Solstinox

Long term exposure to constant droning sounds could cause issues in language centers of the brain.

When we rely on sounds for kids, we stick to sounds that mimic the more random/non-droning sounds you encounter in nature. Birds chirping in a forest, evening crickets and frogs etc.

Arms race (which will lead to bigger salaries) or price collusion (salaries stay the same)?

Tripod and Lycos are still around?!

Maybe the third time's the charm? Richard Nixon tried this back in the 1970s and it failed. Compared to the original well-defined NASA moonshot, cancer is a complex, murky, and individual disease that's unlikely to yield to "moonshot" attempts to solve it.

I think I found the problem:

“A new improved version of the script was applied on the system.”

I miss this aesthetic and how quickly everything loads!

It’s because everyone and their grandmother is focused on caking on new stuff on top of the old stuff. Features! Features! Features!

And it’s coming to every bit of software and technology you “own” or rent.

Imagine if you put some product managers in charge of a standard hard cover book. Within two years it would have a tanning attachment.

Apple Notes is spectacular these days.

Hypothetically, what do you do when there isn’t enough quality information to gauge “disinformation” from “information?”

I don’t want to rob you of your excitement for this feature. Just that scrolling through these comments, it made me smile that the iPhone is now so mature that we get excited about the frames per second while scrolling.

Maybe it reflects how much we enjoy the zero-latency analog world.

Chances are anyone other than Tim could have done just as well?

Did you see what happened to Apple after Steve Jobs got fired? Have you seen what has happened to great civilizations after the roll of monarchical dice or even a democratic election?

Have you ever met a bozo? They exist and there's more of them than there are sane people.

Ironically simplifying it like you just did is one of the contributors to the diminished reverence for science in that part of the world.

There was a famous and nuanced published discourse between a philosopher named Al Ghazali and Averroes (Ibn Rushd) on the merits and failures of knowledge.

The observers of the discourse basically warped it into science vs. religion battle and as with all things with binary fanbases one school of thought had to prevail over the other. The delicate harmony between religion and knowledge shattered.

As the Middle East has learned and continues to learn the dangers of the spiritual ungrounded by knowledge, the West is now learning the dangers of knowledge unelevated by the spiritual.

The Star Trek TOS and TNG After Dark Screensavers took things to another level. Tribbles filling your screen. Worf phasering away your desktop.

I can see the Far Side Comic that never was.

"Having been burned one too many times by putting lines through shotgun blasts, scientists switched to correlation categories."

This doesn’t gel with the moderate exodus of brainpower out of California.

Knowingly? Not often. You don't find long-run successful traders who don't knowingly/unknowingly use it or some variation of it.

It only gets a 74 when I paste it into Grammarly. Clearly Steve was a ho-hum communicator.

It’s funny you say “innovate.” They certainly innovated with the M1, but with one key difference. They did so in public, step-by-step over the course of a decade.

Perhaps more than any other Apple innovation, we have the greatest visibility into the process with the M1.

The situation here is closer to financial domain than the law of gravity failing.

I don’t think gravity and medical intervention risk and uncertainty are in the same domain. I could be wrong.

The only reason we think that is because vaccines in the past have had most of their recorded side effects present in the first few weeks.

Past performance...

When you see this as the top comment on HN, you realize how good of a job Big Oil has done deflecting their sins onto animal husbandry.

Contrary to the original comment above yours, squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Good sources, keeping in mind that past performance is no guarantee of future results.

No. One sees the depression as something to be fixed, the other sees the underlying problem causing the depression as something to be fixed.

Interesting! Thanks for the perspective!

Not surprised. Every time I've been in a Michelin-starred restaurant I've been surrounded by a handful of other patrons, and I've been waited on by a staff of seven people. I don't think these things make money on a good day.

You’re right, we’re even more adaptive than trees.

You need a proper dose of the right kind of stressor for the person. I don’t know what’s proper and right for each person, but it’s worth avoiding the simple assumption that “stress/anxiety = bad thing, therefore less stress/anxiety = good thing.”

In the 1980s they built a biodome out in the middle of the desert and planted trees inside of it. The trees would grow faster than anticipated and then come crashing down. Turns out without the stressor of wind, trees look happier, at first, but do not build the strong stress wood needed to support their natural height.