Tloewald

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by Tloewald 11y ago
Not trying to argue either way -- it comes down to defining "over" in this context. If asking a girl/boy out when she/he is going to reject you (but you don't know it) is overconfidence, then we need overconfidence.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Yeah we've all watched Lawrence of Arabia.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
My father -- German Jew who escaped in 1938 (only mentioning this because this view is often conflated with anti-semitism) -- was of the view that Israel was a new crusade and would have much the same impact and outcomes. Recall that the me
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by Tloewald 11y ago
There's a difference between knowing history and bearing grudges. Generally folks who bear grudges have a very poor (and one-sided) view of history. The Great Depression was not solely caused by the gold standard, although getting rid
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by Tloewald 11y ago
> We really should stop looking to the GD as a lesson for today’s problems. We don’t use the 30 Years War as means of explaining religious conflict or the Crusades to explain the state of the middle east. I don't know anything about
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by Tloewald 11y ago
If I squint, I kind of see two or three hexagonal shapes (or implied shapes), but right now it's little more than a Rorschach test. Let's wait until we get some better images.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Yeah I was wrong in exactly the way the article expected :-) But the submit button being broken did kind of suck.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It works for floating point numbers -- 0.01 0.02 0.04 for example. So it's a geometric series that has to start with a positive number and doubles. (The submit button and the show the answer button were broken for me.)
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by Tloewald 11y ago
> Besides that, asking any government to take money from the people, run it through the giant bureaucracy machine, and magically produce a net benefit to the people is both logically impossible and naturally never going to happen. So app
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by Tloewald 11y ago
> Those text books are unlikely to be read by humans in the same physical form we exist today (unless something catastrophic happens), and the class of intelligent beings dominating that period will trace their lineage directly to inv
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by Tloewald 11y ago
How does it matter whether it's humans or uploaded humans or pure AIs that we're talking about. You think that AIs will necessarily be driven by pure logic and all agree on the fundamental root of any given idea? I love how comput
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It's often the people who popularize ideas that are remembered for them (however unjustly), so I wouldn't care to predict who will turn out to be important to folks hundreds of years hence. If it's like today, there'll p
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Non android badge android devices are my point.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I'd love a 17" rMBP. It would still be lighter than the older 15" MBPs with optical drives. I'm sure there are some pro users who need ethernet ports (e.g. for tethered shooting with a pro camera body at sporting events
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I certainly think Apple would sell a lot of 17" MBPs that were thick enough to house an optical drive or extra battery in the space. But I love the new rMBPs, and I suspect more pros enjoy the weight savings, battery life, and fantasti
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by Tloewald 11y ago
That's great -- I didn't know because chrome doesn't display those things if the tab is narrower than the caption, and I usually have a lot of tabs open. Argh! (Especially with the trend to wide-screens, the placement of tabs
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I'm not dismissing it, just saying it's a "variation on a theme" just like the IBM PC or the smartphone or whatever. Goddard launches the first fueled rocket (1926) is the technological breakthrough. Man lands on the moo
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Sure but how is this not a "variation on a theme"? The iPod and the iPhone were hugely impactful despite, in some sense, merely being variations on a theme. I'm all for the safety bicycle being considered very significant his
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Let's ignore the fact you didn't address my argument. There are diminishing returns. It's not like Apple has provided a web browser that basically doesn't work but has great battery life. Most people consider Safari to b
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Don't get me wrong, I like the article, but it dismisses a whole bunch of silicon valley stuff as "variations on a theme" of microprocessors and parsing radio spectrum. Fair enough but including the invention of Coca Cola and
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It's working nicely on my iPhone 5 (which I keep around for testing) and my desktop Mac Pro (2012). Also tried it on an older MBP15" (2010) and it's fine in both Chrome and Safari (but I'd give the edge in smoothness to
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by Tloewald 11y ago
How so? Let's suppose Safari has some horrible bug in it that exposes users to malware or whatever. (And it has had from time to time and Apple has been rightly pilloried for some of these cases.) Tell me how saying that Apple would ra
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Ah yes, pointing out that your anti-Apple arguments are just as easily applied to Chrome/Google, Firefox/Mozilla, or IE/Microsoft makes me a fanboy. It's like Betteridge's Law for discussions involving Apple.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Making web lose -> make users unhappy in short (and probably long) term, damage Apple's reputation in long term It's totally awesome how Google created its Play store so that it seamlessly works on competing platforms -- after
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Absolutely disagree. Apple wants to make the best experience for users because then they'll keep buying Apple products. If users want the web, then they make the browser better. If Apps are more appropriate, then they make apps better.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Exactly. Apple adds features based on what users seem to need, not what programmers want (Google) or programmers want to work on (Mozilla). It should also be noted that Safari's accessibility support is head and shoulders above anythin
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by Tloewald 11y ago
> Surely some details should have surprised people. Of course. I'm actually surprised they were (a) only collecting metadata, and (b) restricted themselves from collecting metadata on purely domestic calls, and (c) that they actuall
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It's hard to beat unnecessary wars: http://cironline.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files/June20... According to the linked article, Iraq and Afghanistan cost over $1T (and this was as of 2011
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Belgium has 160 F-16s altogether.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I think you are being naive. All governments spy. Governments that don't spy are doing a disservice to their citizens. And it is the job of spies to push the envelope. It would be nice to live in the land of milk and honey in an anarch

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