I'm 100% with the GP - I've avoided reading the book due to the manipulative sound to the title... Ironically I have read The 48 Laws of Power, hah.

I read it though thinking "I'll bulwark myself against manipulators by understanding their tactics" whilst the "Influencing People" book just sounded like manipulative self-interest.

You've changed my mind; I'm going to read it right away.

Notably a bigger problem for women who must put their phones in their back pockets due to having no/small pockets in front.

The tradeoff was discussed in a sibling thread: it's heavier by 58 grams and thicker by 2mm. That's it. That's the tradeoff. Why go crazy on the guy?

That's with the latest iphone, not the equivalent iphone from when this was released.

So the fun plateau will be less pronounced and fun?

Don't imagine a grid.

Instead imagine that "GO EAST" takes you onto a winding road.

The road arcs southward and to go back you'd have to "GO NORTH".

Further... some travels in Zork even drop you through a hole (though I forget if it tells you so).

So going East might put you in the basement and there's no way to climb back up.

So long as my format is the standard one, that all newcomers an unopinionateds see by default and thus my opinions rule forever... yeah! great idea! otherwise... oh hayol no.

Yes and to be clear, one uses "TFA" to imply annoyance that TFA hasn't been read.

e.g. "TFA covers this already."

That’s not something I wanted to imply. It can also stand for "the fine article". Is there a better shorthand for "the article linked at top of the page" / "the original article"?

And for clarity to @lukasgelbmann - I answered the questioner that clearly didn't know the term. I wasn't referring to your usage of it.

Context and tone tell the reader whether it's used "normally", tongue-in-cheek, or neutrally. ~\_O_/~

To ESL folk out there - the "F" definitely never means "fine". It's a cute and crass ... just like America. ;^)

TFA works fine either way. It's OK that it is subject to interpretation.

Nope, one simply says "the article".

"I don't care I just silently judge you" ... kinda sounds like you care. ;)

Law suits / claims, I'd expect, as tall is unstable.

If I sell a Monitor With Really Tall Monitor Stand and then you lightly bump your desk and break your monitor, you might want a replacement and call my stand "an unstable PoS".

If I sell you a Monitor and you stack books under it and your monitor falls... well... dummy, tall stuff falls over. Time to buy a new monitor.

Isn't the manufacturer to blame if I get neck problems then?

Nonsense, that's your seat height. Lower your seat and magically the monitor is the right height.

Your keyboard may be chin-height but hey, your monitor height is no longer a problem. ;)

That sounds like shoulder pain.

I don't get why anyone downvoted you but maybe we can "all get along" by saying:

   "the meaning of life is to continue living."

Thus the short-term answer is "food" and "reproduction" is the long-term answer.

Ok but if you're a person that likes HN discourse but thinks "eternal september" has happened ... what's your plan?

You'll still come here, read the comments, see something engaging and want to reply and... feel sad because shakes fist at [datacenter] clouds it's all just bots talking to each other anyway.

Seems lame. Keep talking anyway.

You’re making a lot of assumptions. They could just stop visiting HN. They don’t even need a “plan” or an alternative, they can just stop.

Well. My assumptions are based on the that the alternative would never matter. He'd simply stop existing (in HN-space), and that's an overtly less-fun universe to live in.

We certainly do suddenly live in "interesting times".

I thought the same as the person you replied to. For me, the solution is to stop coming here as often and instead read traditional literature.

Soon to remove my access entirely to this website.