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babygoat
8y ago
If there were a third OS, how would you get away from the company that made it?
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babygoat
8y ago
By shaping the culture? That was quite a reach.
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babygoat
8y ago
I read somewhere that Thomas Edison used to take naps with ball bearings in his hands. At the instant he fell asleep, the bearings rolled out of his hands and hit the floor and woke him up during this transition state.
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babygoat
8y ago
I get this a lot too and had to look up the term. The first time I tried acupuncture I went into this state right away.
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babygoat
8y ago
Denominators don't apply here. We're talking about ratios, not fractions.
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babygoat
9y ago
Of course not. He's just invoking all of those elements in a provocative sounding statement for no particular reason.
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babygoat
9y ago
Because 16:9 is a reference point that everyone is familiar with, and 16:10 is easier to understand in relation to that for most people than 8:5.
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babygoat
9y ago
shape != size
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babygoat
9y ago
My choices will not improve the conditions of warehouse workers.
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babygoat
9y ago
Your comment would have more gravity if you pointed to specifics instead of touting some vague credentials and telling other people they're wrong.
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babygoat
9y ago
If that’s true, then charge us more and be a real human.
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babygoat
9y ago
Are brains working on the bit level? All that aside, how does general cognition emerge from speed? Why hasn't anyone made a "slow" version yet?
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babygoat
9y ago
You're clearly satisfied with yourself for not being a Facebook user, but your comment has no bearing on the article. Do you have an opinion on Zuckerberg refusing to admit any of this?
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babygoat
9y ago
Your experience "actually" doesn't trump the experience of others, or facts.
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babygoat
9y ago
> Any task of human cognition that the sack of meat in a skull can do, a digital algorithm will be able to do, because the former is just slow, slow analog meat. It's not slow at all. And you are obsessed with meat.
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babygoat
9y ago
It's not really open to that interpretation if you read the memo where the quote comes from.
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babygoat
9y ago
That doesn’t count has having read it. That book was incredible, by the way.
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babygoat
9y ago
> e-Cigarette use was associated with greater risk for subsequent cigarette smoking initiation and past 30-day cigarette smoking . How about: Nicotine users more likely to use nicotine.
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babygoat
9y ago
If I had a vaping problem, a "buttery" flavoring would probably make me sick enough to quit.
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babygoat
9y ago
Oh man, I totally relate to your environment and dilemma. Too complicated or not, if you can get away with it I would do the sharding project for the fun/experience/learning.
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9y ago
It's condescending to anyone who buys Sony products.
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babygoat
9y ago
Have you tried reading it again?
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babygoat
9y ago
Yes, and it's hard to think of anything more awful.
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babygoat
9y ago
Wtf was the “common word”? Why is is that only conservatives are constantly being accused of racism? And why have they nothing to say to defend themselves in the moment, only to go home and write a shitty blog post?
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9y ago
It has to be an alternative to Facebook, first.
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9y ago
> forcing it on everyone What is so terrible about having to work with someone who might be different than you?
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9y ago
Yes, he's very disruptive. What a compliment.
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9y ago
You might have had a chance at making an argument if the first and only laborer you exemplified wasn't "basketball player".
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9y ago
Do you use disposable cookware?
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9y ago
Would that console you if you were run over by a self-driving car?
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