phantom_oracle

I wanted to build my own e-ink tablet as I prefer OSS. The issue that makes e-ink tablets not worth building?

The expensive displays that cost between $150-$300 for 7-8 inch screens, excluding shipping.

It is disturbing how the moderators of HN are condoning the comments in this thread (the top comment by 'neonsunset' provides tools that enable DDoSing a foreign government website) that are encouraging cyber warfare against a nation-state that is considered an 'enemy' of their state (the USA).

Had a Russian/enemy state website had a similar thread that condoned cyber-attacks against the USA critical infrastructure, they would be flagged as terrorists and 'empire' publications like major US newspapers would be all over it as "war against the USA".

All this bluster from capitalists merely reflects hypocrisy.

Perhaps Westerners view all non-western science as pseudoscience or made up, but it is a well-known fact in many Eastern cultures (and their medicinal practices) that the stomach is a primary source of disease (and not just depression, but all kinds) when abused through bad eating habits.

Then the wheel is re-invented with intermittent fasting, a diet with less processed foods, more veg/fruit, less meat, etc.

Whenever I see articles about health on HN, I no longer take them too seriously because the reductionist approach to medicine is why people get mistreated for symptoms instead of the disease.

Even the ancient Greeks (the so-called birthplace of "western knowledge") took a more holistic approach than what the sketchy for-profit medical/pharmaceutical cabal does.

But of course, we need to take it seriously because "the scientists say so", even though their own research system is so badly broken that a for-profit cabal runs the publishing arm of research.

Strange times we live in.

784 upvotes at the time of writing this comment. I see a lot of links/threads bashing Google for their shitty AI and non-existent human support on HN all the time but ...

I think the same resentment is slowly brewing for YC too. Whether it is misinformation or weak arguments, it won't matter too much. People generally don't like monopolies at all and YC does have a monopoly on the SV startup scene at the moment (from an outsiders view, every startup with even an idea knows that YC is the springboard for unlocking more opportunity/capital/network).

I wonder if the end result is YC ending up being innovated out of the startup scene itself. I don't think so because they are in the money game, not the tech game (see JPMorgan, Goldman).

As for the content, I can't be arsed. Capitalists will be capitalists.

This is such an amazing technology for the many tech people who are having to deal with hand/finger/elbow issues after extensive usage for years on their keyboards.

I was looking for this type of tech for at least 2 years and I am glad it now exists.

FOSS is amazing!

I like this idea for the very simple fact that I now know its plausible to write blog content with a pen and paper and then some GPT-3 AI will scan those words and make it into digital text for me.

Sparing my hands from using a keyboard!

Brilliant idea!

Counter-intuitively, I wonder what gaming would be like if everyone ran the same cheats/mods? Would it be the same as "if everyone is rich, then nobody is" or would it devolve into such a state where cheating/modding gets so boring that people just go back to casual play ...

On the other hand, gaming is now a big commercial entity, including 'pros' and 'streamers'. With money involved, fraud and cheating ain't far behind.

Every few days, articles like these keep cropping up with click-bait headlines about preventing all types of diseases in old age. The headlines almost always never match up to the content or even the reality of trying to treat or prevent these many diseases.

Another reality is that death, old age(and sickness with it) strikes such fear into people's hearts that they are willing to walk around with perpetual erections to prevent Alzheimer's disease(and the absurdity of my comment is linked to the absurdity of the click-bait title)