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   by akamaka 10y ago

   Friendster and MySpace are both great examples of this. Both were the number one social media network at some point, and both were heavily burdened (if not killed) by technical debt. In the case of Friendster, the poor scalability enginee
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   by akamaka 10y ago

   We just had a nuclear disaster which is fresh in those people's minds. To put it into perspective, the Fukushima disaster has made 800000 hectares of land unusable for farming, which is more than the area of land under cultivation in t
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   by akamaka 10y ago

   I'm anti-nuclear because we don't really know how much it costs. The cost of cleaning up after very rare disasters has to be worked into the price, but the Fukushima incident is still ongoing. We're not even sure if the curr
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   by akamaka 10y ago

   I see what you're saying. Would it be fair to compare this to saying "I think architecture was better in the ancient times, when low-paid craftmen fashioned each stone by hand"? If I said this, I don't think it should b
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   by akamaka 10y ago

   I looked at your article and it seems he's just saying that when women were enfranchised, the type of democracy we had became less supportive of libertarianism. I have no idea whether that's true or not, but misquoting him is not
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   by akamaka 10y ago

   Thanks for the suggestion! I didn't know this museum existed, and I'll pay a visit as soon as I have a chance.
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   by akamaka 10y ago

   Keep in mind that Apple just signaled that they are unlikely to ever again update the Mac Mini, the iMac, the Mac Pro, and the Macbook Air. It would be more accurate to compare this to overall Mac sales, since all of those other types of us
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   by akamaka 10y ago

   I think personal computers area good analogy to kitchen equipment, but I draw the opposite conclusion. Back in the 1980s, only a small group of elite users had access to workstations built by companies like SGI, which had advanced graphics
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   by akamaka 10y ago

   I agree with you overall, but my different viewpoint comes from witnessing other companies addressing the advantages you've mentioned. Just as trends in the computer industry have been largely led by power users, there are also food &q
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    I think you're probably right, and I didn't want to make my point about general intelligence, but only focused on food knowledge. It's hard to prove any food healthy or unhealthy, but one of the main premises of healthy eatin
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    You could also say some people like Trump and other people like Clinton, and it's just an opinion. However, one opinion is highly correlated with being more educated. I suspect that the same is true here. The population at large has
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    There are already PC laptops shipping with a newer generation chip 15W chip than the one in the low end Macbook Pro, so I consider this more of an Apple problem.
13. 403.▲
    by akamaka 10y ago

    It's hard to tell if he's ignorant or deceptive, but he claims some of the speed-up is from the processor. Real benchmarks show otherwise. It certainly feels like he's trying to promote the product rather than give an object
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    This is a questionable review, bordering on dishonest. It makes no mention that the new machines provide almost no performance improvement over last year's models, despite the significant price hike: http://www.digitaltrends
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    Since you're curious about why people downvote, I'm downvoting your comment because it doesn't provide any useful new information that all us of are not already aware of. Nothing to do with your political views or the use of
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    The outrageous price increase is my only problem with the new hardware. I just saved $450 by buying a refurbished 2015 Macbook which has the exact same computing power as the new model.
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    Resistant weeds are spreading due to massively increased usage of glyphosate, which is due to its use with GMO crops.
18. 408.▲
    by akamaka 10y ago

    Gylphosate usage has enormously increased in connection with GMO crops, and with that its side effect on the environment.
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    You're just being pedantic. Technically speaking, antibiotic-resistant bacteria have always existed to.
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    You're just being pedantic. He said "largely banned", which is more or less accurate. Germany is generally moving in the direction of further restricting GMOs: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-grain-ger
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    Emergence of herbicide-resistant weeds due to increased spraying of herbicide on GMO crops is one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Effects_of_use
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    I agree that the fines are set at a level more appropriate for a large corporation, but I looked at the questions, and they're all things I would want to know as a customer, and I would expect for them to mostly already know (e.g. &quo
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    Thank you very much for the info! I spent so much time searching in vain for these superblocks, but that was more than a month ago, so now it makes sense.
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    Is there a list or map of all the superblocks that have already been built in Barcelona? I've tried Googling for more info, but all I find are articles praising the urban planning concepts.
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    They're easier to develop. Most websites and web apps have use AJAX to dynamically update certain parts of the site. Even though few sites would need to use it for everything, once you introduce good tools for dynamically updating the
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    If you liked that documentary, you might love this older one, which features Stanley Hooker. It's amazing to get the perspective of the legendary engineer himself, and it goes much more in depth into the technical problems and busines
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    I don't fully understand the process, but this paper has an explanation and diagrams: http://www.journalamme.org/papers_vol32_1/32110.pdf
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    This technical paper has many pictures of the wax moulds and more details of how the process works: http://www.journalamme.org/papers_vol32_1/32110.pdf
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    Thanks for sharing your point of view. Also, sorry that some people are picking on small parts of your comment rather than listening to your overall point, which I think is valid. I do have one thing to say about housing in Japan. It does
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    by akamaka 10y ago

    I don't even need to read the article or paper to see that the commenter didn't think through what he was saying. He specifically uses a quote that says "different ages - including the modern day" were used, but then su