a very good exercise.

I have no clue about English poetry. Despite having a decent written English level, I could never get into poetry in English. I think my pronunciation is not good enough and I have a hard time knowing how some more rare words, common in poetry, are actually pronounced. I would love to have the courage to get into Paradise Lost at one point.

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Post by amorphid »

sturmen wrote: post #170
_d8fd wrote: post #153

I predict someone will invent a smart utensil. It will be a smartphone-like device that has a curated app store which only includes utilitarian apps. It'll contain all of the apps people think "I'd love to ditch my smart phone, but I'd really miss ". Apps I really want AND never waste time on: - ride sharing (Lyft, Uber) - calendar - calculator - mobile banking - movie times & reviews - booking a place to stay (Counc…

You can take this today by enabling corporate lockdown modes of your smartphone and trusting someone else with the key.

That's kind of my point. Trusting someone else with the key works for as long as they want to be your app babysitter. The smart utensil plays that role in perpetuity, as being the babysitter is basically the business model.

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Post by holografix »

How does one manage a strong appetite to learn new things and the compulsion to look at their smartphone all the time?

I recently started getting into photography and I'm finding it very hard not to look at different lenses and Lightroom tips etc etc on my phone.

Combine that with a desire to learn about new tech and program and I end up spending a lot of time looking at it.

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

cheapsteak wrote: post #171
Iv wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was in high school when I first read this opinion (I did not remember it was Socrates though). Also, I learned that Gaul, pre-roman France (where I lived), had a society where the priests/judges, the druids, were forbidden to write down their knowledge. It fascinated me. The idea that books, that were more or less revered depositories of knowledge, could have been seen as anti-intellectual at one time. It pushed me…

Recommendations on intro texts for poetry?

I'd love to weigh in here.

When I was young I took part in a lot of weekday groups in a Christian church (rural Ontario, pretty much the mode out there at that time). One of our regular practices was being rewarded for perfectly memorizing passages. I recall being able to recite entire chapters, and soon entire books after practice. I ended up doing some acting as a kid and had no difficult time memorizing scripts after all of that.

But later in my high school years and into university I loved poetry, and tried to keep a few favourites in memory (and still do) because they inevitably become relevant at some point, and I find it a comfort.

Just find something you enjoy reading first off. The technicals of craft are arbitrary if you enjoy it. If you don't read much poetry and ever want suggestions, I'd love to contribute!

edit: fixed a typo

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Post by daniel_rh »

vlasev wrote: post #88
tristanho wrote: post #39

An effortless hack which I've gotten a lot of utility out of: put your phone behind your laptop. Out of sight, out of mind (and you can't feel it in your pocket either!)

A related hack if you don't want to put your phone behind your laptop - put the phone screen-side down. This way the changing states of the screen (when you get a notification) won't distract you.

The researchers specifically tested phone face up vs phone face down and noticed no statistical difference, I believe.

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Post by goobynight »

patrick_haply wrote: post #159
bigbugbag wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not how you learn japanese.

I imagine it's probably a decent way to practice it though, assuming you have enough working knowledge of the language to still get around your phone. Edit: Well, except for the part where they admitted they just started to use their phone less.

It's a good method, but not for a beginner.

I have, in reality, seen 2 people do this and they were both already quite grounded in the Japanese language (several years).

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Post by danso »

shric wrote: post #106
danso wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After I lost my phone to a robber late at night, I walked home (which was about 15 minutes away) so I could look up the nearest police precinct station. The detectives looked at me like I was the biggest idiot for not calling 911 from the nearest pay phone (this was before NYC converted their pay phones into whatever they are these days).

Is it really considered okay to call 911 for a stolen phone? I thought 911 was for emergencies (e.g. imminent danger to property or someone's life or health). If your phone's already stolen, what can the police do urgently? This assumes they can respond quickly. I wouldn't have thought a stolen phone would result in a quick response in NYC.

It was a robbery by gunpoint. I wouldn't have reported it if it were just a theft.
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