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by eurleif 12y ago
Do you remember all the feminine hygiene product jokes when the iPad was released?
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by eurleif 12y ago
>It does not necessarily follow that commnist/marxist ideology on its own was the cause of the atrocities. Nor does it necessarily follow that capitalism on its own is the cause of the problems in the US that were being compared to
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by eurleif 12y ago
"Seriously?" was not my argument. My argument was that there have been far worse atrocities in communist countries than the problems described in the US. I didn't really think I needed to be specific, because it's common
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by eurleif 12y ago
> Comparing the two it seems like choosing the rich causes far more atrocities their just less visible. > US examples: Unemployed to long, well sorry we no longer count you. Had your stuff stolen at a homeless shelter well sorry we do
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by eurleif 12y ago
If that's the only issue, why did 23andme remove all medical information, rather than simply adjusting their marketing to say "this is all experimental, take it with a grain of salt"?
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by eurleif 12y ago
I wonder if this could be considered a case of exigent circumstances? [0] The exigent circumstances exception can be invoked "to forestall the imminent escape of a suspect, or destruction of evidence". Arguably, that's what t
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by eurleif 12y ago
>At no point was there ever an option for Nevada to get the Tesla factory and NOT give tax breaks. Because there are competing states which can offer tax breaks. But is it better for the US as a whole if states can give tax breaks to ind
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by eurleif 12y ago
Arguably, <img> was already a form of presentation logic present in HTML. This just makes it more capable.
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by eurleif 12y ago
>html via frames That has the same problem as JS, especially when you realize that framed pages on the same domain can interact with the parent's DOM.
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by eurleif 12y ago
<picture> is responsive; when you change the viewport's width, the browser can load a differently-sized version of the image. How would JS be made responsive like that? Once one version of a script is loaded, you can't magic
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by eurleif 12y ago
I've never thought of him as disappointing before. My reaction to him was: "damn, that guy's effective".
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by eurleif 12y ago
Uber leaves whether to allow pets up to the individual driver[0], and suggests calling the driver after ordering the ride. I imagine if you ordered an SUV (uberXL), it would very likely be fine. [0] https://support.uber.com/h
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by eurleif 12y ago
My Whole Foods has had NFC for at least a couple of years, but they just installed new card readers too (the new ones also have NFC).
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by eurleif 12y ago
>Alternatively just offer a new seat class for taller people. If you're over 6' then you can sit in an economy seat with 3" more pitch for $100 more. No extra "free" baggage, no better food, no express security l
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by eurleif 12y ago
Netflix's market cap is 19% of Amazon's.
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by eurleif 12y ago
>The USA has already killed people based on trivial amounts of data such as, "A had dinner with B who is C's relative. Thus even though A is US citizen in a foreign country, we will blow up his car with a Hellfire missile fired
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by eurleif 12y ago
Just a random anecdote, but I was in a T-Mobile store a couple of weeks ago, and I overheard some random woman looking at phones. When she saw the iPhone, her immediate reaction was: "Ew, oh my god, the screen is so tiny! That's a
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by eurleif 12y ago
>I have a gun to my head right now, and so do you. Try missing a payment for your phone, rent, or mortgage. If I took on debt, that means I voluntarily agreed to have a gun to my head. Surely you see the difference.
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by eurleif 12y ago
>Capitalism and Communism are not the only possible forms of human organization. What alternatives do you have in mind? Everything listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_systems#Types looks like either a f
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by eurleif 12y ago
>I loathe capitalism because it's noisy in all kinds of ways. If communism is less noisy, it's because the state has forcibly silenced people. You can't hear them because they have a gun to their head. Don't forget th
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by eurleif 12y ago
For what it's worth, I was unschooled, and I scored a perfect 800 on the critical reading section of the SAT. I didn't spend nearly as much time outdoors as these kids, though; I gravitated toward computers from a young age.
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by eurleif 12y ago
Are you really getting angry about something you're imagining?
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by eurleif 12y ago
Would a tax that only applied to the first X dollars of income, like social security does, be feasible?
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by eurleif 12y ago
They also extended the warranty from 4 to 8 years.
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by eurleif 12y ago
Does Lyft's TOS prohibit this? If so, couldn't this theoretically be a criminal offense under the CFAA?
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by eurleif 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neodymium_magnet_toys >The Centers for Disease Control reported 33 cases requiring surgery and one death.
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by eurleif 12y ago
Emulating x86 on ARM would be trickier than emulating PPC on x86. But even if emulation did work, that would mean you would have to use an x86 browser to use Flash. You wouldn't be able to use the x86 plugin with a native browser. In p
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by eurleif 12y ago
I wonder if this will mean the end of Flash Player for Mac? Will Adobe bother releasing an ARM version?
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by eurleif 12y ago
>Candidates who sign the CounterPAC Pledge must give 50 percent of any money spent on their behalf by a group with undisclosed donors to a charity of their opponent's choice. This sounds like it could be abused. If I'm rich eno
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by eurleif 12y ago
Google isn't the only company developing autonomous cars. Multiple car companies have own working prototypes. So it doesn't look like there's any monopolization of the technology itself. It seems likely that the capital cost

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