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> shorter life expectancies

It is a fallacy that US health systems cause that. Lifestyle preventatives are far more important than acute healthcare. Exercise, food, and accidental deaths matter.

The main exception in other countries is that a high average lifetime is highly dependent on babies and young children surviving.

Good healthcare helps lifetimes, but other factors dominate early deaths.


Report on an Unidentified Space Station by J G Ballard

https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/roauss.htm

And I think I read a short story about a guy buying a house with endless levels below it - maybe the free short stories on tor.com ?


Gregor Schneider made a super creepy house, called House Ur, it is a mega unsettling art piece. There are some videos on it but cant find them at the moment. Super creepy guy and super creepy layers in a house.

Using Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) technical terms is confusing. Sports allusions don't travel well between cultures, especially if they sound seedy.

I found it plucky and intriguing. A great metaphor, not often seen in tech. Not everything has to be in the lowest common denominator of language.

Sister comment indicates it isn't as simple as you might think:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617972


  SPXXAI, which lets you invest in the S&P 500 benchmark index minus all things AI
That isn't non-Musk. I also wonder where Google and Microsoft and Facebook fit in to the index (each isn't AI but have AI correlated exposure?)

You desire a sharing community, but the takers/defectors are destroying that community.

Copyleft attempts to create a pool of code that forces sharing. But it broadly fails because you simply can't force antisocial people to be good sharers (plus source code usually isn't as valuable as we hope).

With any gifting/sharing, you have to accept that some of it will be abused. It is hard to filter for only community minded people who don't greedily abuse, and ideally who give freely.

I don't believe my circle of friends are becoming more selfish. I'm unsure what I would say about the rest of the world.



To be clear cnh is a convention while cny is the iso standard.

This is typically the user sliding their finger off one key and onto another e.g. the two images where they show the "p" being pressed but an "o" being typed. People just don't notice they slide e.g. touch started on p and they slid finger over to o before lifting.

I've described this better in another comment which has a better video of the problem in the related article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242496

It might help if you take a slo-mo video from a second phone showing the users finger movements on the screen. Unfortunately the touch point is a lot finer than the finger pad, so it still wouldn't be clear.

On Android there is a dev feature to show touch points which helps debug people's mistakes (and has the advantage of showing the actual touch points sent by the hardware on video of screen capture). On iOS maybe similar feature in some custom keyboard Apps (or configuration choices?).


I’ve had it replace letters I typed repeatedly, even with slow deliberate attempts. I think a certain letter should come next, and it doesn’t matter if I press a different one, it’s going to put that other letter in. Sometimes after the 3rd time it will get the hint. Other times I have to go back and edit the 1 letter, or actively dismiss the suggestion in the middle of typing.

The other issue I often have is repeated words. I’ll type a word once, but auto-complete will also throw it in there.

I don’t think either of these are sliding issues. I tried manufacturing a slide to see what it would do and had a lot of trouble making it do anything that would replicate the typical errors I run into. Most of the time it tried to start swipe typing. If there was a delay it could start sliding on accents. When I did get it to pick the second letter, it started throwing in extra spaces and acting pretty odd.


Why are you wasting time here? Even a letter to the editor would be more effective than an HN comment.

Reallocation defines zero-sum capitalism.

In order to see this, it is only necessary to ask if the weather is getting worse.


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