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by ewzimm 11y ago
I still remember the shock of entering first grade, how structured everything was, how the teacher used a false high-pitched voice with exaggerated expressions to sound friendlier, how everyone thought that was normal and how she used that
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by ewzimm 11y ago
From what I've seen, there's one division between programmers that's hard to overcome. Some see it as a tool to get certain results for a job. Some of them are bad, some of them are lazy, but most of them are good enough to g
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by ewzimm 11y ago
The problem is that everyone is commenting not on what he said, but what Apple is "really thinking." People really need to stop thinking that corporations think like people. They are composed of people, of course, and this one hap
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by ewzimm 11y ago
That actually sounds like the most painful transition possible as scripts would start failing and admins couldn't use their tools anymore. Would be entertaining to watch though.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I agree that it ought to be, but to a lot of people, those rights end when they involve behavior outside unspoken social norms. The concept of rights and freedoms has always brushed up against that limit. There's been constant change i
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Those statistics are really interesting. And that's compounded by the fact that investors don't really care about the total value of a company. They're concerned about the growth potential of companies like Apple while the pr
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I do think there are plenty of people who just enjoy creating things, but I've heard and read plenty of thoughtful consideration of the consequences too. The problem is that it's almost impossible to predict the full consequences
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I think this perception of arrogance is often a misunderstanding. The stuff that Silicon Valley makes is often treated like brilliant children. Especially when we are talking about creating automated systems, the pride is the same as a pare
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Am I the only one that sees this as a good thing? The only real holdouts are some of the top selling artists, the ones who, in my opinion, already get way too much attention. If a few people end up trying something new because they can&#x27
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by ewzimm 11y ago
You're considering the launch date of the console, which is its best price/performance time, but that quickly goes down. A GTX 660 is now around $100. Most people will want some kind of PC anyway, and mainstream CPUs are good enou
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by ewzimm 11y ago
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismemb
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by ewzimm 11y ago
It consistently entertains me how Robert Frost was able to become one of the most quoted people of all time by getting people to quote the opposite of the meaning of his poems, just like "The Road Not Taken." Of course, this prove
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by ewzimm 11y ago
The reasons why people here choose not to upgrade are going to be totally different from the average user. There are so many updates begging for attention on Windows that most people have learned to just ignore them without reading because
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Except they just redefined nagware, which is usually Shareware that keeps asking for money. This is just more offers for a free upgrade before they start charging.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Also you could add racism. Most of these drugs caused social scares when they became popular with minority communities and so people pushed to make them illegal as a roundabout way to target people they were afraid of.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
If people are acting as a danger to others because of drug abuse, that's already illegal without any kind of drug prohibition. The only people who are added to the prison system by prohibition are the ones who aren't bothering any
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by ewzimm 11y ago
My point wasn't to take a position on this but rather to point out that this is a deep-rooted cultural belief tied with religious values, which is the hardest kind of thing for a society to get over. It definitely has pull beyond the r
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Yes, that's a huge problem. It seems like we're at the tipping point where the inequality is so huge that it's hard to ignore.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I completely agree. And there's an opportunity to get even more meaning out of work when it's your choice of what to learn and do rather than dictated by market conditions or necessity to survive.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
It's such an old idea that it's lost most of it's religious connection, but it still gets amplified in people's minds through Sunday sermons. But interestingly, we're constantly inventing new reputation systems like
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I think the best incentive is to just make work more interesting. Even sweeping floors can be interesting if you can listen to your favorite podcasts while doing it. The menial stuff can mostly be automated, and it that will only accelerate
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I think I'm miscommunicating here. I'm not saying that people should be defined by anything in particular, just that this idea of a work ethic tied to being evidence of being a good person blessed by God is a traditional cultural
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by ewzimm 11y ago
The basic problem is that this idea that people shouldn't have to work goes against centuries of religious thinking which is strongly embedded in American culture. The idea of the Protestant/Puritan work ethic is that hard work is
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by ewzimm 11y ago
It seems strange to be so vocal about it with such a weak argument. The three points he says it needs are: 1. Being able to install from the web. 2. Being able to integrate with other stores. 3. Not locking it down in the future. According
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by ewzimm 11y ago
It's funny, but you're unintentionally perpetuating what's becoming the new stereotype. Now that the GPL has become mainstream, it's the anti-GPL people who come off as extreme. I'm not saying you're an extremi
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by ewzimm 11y ago
It's an interesting case because the people who are most worried about terrorists tend to be the people who are also most concerned with the government expanding power, especially by reinterpreting old laws. It needs to be clear that t
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I think Tim Cook's letter put it well. We should be focusing on the specific law invoked here. The All Writs Act says that people need to hand over all information pertinent to a crime investigation. Traditionally, this has been interp
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I'm using openSUSE Leap with a default partition scheme, and it's btrfs all the way down to home.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I'm not saying that it was the right thing to do in hindsight, but I get a little nervous even when updating a small web server, so I understand the tendency to leave repair options open on something as big as iPhones. Real hardware-ba
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by ewzimm 11y ago
From what's been said, it seems like it was made to be updated so that Apple could easily issue security updates. They've already increased the delay between repeated attempts at password entry. Probably they were worried about vu

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