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  1. Comment on Outdoor time is good for your kids' eyesight. Here's why. in ~health

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    What I've always thought caused myopia is staring at an object fairly close to your face (like a screen) that remains at a fixed distance for hours on end. The end where he suggests that you can...

    What I've always thought caused myopia is staring at an object fairly close to your face (like a screen) that remains at a fixed distance for hours on end. The end where he suggests that you can do even your homework outside makes it seem like it that's not the case. Very interesting!

    Kids should be spending more time outside anyway, and making that a requirement in school sounds like a pretty good thing to do.

    6 votes

  2. Comment on Inside the surreal world of $20,000 pet portraits (gifted link) in ~life.pets

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    Grifting the attention of people who have more money than sense has always been highly lucrative. Art's always subjective, but tbh you can get a lot better quality for a lot less than 20k. There...

    Grifting the attention of people who have more money than sense has always been highly lucrative.

    Art's always subjective, but tbh you can get a lot better quality for a lot less than 20k. There are some really good painters and drawers who will give you a killer portrait for a couple hundred bucks up to like 1k on the highest end, and all of them operate in the TTRPG space where they turn DnD characters to life.

    It's of course absurd and surreal, but the ultimate thing is that if you are so out of touch with reality that money just becomes a number on an account somewhere, sure, why not drop 20k on an item that has some personal value to you? I'm not rich, but I have spent like 200 EUR on a fancy fountain pen. I enjoy the idea of "buying for life" and try to buy locally, supporting European companies and craftspeople. Of course, 20k is far removed from a sensible price that is at least somehow tied to the value of the object, but it's also art. How do you value it in a monetary sense? If the painter says a number and some stupid idiot with a 12 digit number as their networth goes "Sure." then that's the value of the artpiece. Supply and demand.

    It reminds me of the guy who makes a living reviewing luxury resorts for really rich people before they go there.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Florida man worries about his ruined reputation after pulling gun on Uber driver dropping the man's daughter off at their house in ~transport

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    Damn man that guy has an MD he should have like a brain at least the size of a pea lol

    Damn man that guy has an MD he should have like a brain at least the size of a pea lol

    3 votes

  4. Comment on The tech baron seeking to “ethnically cleanse” San Francisco in ~life

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    Yes, I know. I was just stating my outrage.

    Yes, I know. I was just stating my outrage.

  5. Comment on The tech baron seeking to “ethnically cleanse” San Francisco in ~life

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    What the fuck did I just read. This is just fascism. Did that not get into his thick ass skull despite his mUlTiPlE sTaNfOrD dEgReEs?

    What the fuck did I just read. This is just fascism. Did that not get into his thick ass skull despite his mUlTiPlE sTaNfOrD dEgReEs?

    21 votes

  6. Comment on Spotify lowers artist royalties despite subscription price hike in ~music

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    I think you might have to consider a different streaming service in such a case, like Tidal. Or pirate and occasionally donate/attend live shows.

    I think you might have to consider a different streaming service in such a case, like Tidal. Or pirate and occasionally donate/attend live shows.

  7. Comment on Spotify lowers artist royalties despite subscription price hike in ~music

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    Not the same guy, but Spotify is a public company and thus you could find this info on their investor relations page. You'll have to parse through a lot of data, but it's there.

    Not the same guy, but Spotify is a public company and thus you could find this info on their investor relations page. You'll have to parse through a lot of data, but it's there.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on FKCaps launches URSA keycaps for topre switches in ~tech

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    What exactly makes Topre so special? The site just says that they feel incredibly different and world class etc, but don't actually say what makes them different. Either way, it's good that a...

    What exactly makes Topre so special? The site just says that they feel incredibly different and world class etc, but don't actually say what makes them different.

    Either way, it's good that a niche is getting served like that.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on ProtonMail on all the data that Outlook collects about your email in ~tech

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    Doesn't Proton Premium open access to their IMAP endpoint? I swear they had something like that listed in their benefits of their premium plan... Just looked, they have a Proton Bridge thingy...

    Doesn't Proton Premium open access to their IMAP endpoint? I swear they had something like that listed in their benefits of their premium plan...

    Just looked, they have a Proton Bridge thingy which you can use with a paid plan, which permits you to use any email client: https://proton.me/mail/bridge

  10. Comment on Apple's $3500 nightmare in ~tech

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    I don't know if simulated surgery would be better than how we do it now, which is practical study where the junior doctor assists a senior experienced surgeon on an actual person during surgery...

    I don't know if simulated surgery would be better than how we do it now, which is practical study where the junior doctor assists a senior experienced surgeon on an actual person during surgery until eventually the roles flip and the senior doctor assists the junior doctor and then eventually you know how it works.

    Safety training for dangerous operations that I could see happening. Plane assembly it seems more viable to fully automate humans out of the process than to implement AR into the workprocess.

    4 votes

  11. Comment on Apple's $3500 nightmare in ~tech

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    When I hear the term open plan office I usually imagine whole floors, not rooms with 4-6 people in them. As for travel, you're right, this thing is good for travel. Time will tell if people are...

    When I hear the term open plan office I usually imagine whole floors, not rooms with 4-6 people in them. As for travel, you're right, this thing is good for travel. Time will tell if people are more productive using this + a macbook or just a macbook.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Apple's $3500 nightmare in ~tech

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    This is one of the greatest videos I have seen in a while. Someone's opinion was hammered home so effectively in an artistically interesting manner and with some jokes in between to keep up the...

    This is one of the greatest videos I have seen in a while. Someone's opinion was hammered home so effectively in an artistically interesting manner and with some jokes in between to keep up the levity. The only drawback is that I think he could speak a little faster when he reads his script, I had to watch the thing 1.25 playback rate, but that's a minor nitpick and a very personal one at that.

    I don't think he's wrong. VR/AR headsets are still niche products and the only use with mass appeal I have seen so far is basically beat saber; i.e. home workout for people who really don't like moving, and that's it. Apple Vision is not really meant for that and I struggle to understand what the use for it is going to be. I think from a productivity perspective the best thing you can use it for is in combation with an already fairly expensive macbook as a way to get extra screens in, but... Why wouldn't you use extra screens then?

    Someone here in the thread described it as "noise cancelling headphones for your eyes" for those who work in open plan offices but is a) your company really going to spend the cash to get every employee one and b) if not are you really going to drop like 4 grand (I always forget that american prices are pre tax man get your shit together) for the job you probably hate because they make you work in an open plan office?

    7 votes

  13. Comment on Apple's $3500 nightmare in ~tech

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    I feel like the only viable workplace usage for AR headsets would be in a job where you are always on the move but also in need of information. A typical usecase would be warehouse work,...

    I feel like the only viable workplace usage for AR headsets would be in a job where you are always on the move but also in need of information. A typical usecase would be warehouse work, transporting goods from point A to point B. But I feel like before AR headsets get good enough for works in that environment to wear them, they'll be automated out completely anyway.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on VHEMT: the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement in ~life

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    Yeah, but if society collapses, carbon emissions will too. /s

    Yeah, but if society collapses, carbon emissions will too. /s

    2 votes

  15. Comment on A pill to make exercise obsolete (2017) in ~health

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    A sugar tax should be accompanied by law requiring grocers to stock local (if possible) and healthy foods which should be subsidized with said tax. I think it should be one of the first things to...

    A sugar tax should be accompanied by law requiring grocers to stock local (if possible) and healthy foods which should be subsidized with said tax. I think it should be one of the first things to be done because it is so much simpler to accomplish.

  16. Comment on A pill to make exercise obsolete (2017) in ~health

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    If the drug is prescription only or not ultimately depends on the side effects and dosing and such, which is hard to determine when we speak idealistically like that. Safe to say I'm with you...

    If the drug is prescription only or not ultimately depends on the side effects and dosing and such, which is hard to determine when we speak idealistically like that. Safe to say I'm with you there. As long as apothecaries aren't openly advertising the easy pill to skip the gym I'd be fine.

    I've made a comment elsewhere in this thread detailing how I'd solve this and I think we are in more agreement and we might have originally thought: https://tildes.net/~health/1f2c/a_pill_to_make_exercise_obsolete_2017#comment-cbqs

    Forgive me for keeping my replies short, but the amount of notifications in this thread is overwhelming me. I don't think the pill should be our first line of defense, but I don't think it should not not exist either.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on A pill to make exercise obsolete (2017) in ~health

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    Only if you think about exercise in the gym sense, which is one of the most boring ways to exercise. Sports have been around for as long as humanity, and even gyms have been around in ancient...

    Only if you think about exercise in the gym sense, which is one of the most boring ways to exercise. Sports have been around for as long as humanity, and even gyms have been around in ancient Greece. It's where the word comes from I believe.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on A pill to make exercise obsolete (2017) in ~health

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    I know that Mexico for example already has implemented a sugar tax on soft drinks and the discussion has come up in a number of different countries. I think that most, if not all of my suggestions...

    I know that Mexico for example already has implemented a sugar tax on soft drinks and the discussion has come up in a number of different countries.

    I think that most, if not all of my suggestions can be done in a decade. Why would they not be?

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  20. Comment on A pill to make exercise obsolete (2017) in ~health

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    I question the idea of a drug as a quick simple alternative. It takes on average a decade to get a drug from concept to approved to sell, and the process is extremely expensive, my professor in...

    I question the idea of a drug as a quick simple alternative. It takes on average a decade to get a drug from concept to approved to sell, and the process is extremely expensive, my professor in patent law told me that it's about a milliard EUR, and that was in like 2018. That's a long time to start implementing at least some of these changes. I don't expect all of them to be implemented, and while we like to think of society as always progressing, sometimes it it goes dangerously close to regressing.

    Again, if this drug gets approved and works then by all means, folks should get a prescription for it. I posted a comment which in its tone is a mix of art an opinion and it surprises me that folks had such negative reactions to it. One cannot address every view in a comment, because the world is infinitely complex and as such addressing everything would take an infinite amount of words and thus time.

    Perhaps I am letting the perfect be the enemy of good, but my solution is really just a lot of smaller solutions that can be implemented irrespectively of each other. It's complex, but not impossible.

    3 votes