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by babesh 6y ago
I put more trust in him. He has shown more reason to trust him given the Snowden disclosures.
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by babesh 6y ago
It’s also possible that people use iPads and laptops more and phones less with the ongoing pandemic. I suspect that more given Samsung’s forecasts for Q4. It can be some combination of both forces.
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by babesh 6y ago
I put more initial weight into someone who published the Snowden disclosures than those who oppose him. But go read what he has to say and examine his sources. If what he says is true, then weigh less those opposing what he said else weigh
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by babesh 6y ago
This point of view is moot. Private companies seem to be rapidly advancing in capability and in some cases have already surpassed the capabilities of nation states. SpaceX seems to be the dominant player in the launch market with RocketLab
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by babesh 6y ago
So the US was exposed for doing what it accused China of doing.
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by babesh 6y ago
Make and invest your money, and then do something else you love. Expand your hopes and goals.
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by babesh 6y ago
Tell that to all the other animals on Earth. Do they not also have knowledge? Do you really think they encode their knowledge in language? Do you really think that humans are so special as to encode all their knowledge in language? Watch a
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by babesh 6y ago
It is incredibly obvious that most US media is biased. This includes suppression on both sides of the political spectrum. It includes both mainstream media and social networks. It isn’t just here and there. It is endemic. It pushes mindsets
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by babesh 6y ago
The title is disingenuous. The article is based on http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/inve... which states that “Children at the top of their 3rd grade math class are much more likely to becom
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by babesh 6y ago
The market power that big tech enjoys is partly why tech compensation is so high.
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by babesh 6y ago
Automate when it makes sense to automate. Different situations can call for different tradeoffs. Because of Moore’s Law, technical advancements, and because of the increasing economic benefits of programming, this tradeoff has shifted to mo
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by babesh 6y ago
There is nothing to ban and nothing to stop. There has been disinformation since the beginning of time. It was with us even in supposedly fair and balanced eras. It is up to each individual to find sources of information that they trust. If
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by babesh 6y ago
I think both parties did that. The difference is mostly in the scale of their powers. The administration controlled the federal government and thus had both greater powers and a bigger microphone. Governors controlled each state. You had De
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by babesh 6y ago
Gravity creates the stage (spacetime) upon which other forces (electromagnetism, strong and weak nuclear forces) can play out?
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by babesh 6y ago
One thing to note is that the current situation is ripe for massive political power gains since so many things have been thrown into flux. That is why both sides are playing so hard right now. There is much power to be gained and that power
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by babesh 6y ago
We live in a system with groups jockeying for political power. The groups continue to maintain power as long as they continue to convince enough of the populace to vote for them. They do this in various ways. One way is to form a coalition
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by babesh 6y ago
That isn't direct democracy. That is a republican form of government. Whenever you have representatives instead of citizens governing themselves, you can have situations where the government saves the citizenry from themselves but also
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by babesh 6y ago
One bright spot is the rise of some independents on YouTube and other social media. I find some far more reasoned and informed than most journalists. I think they are on the positive end of the smeared bell curve created by technology. They
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by babesh 6y ago
Sure. Go to Twitter and search for @elonmusk. I don’t know how or whether you can link to mentions. How many PR requests go unanswered?
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by babesh 6y ago
Like I said, just look at the data. Does he or does he not answer questions people have? Expressing himself does not preclude him from answering questions. It’s logic. A being true does not preclude B being true unless B = not(A). https:&#
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by babesh 6y ago
I encourage everyone to make their own mind up with data instead of listening to someone else’s opinions. https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk
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by babesh 6y ago
They have a de facto PR department. Go ask Elon on Twitter. You may or may not get an answer.
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by babesh 6y ago
It’s the same with the now missing headphones. Now you are incentivized to buy AirPods.
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by babesh 6y ago
The point is that you will most likely immediately need it. Example, I charge my phone bedside. Now I need to either buy a brick or if I do what Apple wants me to do which is to buy the MagSafe charger. This incentivizes people to buy yet a
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by babesh 6y ago
I’ve been told by an ex-Cisco employee of that timeframe that Cisco was full of politics. The way people who worked there talked reminded me of how IBM people talked when I interned there. It was all about who was the boss of who. Virtually
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by babesh 6y ago
The problem is that the cables have a weakness that causes them to eventually break. Getting a new brick and cable to go with the phone solves that issue at least for a few years. With the new cable being USB-C, you can’t use the old brick
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by babesh 6y ago
Yup. I rented a mini van once for a road trip over a national holiday. I got to the rental office, was in line for an hour, and then they told me it was no longer available. Not even a sorry. Drove our two cars instead. It takes 15 minutes
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by babesh 6y ago
The post only commented on size and thread. There is far, far more than that. Also some connectors are patented for what it is worth.
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by babesh 6y ago
That is a terrible analogy since the potential conceptual range of APIs is so wide and because it does disservice to the conceptual power of APIs. Good APIs embody the key architectural and conceptual decisions. They define the key concepts
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by babesh 6y ago
Apple is applying the suite strategy to the consumer device/services market. Each new market results in a new product integrated into its suite. Individual products don’t have to be best in class since part of the value is in the integ

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