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by Steko 11y ago
While the linker wants to make the above point about welfare, the chart appears in the below article describing one facet of income inequality. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/how-amer
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by Steko 11y ago
> Personal computing devices shouldn't have artificial walled gardens To me this seems excessively moralistic, like "all closed source is bad". There are concrete advantages and disadvantages to a walled garden and whether
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by Steko 11y ago
Most people won't care but let's say the Samsung gets another half hour of battery life. For some people that may be worth the hassle of exchanging (and restocking fee?).
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by Steko 11y ago
I expect you will still need one for a good decade.
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by Steko 11y ago
I think there's a big market for a mini-tablet and bluetooth headset combo that can replace the phone completely. You get the huge screen, the dumb pipe tablet 4G contract, VOIP calling, can make most calls without taking the slab out
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by Steko 11y ago
The main problem is that upvotes and downvotes are devalued because they are essentially unlimited. What if karma behaved more as a currency and the costs increased as you used it repeatedly in the same comment thread. First one is free, th
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by Steko 11y ago
Because problems inevitably occur and with full time staff it's more likely the delivery person has seen the problem 1000 times and knows exactly how to handle it optimally. In addition to knowing the ins and outs of your office or apa
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by Steko 11y ago
I didn't find it to be a particularly convincing "takedown". What's being taught in the example is clearly "the ability to execute a simple algorithm" not "an understanding of the concepts" so critici
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by Steko 11y ago
Teaching kids to use keywords to help decode word problems has been a standard practice for at least a generation.
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by Steko 11y ago
> The Apple brand. Nothing more. So maybe you can explain why review after review also said it was the first decent smartwatch? If all you had to do is slap an Apple logo on things the original apple tv, iphone 5c, g4 cube, ROKR (well i
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by Steko 11y ago
Your misreadings are comical. He claimed that Apple's use of the crown was innovative (and it is) not that they invented the crown. He claimed that Apple's use of haptic feedback was innovative (and it is), not that they invented
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by Steko 11y ago
Worth mentioning: when Xi visited Tanzania not too long ago his entourage smuggled a bunch of ivory out. So yeah I'm sure the orders to stop ivory trading from the guys whose houses are full of illegal ivory will be taken seriously. h
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by Steko 11y ago
It will be interesting to see what the staying power of the -ghazi suffix ends up being. It may fade, may replace -gate, and it may even live alongside -gate to signify nothingburgers people try and turn into scandals like you mention. In
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by Steko 11y ago
The word you used above was 'disingenuous' and I think that deeply mischaraterizes the issue. The overwhelming blame for gitmo being open today falls on the GOP.
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by Steko 11y ago
The ballot can be public with the voter's identity encrypted so he/she can verify/change/contest it (perhaps not from their home computer but you put a kiosk in post office or something).
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by Steko 11y ago
I can honestly say it is not even close: access to health care via ACA saves more lives every year than the population of Gitmo by nearly two orders of magnitude.[1] And it's not clear at all that Obama could have successfully closed G
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by Steko 11y ago
The truth is with a bad economy the more a president with lagging approval ratings gets involved in some issues the less likely their passage. More importantly there's a limited amount of political capital you have as POTUS. While you
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by Steko 11y ago
Propping up the existing system with money doesn't sound like a solution. If there's a fox in the henhouse, leaving a bowl of fox chow next to the chickens isn't going to fix the problem.
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by Steko 11y ago
I agree it's uneven and not as good as Mozart's other celebrated works. But I think all the great composers have lots of uneven pieces as it is without resorting to (often speculative) excuses as to why, they just are. As for Beet
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by Steko 11y ago
> The few beautiful parts that you can't not like is indeed Mozart, but the rest is not. This strikes me as a bit too much in the vein of Pritchard's Understanding Poetry [1]. Sussmyer et al are not in Mozart's league fo
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by Steko 11y ago
Not sure where you think I claimed that the only or chief use of firearms was to murder people. The main use of lead, asbestos and DDT were also not to cause health problems but they were still banned. OTOH firearms are overwhelmingly the m
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by Steko 11y ago
You throw the number (1/10,000 chance) like it's low but I think that's fairly high. You cite crashing motorcycles but the total US deaths by traffic accidents was close to 1/10,000 in the most recent years [1]. You ask
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by Steko 11y ago
The internet seems to have been a boon to conspiracy types, racist and religious fanatics more generally. It might be more fair to say that it's hurt certain type of cults, such as the kind that relies on secrets/esoteric knowled
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by Steko 11y ago
Could be. I file this one alongside other comics about (presumably the author) not liking wine, lobster and sports.
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by Steko 11y ago
I could be wrong but I don't think the point of the comic is that all beer objectively tastes bad since there are two people in the comic and one of the two clearly enjoys beer/craft beer.
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by Steko 11y ago
Sure thing HN policeperson who joined last month!
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by Steko 11y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1534/
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by Steko 11y ago
> under a temporary import authorization from NHTSA Sounds legal.
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by Steko 11y ago
This. Also don't forget that currency and commodity are not always mutually exclusive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_money
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by Steko 11y ago
I'd suggest there were multiple problems that extended down to engineering. In 4 years of development all they came up with for hardware and software differentiation (and compensation for losing Google first party apps and most of the

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