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541.
by ddeck 13y ago
That is simply not true. While clearly not democratic, Hong Kong for example, is most definitely not an autocracy.
542.
by ddeck 13y ago
Agreed. The dominance of the 16x9 format drives me nuts also. It seems the average resolution on a cell phone exceeds that of the average laptop these days.
543.
by ddeck 13y ago
The X1 carbon resolution is 1600x900 (14") vs 1440x900 (13.3") on the MBA.
544.
by ddeck 13y ago
If screen size is important, another option is the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. I don't run Linux on mine, but I've read that most everything is supported. Headline price is quite high, but it seems there's often ridiculous discounts
545.
by ddeck 13y ago
The story is certainly more important, which is presumably why the majority of redpola's comments are about it. But to be fair, I actually asked myself exactly the same question and went to your "About Me" page to check. Try
546.
by ddeck 13y ago
Yes, those are incorrect. Perhaps it's just because I'm not located in the UK, but it really stands out for me. Those, the lack of periods and phrases such as: >and thinked the way most of the team already worked and thought
547.
by ddeck 13y ago
Yes. It's extremely unlikely that the margin on repairs would offset the loss of sales from an easily breakable phone, not to mention the impact of a poor reputation on sales of future versions.
548.
by ddeck 13y ago
I had the same experience with the Galaxy Nexus. I literally threw it onto the road....twice. Both events happened while running with the phone in my hand. The first time I threw it downwards at speed, the second time I launched it about 10
549.
by ddeck 13y ago
It includes everything. Hong Kong is a pretty small place.
550.
by ddeck 13y ago
That's quite fast. I see ~10-12 Mbps to Taiwan/Japan from both home (200 Mbps fiber) and office (1 Gbps fiber). To the US, I see ~4-5 Mbps consistently. These are both via PCCW.
551.
by ddeck 13y ago
Yes. But keep in mind that minimum wages is $3.75/hour with no paid breaks. Also, that's your connection speed to the ISP's network. As soon as your traffic leaves HK, you're more likely looking at < 10 Mbps
552.
by ddeck 13y ago
There have been a number of photo exhibits showing exactly that. I assure you, things are worse than you imagine. http://petapixel.com/2013/02/19/cramped-apartments-in-hong-k...
553.
by ddeck 13y ago
The 20k figure would be referring to the development, which would be several "blocks" (i.e. independent buildings crammed next to each other). The average household size is still 3 (bit lower in public housing) with average living
554.
by ddeck 13y ago
Less than 25% of the total land area of HK (~400 sq. mi.) is developed.[1] [1] http://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/facts.htm
555.
by ddeck 13y ago
Correct. What few realize though is that the archaic pegged exchange rate is the key contributor to this. In a typical exchange regime, such an influx of capital would push the exchange rate higher and provide a balancing effect. Instead, y
556.
by ddeck 13y ago
I am of the firm belief that healthcare is one of the basic goods that should be provided by a government. Some may cry socialism and argue that free markets are more "efficient", but that assumes people shouldn't have equal
557.
by ddeck 13y ago
Well automation of the trade processing element is what has allowed for algorithmic trading to be possible at anything above a glacial frequency. But I'm not sure what your question is in response to. Was there a suggestion of a link?
558.
by ddeck 13y ago
>Which is ~$44 you wouldn't have to pay for another metal... You wouldn't have to pay $44 for another metal because they are vastly more abundant[1], the consequence of which is that they are cheaper to produce. Yes, demand a
559.
by ddeck 13y ago
It is efficient at generating the best outcome for the company in isolation, but that may not be an optimal outcome for society as a whole - externalities are typically not priced into the product. For example, consider the 51,000 tonnes of
560.
by ddeck 13y ago
Another vote for this. As someone who is outside the industry and knew very little about the process, I found it fascinating. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2014338/
561.
by ddeck 13y ago
Yes, he contradicts himself. Your quote clearly implies design, and then he concludes with this: >If someone had designed a work regime perfectly suited to maintaining the power of finance capital, it’s hard to see how they could have d
562.
by ddeck 13y ago
>Some electric cars have the option to only recharge the battery up to 80%, to increase the lifespan. Would it be possible to do the same with laptop batteries? Perhaps by patching the SMC? My laptop (X1 carbon) does this, I assumed mo
563.
by ddeck 13y ago
Assuming we're talking about lithium ion chemistry, The most significant thing that will impact the longevity of the battery is heat, and keeping the battery at a high level of charge generates it. In particular, if you're always
564.
by ddeck 13y ago
I agree with all of your points, but despite writing that he has no physical health issues, it seems he was beginning to experience a pretty significant mental decline: >I was sick of having to dig through the trash to find an envelope
565.
by ddeck 13y ago
As you said, you've only partially read it. I think it's a bit premature to pronounce that the website is the primary reason and all else is secondary. Clearly none of us will ever truly understand, but this certainly struck me:
566.
by ddeck 13y ago
Correct. It synchronizes on the instance of the PrintStream, which has no effect here. The bottom line is that the Point object should have been immutable, which would have made it safe for publication. That requires its fields to be final
567.
by ddeck 13y ago
Although atomicity helps, it typically doesn't provide any visibility guarantees, so typically some other form of synchronization or memory barrier will be required.
568.
by ddeck 13y ago
As Josh Bloch said: Classes should be immutable unless there's a very good reason to make them mutable Immutability makes life a LOT easier. A great example is the well designed joda-time vs the disaster that is the the mutable Date
569.
by ddeck 13y ago
The implicit synchronization happens at the point the child thread is started, regardless of when it was allocated. Perhaps it was already started prior to the initialization, in which case some form of explicit synchronization would be req
570.
by ddeck 13y ago
>you can set variables in your parent threads before the child threads execute, but unless you're doing it in a locking way (eg. with a shared semaphore) there's no guarantee that the parent thread actually executes before the

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