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by a4isms 4y ago
> driving these tanks They are not tanks. They are suburban armoured personnel carriers.
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Key quote: The news of Samsung's upcoming TV will likely be a blow to Huawei, which is reportedly working on its own 5G 8K TV. Sharp is also working on its own 8K+5G initiative – both companies will need to hurry up if they want to be
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Samsung and other manufacturers have already announced 5G-enabled Smart TVs. You’re right there’s no need to jump at shadows, but if this looks like a shadow, well… https://www.techradar.com/news/samsungs-5g-8k-tv-promi
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> I'd always assumed that if you used the TV's UI and if it was connected to the internet, then you'd probably be subject to their ads and data analysis, but it never crossed my mind that they'd perform the same data-
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For now, this appears to be feasible. And it will probably stay feasible as long as the number of people who do it is relatively miniscule. But economics being economics, we’re freeloading off the customers who hook their smart TVs up to th
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Perhaps, but this is true of all subjects: Sports, economics, politics, most hobbies, &c. On the one hand, this shows the arrogance of the techie: A belief that since we're rather clever in one application of intelligence, we must
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> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's prob
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Author here. I remember the Apple III well, we nearly bought one for my mother's Real Estate brokerage. Ended up with a fairly vanilla Intel-based PC. Whew! But thank you for the correction on "Apple continued to invest..."
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"Quality" may be hard to pin down in super-objective terms, but that doesn't mean it has no value as a word or a concept. To paraphrase, "Quality is like art. I know it when I see it." Sure, you and I might have sli
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Of course it does. There are some very skilled musicians who are extremely popular, and also thousands of entirely interchangeable boy-bands and girl-bands and what not that have hits as long as a large PR machine is there to market them, a
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I don't think that's how I use the word "quality." Yes, it is not synonymous with popularity. But no, I don't think there's something wrong with the world that people prefer a certain thing that is "lower&
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A bit of a digression, but when I think "clickbait," I think of optimizing for curiosity about the contents, which is not strictly equivalent to attracting readers who will like the contents. "Good headline writing" to m
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Speaking as someone who has been writing forever and blogging-as-we-currently-know-it since 2004... It always depends on what you want out of it. Some people are outcome-oriented. They want reputation and/or the affirmation of crowds,
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To me, something can be both quirky and well-known. Robin Williams and Mitch Hedberg's standup comedy both come to mind in this respect. But if the idea is both quirky and rare/obscure, I can understand why¬_why.
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That has no bearing on the basic argument which consists of: 1. Claim: "Privacy is a human right, the government should not be allowed to know anything about financial transactions," and; 2. Counter-claim: "Privacy of financi
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In my jurisdiction, if I operate a pawn shop, I am required by law to record transactions, collect ID, and make good faith attempts to prevent people from laundering stolen goods through my shop. Does "privacy is a human right" tr
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This is the best response. I used "tickets" as a rhetorical device because it maps very neatly to pieces of flair from Office Space. In reality, trying to measure software development productivity objectively always makes me whip
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This is the "pieces of flair" debate. If their manager asks for fifteen tickets a month, and they do exactly fifteen, the manager sits them down and asks why they don't do twenty, like their colleague over there. They ask the
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by a4isms 4y ago
This is also what used to happen when a citizen of the US (and anyone else who requested it) entered Cuba. Cuban immigration would take a little piece of paper, place it in the passport, and then stamp the piece of paper. If the traveller h
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by a4isms 4y ago
For those unfamiliar with British colloquialisms, a flutter is "a small speculative venture or gamble." e.g. "I took a flutter on crypto and invested $100 in an NFT of a sunset."
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Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA22_1wnj9w
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The next thing then becomes, "Why can't we use GP computers for consuming all this content?" And the tongue-in-cheek answer is, "Because Linux." Optimizing a device for makers often makes it sub-optimal for consumer
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> The default 15 years ago was open, now it is default closed. Yes, but 15 years ago far fewer people did far less with computing devices of any kind than they do today. Imagine if, for example, I made this argument: "In 1992, the d
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The most useful "social media" sites for musicians are fairly vanilla forums. Heavily moderated, single well-understood focus, &c. &c. Example: https://talkbass.com is for people to talk about playing bass. And
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As an "elder" in our industry, I encounter "old people arguments" on a regular basis. A few observations that seem to apply here: 1. Naming things is hard. Sometimes a thing gets a name for a reason that made sense a lon
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I've retired it for a while, I kind of enjoy posting without anyone attaching greater—or lesser!—weight to my words because someone recognizes who is saying them.
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This is Raganwald, ( http://raganwald.com ). I'm glad you mentioned both a blog AND a brand. They can go together (as they have done for me), but I honestly get different things out of them. Blogging helped me work out my tho
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How should we respond if we interview for a non-crypto job, and when we can't get any background on the company, they explain that they're in "stealth mode" to protect the advantage of surprise? From time to time there a
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This is a golden age for nostalgia by the boomers and their echo generation. It drives these highly delayed sequels, just as it drove the Star Wars prequels. It drives high prices for certain used cars and musical instruments, all of which

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