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by dejb 17y ago
Presumably in this case people would make use of it to run all those games for the c64 that were written in basic. That's the whole point in case you aren't familiar with the situation. > There seems to be a huge number of anti-Apple re
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by dejb 17y ago
I couldn't resist. The same person had another post of equal logical value in defence of the app store system. It seems like there are some people who see it as their role to defend Mac products and in particular the iPhone no matter what t
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by dejb 17y ago
'C64 games' is a subset of 'arbitrary applications'. You are a member of the set of Apple fanboys.
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by dejb 17y ago
Not only in the individual case but also collectively. The holders of these bonds would stand to lose a lot of money if technological breakthroughs increased the longevity of the insured people. This would give them the incentive to stall
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by dejb 17y ago
Investing in these bonds would represent a huge bet against medical breakthroughs. The worst case would be if people like Ray Kurzweil were right in saying that continuing breakthroughs could keep people indefinitely.
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by dejb 17y ago
Just like a nice recursive call, the article you link to relies on a lot of information from the Soil Association which the parent article is refuting. I agree that organic is not the same as 'low externalities'. Pricing in all the external
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by dejb 17y ago
It doesn't follow that increased popularity of organic food would necessarily lead to price increases in non-organic food. That's the great thing about having a free economy - you can chose to believe organic isn't worth the extra cost (as
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by dejb 17y ago
> It's all in the number of devices out there. As the number of devices goes up so should the sales. Actually I disagree. The Android marketplace isn't compulsory so many people would be getting their apps from other sources. It's kind
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by dejb 17y ago
The compulsory centralised app store model of the iPhone makes it an entirely new beast (apart from consoles). The difference is big enough to invalidate the comparison with Windows. Also the fact that their market share is still below belo
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by dejb 17y ago
I think comparing 'Android Marketplace' with Apple's 'App Store' is somewhat comparing 'apples with oranges'. Android doesn't require all apps to go through their marketplace so you would expect less downloads per user. Android could flouri
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by dejb 17y ago
Shame that so many of those hard-working thoughtful journalists who provide such an essential service to the community by reporting this sort of thing are being put out of work by the internet and IT. If only they'd just unplug those big na
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by dejb 17y ago
I can see what you are saying in terms of the fundamental forces. However I wonder if it is possible to dynamically 'focus' the power. That would make things possible with microprocessors that would have been too tedious to perform manually
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by dejb 17y ago
Actually it looks like it will sell for a bit less than an iPhone outright. 'Outright' is a word used by people in the free world to describe actual phone ownership as opposed to rental.
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by dejb 17y ago
There are actually 3 HTC Android devices on sale Dream, Magic and Hero. Check ebay. Not sure what the deal is with your carriers though. But I'll be eagerly checking out the N900 as well.
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by dejb 17y ago
You could be right. The only way to be certain of removing legal liability would be to allow people to install software through other means than the app store. Having the an app store as a kind of 'premium/safe' zone makes good sense - maki
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by dejb 17y ago
Makes a lot of sense. I'd love to have something like this when comparing products rather than having to spend hours looking through a variety of sources to be confident you have a decent overview of the general sentiment. Makes you wonder
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by dejb 17y ago
OK so you didn't mean you were 'weary' of mind blowing drugs then.
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by dejb 17y ago
Yes but the difference is their supply of money would be greatly diminished which would reduce their capacity for action. There is no reason to think that profits from 'guns and slaves' would increase. If anything they would decrease. Harde
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by dejb 17y ago
So it sounds like if you want to increase the level of growth of new neural connection you would risk losing some (many) of the old ones have have formed. That would be an interesting tradeoff. Definitely somewhere to tread lightly.
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by dejb 17y ago
Yes. I thought there was something in the US constitution about it.
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by dejb 17y ago
The question was interesting. But I was hoping for some kind of answer.
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by dejb 17y ago
There's a program called NEIS which would pay you that amount for a year while you try to start up a business. You had to submit a pretty serious application and attend a fair few weeks of some business course. They do have a few BS rules b
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by dejb 17y ago
Doesn't it make you less certain of the reasons anyone gives for any success?
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by dejb 17y ago
Do a search for "sense of entitlement" (quoted). You are the one who used the phrase first so you should at least try to understand what it means.
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by dejb 17y ago
The only way to save the App store is to kill it's monopoly.
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by dejb 17y ago
Last question was good - and the answer. Must admit to learning stuff in the interview as an unlikely yc-applicant.
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by dejb 17y ago
Have you ever seen The Ultimate Fighter?
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by dejb 17y ago
In the absence of solid evidence, metaphorical reasoning is a valid technique to use to explore the possibilities. > Why not claim that USDA approved organic food is the "white rice" of our times? Why not indeed. It could be true. How d
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by dejb 17y ago
You are demonstrating the same 'them and us' attitude that is present in the original article. You show your mistake by lumping together 'organic/all-natural/no-additives/USDA-approved/recycled-packaging' as if they were all a single propos
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by dejb 17y ago
We don't even fully understand the elements and combinations of substances that make up 'nutritious'. So the claims of the author that 'Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious' are demonstrably an overstatement. It's funny how the author can exa

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