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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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.

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  4. 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?

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  5. 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

  6. 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

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  7. 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.

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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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  12. 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.

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

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    Thank you, that's the one! It even has better reviews than I remembered. :]

    Thank you, that's the one! It even has better reviews than I remembered. :]

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

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    Firstly before I continue, I would like to apologise for prompting such a negative reaction within yourself. It was not my intent. I picked that angle because it is the first thing that popped...

    Firstly before I continue, I would like to apologise for prompting such a negative reaction within yourself. It was not my intent.

    I picked that angle because it is the first thing that popped into my head and because it is the angle that I think will apply to the majority of the population. Of course the majority is not and will never be everyone. It's impossible to address everyone in a discussion, unless you want every reply to number at least 10,000 words.

    I think this could be a good drug for cases such as yours. And if it is discovered to be safe and released, then I would support folks like you in getting it. Prevention is the most efficient way to keep your health; brushing your teeth is easier than replacing them, etc. I think the ability for it to be abused would be a lot lower if it was a prescription drug for example.

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

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    That's a strong statement considering how much you can change about yourself today. I'm not saying it should be an invidiual effort, but a social one. When it comes to diet, a top-down solution...

    Despite all the best intentions, a portion of the population will never exercise or diet.

    That's a strong statement considering how much you can change about yourself today. I'm not saying it should be an invidiual effort, but a social one.

    When it comes to diet, a top-down solution could even be preffered. Tax the everloving shit out of high-glucose and highly processed foods. Implement programs to lower the prices of healthy food. Make tap water completely free, it is a human right after all. Lower the overall working time of the population so that humans have time to take care of themselves and families again. Make cities walkable. Normalise letting your kids walk to school instead of a caravan of parent's cars arriving at school everyday to drop children off so they can sit all day in school. Make lunch at school free, organic, and healthy. Increase the time of exercise at the expense of other school classes (kids are spending more time at school than ever before and that time should be reduced in general). Move away from the teaching from the teacher-in-front model and consider having them take place outside so that standing and moving instead of sitting is normalised.

    A lot of these solutions will have to focus on kids because it is in these times that your lifelong habits are formed. And if the parents are too tired, too depressed or too overworked (these should all also be addressed) then society has to pick up the slack in a similar fashion as when schools should (ideally) equalise the background of kids who come from academic and working class backgrounds.

    Let me say that I find that I would find the existence of this drug beneficial. There are folks who, for a variety of reasons, literally cannot exercise. But exercise is not only good because it stops you from being obese, it is also good in itself. Improving your stamina lowers your blood pressure as the heart grows in size and pumps slower. It tires you out so you sleep better. Et cetera.

    4 votes

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

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    There was a (I think fairly mediocre) movie about that made in the early 2000s, where most of humanity has been on a pill regiment that suppresses your emotions completely and the main character...

    There was a (I think fairly mediocre) movie about that made in the early 2000s, where most of humanity has been on a pill regiment that suppresses your emotions completely and the main character is part of a police force which hunts the last few who resist until of course he doesn't take his pills once and begins appreciating the emotions.

    Honestly it worries me. But then again, worrying about the next generation as you get older is a core experience of being human.

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

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    Exercise exists in other forms rather than going to the gym, which in itself is a capitalist commodity (I mean the prices per month are pretty damn high). There are clubs for every sort of sport...

    Exercise exists in other forms rather than going to the gym, which in itself is a capitalist commodity (I mean the prices per month are pretty damn high). There are clubs for every sort of sport out there, and especially with team sports I find that the community aspect of it helps massively, as I am also someone who does not like exercise.

    Also, a lot of at home exercise regiments ramp up incredibly quickly, which also killed my desire to keep them going for a long time. I have restarted one where I exercise less than 10 minutes each day, alternating upper and lower body. 3 sets of 4 pull-ups and then 3x10 leg raises.

    I have also always tried to sneak in exercise by moving between points A and B (be that work/home or store/home) on foot or by bike, which is a luxury I understand is not possible everywhere, but also just getting out, popping in a podcast and walking around for an hour helps immensely.

    A stand-up desk at home can also help at least a little. I get it, the endorphins also never kicked in for me, which has been an issue in my childhood because my mother tried to get me hooked on a lot of different sports. She was an athlete at university and it was immensely distressing to her that her son loved to just sit at the computer all day.

    The exercise itself does not have to be the source of the endorphins, but the result can be. Checking myself in the mirror immediately after doing 10 push-ups, there is a noticeable change. Sure, it disappears after a bit, but it's a promise of more. The result of just walking for an hour is also noticeable on the psyche. It is positive.

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

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    With this pill we will be able to remove the unhealthy obsession of modern civilization with health through exercise and save some time. This will be fantastic for corporations as they can save...

    With this pill we will be able to remove the unhealthy obsession of modern civilization with health through exercise and save some time. This will be fantastic for corporations as they can save money on not implementing gyms in offices and increase work hours because now people won't have a desire to exercise after they come home from work.

    I think the next target for efficiency increases should be sleep! If we develop a pill against sleep, work hours can be increased up to 24h per day! The next target should be artifical wombs so that women are not taken out of the workforce anymore due to pregnancy and birth. Next up we should implement systems to remove the emotions from folks from a small age onwards, because only an emotionally dead- I mean inactive, heh, slipped up in my corp-speak there, worker is a happy worker. But that has time, because until then AI can take over the creative work from humans so that we can increase the size of our workforce and eliminate arts programs from university and to keep workers entertained while we wait for the pill against the need to be entertained to be safe and healthy.

    The preceding text is sarcasm.

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  19. Comment on Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t serve in its armed forces. That’s getting harder than ever to justify and threatens Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition. in ~humanities

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    That is not really possible in a democratic context, because if you run for election on such a platform, you are handing the opposition 13% of the national vote. For free.

    That is not really possible in a democratic context, because if you run for election on such a platform, you are handing the opposition 13% of the national vote. For free.

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  20. Comment on Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t serve in its armed forces. That’s getting harder than ever to justify and threatens Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition. in ~humanities

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    And if the demographic changes continue, eventually there will have to be a drastic change or Israel as we know it will collapse and another great Israeli-Arab war will occur. At that point the...

    And if the demographic changes continue, eventually there will have to be a drastic change or Israel as we know it will collapse and another great Israeli-Arab war will occur. At that point the question will be does the US want to put boots on the ground to secure their power projection base in the middle east when they already have the United Arab Emirates.

    A democratic leader cannot afford to alienate 13% of a country's population so it will be hard to move Israel into a secular direction.

    Also yeah, the idea that they can just emigrate is fucking laughable. Israel is the only state that will have them barring them claiming asylum for some fucked up reason.

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