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by drcube 14y ago
I mentioned in my comment that Apple was doing the right thing here. What's "CO" mean?
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by drcube 14y ago
If I recall correctly, this was the first lesson in Darrell Huff's "How to Lie With Statistics". Exploit the ambiguity in the word "average", which can mean median, mode, or mean at different times. Not that I think you or the article is ly
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by drcube 14y ago
So I'll be the guy to ask it: What's the problem with underage workers? As long as it's voluntary, the conditions are okay and the pay is fair, who does it hurt? Some societies don't have the luxury of an idle childhood. I don't feel right
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by drcube 14y ago
13-15 year olds can't work in the US. And the unemployment rate for 16-19 year olds is pretty dismal. Officially it's over 25%, and I'm sure in reality it is much higher than that. Sure, if you're one of the lucky teens who can get a job bu
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by drcube 14y ago
>Consider the electronic products that every middle-class teenager can now afford—iPhones, iPads, iPods and laptop computers. No teenager can afford this. They, or their parents, go into debt for it. And that is the problem. The ability
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by drcube 14y ago
Cardiovascular exercise leads to a lower resting heart rate, which more than makes up for the short term increase in heart rate during the exercise. Elite runners often have very low resting heart rates, like in the 20s-30s. So you should r
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by drcube 14y ago
Is the US Constitution "restrictive" because it limits the right of our president to become a dictator? Would a constitution that said essentially "Those in power can do whatever they want" make us more free?
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by drcube 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initrd The one I have tells my kernel how to boot into my encrypted drive. It is also necessary for RAID, LVM, and NFS root filesystems, loading special modules and drivers before booting, and loading swap ba
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by drcube 14y ago
I agree, and it's not just end of life treatment. I often tell people, half joking but half serious, that I would rather die than go to the hospital. Even the simplest visit is an excruciatingly long, bureaucratic, kafkaesque nightmare wher
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by drcube 14y ago
> "People, once upon a time, would use 'Atari' in place of the term video games," I'm a little young for Atari, but a decade or so later, when I was a kid, we would use "Nintendo" or "Mario" as synonyms for "video games". "Hey want to p
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by drcube 14y ago
Did they not say exactly that about Linux in the 90s? Why do you need a third app ecosystem when a significantly more open phone should be able to run most code written for Linux or the web? Again, nobody is claiming they'll be the next iph
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by drcube 14y ago
You act like everybody wants to be the next Apple. I and many others will be happy with a smart phone that runs free software. There's room in this space for "The Red Hat of Phones" to come make some money and foster a loyal, if small, comm
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by drcube 14y ago
When you neglect to care for your teeth, you probably neglect to have others care for them as well. I'll bet the dentists' best patients are the OCD types who brush and floss five times a day.
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by drcube 14y ago
If AT&T didn't want to publish their users' data publicly, they didn't have to. But they did. Anything done with that data after that point is 100% their fault.
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by drcube 14y ago
Why should anybody be punished here? Girl takes naked photos, gives them to their SO and/or posts them online... but people should be prohibited from sharing what they've been given? I agree, it's shitty and an asshole thing to do, but is i
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by drcube 14y ago
> using a "well-established questionnaire" Self-reported "data" is useless.
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by drcube 14y ago
Sure. I agree, it's a hard problem. Doesn't mean it shouldn't get attention.
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by drcube 14y ago
I'm 100% behind changing the laws and punishing the overzealous prosecutor. Don't get me wrong. But I'd like to see the millions of poor black kids whose lives are destroyed by the justice system every day get this kind of response, and not
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by drcube 14y ago
Reminds me of the BSD fortune program which greets me every time I log into Slackware. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28Unix%29
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by drcube 14y ago
Why is this necessary? Shouldn't all encrypted traffic be compressed to begin with? I'm ignorant of how SSL traffic is actually encrypted, but if you're already crunching the numbers to encrypt something, and a big part of encryption is eli
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by drcube 14y ago
Presumably it's legal for Microsoft to publish them.
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by drcube 14y ago
I don't like this reasoning. We already give people physical access to their cars' engines. They can do as much damage just as easily, but they don't because they'd rather have a functional car. Open up access to the computer and it would b
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by drcube 14y ago
I think he means Android will power more embedded, single purpose devices. Your microwave currently has a home-rolled LCD+pushbutton interface. Within a few years it will be an Android powered touch device. Probably out of date before you b
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by drcube 14y ago
The same thing that happens when you screw up your laptop and find you can't email the cops. Don't rely on your "hacking phone" for emergencies, at least until you can verify it will work.
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by drcube 14y ago
Sure, eventually. But Ubuntu is blazing the trail here, and that counts for a lot. Right now, the Android is the only Linux "distro" (actually a completely different OS from regular GNU/Linux) that runs on phones. After Ubuntu, I can imagin
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by drcube 14y ago
It's true in the sense that the games are designed to pay out small wins fairly often. Rather than big jackpots once in a great while.
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by drcube 14y ago
That's a different kind of failure, if you ask me. Those are uses that weren't foreseen or designed for, not code that wasn't used.
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by drcube 14y ago
For one thing, we've got Unix "apps" that have been maintained for 30 years, like vim and emacs. So in my mind, the software ecosystem is much better, even before launch. Configurability is a huge plus for me. Could you imagine recompiling
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by drcube 14y ago
I'm not nearly as excited for dockable PC/phone hybrids as I am for a phone running GNU free software. In fact I'm already looking to replace my perfectly usable HTC phone for a Nexus so I can install the image Ubuntu is supposed to release
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by drcube 14y ago
Design and looks aside, I can read a PDF on my laptop, desktop, phone, and e-reader, on any OS. Why the hell would I want to use a format that only works on one device?

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