BurritoAlPastor

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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
I'm infuriated that the author would allege that Taleb has a better way to do this but just links to a highly technical paper instead of addressing it.
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
Slack actually uses the term “Direct Message”, so there’s no textual expectation of privacy.
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
As I understand it, OLED burn-in is a _mitigated_ problem but not a _solved_ problem, and I wouldn't expect to see OLED monitors so long as that state of affair continues.
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
Correct. From Apple’s original petition: “The question presented is: Whether consumers may sue for antitrust damages anyone who delivers goods to them, even where they seek damages based on prices set by third parties who would be the immed
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
“Called out”? Sure. It was called out when Microsoft rolled it out and it’s been called out persistently for ten years, to the point that I’m used to being called an “apologist”. But public criticism is orders of magnitude different from a
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
Why is that more apt? Why shouldn’t I expect it? Apple didn’t even invent the walled-garden digital software store; Microsoft was using it on the X-Box in 2005. If you go back to before digital distribution, Sony and Nintendo had total auth
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
Here’s what I don’t get: in what sense is this a monopoly? Consumers have knowledge that the App Store is the only game in town on an iPhone, and they have the option to buy a different phone if they don’t want to use the App Store. That’s
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
“News” doesn’t derive from the compass directions; that’s a folk etymology. It’s literally just from a weird pluralization of “new”. Anytime you hear that a word is derived from an unusual contraction or acronym, please check it against a r
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
Sure. The simplest, and in my view strongest, argument for why we as a society should accept and tolerate advertising is that it provides a mechanism for consumers to learn about things they want. But, if you accept that, then you have to d
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
This is a little tangental, but I was surprised to see Hearthstone rendered as “Hearth Stone: Heroes of Warcraft”. Does anybody know if Hearthstone is localized phonetically or semantically in Chinese markets? Was this a round-trip translat
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
Personally, I know it’s a factor in my not using their mobile app. I’ve also talked to somebody who uses the app to shop, but then went to web to checkout with Smile. On the other hand, I really don’t know how much Amazon cares if I use
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
Agreed about app-based hailing being more efficient, but I think it’s not germane to the issue at hand – those same organizational improvements would be seen if Uber classified its employees as employees, or if a city’s licensed taxi provid
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
There’s a lot of hand-wringing in these comments about “But how will artists get paid? Who will bother to make art if they can’t make a living by their art?” Spoilers: Most artists don’t get paid. Most artists can’t make a living by their
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
Social sciences have pretty deep-seated logistical obstacles to reproducibility. If you want to reproduce an archaeology paper, well, how? You can’t exactly go dig the same site back up. If you go out as a cultural anthropologist to hang ou
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
I don’t have a horse in this fight, but: In ordinary speech, the word “vacant” is generally synonymous with “empty”, and makes no implication about market status. You use the word the same way above, actually. So it’s lame to characterize t
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
Farms need a lot more than water, though. They need square footage, soil quality, suitable climate, access to infrastructure for shipping, and a good amount of cheap labor. All of those (except, increasingly, cheap labor) can be found in Ca
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
You have a push-only workflow, and 100% of commits are made on your local? Frankly, I’m not sure what you’re even using Gitlab for in this setup; it seems like you might as well just rsync your working directory to your remote server instea
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
A week?! How did anyone appreciate “Aida” before the phonograph was invented?
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
Can't use the dongle while charging. Apple doesn't make a dongle for both 3.5mm and power. They do sell one from Belkin. It's $35 and pretty bulky.
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
I'm pretty disgruntled about losing the 3.5mm jack, but I don't buy this idea that Apple did it to sell wireless Beats, for one reason: the product lineup sucks . Apple knows how to make truly great audio hardware; the AirPods re
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
It's not something an uninformed person would reasonably expect, but neither is it Apple's fault that corporate copyright holders insist on Byzantine region-locking (to protect possible per-region licensee differences, maybe?) If
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
$2 billion is, like, 1.5% of Bezos's net worth. I would like to hope that many of us have given at least 1% of our net worths to charity.
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
And also didn't prevent us (a couple thousand years later) from lumping them all together as "ancient Greece". Distance from the components, in time or space, lets us paint the set as homogeneous.
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
That's actually quite unusual. As of last year, 3D tickets accounted for less than a third of the tickets sold for 3D movies: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/is-golden-ag... (They cite about one-th
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
A coworker of mine likes to say that Java developers never stop writing Java – they just start writing Java in other languages.
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
Acquired by who? It's a luxury niche brand. Acquisition by one of the giants they integrate with (Apple, Amazon, Spotify, etc) would inevitably result in vendor lock-in (Apple buys them and now Amazon Music doesn't work anymore),
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
I sadly agree that federalism is de facto dead as a framework of policy and ideology. But as a legal and bureaucratic infrastructure, it has quite refused to die, for better or for worse. City, county, and state governments still do their t
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
I don't think "outsized" is a factor here. How invested is the plurality shorter here? Maybe $10 million? One-thousandth, even one-hundredth, of a market position doesn't sound like an "outsized" investment to
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
This is clickbait FUD. I got lasik last year, and I was very clearly warned about the possibility and likelyhood of every single side effect in this article, aside from the "seeing triple" one. (It worked great for me, incidentall
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by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
If you're unwilling to ever say what your cultural values are, then your only cultural value is "do what thou wilt". Anything anybody does is automatically your culture, if it's defined in actions only. Somebody brings t

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