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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

The lost history of the electric car – and the future of transport

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www.nytimes.com 5y ago

52 Years Later, IBM Apologizes for Firing Transgender Woman

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www.cnn.com 7y ago

YouTube Kids. There is still a problem

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Why can’t HN commenters stay on topic, on any given post?

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www.npr.org 7y ago

Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Dr. Tomicah Tillemann: “Rise of Blockchain and Its Global Adoption” Google Talks

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techcrunch.com 9y ago

Google and UNHCR collaborative Website on human disaster in Syria

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www.engadget.com 9y ago

IBM built an atomic hard drive

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facebook.com 9y ago

Disturbing New Facts About American Capitalism [WSJ]

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www.technologyreview.com 9y ago

There’s a Troll Inside All of Us, Researchers Say

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www.forbes.com 9y ago

All Houston Does (Economically) Is Win

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www.washingtonpost.com 9y ago

Google honors Fred Korematsu who fought president’s Japanese internment EO

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www.washingtonpost.com 9y ago

Students surprised by results of DNA testing of ethnic background

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: What's the best/simplest site for weather?

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www.themorningnews.org 9y ago

The internet is a bunch of cables, bound together

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www.nytimes.com 9y ago

Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It

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www.youtube.com 9y ago

Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard?

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www.businessinsider.com 9y ago

19 unprofessional email habits that make everyone hate you

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www.patreon.com 9y ago

Ben Eater: Building a programmable computer from simple logic gates

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www.forbes.com 9y ago

Mainframes at the Crossroads: Mainstream or Irrelevant? | Forbes

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chronicle.com 10y ago

The Benefits of No-Tech Note Taking

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www.npr.org 10y ago

'An Average Guy' Excels at Teaching Students AP Calculus

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www.theverge.com 10y ago

I bought my mom a Chromebook Pixel and everything is so much better now

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www.zdnet.com 10y ago

Computer pioneer Alan Kay says tech industry ignores the future

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www.bostonherald.com 10y ago

Gateway Inc. co-founder Mike Hammond dies at age 53

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theweek.com 10y ago

Scientists discover oxygen – on a comet

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bits.blogs.nytimes.com 11y ago

A Google Computer Can Teach Itself Games

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www.latimes.com 11y ago

As I lay dying: Final op-ed from LA Times journalist Laurie Beckland

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bits.blogs.nytimes.com 12y ago

The New Firefox Is Fantastic. So Is Every Other Web Browser.

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chronicle.com 13y ago

Web-Hosting Project Hopes to Help Students Reclaim Their Digital Destinies

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So you missed one more: religion. If you were going to reappropriate the internet into existing - I take it that you mean, human - structure, then you might as well add religion here too. There have been no other factors beyond religion and national geographies, that have bound humans at a larger scale. IMHO, this is/was not the original intent when DARPA unleashed Internet beyond it's laboratory. Sure, we can reappropriate as we move along. But there is no precedence of a promised land here. The nation-states and/or religions have been at wars since the beginning of time. What's there to prove that a technology like Internet (throw AI of the future into it) would make things better for human nature to adopt. Just because we can scale does not mean that we may be scaling to something better.

It is not in human nature to scale their communities/tribes. Case in point, the continuous wars. It was foolish of humans on the early Internet to perceive ideas of forming large scale communities (business and ego motivations did that). If psychologists and anthropologists were techies and influencers of early Internet, we wouldn't have built such experiences in the first place.

Humans thrive in small scale and close knit communities. Unfortunately, Internet was not built for such ideas. It will take a while for the original intent of the social media to die out. First, the ego will have to subside. Then, the business motivations would need to shift to something other than profiting off the human communication (did anyone care to throw Ads on the old fashioned telephone lines? Or tag an Ad inside our snail mail? No). When the humanity reaches such proportion of correction for the sake of Internet, we might come back to our senses.

In around 2015 or so, prior to social media, etc, there used to be a mainframe forum or two (perhaps they still exist) where a whole bunch of newbies from India used to hang out, to learn and grow their mainframe skills. It is the same time when there were stories floating around of mainframe veterans being let go. People have short term memory issues.

This is such a great quote for everyone! No matter the age. No matter what one wants to do.

“I’m not able to learn mathematics easily,” Talagrand tells ... “I have to work. It takes a very long time and I have a terrible memory. I forget things. So I try to work, despite handicaps, and the way I worked was trying to understand really well the simple things. Really, really well, in complete detail. And that turned out to be a successful approach.”

Just imagine. You may be super smart who gets things easily and right away. Or, you may be average. Using this philosophy in life, one can excel further.

This is such a great quote for everyone! No matter the age. No matter what one wants to do.

“I’m not able to learn mathematics easily,” Talagrand tells ... “I have to work. It takes a very long time and I have a terrible memory. I forget things. So I try to work, despite handicaps, and the way I worked was trying to understand really well the simple things. Really, really well, in complete detail. And that turned out to be a successful approach.”

Just imagine. You may be super smart who gets things easily and right away. Or, you may be average. Using this philosophy in life, one can excel further.

It's a same thing everywhere. Hard work makes you a go-to person (at whatever). The go-to person gets you into high visibility projects. You ultimately can bargain your promotion using both of these qualities.

Be humble grandpa! There were people who used to use Google Reader without any of its social network shenanigans. And of course, there were people who have been using RSS readers before Google Reader was even born. But, no RSS reader has ever reached the ceiling of common usage, which is not a bad deal.

Watts and Osho were on the same wavelength when it comes to imparting their own definition of religion and philosophy. Both had their human flaws and didn't care. Their message was and is still sound (no wonder they are popular on YouTube).

What's the deal with copycats and similarities? This looks like a copy of bearblog.dev and one cannot tell who has copied whom. Is there anything on the Internet that is trustworthy anymore?

Don't underestimate the rise of Internet, websites, and the web servers in pushing the rise of Linux. Linux usage took hold not because people dropped Windows for desktop and adopted Linux. Linux usage took hold due to the increasing adoption of server and its related technologies. Simply put, nobody cared about the mass scale use of Active Directory for ldap and whatever Microsoft was selling as a web server. Linux servers provided better adoption to evolve with the rise of Internet.

All these professionals from vocational fields are horribly expensive in America. And then there are articles like these claiming they don't make money. BS. America has no public/private vocational school/training culture. People don't even teach each other unless you are born into the family of craftsman.

I'm sure Joplin is excellent and I hate to argue one against the other. The markdown files in themselves should be independent. I have used several full featured, rather excellent, note-taking software, where the export is not "open". Obsidian is the only reasonable system I have seen where the software is up to date and it doesn't do anything with the markdown files to lock them in. I speak of this as a single user experience. And no, I don't like the idea of Mac Notes and Windows OneNote either. I'm all for note-taking apps which keeps the data/files independent.

Recently started noticing that they (MS) shoved their mobile Edge browser into the Outlook app in iOS. It was consistently nagging to just activate (whenever any URL is clicked from an email). It was time to say goodby to the Outlook app.

No disrespect to MS of course, but nobody needs another browser by force when one is already installed natively.

I recently started using Obsidian after playing with several others. I think I'm going to stick with Obsidian as it has good number of people around on an active basis. Your product looks pretty fast and sharp but it is hard to trust browser-based workload for such a personal and subjective activity.

The note-taking market is very crowded. I think note-taking has already delivered its original slice bread. Pretty difficult to continue to reinvent the same and expect a different result. However, I do think, that going back to the basics of HTML (instead of continuing with the markdown) may break the ceiling a little further.

Any case. Good luck with your offering. It looks good and acts well.

It's a novel idea, and you're correct to keep it out of integration.

Assume, for a moment, that your idea takes off and becomes the next WhatsApp. People, you know, will find ways to return to their normal selves. They'll cram a ton of links and messages into their allotted time slots.

What you're attempting to address is a fundamental flaw in human nature. Many people are aware of the issue and are taking precautions in their daily communication. Many, however, do not.