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Re:Tools for Thinking on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:18PM (#28303520)
What I've discovered is that the real breakthroughs needed in these tools aren't in the "taking" of notes but in the "retrieval" of notes/ideas.
So, I've got a highly speculative hypothesis that BIG COFFEE will have a similar tobacco-like health event in the future. These are my semi-conspiratorial circumstantial evidences:

1. It's basically burnt bean water. Roasted is just a marketing term.

2. The constant rate of "New Study Finds Coffee Improves [insert health benefit]" articles

3. The incredibly powerful forces (industrial, corporate, personal) that would hold back such an event

I'm not willing to defend this hypothesis, but I would love some steel-manning

It's a good question. There's two parts to it, whether the law allows for that, and whether or not the law should allow for it?

There are certainly some classes of items/products/services that allow X to legally bar Y from selling it to Z: airline tickets, sub-leasing apartments, software etc.

Re:Handling Time Zone in JavaScript (2019) on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @05:17AM (#25275078)
I highly recommend using Luxon for dates in JS. At the very least reading up on the library.