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by astrocat 10y ago
That WOULD be neat.
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by astrocat 10y ago
Believe me, I know. I carry my D3300 on all my vacations - it's the cheap, entry level DSLR for people like me who want to take better pictures but don't want to invest thousands in high level cameras. Or training ;) But I am lik
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by astrocat 10y ago
Certainly - Kodak has been making some big, bold moves in an attempt to stay alive. They're not dying quietly, that's for sure. But I will say that I doubt this will impact iPhone owners at all; Kodak would have to demonstrate so
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by astrocat 10y ago
<armchair> There's a missed opportunity here... this is not a smartphone, because as a phone, it will suck. It's a smartcamera, because as a point-and-shoot running Android with a cellular data connection, it will probably
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by astrocat 10y ago
another review[1] noted average to mediocre battery performance, so I wouldn't consider this meaningful. Google itself isn't particularly touting the battery life as anything other than on-par with other flagships so I don't
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by astrocat 10y ago
You posture that an effective policy to put downward pressure on fertility is to deny access to education. A policy whose effects specifically target individuals who didn't make the decisions you want to disincentivize. I think you m
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by astrocat 10y ago
The Digital Sabbath. Also, while we're reinventing ancient traditions for the modern age, how about a Digital Salat - where you unplug and meditate for a few minutes 5 times a day.
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by astrocat 10y ago
> it's the result of leaving nonfiction communication to the lowest-common-denominator of market forces. but seriously, what's the alternative? How do you avoid market forces? What process does a culture need to undergo to pu
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by astrocat 10y ago
Is incessant fear-mongering manipulation the inevitable dystopian end of a society that is always connected to channels of mass communication? This is the result of the race to the bottom for eyeballs and attention - the appeal to fear. D
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by astrocat 10y ago
It's unclear the intent of the author, but for this community it can be taken as a reminder that scandal is often ephemeral - stirring up the press and public but making no lasting change. The tragedy of a Victorian seamstress, the San
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by astrocat 10y ago
I'd never heard of one-for-one, but it's such a brilliant idea! Thanks for sharing
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by astrocat 10y ago
Very rarely to things have upside with no downside. "Geeks" are clearly aware of both the upside of autonomous vehicles, and the downsides presented by advanced, always-connected tech and the monitoring that comes with it. Thus,
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iPhone 7 home button doesn't work with most gloves(theverge.com)
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by astrocat 10y ago
> For this reason, caffeine isn’t technically a stimulant on its own... but a stimulant enabler: a substance that lets our natural stimulants run wild. This is the bit I find fascinating and perhaps explains why some people are so sensit
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by astrocat 10y ago
Matt Levine is always an immense pleasure to read.
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by astrocat 10y ago
I know the BMW shifters you're talking about, but there is one significant difference: the mechanism for entering Park is not like the rest of the gear selection options (Drive, Neutral, Reverse). It's a button on the top of the
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by astrocat 10y ago
>In any even remotely sane universe... Americans would be as proud of the Tesla Model S as we used to be about the moon landing or about winning the Cold War. While I generally agree with the author's sentiment, I think part of the
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by astrocat 10y ago
It's strawmen all the way down... > If all 1000 people were involved in a shootout and fired on the police first... These are quite specifically NOT the kinds of incidents at issue. > there are contexts where your right to privac
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by astrocat 10y ago
This sentiment is quite common: "I don't care if 'bad people' die. Fairly or unfairly, doesn't matter - they're bad people." I would equate this to "I don't care about privacy because I have not
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by astrocat 10y ago
When Apple dropped the optical drive, the internet was eating everything. The internet is a massive, global infrastructure project that was clearly not going to slow down. People were already downloading software, movies and music, and lo
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by astrocat 10y ago
Well hey, I guess I'm not crazy after all. :)
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by astrocat 10y ago
the analogy is baloney. floppy drives didn't get removed from hardware just because they were "old" or "made the computer fat," ... floppy drives were removed from computers because their entire raison d'etre
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by astrocat 11y ago
I know it can be frustrating, it's happened to me too, but the reality is that email validation generally isn't for you . It's for the 99% of other people who would greatly appreciate the heads up that they've typed &q
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by astrocat 11y ago
I live in Austin and have to agree that the headlines made by the Austin Police Department are just as depressing as anywhere else. Interestingly though, I've heard (but can't say I know for fact) that APD actually pays well, is
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by astrocat 11y ago
I can't be the only one who has made a habit of casually referring to them as "space computers." Whenever my wife asks some easily google-able question I reply "well just ask you pocket space computer." I want to h
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by astrocat 11y ago
It seems like we could achieve the economic goals mentioned in the article and avoid the pitfalls of plastic in the environment by simply getting over our dislike of waste incineration. Modern incinerators are quite wonderful things, but n
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by astrocat 11y ago
Absolutely - it is certainly a HUGE undertaking. Though the value to the society/community/voters would be equally enormous it's unlikely we'll ever find the resources to have such a thing executed in a thorough, respon
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by astrocat 11y ago
> The problem with basic income is that people need purpose, not charity. This is based entirely on the assumption that work=purpose, which I think is bogus. > Look at the success of programs in Africa that give people the ability to
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by astrocat 11y ago
on your last point, I've wondered if it would be within the scope of 18F or the US Digital Service to create a local.gov site/platform that is a repository for all local government information and vector for engagement. Figuring
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by astrocat 11y ago
This entire debate over the quality of school lunch is myopic. School lunch food isn't the problem, American food culture is the Problem. I'd bet, (I have no data for this - I'm just a windbag of opinions) that in most comm

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