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by cpr 10y ago
There are tens of thousands of people at Apple who will only ever use Macs. That alone is enough for them keep making them forever.
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by cpr 10y ago
In our case, we've been buying the last of the Speed Queen line of completely mechanical washers and dryers (multiple houses). They're reasonably priced, built like tanks, and can be repaired by mortals with screwdrivers, solderin
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by cpr 10y ago
Why not just open in an incognito window? That always works for me.
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by cpr 10y ago
Gee, in the US, all property is debt as well. (Property tax.) So you don't really own your property--if you fail to pay, you will ultimately lose possession. http://taxation.lawyers.com/property-tax/when-you-cant-p
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The New Little Ice Age Has Started(sciencedirect.com)
2 points by cpr 10y ago|0 comments
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by cpr 10y ago
Apple will never abandon the development platform they themselves want. So we get to piggyback on their self-interest...
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by cpr 10y ago
Yep: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4625800/obama-rigged-election...
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by cpr 10y ago
Wow, this is overwrought. Just buy another inexpensive USB-C stick drive and bam!, you're done.
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by cpr 10y ago
Standard way to switch between application windows is command-backquote. (cmd-`) Works great.
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by cpr 10y ago
Is anyone else tired of all this "walled garden" blather? They designed Lightning because it best solved their needs. Why the specious and unprovable claim it's to lock people out? Can you read their minds? (Sure, down-vote a
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by cpr 10y ago
Except that you can reach these "keys" with your hands staying on the keyboard. No "gorilla arm" problem.
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by cpr 10y ago
Of course, as some wag said a while ago, the cost of the MBP that I want remains at $3K. ;-)
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by cpr 10y ago
My father visited Merton several times at the monastery in the early 60's (on his own way in to the Catholic church, as an Episcopal clergyman), and found him a most gracious man, giving the clear impression of timeless availability, c
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by cpr 10y ago
My sister, the newly minted Chemical Bank rep, would visit Sam (no, he never wanted any credit lines) in the late 70's and early 80's, and, sure ' nuff, he'd take her down to the diner in town in his old pickup and offer
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by cpr 10y ago
Hillary specifically promised to treat a cyberattack with all possible responses including military. This woman is dangerous.
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by cpr 10y ago
Fermor's biography by his friend Diana Cooper's daughter (Artemis) is an incredible, rollicking piece of work, like the man himself. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/books/review/patrick-l
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by cpr 10y ago
Yes, happy memories (1972?) of sitting at a terminal next to Harvard's CRCT IMP (56Kb connections to 2 other nodes, woohoo!) late at night and picking up the phone on the side when it rang, with BBN network ops folks calling and asking
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by cpr 10y ago
Great story! Reminds me if the time I was using the Naval Electronics Labs' (San Diego) mainframe as part of an Explorer post, semi-officially during high school (1971-ish), and got ambitious, writing a compiler in the assembly macro l
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by cpr 10y ago
Ad hominem. Can you dispute the damning evidence?
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by cpr 10y ago
Read to the end: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-11/first-post-debate-p... Edit: Correction noted. Post debate NBC/WSJ poll was conducted by group specifically paid by the Clinton campaign. Not exactly
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by cpr 10y ago
His collected letters are priceless. A close friend of various Mitford sisters, who are peerless in their own way.
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by cpr 10y ago
...and that's why my Emacs finger habits are about 40 years old. Scary. I miss ITS and TWENEX every so often...
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by cpr 10y ago
I'm sorry, but there is no revisionism about religion seeming less villainous, just the opposite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_science is fairly balanced.
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by cpr 10y ago
No, excommunication simply means being outside the sacraments. It had nothing to do with public society. Galileo was under house arrest at some point, but that had no canonical relation to any excommunication.
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The Clearest Evidence yet That Apple, Inc. Might Be Working on an ARM-Based Mac(social.fool.com)
4 points by cpr 10y ago|2 comments
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by cpr 10y ago
Fantastic talk. (Should say 2007 in the title.) This was in August, with the first announcement of Clojure in October of the same year, so Rich was just preparing the world for Clojure concepts?
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by cpr 10y ago
Probably will crash if you told it correctly. You know, the old Y2K problem. ;-)
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by cpr 10y ago
Well, $200K/employee, 4K employees (roughly), and you're at $800M pretty fast. Still an astounding number.
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by cpr 10y ago
Look at the timing as laid out in http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-19/dear-fbi-does-const... and it's more clear.
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by cpr 10y ago
Depends on the expectations. Little old bag ladies carrying $100K's of cash around NYC for drug lords are untouched, because anyone who might be tempted to rob them knows that within a few hours they'd be dead. Swift, widely-known

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