A part of the reasons for a lot of human mental health issues are that the conditions that we evolved in are no longer true (generally). Basic survival was a constant, life or death struggle and states like anxiety were often a readiness factor for real dangers.
Remove those dangers, and remove most of the struggle (although we will always re-define what struggle is) and we're a bit like fish out of water. We're still trying to adapt.
I took Effexor (Venlafaxine) for a few years due to severe social anxiety along with a couple of other issues. It had an enormous impact on me, dramatically reducing virtually all anxiety. It did for sure remove emotion in a lot of contexts, particularly remote empathy type situations. On the flip side it made me much more rational -- suddenly remote risks and dangers just didn't raise alarm anymore.
I stopped taking it because it was making me sleepy almost all the time and....the anxiety never returned. It's like a medically-induced cognitive behavioral therapy, but I really worried about a return of those social and avoidant behaviors...but they never did.
I also charge it while doing my morning routine, though that includes making lunches, some coffee, showering, etc. It can easily last through to the next morning, though occasionally I charge for a bit in the evening just to make the number look better.
I imagine as the battery fades this might be less workable though.
You don't have to carry anything to listen to music, podcasts, or audio books with the wifi-only Apple Watch (beyond the bluetooth earphones, presumably), and it tracks your run too. The thing has 16GB of storage and a full ability to exist by itself. I've never used the S3, or the Garmin, so I have no idea how great they are, but I just had to comment on the Apple Watch thing.
There are some things that the Apple Watch seemed designed to be tethered to an iPhone, almost like they were (bizarrely) afraid that it would make people not want to upgrade their phone. They've taken a really rapid approach away from that, though, and the watch is becoming dramatically more powerful by itself, even though it could already do all of the basic things.
Apple is rumoured to be working on sleep tracking. Of course it already exists by third parties: I use SleepWatch.
I thought the charging thing would be deadly for my use of it, but it is so much less of a thing than I imagined it would be. Firstly, sleep tracking uses surprisingly little battery. Often I'll see less than an 8% drop over night. Additionally I just drop it on the charger in the morning while doing my morning routines and that gets it quickly to 100%. Very occasionally I do a short burst in the evening.
I never thought it would be worth that sort of hassle, but it is a thousand fold. I send and receive messages from the watch. Answer calls. Look up things. Use the activity track. Use it to control media. It is my alarm clock. With the recent betas of 6.0 the usability has improved dramatically -- before all sorts of operations would yield "I can't do that" sorts of responses, whereas now I'm getting just brilliant results.
I was a naysayer of the thing (I strongly felt that if you couldn't go days without recharging it was a dud). The health features got me to give a shot, and I am a very strong believer now. It is an absolutely wonderful device.
"they'll replace it with the same faulty keyboard"
We know they've gone through several revisions that have purportedly reduced the incidents of problems, and they'll likely go through more improvements. When you get your keyboard replaced they will use the better variant.
A few queries have noted the lack of rate in this. I'm flexible, and it depends upon the task, the long term opportunity, etc. A fair, reasonable rate is fine.
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I mean a feature in a sense that it seems (although I assume I wrong and thus am asking) like something that one uses extremely rarely and offers limited utility. I have used Shazam a few times, and each time quickly install, use it, and remove it. I would have used it more if I could just ask Siri or Ok Google what a song was.
There is another reply to me that snarkily opines that the average HNer doesn't engage in social events, which is a bit humorous really because a more correct statement is that most people are socializing at social events, not doing inference on background music. I can say that I have never, ever seen another person pull out shazam in public.
I agree with the lauding of Shazam, but I am interested in your statement "I use it almost daily" -- what for? I've always viewed Shazam as a novelty and have installed and uninstalled it a few random times, but as Jobs would say it seems like a feature not a product.
Philosophy links to neither sexism or "The Demographics of Africa" (and while some older version might link to sexism, it seems unlikely that it ever linked to the Demographics of Africa"). Both of those do link to Philosophy, however.
Alternately it is directed, except when it doesn't find an easy route and uses an undirected result.
Every single example I can find makes it painfully clear it is an undirected graph. Sets may differ going from one direction to the other simply because it is only trying to find a sample set of correlations, not an exhaustive set.
Sexism links to both philosophy and Ethiopia. It is treating links as an undirected graph (despite the visual indication showing a directional vector), which seems entirely fair.
Remove those dangers, and remove most of the struggle (although we will always re-define what struggle is) and we're a bit like fish out of water. We're still trying to adapt.
I took Effexor (Venlafaxine) for a few years due to severe social anxiety along with a couple of other issues. It had an enormous impact on me, dramatically reducing virtually all anxiety. It did for sure remove emotion in a lot of contexts, particularly remote empathy type situations. On the flip side it made me much more rational -- suddenly remote risks and dangers just didn't raise alarm anymore.
I stopped taking it because it was making me sleepy almost all the time and....the anxiety never returned. It's like a medically-induced cognitive behavioral therapy, but I really worried about a return of those social and avoidant behaviors...but they never did.