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NICE BUT ALL MY PDFS HAVE A HEAVY TEAL TINT ON THEM AND I CANT TURN IT OFF AHHHHHHHH IT SEEMS TO BE A FEATURE I CANT TURN OFF BECAUSE IT CORRELATES WITH THE READ-PROGRESS BAR


In Polar and they have a teal tint? Can you create a bug and I'll take a look.. maybe attach a screenshot? I haven't seen this one before.

https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf/issues


Yeah--I thought/think it's a feature, so you know how far you've read, but when I saw it I thought, "_Wow_ that's a strong design statement that I doubt I'll ever get used to."


oh. Sorry. Yes. The pagemarks are overlays showing which portions of documents you've read.


Am interested in a MIDI keyboard that can be used to come up with basic tunes. Any recommendations?


Stay away from M-Audio. The newer Akais aren't very good either. Try Nektar.

It all depends on how well you already know the keyboard though. A cheap Akai LPK25 is good enough for absolute beginners. But if you have some piano playing experience, I would go for something like an Alesis VI49


Not op, but the alesis V ones have such a comfy key weighting and are quite cheap. Only thing I don’t like is the drumpad on the left feels cheaply made


Spent like 30 seconds trying to click the 35 second video on the home page trying to see the video with the cute girl or any of the links on the page image.. boy that was disappointing


Cooking is so straightforward that it would be astonishing if it weren't discovered. There is a fire in the jungle; hungry humans discover a cooked chicken near the perimeter and realize it was the hot fire that caused it to smell and taste so good. Next time, they go to a fire, capture it and control it to cook some meat. From here, it's monkey see monkey do and the rest is history.


Why would it smell and taste unusually good before cooking was invented? Isn't it more likely that appreciation for the taste of cooked food evolved because cooked food is safer and more nutritious? If there's no cooked food there's no reason for this preference to evolve.


It may be the stronger smell or the faster delivery of particulates of burnt fat through the air.

Dogs, wolves, and bears can’t cook or start fires but all of them are attracted to the smell of cooked food as well. You could argue that dogs and maybe wolves co-evolved that preference alongside ours, but that doesn’t hold up for bears.


Are bears attracted to the smell of cooked food? Or just attracted to the smell of food, and cooking is how most people treat food out in the wilderness?


Why come did bears evolve to steal my pickinickbasket them?


This is the classic HN comment about how easy it was to invent something in retrospect, but applied to fire.

(If it's so easy, why do none of the other ape species do it? How long before you get an accidental cooked chicken, not an incinerated one?)


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Chimps are also omnivorous and eat other mammals.


Even making $100K+ in Cali puts you around 38% fed + state income tax.


> Even making $100K+ in Cali puts you around 38% fed + state income tax.

No, it doesn't.

It put you—in 2017, the number is lower in 2018—assuming no deductions—at a combined 37.3% marginal rate, but a substantially lower overall rate.


My total outlay for 2017 was around 35%, taking 1 deduction, and my income is near that $100k mark. And I still had to fork over an extra $600 on tax day.


On California state plus federal income taxes (the claim I was responding to) that's simply impossible even if you refer to AGI and not gross income before deductions. If you are including some other taxes, such as payroll taxes, it's possible but not the claim I was responding to.


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