RobLach

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by RobLach 7y ago
Anecdotally I’ve noticed that it’s mostly people aged 35+ buying these things whereas millennials and younger people think it’s creepy.
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by RobLach 7y ago
FedEx offers electronics repair services?
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by RobLach 7y ago
That’s exactly it
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by RobLach 7y ago
You believe your parents or you would have worked harder than the parents of those students or those students; who have debt?
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by RobLach 7y ago
Depends on the logistical costs. But I agree, it's kinda like a broken window thing.
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by RobLach 7y ago
Wouldn't you just make landfills hotspots for mining once the economics make sense for things like metals?
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by RobLach 7y ago
That’s for state department level professional proficiency. I wouldn’t be surprised if most Americans aren’t at that level for English.
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by RobLach 8y ago
By design.
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Before we have the technology: Minimizing risk from machines and ourselves(posts.bcavello.com)
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by RobLach 8y ago
Yes, but if everyone you knew wasn’t rich that wouldn’t be the case. For the average person that all sounds ridiculous. If there is more systemic downward pressure then average people wonder how are all these people surviving if they’re cla
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by RobLach 8y ago
What is life if getting rid of passion is sensible? It's a better goal to create systems where passions can flourish.
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by RobLach 8y ago
What’s the experiment though?
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by RobLach 8y ago
What does “everything wastes everything” mean?
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by RobLach 8y ago
It does seed the mental exploration of what a privacy cult would actually be and do.
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by RobLach 8y ago
It’s not weird at all. AirPower is a feature that helps sell those AirPods amongst early adopters who would buy AirPods within the first couple of weeks. If you want to kill AirPower, waiting a bit to grab those sales makes sense. You don’t
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by RobLach 8y ago
Well, what you do in school is network so it does matter. I should also say, every school has passionate and ambitious people who will do great things. A better school just makes it easier to blindly stumble into those social circles.
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by RobLach 8y ago
50 years from now teens will have a subscription to curated experiences for them to get together in-person for while their typical interpersonal interactions will happen over the Internet where it’s nice with a relatively null marginal cost
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by RobLach 8y ago
Latest posts with large storage options in no particular order on LowEndBox.com atm: $30/year - 100GB with 3TB transfer $21/year - 350GB SSD with 5TB transfer $29/year - 500GB with unlimited bandwidth $59/year - 1TB with
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by RobLach 8y ago
> "It has acted after research carried out for the council found a “significant overall increase” in traffic speeds on the street since 2013." But how many accidents or injuries?
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by RobLach 8y ago
Figuring out and guiding the motivations of children is harder than rocket science. Putting a rocket into space is just a lot of maths; we're not close to having anything like that in regards to human outcomes.
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by RobLach 8y ago
While I agree from a practical governance sense, having n number of votes on the same issue is still democratic despite it being increasingly inefficient. As is voting out leaders you don't wish to follow anymore, even immediately.
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by RobLach 8y ago
That’s how democracy is supposed to work, no? The opposite would be the UK situation where people are slowly realizing that Brexit is a bad idea and the ruling body refuses to back down despite the popularity of the move dwindling.
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by RobLach 8y ago
Some contracts end up having clauses that require anti virus software to be used, sometimes on every networked system, which means that they need to load up /something/ to check that box.
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by RobLach 8y ago
The improvement they're buying isn't to their listening experience.
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by RobLach 8y ago
Quadratic voting on the blockchain should be a library you can throw into your blockchain project, not its own token with such a marketing effort behind it.
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by RobLach 8y ago
How you lived and died is part of your art.
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by RobLach 8y ago
Politics also affords the collective resources to engage on such projects. It's more chicken-egg than most think. Not to mention, science without proper PR has a disastrous level of near-term utility. See: climate science
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by RobLach 8y ago
I was joking but after thinking about it: maybe the driver would have to sign up and you'd track their route and correlate with delivery stops so a tipper would just need to send a tip to "whoever delivered". Add a browser ex
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by RobLach 8y ago
More like Goebbels.
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by RobLach 8y ago
Who wants to join my team working on a new app called Tippr? It provides an easy way to tip delivery drivers working for Amazon and the like.

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