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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Thank you for linking this. I couldn't remember the link but was talking to my partner about this recently now that we're almost a year into distance learning with our son. She remarked how quickly he's picking up on using the computer. (He's using her old Macbook Air.)

I remarked that UI/UX is so simple nowadays that kids aren't gonna have the wherewithal to do their own troubleshooting for bigger issues and how irreparable a lot of devices are now the insides of computers are gonna be completely foreign to them.

Gonna bookmark this now.

Comment · 5 years ago
Oh man I got a new fear now. I have scheduled a video visit with my GP for next month I'll bring this up. I'll also have to ask my partner if they've noticed how I breathe when I'm sleeping.
Comment · 5 years ago
I was sick in February. At the time covid tests weren't as readily available to be tested but I had many of the symptoms of covid including debilitating headaches like I've never had before. Eventually I recover and test positive for antibodies.

To this day I have issues sleeping and I'm not solely sure if it's anxiety due to pandemic or because of my presumptive case of covid.

It's gotten slightly better in recent weeks but for months now I'd wake up about 30 minutes after falling asleep with a pounding heart and and feeling of extreme anxiety. Not as bad as a panic attack but still not pleasant.

Comment · 6 years ago
I also find the new UI to be awful on desktop. Just disastrously slow. I hardly use Reddit anymore part of it the community and me just having different priorities but the other part is this new Mobile first mentality. I’ll use old.Reddit.com until they finally kill it.
Comment · 6 years ago
I think in prior times when we didn't have all the information we have available at hand: sure that's fine.

But what if your orange juice brand of choice was actively contributing to the destruction of the environment, lobbying politicians to make them exempt from environmental regulations, and destroying competition in nefarious ways?

That's an extreme but if that's information you have and you still support that orange juice brand then you are supporting everything that is public knowledge about that brand.

Comment · 6 years ago
He's not passively stating no politics he's actively discouraging any politics. There is a slight difference.

If you become friendly with a person in the workplace you'll eventually learn their politics, right? Either through how they act or what they say. How do you limit how much a person reveals about themselves at work?

The CEO is saying Coinbase won't take political stances. That's fine in theory but in practice it's not. The whole idea of cryptocurrency itself is political.

There is a difference in being passively apolitical and actively apolitical for sure.

Comment · 6 years ago
That is definitely an interesting take but I think any right-winger that goes that far is more likely to be caught up in a grift than going to Coinbase where they have to send in their government-issue ID and link their account to a US bank that reports to government if they notice suspicious activity.
Comment · 6 years ago
I don't think it can be understated how much saying 'no politics' is a political statement. Supporting the status quo is a political statement. And supporting the status quo in this political climate is a strange hill to plant your flag on.
Comment · 6 years ago
I've always heard that it's the SoC that doesn't get updated after X number of years so Google is supposedly limited by how much support Snapdragon is willing to give their SoC.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
I’ve had the exact same happen to me with calendar events a couple times.

I also got added to what looked like a Russian Hangouts group chat with over 100 people in it.

Comment · 7 years ago
Or it gives the cops time to poke holes in your alibi or otherwise intimidate your alibi if the cops are dead set on you being the guilty person. Better to tell a lawyer your alibi so he can collect the information first so that he’s not blindsided later.

This is if you can afford a lawyer who can work with you quickly. If you’re poor and you think your alibi is strong enough to let you go immediately then it might be better.

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