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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 confronting the real problem. When I finally find the thing I am avoiding it's usually not that bad of an experience to deal with it directly. Some examples are "I should call person X to deliver news Y." Or "I need to make a big decision soon."

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 the chances you will be involved in an accident.

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 term sustainability. In addition our agricultural processes are introducing new diseases into the human population, including our current pandemic.

The problem of sustainably providing nutritious food people want to eat is just one of a dozen that we are not solving at acceptable levels.

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 mouse. After eight months the mouse failed. Later I bought another mouse from the same brand. The mouse failed after 14 months. I stopped buying from the brand. The same thing can happen to Apple, and they need to be careful about the quality of the products they sale when they charge premium prices.

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 was allowed to set their own tariffs and taxes for goods coming into/out of their ports, while maintaining 100% free trade with the continental US.

> 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 be possible (or at least likely) for China to both be such a powerful country and be such an authoritarian country.

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 a genocidal dictator with world domination plans. 200 years ago the United States was a major participator in the global slave trade and actively waging war and committing genocide against the ingenious people of North America.

No ethnic or national group of people have been virtuous throughout history. No ethnic or national group of people have been evil throughout history. Trying to cut history into a small slice in order to draw a moral contrast is misleading and ignorant at best.