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by b1daly 8y ago
I’m just baffled by this, there are many high profile sites that barely work on the misc mobile browsers I use. I avoid them, obviously. I can’t be the only one. The only thing I can think of is that due to business demands, and code cruft,
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by b1daly 8y ago
Do you mean, I essentially, that Apple refusing to make a touch enabled notebook style computer shows how out of touch Apple is? Or something else, like not developing a better keyboard? As Apple tells it, they do not foresee merging MacOS
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by b1daly 8y ago
It’s amazing to me that a huge component of the problems TBL and colleagues are trying to solve are not discussed in the article, or here: we exchange our data to access services that are valuable, and expensive to develop to maintain. Beca
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by b1daly 8y ago
The way my step sons live strikes me as having much less autonomy than I had at their age. I’m still boggles that young kids aren’t allowed to walk to school by themselves. Most of the time, I tend to think as long as good basic care is tak
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by b1daly 8y ago
The grandparent comment makes a nice point. Humans imbue their lived environment with meaning and functionality. Our lived environment now includes a whole different element, that of being ever connected in the present to a global informati
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by b1daly 8y ago
Wow, you are demonstrating a high level off cognitive dissonance here. I claimed that Kraken was the only place that regular traders could trade a USD-USDT pair. You try to argue I’m wrong by pointing to an exchange that has a USD-TrueUSD p
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by b1daly 8y ago
I disagree that that is a fair criticism, that a person shouldn’t criticize the state of “physics” as a professional practice if they don’t have better solutions. I read Lee Smolin’s “The Trouble With Physics,” covering similar terrain, and
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by b1daly 8y ago
I’m always annoyed by the waste of cooling (or heating) a whole building when what we really need is just our body temperature to regulated. My thoughts drift towards clothing that has cooling built in, but become my usual muddle of 1/
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by b1daly 8y ago
I think you’re missing a few things here. Kraken is the only exchange that has a USD-tether pair. It is not trivial to be an active trader on Kraken who can freely move in an out of tether and USD. Most of the holders of Tether don’t have a
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by b1daly 8y ago
I’m just a casual observer of the market, so I only know what can glean on the internet. My observations are purely anecdotal. A fundamental problem, in the entire “crypto” market is that it’s hard to get dollars to crypto exchanges. As far
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by b1daly 8y ago
The thing that should be a huge red flag about tether is that there is ~$2.5 billion in notional value of tethers floating around. (I think the bulk these are held by exchanges, on behalf of their customers or themselves.) There is no possi
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by b1daly 8y ago
I didn’t know this, as the various Macs I use are all 2015. That startup sound is a great idea example of the importance of the utility of affordances in interface design. After you’ve done something that might have hosed your whole system,
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by b1daly 8y ago
I know this thread is probably dead, but just feel like responding: the factor you’re leaving out is that having multiple people competing to develop the best knife leads to better knifes. This is old school Econ 101, but I think it’s relev
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by b1daly 8y ago
I see your point, and it’s an interesting issue. Do marketing and managerial skill add real value to a product/service, or are they at best a necessary evil? I think there is a strong case to be made that they add value. One issue they
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by b1daly 8y ago
I don’t mean to be glib, but nothing is perfect. What some of the other posters are alluring to is that the ability to organize deals and market a product is an essential skill in running a business. If product A is technically superior, bu
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by b1daly 8y ago
The real answers here should be in the data, but as an anecdote I experienced something that genuinely impressed me the other day. I’m in the market for a new mattress, and the other day on a whim I stopped at a mattress store (in real life
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by b1daly 8y ago
As a counter argument , forcing people to factor in the cost of a toll as a factor in making an a given trio could just as easily lead to sub-optimal underutilization of what has historically (in the US anyway) a public good. People are no
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by b1daly 8y ago
Aside from the legal technicalities and motivations of the parties in this case, the goal of prolonging the usable life of computers is incredibly laudable. The continuing process by which otherwise functional hardware is made into trash si
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by b1daly 8y ago
The Sonic Foundry software was uniformly excellent. It’s perhaps a cautionary tale as to how much market structure is as much, if not more, of a factor in ultimate business success. My perception was that the principles determined that the
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by b1daly 8y ago
This is an interesting perspective. I think this sort of behavior is ubiquitous. A recent example for me is some webpages seem to crash on iOS safari if I scroll to fast. It happens more on older devices. So I’m constantly trying to feel ou
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by b1daly 8y ago
You are advocating for a crude, and disturbing, form of utilitarianism here. Ultimately, I’m a moral relativist, so I even though I can’t say another point of view is “more correct” when it comes to morality, I think engaging some effort an
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by b1daly 9y ago
Are you for real? (Am I being Poe’d) here? KAJ is right that this represents a patronizing and archaic attitude towards the treatment that of their employees. What is the intent here? Protect the poor little ladies from predatory players. P
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by b1daly 9y ago
Most “civilian” users of MacBooks don’t even know that you have to turn on the function keys, System Preferences, you want them to work as function keys. Or rather, the fn key toggles between the function keys and the default media controls
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by b1daly 9y ago
I think what you are observing here is that human (animal) behavior is controlled by patterns, instincts, biases, hueristics that are universal. A classic example is reflected in the aphorism “just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they
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by b1daly 9y ago
I have no doubt that the “ Russia Collusion” investigation is largely the kind of bare knuckled political tactics used all around by the real political infrastructure. (Though I think think there is far more substance here than the Starr in
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by b1daly 9y ago
For a criminal action to take place, there has to be a violation of existing law. What law do you see being broken here, by the creators of the software, or users? Assuming they are diligent about keeping illegal content and activities off
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by b1daly 9y ago
It’s true “Obamacare” is a form of socialized health care. But the bottom line is that it chose to implement the subsidization of poor peoples’ health care through the mechanism of health insurance. It’s simply not the case that poor people
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by b1daly 9y ago
This is a nicely succinct expression of what I intuit to be almost a universal rule of creating/designing/making. It’s related to what I think of as “coherency” and I’m often surprised at how long it can take. The most recent exam
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by b1daly 9y ago
I’m repeating myself, but you are wrong in at least two ways. Health insurance in the US is not conducted in any way like the over simplified, text book example you provide. There exists no real world example of health insurance that functi
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by b1daly 9y ago
You seem to be making an argument based on “semantics” here? The idea of extending an insurance program into a mechanism for subsidizing those who can’t pay the premium does not mean it magically transforms the program into a totally differ

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