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Also, all this talk about streaming being a new model is pretty silly. Rhapsody started its unlimited music streaming service in 2001. Apple started offering paid music downloads two years later. Streaming isn't something new that&#x27
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Corporations with poor long term planning get weeded out and bought out all the time, even when they're among the most powerful in the world. It takes a global system of neoliberal economics intertwined with politics just to support th
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This isn't an argument against collaboration. It's an argument against the idea that you are inherently worthless until you contribute to something greater than yourself. We can work together because we feel meaningless on our own
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I'm not trying to villify selfishness, only address the criticism that usually follows this kind of statement. People look at any philosophy that says love yourself first and say it's just embelished selfishness, self-worship, nar
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This is exactly what I was thinking as I read the article. Pokemon Go is one of the worst possible examples for this problem. It could even be the app that takes AR mainstream; not just the AR view but the concept of using your local neighb
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In a certian way of thinking, an externally persistent meaning is just an enforcement mechanism for slavery. When people talk about wanting to serve something bigger than themselves, they are implying that they aren't worth serving, th
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It's kind of amazing how well it works. I completely understand consumers being upset about anti-consumer behavior from businesses, but competitors using every tactic they can get away with to out-compete each other, especially enforci
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What I mean by memory model is the way our brain handles access to information and structures the flow of thought. Thought can exist without emotion, and likely does in many living things, but I think the way we structure language is specif
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I think language is essentially hacking our memory model which developed around emotional associations with the world. We have sensory input which we translate into associations like danger or pleasure and need to store those in a way that
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I think that you're right that he probably gives some feedback, but as far as I know he has no official involvement with it anymore. He sold it to Conde Nast and then later left the company, although being a founder must carry some wei
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That was a good article, but Jon Stokes hasn't written for Ars Technica for 5 years now. He published that on Medium. But the idea that supporting gun rights is a universally conservative position just goes to show how tribal and polar
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They just didn't donate to anybody, which looks bad when the founder of your biggest competitor is also the world's biggest-spending philanthropist.
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I can see your point, but every platform has its own restrictions. Desktop Chrome can do a lot that Android Chrome can't. There are real security benefits to not allowing downloaded code to run on a device without passing through Apple
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You can actually buy a working HoloLens right now! Limited release though. https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens
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I would buy Sony products again if they would just allow that functionality again. I still have my PS3 which I used as my primary desktop for a while, and the data is still there, but inaccessible, so it should be sufficient proof. The mone
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Chrome has had more than one JavaScript engine. They're all still Chrome to the user, and that's all that really matters. If they decide to rewrite the UI in Lisp and use Servo, it will still be Chrome in the ways that count, just
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This seems like a case where something completely legitimate got so abused that it lost its meaning to many people. It does have a point. It's a classic phrase used in teaching logic to rebut the logical fallacy of an argument from ign
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It can absolutely be abused, but that really just proves the point of the statement, that people tend to make biased and wrong decisions when they don't apply thorough logic. For clarity, it could have been "absence of evidence is
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It's just a cute aphorism that describes one of the main challenges in science. The "is not" is meant to convey that there are two distinct conclusions that we can make from seeing a lack of something and that it's impor
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Most of what you're saying is right, but the saying isn't nonsense. It's just describing the problem that comes up when you can't find evidence of something. If its presence would necessarily present evidence, as with th
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I think it comes down to trust. We're part of nature, created by it and in it. The naturally created chemicals we deal with have been around for longer than we have. We have generations of people who have tested them for both short-ter
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I don't think this is controversial at all. If someone decides to spraypaint a racial slur on my car, am I denying them free speech by cleaning it off? Anyone is free to make their own Diaspora or GNU Social, but the idea that any kind
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I have encountered a few people who do argue that government regulation caused the economic crisis. It seems to be the dominant understanding in the conservative media in the United States, possibly elsewhere. The reasoning goes something l
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I was wondering if someone might say something like this! Of course, my statement was meant to be absurd. I was just imagining the arguments of future lawyers explaining how their clients' stocks were infinitely valuable becuase of the
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If the standard is a 20% return on investment, then any buyout can be proven to be 20% undervalued, negating all benefit, so you're right, the natural response would be to reduce the bid to make up for that, but now that we have this p
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Additional safety nets would be needed. A transition wouldn't likely happen overnight. It would more likely be a gradual phasing out of old programs and a build-up of basic income as money is moved toward that program. At the same time
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While I completely understand why this is an annoying point of view, the apparent contradiction is well understood. The official theology of many religions is that everything good comes from God, everything bad comes from people. God gave p
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I'm curious about what's compelling about having a native terminal. When I first started with Android, I really enjoyed using the terminal, creating chroots, installing and configuring things. I learned a lot. But now that I have
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The ironic thing about it is that it falls for the same trap that it criticizes others for. This is a classic example of having an idea, finding some data that supports the idea, then explaining why it could support it. There's an old
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I think you understand my point. I was talking about the roots. Roosevelt was already distinct from the mainstream Progressives, but he wasn't afraid to say he thought they had some good ideas because he understood he had a lot of the

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