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by bparsons 10y ago
Their products are becoming commoditized, and other companies are selling similar products cheaper, and with faster turnaround than Apple. This doesn't mean that Apple won't remain on or near the top of the heap when it comes to h
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by bparsons 11y ago
The person asking the question is a reporter for the Canadian Press.
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by bparsons 11y ago
Apple is producing content? All I see in the iTunes store is a bunch of crummy network TV reruns and stuff I can get on a dozen other platforms.
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by bparsons 11y ago
Human error when driving a vehicle is one of the top causes of premature death globally. That is what we should be measuring the technology against, not perfection. It seems that the technology has already, or is very close to approaching h
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by bparsons 11y ago
Good to see smart people working on something actually useful, and not another group chat or instagram clone app.
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Fatigue Science Lets Pro Sports Teams Track Their Athletes’ Sleep(techcrunch.com)
1 points by bparsons 11y ago|0 comments
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by bparsons 12y ago
You arrr ell
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by bparsons 12y ago
That is why you should always try to work on flat rate. The most productive people are not working 10 hours a day. They spend their 4 productive hours doing the really difficult stuff, and spend the rest of their work day reading or doing m
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by bparsons 13y ago
I more or less did this last year. I didn't say "no" to everything, but I basically stopped looking for new work by May. I then worked a max of a couple hours a day for the rest of the year. Starting in November and December
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by bparsons 13y ago
No one was ever really impressed with 3D TV though. It was a broad standard adopted by the industry, rather than some new innovation that people were genuinely interested in. The manufacturers got together and decided that we were all going
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by bparsons 13y ago
These guys are doing it right. With each new peice of news, I am increasingly convinced that Oculus is the next big platform. I imagine that not only the film studios, but NFL and NBA are looking at this as a potential game changer for home
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Chromebooks Outsold Macbooks in the US by a Factor of Five in 2013(qz.com)
8 points by bparsons 13y ago|3 comments
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by bparsons 13y ago
The people that gentrified the neighborhood 20 years ago, are upset that younger, richer people are moving in on their territory. The NIMBYs are responsible for the complete lack of new market housing in SF, and have hilariously priced them
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White House Stunned that NSA Spying Program Stopped Zero Terrorist Attacks(investigations.nbcnews.com)
3 points by bparsons 13y ago|0 comments
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by bparsons 13y ago
The bigger question here is: Why were you looking at Bing to begin with? It has probably been like this for months.
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by bparsons 13y ago
Seems like the problem was addressed immediately. This seems like a success story of 23andMe.
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by bparsons 13y ago
Works in Canada.
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by bparsons 13y ago
The stage is being set for a giant conflict between the intelligence community and the political class in DC.
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by bparsons 13y ago
I have received no notice from Adobe. Just checked my email.
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by bparsons 13y ago
So they have invented the world's best OCR software?
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by bparsons 13y ago
Keller's version of news is one where all content in a story is generated by the two opposing sides PR firms, in which he gives both sides equal space. To go out and find facts independent of these actors is considered "activist&q
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by bparsons 13y ago
These are close, close allies though. We aren't talking about North Korea. We are talking about countries who have deep diplomatic and military ties. The reason why you wouldn't do something like this, is because there was a damn
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by bparsons 13y ago
I have a 13 inch Acer I purchased in early 2011. Despite its low cost, the thing has run like a charm since day 1. I literally have zero desire to replace this thing at any time in the foreseeable future. It still runs 4+ hours on a battery
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by bparsons 13y ago
This is NBA, not NFL.
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Dallas Mavericks First To Dive Into Fatigue Analysis(hangtime.blogs.nba.com)
17 points by bparsons 13y ago|13 comments
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by bparsons 13y ago
I am always baffled at how other people are baffled that desirable places to live are more expensive than less desirable places.
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by bparsons 13y ago
What the USDA is doing is called "Washington Monument Syndrome". It is a political tactic, wherein you deny the public access to the most visible aspects of a government operation during a period of budget cuts. You will notice al
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by bparsons 13y ago
The exact same arguments could be made for having crappy passwords, which, I might remind you, are defeated hundreds of thousands of times a day, at a massive cost to its victims.
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Invention Secrecy Act(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by bparsons 13y ago|1 comments
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by bparsons 13y ago
Canada has something similar, it is called "Dangerous Offender Status". There are of course, avenues of appeal, but it allows the state to imprison or place conditions upon extremely dangerous individuals for an indefinite period

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