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by _broody 12y ago
The endless attention-whoring and KIRF posturing invading my newsfeed constantly is why I gave up on social media. I'm much more at ease without it.
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by _broody 12y ago
Most of these WTF examples basically boil down to JS doing type coercion willy-nilly. This 'feature' makes writing conditionals slightly shorter, in exchange for introducing the possibility of massive bugs everywhere in your code
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by _broody 12y ago
Yes, that was an absolute fiasco, but it's more of a problem with Head-Fi banning anyone who criticizes their sponsors because they make their money off of nurturing massive audiophile cargo cults. Schiit products are battle-tested, hi
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by _broody 12y ago
I definitely like Ubuntu's font rendering engine better than either Windows or OSX's. The one used by other Distros though (FreeType) is like a way inferior version of MS ClearType. One thing that definitely kills the Linux experi
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by _broody 12y ago
Your argument is basically "It's not exactly like California". In general, in Latin America, internet access is slower but like all sevices, a lot cheaper than the US, and phone carriers still can afford to offer unlimited 3G
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by _broody 12y ago
Wow. I just read that article yesterday while browsing for some critiques of The Hobbit Part 3: Alfrid's Quest [sic] , and I was nodding furiously all the way through. Brilliant, brilliant framing of the state of Hollywood. I was ensna
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by _broody 12y ago
I agree. Social campaigning will be much more effective than prohibition, that's what we do for legal drugs which also are devastating for addicts. Prohibition does absolutely nothing to control drug demand. It makes the supply swell u
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by _broody 12y ago
Oil is only going to fall long enough for Saudi Arabia and the US to bankrupt Russia, though (and they're pretty far along into it already).
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by _broody 12y ago
I don't know the details myself, but it is a position shared by U.S. officials that Saudis are Al Qaeda's prime backers, though not stated officially (it was exposed by Bradley Manning's embassy cable leaks): http:/&#x2
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by _broody 12y ago
Radical Islam will always go on doing its thing, as long as it has gas to burn. Curiously, the entire West is unwilling to go after the people pulling the strings of radical movements - those who give them money, holed up in so-called &#x27
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by _broody 12y ago
That's nothing laugh-worthy. Audio equipment faces massive diminishing returns. If you're looking for midrange sound you might as well pay attention to the people recommending sub-$50 headphones as to the ones talking of $150. For
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by _broody 12y ago
It's more like everyone knows Sievers is under Poettering's umbrella ever since the 'debug' kernel flag debacle wherein Kay was banned from contributing to the kernel, and then instead of addressing the issue himself, Po
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by _broody 12y ago
Honestly, I can understand why people are uneasy about this. "Yes, tight coupling is being introduced in many core Linux projects, but don't worry -it's only these shiny NEW features you don't have anywhere else!" S
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by _broody 12y ago
Pretty much. I never close Firefox on my laptop, and haven't seen any performance degradation for over a year now. Chrome on the other side, starts degrading my entire system's performance forcing it to hit swap memory the second
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by _broody 12y ago
It's a lot easier to stay focused on physical jobs, if only because they keep your blood flowing. In contrast, office employees chug a lot of stimulants every day (coffee) and still manage to spend the afternoon fighting off drowsiness
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by _broody 12y ago
> Measured health outcomes did not go up, only self reported health did. Further, the increase in self reported health was present even before people had a chance to go to the doctor. That's BS, that report only presents no change i
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by _broody 12y ago
No, I don't get what yummyfajitas is getting from his own sources. The Oregon experiment article he linked to stated, verbatim, that 25% more people reported themselves healthier thanks to increased health coverage, and 10% better ment
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by _broody 12y ago
That's actually going to be ridiculously complicated. I doubt we will see such a reversal of the status quo happen in our lifetime.
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by _broody 12y ago
That's just textbook Poe's Law at work.
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by _broody 12y ago
It doesn't matter what Soma 'is'. As someone responded below, maybe it's religion. Maybe it's smartphones with endless social notifications. Maybe it's Farmville and similar internet addiction patterns. Sure, p
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by _broody 12y ago
Asians have a very high carb tolerance from having lived with a high-carb diet for thousands of years. Comparing your diet to an asian's is definitely not a good way to determine whether it will be healthy for you.
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by _broody 12y ago
The matter is not just about one couple engaging in 'stupid' economically self-destructive behavior. The question is why is the issue so widespread? Why are these RTB businesses making such a killing exploiting a behavior that has
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by _broody 12y ago
It was twice as expensive at launch, though. I suspect the new Dell model will follow suit.
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by _broody 12y ago
When was the last time you used a Windows PC? Windows 8 boots and shows you the login screen in under 10 seconds.
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by _broody 12y ago
Older iphones were recently rated by Consumer Report to be about twice as resistant to bending from pressure and might well have endured this with ease. Also, the gorilla glass screen may have been less scratch resistant (though more than g
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by _broody 12y ago
Still, the CR test doesn't properly reproduce either situation. Pressing the 6+ in the middle doesn't let you draw conclusions about how it will behave when pressed in the weak point under the camera or when placed inside skinny j
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by _broody 12y ago
Not sure the guy who bent the 6+ with his thumbs on that video was able to put 90+ lbs of force in them, but it has been noted that there is a very specific point of structural weakness just under the camera that allowed the phones to be be
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by _broody 12y ago
Sadly, you're right. For all the talk of their impact, start-ups can't disrupt society worth a damn, except possibly to create more and more conduits for the vapidity of bored consumers.
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by _broody 12y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. The NSA & Co. are technically subject to the rule of law, but mostly all three powers of the state choose to turn a blind eye to their policing violating the Constitution. This is the default st
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by _broody 12y ago
Does Gruber's license hold any weight here? They're not using his perl code. They aren't bound by any license on it. There was never even a markdown spec to license, just a blog post (and Gruber knows he can't claim any

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