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by arrrg 11y ago
The generalized version of the fallacy (“Labour-saving technologies increase unemployment in general by reducing demand for labour in general .”) may be wrong or not. That’s kind of hard to figure out. However, the micro level version of
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by arrrg 11y ago
Just don’t drink at all when you drive? I don’t know why you think it acceptable to drink anything at all before driving. I think it’s unacceptable for me to drink anything at all when I plan on driving. That way I have never ever been in a
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by arrrg 11y ago
Air Drop not working is a technical bug. It should work (but often randomly doesn’t for no discernible reason).
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by arrrg 11y ago
One finger more than the scroll gesture … I’m not sure how you could do it differently. Requiring three fingers on the mouse would just be weird (I’m all for allowing three fingers additionally to two fingers, though!) and requiring just tw
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by arrrg 11y ago
I know! (I didn’t mention it because my comment was getting long enough already.) It seems if you can’t sell to the low end you absolutely need to show off your analog film chops in some way to be really taken seriously. Or at least you had
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by arrrg 11y ago
Nikon is a startup? The camera market is dominated by big companies. And not only that, many of those companies were actually also big film camera companies. Obviously there’s Nikon and Canon. Sony (which has been coming out with some wicke
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by arrrg 11y ago
Saving water doesn’t make sense at all in a great many places where (clean) water is abundant, population is stagnant and infrastructure already exists. In other words, in many places water supply is mostly all about fixed costs and trouble
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by arrrg 11y ago
Videos are still DRMd, as is all the Apple Music stuff (the new streaming service). So really, only music is DRM free and you can buy other stuff from Apple.
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by arrrg 11y ago
The point you are making is correct and well argued for. I also think I sucked at expressing myself and haven’t been very polite at all. I also think that this is a much better comment than your first one. I really think one should be very
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by arrrg 11y ago
Are you a doctor? Are you personally giving any individual advice here? That’s the issue. I have no issues with doctors giving someone advice – but that’s really not the point here.
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by arrrg 11y ago
163kg, down to 84kg ±3 now (no longer overweight), knock on wood. I know all about this. That is why this condescending behavior is so awful.
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by arrrg 11y ago
Because this comment is a bad-faith derailment with no point to it. Something like that has to be pointed out. It’s also the typical shitty response overweight people tend to often get – people who are perfectly aware of their weight.
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by arrrg 11y ago
Why did you deem it necessary to even mention that? I’m quite certain that people with sleep apnoea for whom weight is a relevant component are quite aware of that. Yours is just a pointless diversion in this context – because what exactly
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by arrrg 11y ago
That honestly seems like an unimportant little diversion that doesn’t matter. Only used by people who really think there is no problem, used to argue in bad faith. But, ok, can you suggest an alternative that’s not just proving up the awful
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by arrrg 11y ago
But that’s exactly what I say! You are engaging in magical thinking. Wishing the problem to go away won’t make it so! Really not, that’s not how the world works and that’s not how past oppression extends into the now. You have to care about
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by arrrg 11y ago
This is magical thinking. If I just wish it to go away it will … sorry, that’s not how the world works. Past oppression, even if it didn’t exist anymore today (but it actually still does, so even that doesn’t work out!) extends from the pas
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by arrrg 11y ago
It’s not enough. You cannot just magically wish the world to change and hope everything will turn out alright. You actually have to put in the work. There may be systematic reasons at work that make sure everything is as fucked up as it cur
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by arrrg 11y ago
Really, no visible tattoos or piercings in Switzerland? I think you may be going a tiny bit too far if you want to generalize that as an European thing. Any decently sized city in Germany will have certain parts of it or just places where y
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by arrrg 11y ago
What’s their motive? What’s their pay-off? Where is their benefit in that?
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by arrrg 11y ago
Walking next to a busy street is unnerving and stressful to me (to me it seems as though the noise is the biggest problem), so I can easily imagine there being no positive effect. However, walking down a quiet alley with no cars (audible or
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by arrrg 11y ago
I mean, I get the effect on stock prices and why it happens (people use the best available info and use past experiences with that info to calibrate their expectations) but that’s stock land. Here in the real world that’s not a miss by a mi
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by arrrg 11y ago
At most very slightly below, right? Revenue and EPS are actually better in their earnings report. The only thing that’s worse is that they sold 1.3 million fewer iPhones and .1 million fewer Macs. iPads are right on. Revenue guidance is $49
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by arrrg 11y ago
Analysts on average actually did better in predicting Apple’s revenue than Apple. (Apple obviously seems to be very conservative in their predictions, though.)
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by arrrg 11y ago
That is completely incorrect. They are right in the middle of revenue predictions. Slightly on the lower end, sure, but that does not qualify as missing by a mile. If you say missing by a mile I would expect at least one standard deviation.
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by arrrg 11y ago
It looks kick-ass. That’s plenty. All the rest doesn’t matter. If you like the way this looks you gotta pay the price. (And what exactly is wrong with looking kick-ass?) I’m sure you will be able to buy some cheap imitation soon enough. If
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by arrrg 11y ago
Calendars are certainly not appropriate for dates of birth, lest anyone get that idea … Calendars are useful when entering recent dates you may not perfectly remember (i.e. you might know that the day you want was a Monday last week, but yo
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by arrrg 11y ago
If it’s years it’s just human labor, obviously. It’s their way of implying that this mission will provide enough data to lead to interesting discoveries for years to come. Data on its own is useless, someone actually has to look at it and i
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by arrrg 11y ago
Nations should die and not exist. Shouting nations names with pride is shameful and dumb. Nationalism kills. It’s an awful, toxic ideology. Death to all nations. May no nations exist in the future. (If you get to spew your ideological bulls
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by arrrg 11y ago
The CCD used in LORRI (Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager) takes 1024 × 1024 pixel monochrome (350 nm to 850 nm wavelength light) images. Currently Pluto is still quite small on that sensor, but rapidly getting larger. You can see the origina
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by arrrg 11y ago
Hm … well I don’t like the censors at (insert certain newspaper I dislike here). But I don’t argue that they shouldn’t censor (edit their newspaper), I argue that they shouldn’t lie and write so much bullshit. If I didn’t like the censors a

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