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by Cushman 14y ago
> What's up with Bell? She doesn't seem to understand the concept of Capital Letters aNd WHerE thEy bELONG In A Sentence. Or she's just being coy. Good question, actually. The only actual weird capitalization she used, "LoVe to you ALL"
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by Cushman 14y ago
I have some interesting thoughts about the Hacker News meta.
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by Cushman 14y ago
The parody is funny. The comments here are hilarious . I fear I will never again be able to tell if an HN commenter is just jerking my chain, no matter how sincere they seem.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Well, let's agree to disagree.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I am most certainly not an idealist, but I take it as a compliment to be called one.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I'm not talking about grassroots, and in fact I don't really believe the Tea Party was ever anything more than a covert big-money lobby that got wildly out of hand. But money is not what wins elections— it's the votes that get counted at
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by Cushman 14y ago
Well, almost every time. Shit does happen. But no, I would seem to be the shockingly uncommon American who has some measure of faith in the process of self-governance that has seen us through the last two hundred thirty years.
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by Cushman 14y ago
This goes for all of you: Bullshit. Learn some recent political history, starting here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement#2010_electio... The Tea Party didn't sweep because they had money (although they did), but because t
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by Cushman 14y ago
And probably illegal, since the LoC was explicitly given this power by Congress.
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by Cushman 14y ago
It's not? Normal people abdicating the political process is exactly what hinders change in democracies. We just completed our one-hundred-thirteenth peaceful transition of power at the will of the people. The entrenched powers-that-be are
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by Cushman 14y ago
If he just got off the phone with the White House, I'd imagine he has a pretty good idea of what their response was. Your cynicism is a big part of the reason it's so hard to change things around here.
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by Cushman 14y ago
It takes a certain perspective to look at the world today and say that governments are screwing cash out of companies .
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by Cushman 14y ago
Communism and democracy are orthogonal. Your question is why dictators represent themselves as democracies, but I don't think that's a very complex question; it's propaganda 101.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Sounds right to me. The manufacturer will pay tax in Florida, the shipping company will pay tax in New York, and the retailer will pay tax in California— all those taxes get sent down the line to me. If any of these entities are legally bas
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by Cushman 14y ago
I'd imagine that most of what you'd automate on Earth is done manually and double-checked, just in case. Add that to a half-hour(?) latency and it makes sense that something you'd run a bash script to do here winds up taking a week on Mars.
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by Cushman 14y ago
If I'm Apple, I don't need to come up with some kind of trick to make lots of money. I just need to keep releasing best-in-class hardware at competitive prices by leaving out expensive features 99% of my customers will never want. I love my
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by Cushman 14y ago
My intuition is that this is only true insofar as sensory augmentation up to this point has been mostly useless. The reason you don't see delivery people or mechanics or whoever with headgear isn't because it's dorky (although of course it
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by Cushman 14y ago
Apple still sells millions of iPhone 4(S)s every month. I'd say they care about it to the tune of a few billion dollars.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> "We didn't do this to screw the customer". Sure you did. You have offloaded the cost of a parallel connection, necessary for HDMI, to the adapter. Almost every competing system comes with HDMI built-in. 30 pin connectors could drive H
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by Cushman 14y ago
I don't understand how those ideas are contradictory at all.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Somebody has to pay the piper-- the hardware to transmit HDMI has to exist somewhere. With a smart adapter, only the people who need the feature have to pay for it.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I assume that someone is now trying to install Linux on one of these?
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by Cushman 14y ago
It's endearing, but I've always found that a bit facile. The idea that even a self-aware rover would want to go back to Earth is blasé anthropomorphism. The rovers weren't created to live in our gravity, or our atmosphere, or our ecosystem;
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by Cushman 14y ago
You also don't find a baby. Can we grant this is an extreme circumstance?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Sorry about that :P If you're curious about the technology, it's called subvocalization and they aren't the only people working on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition
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by Cushman 14y ago
Throw in this thing for good measure: http://www.theaudeo.com/
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by Cushman 14y ago
> Doubt it. Quite sure you'd take it with both hands. Damn, now even I'm thinking I'd turn that down to teach your selfish ass a lesson. You're confused because you're thinking about this (selfishly) as money being granted to you, and e
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by Cushman 14y ago
This isn't negative so much as irrelevant; CoffeeScript has been around long enough that we've had most of the discussion around what people like and don't like about it. If you don't like it, that's fine, but there's not a lot to talk abou
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by Cushman 14y ago
That URL is deeply confusing.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Found one by clicking "rotating vortex" > "infrared images" > "rotating vortex": http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061113.html . I guess someone got lazy.

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