charlesray

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by charlesray 11y ago
I agree. It seems no one is capable of saying that math and science are extremely important while also admitting that advanced math and science are actually not used in the day-to-day lives of most adults. Why is that so hard?
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by charlesray 11y ago
It's exclusively a shift in perception.
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by charlesray 11y ago
To compare the Internet with a ship or smoke signals requires a level of ignorance and cognitive dissonance that I simply cannot fathom.
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by charlesray 11y ago
This is the first era in history in which we have a complete, unobstructed view of the world. We can communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. We can share our culture and our ideals instantly with anyone, anywhere. What does this mean f
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by charlesray 11y ago
I simply don't believe any past statistics on things like this are relevant in the modern era.
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by charlesray 11y ago
Sure. But, I mean, look at some of the points they try to make. The situation in Syria is supposedly evidence of the decline of US power. No, Syria is evidence of the US public's unwillingness to contribute more American blood to a for
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by charlesray 11y ago
This article feels like it should have been written by a Redditor, not a real BBC journalist.
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by charlesray 11y ago
Reddit has something like 3m active accounts and 150m unique visitors in a typical month. The Blackout2015 sub has 37k subscribers. Make no mistake: this and the fatpeoplehate protest are an absolute drop in the bucket in terms of Reddit&#x
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by charlesray 11y ago
Permanently sticky this to Reddit so they stop thinking they're a representative sample of the population at large.
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by charlesray 11y ago
>I'm glad you are finally catching up to the rest of the developed world. We are the 18th country to entirely legalize gay marriage.
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by charlesray 11y ago
>Sounds like cabs need "body" cameras (interior cams that can't be turned off?) as much as cops do. That's what Paris needs, from the sound of it. Pittsburgh just needs competition, which we now have. The cabs haven&#
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by charlesray 11y ago
I live in Pittsburgh and the situation isn't much better. Taxi service effectively doesn't exist here. One newspaper wrote a "review" of sorts of Pittsburgh Yellow Cab and found that, for the most part, they wouldn'
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by charlesray 13y ago
Your concern is understandable but it's incredibly naive to think Microsoft is the same company they were in the 90s.
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by charlesray 13y ago
He says it takes 4-5 minutes, but you might need to experiment with the best times for you, plus it involves crafting a lid out of foil. This is a preposterous amount of effort compared to removing pizza from a box and stuffing it into your
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by charlesray 13y ago
People are just going to look at their phones more often if they can't hear or feel notifications.
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by charlesray 13y ago
How does one get to the point of making this video and posting it online without realizing that this amount of effort is completely antithetical to the idea of eating day-old pizza?
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What feeds do you have in your RSS reader?
4 points by charlesray 13y ago|1 comments
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by charlesray 13y ago
Which book?
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by charlesray 13y ago
>You know, in theory this is true. In practice, I've been in this situation a couple of times in my career. And it sucked. Hard. It was soul crushing. It was depressing. I'm in a similar boat. Not as bad as your experience soun
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by charlesray 13y ago
>But hey, i'm not really happy with apple anymore either, so I am an equal-opportunity cynic. I was going to say, pretty much all the major players are doing the same things you criticize Microsoft for. That said, while I'm hap
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by charlesray 13y ago
Microsoft used to be a company that produced terrible software and was yet utterly dominant. They're now a company that produces beautiful software (in my opinion) and are entirely unable to get people to buy it. I don't own a Win
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by charlesray 13y ago
Partnering with Yahoo (or increasing their partnership) is a potential long-term revenue stream for Mozilla if Google decides to back out of their deal (which, afaik, they show no sign of doing), but I'm not sure bundling the Yahoo too
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by charlesray 13y ago
I highly doubt that had much, if anything, do with the netbook's decline. From the beginning it was just a cheap, small laptop. Tablets are as cheap, smaller, and run operating systems that are designed for low-power systems, so they f
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by charlesray 13y ago
>So... you do know why. Oh shit, did I accidentally click on Reddit? >How many comments and posts over the last few weeks have been all about the NSA snooping on your data with these big corps handing everything over? I don't kno
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by charlesray 13y ago
I don't know why anyone would want to use an Ubuntu smartphone, excluding the obvious free software implications. It's guaranteed to be worse than virtually everything else on the market. And why would Canonical even want to get i
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by charlesray 13y ago
Unity is passably good. It is usable. It is a step forward from where Linux interfaces were years ago. But it is awful compared to just about anything other than TouchWiz.
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by charlesray 13y ago
Calling every asshole a racist is a slippery fucking slope.
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by charlesray 13y ago
The only adult I know who is scared of dogs is from Pakistan. You are an adult, scared of dogs, and from a country that borders Pakistan. Is this racism or is it an observation based on fact?
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by charlesray 13y ago
I just think it's laughable to assume that Google would shut down a product for no good reason. I don't think Google Reader's user base was nearly as large as the loud complaints would have you think. That said, I gave Feedly