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by adamc 1y ago
Interesting. My great nieces have Lenovos (Windows) that they use for school work and light gaming. They'd like better gaming laptops, but don't have them.
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by adamc 1y ago
Must be circles. I just visited relatives, and brought my laptop as well as my phone; I barely used the laptop. But my brother always uses his, and his kids used laptops, and even one of my great nieces used a laptop. Did they have phones?
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by adamc 1y ago
Because adopting having "doctors", for example, isn't really what made for better healthcare. We had doctors for centuries (arguably millenia) who were useful in very limited cases, and probably harmful most of the rest of th
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by adamc 1y ago
I think it's an interesting piece, and calls us to consider how the technology will actually be used. A lot of things that are possible enable evil purposes as or more readily than noble ones. (Palantir comes to mind.) I think we hav
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by adamc 1y ago
People come with all sorts of preferences. Telling people who love mastery that they have to be "fluid" isn't going to lead to happy outcomes.
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by adamc 1y ago
I don't think the path was fixed by healthcare, per se. It was fixed by adopting scientific investigation. So I think your argument is kind of misleading.
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by adamc 1y ago
It also illustrates the difference from the Beatles, who actually did compose most of their cool stuff (although Martin did help).
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by adamc 1y ago
I don't favor any tax breaks for big tech until they actually start paying meaningful taxes. There have been far too many giveaways. The country is running a massive deficit, and the current "solution" is to balloon the defic
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by adamc 1y ago
A great talent undone by his addiction.
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by adamc 1y ago
Seems gated by a paywall.
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by adamc 1y ago
Agree that part of it is the increasingly toxic work circumstances. Many people get no health care, poor wages, and zero job security, so... they are pretty demoralized much of the time. And many work multiple gigs, so they are also tired a
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by adamc 1y ago
I think that quality of discourse will continue to exist, but web pages may not be it.
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Eric Schmidt: How Oligarchs Speak [video](youtube.com)
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by adamc 1y ago
It's handy if you have other services that are Windows-based, though. And, being a VM, it's fairly convenient to have multiple versions and to back up.
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by adamc 1y ago
It is, as a parent post said, a result of the currently dominant party. I would say Citizens United has had far-reaching influences.
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by adamc 1y ago
Also, there are other things hidden in the budget bill. For example, there is a clause that would make administration officials immune from being held in contempt: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-restraining-order/ (I d
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by adamc 1y ago
Massive bloodshed seems to very rarely be a good answer. Sometimes it's the only answer left, is all.
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by adamc 1y ago
At this point, we need some solution if we don't want journalism to vanish. And now, more than ever, we need independent journalism.
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by adamc 1y ago
We need a solution to stuff like this. Unfortunately, right now we seem to be cutting everything in sight to help the rich, so... I don't see that help or hope on the horizon. Stuff of nightmares.
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by adamc 1y ago
Optimism is under-appreciated. To make the world better requires some optimism that it is possible.
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by adamc 1y ago
More damage to science in the United States.
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by adamc 1y ago
This is true, because Trump caters to them. It isn't clear that their numbers drove this -- I think rather it is a function of their willingness to be completely loyal to him, which is what he craves.
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by adamc 1y ago
It's a noble goal. But the track record of the rich does not inspire confidence that this is the route our society should take in reclaiming these assets.
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by adamc 1y ago
Coming from python (or Common Lisp, or...), I wasn't too impressed. In Python I normally make args for any function with more than a couple be keyword arguments, which guarantees that you are aware of how the arguments are being mapped
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by adamc 1y ago
Terry Jones' documentary of medieval times made the point that the nobility was pretty similar to an organized crime family. Of course, he wasn't aiming at scholarly accuracy but trying to give viewers the flavor.
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by adamc 1y ago
I think it might depend on the business. In some places, open source is the "safe pick" (particularly if you aren't selling software and are not worried about things like the GPL). In others, licensing concerns are huge.
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by adamc 1y ago
Strangely (I was a math major as an undergrad), I never doubted this. It just feels more like writing.
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by adamc 1y ago
They'd think it because otherwise the prices would be too high and it would be difficult to sell the goods. If iphones go to $3000, the market for iphones will get much thinner.
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by adamc 1y ago
I see no evidence that we will be aligned this time. A large portion of the population will be angry and blame Trump and the Republicans who supported this.
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by adamc 1y ago
Paul Krugman made this point in a podcast with Ezra Klein. People remember a time when manufacturing was 30% of the economy, but that will never return, because the economy grew far more than our appetites for stuff. His estimate was that e

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