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by exergy 9y ago
This all sounds more like an opinion that you're stating as fact. I own an SP3. It has it's problems: sucky trackpad, average battery life etc. But touchscreens are invaluable. They save me minor inconveniences so many times, that
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by exergy 9y ago
I'm taking issue with his first sentence, not second.
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by exergy 9y ago
Mine is even more simplistic. I lack self control. With an account, even a deactivated one, I've been guilty of logging back in at 2 AM on a Wednesday morning just to stalk an old acquaintance from high school.
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by exergy 9y ago
And contrarians who revel in their "I'm not snobbish like you all" Regular Joe aura. At least the ones who talk about why they quit stick to their own experiences rather than belittling others who still find value in it.
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by exergy 9y ago
Nope. Like you, I'm no fanboy (more an active hater), but this article seems like a general sense of unease about Facebook wrapped into a stream-of-consciousness argument.
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by exergy 9y ago
Just want to say, keep up with the activism, but please post more on your blog! I miss the dry wit.
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by exergy 9y ago
Hits too close to home. It's fun to have an i3wm as a dual boot because it makes me feel "1337". But all my CAD, FEA, CFD, modelling software, they all run better on Windows, if they even run on Linux at all.
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by exergy 9y ago
Well said. It seems impossible for me to believe that the trajectory Google is on doesn't end in catastrophic, dystopian disaster for us, the consumers. That should have been the focus, rather than scrolling behaviour.
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by exergy 9y ago
Duckduckgo is a lovely idea with abhorrent search results. Like, unusably bad results, at least to the extent that I'm a reasonably tech savvy user. I'm often searching for papers as a grad student, or typing things "close en
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by exergy 9y ago
He raised some very valid points though: requiring an account, no activity, no real benefit offered by real-time as things stand on the website. Edit: To add my own - Doesn't work without Javascript, information density of both content
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by exergy 9y ago
That's kind of the point. What is the main achievement here? Just "nice design"? It is undoubtedly that. But it is the same sort of thought process I have when looking at gardens in Suburbia. Yes, the lawns are beautifully ma
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by exergy 9y ago
AEI operates with so much of an agenda that it would be impossible for me to pick up that book and read it without the filter of AEI published it. I'd constantly be on guard for where the authors tries to inject "Regulation? Boooo
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by exergy 9y ago
It's just an innocent figure of speech he used, I don't see the problem here.
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by exergy 9y ago
You're raising excellent points, but I doubt you'll get a satisfactory explanation here. My brother does digital advertising for a living, whereas I have an opaque sticker on my front webcam. We come from opposite ends of the priv
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by exergy 9y ago
I think your line of argument is more odd than his. We've discovered antibiotics, and promptly created superbugs. We've gotten rid of horses, and promptly replaced horse poo with PM2.5. We've domesticated plants and animals,
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by exergy 9y ago
But...why? What possible good could come out of immortality? Why do we never stop to ask "why" anymore? The trite "Just because we can..." thing is irritating but true. My utopian vision doesn't involve millenia-old
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by exergy 9y ago
Me too, and it was simultaneously the best thing I ever did, and also "meh". For one, very few people cared that I left Facebook, and those who did were fortunately the ones who actually cared about me. Also, I expected it to be t
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by exergy 9y ago
Very interesting! My question is, how did you find a solution for a problem when you got stuck? Ask a friend? Trial and error? But what about things like needing a specific command for partitioning disks a certain way? Books?
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by exergy 9y ago
My big reason for eating fruit is more the micronutrients, since I treat multivitamins (and pills in general) with suspicion. That trite adage of "stuff your grandmother would recognise" has been enormously beneficial to me. Would
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by exergy 9y ago
Completely agree with you. What I particularly despise is the absurd lack of discussion on the amount of packaging waste. Why doesn't that make these piece of shit things non-starters? Excuse the vitriol, but it absolutely makes my blo
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by exergy 9y ago
I think the party that sued are the drivers themselves who allege that collection such information is tantamount to wiretapping. I could be wrong in my interpretation though. On the other hand, I completely disagree with your last paragraph
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by exergy 10y ago
Haha, and so the cycle continues. Down with frat boys!
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by exergy 10y ago
Maybe this is more true of countries like India, where I'm from, where I can imagine hygiene standards being more "flexible". But here in Western Europe for example, or the US, airbnbs are almost better maintained than I&#x27
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by exergy 10y ago
You make it sound like cost saving is a throwaway matter, an afterthought. I'm a grad student. Before Airbnb, I could only stay in hostels, which are worse than both hotels and airbnbs. Airbnb is awesome if I don't want to spend m
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by exergy 10y ago
Huh? Why does he have to do that? I can understand being suspicious of those who actually come and STAY in the Airbnb, but to use your line of argument against the person renting out the room makes no sense to me. What exactly does the hote
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by exergy 10y ago
The person who posted this seems to only have submissions and no comments. I've never seen an account like that! The majority of the submissions are from Bloomberg, with others from NYT/Economist etc. Edit: Although the title itse
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by exergy 10y ago
What you're both implying is that, unless something is EVERYONE'S problem, no one should share their experiences. The author constantly makes the case that maybe this is too extreme for you, and you can choose not to do it. But fo
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by exergy 10y ago
I'm going to say that that is a fairly minor point. Most people who really _need_ pro level stuff known what they're going to use it for. CFD guys are still using software from the 80s and 90s. Same for finite element guys. Video
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by exergy 10y ago
There's also an issue of trust. I had an NYT subscription. NYT has always (more than) leaned left, but never in such a biased manner as in recent past. Their coverage (or lack of it) of Bernie's campaign for example. So with a sub
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by exergy 10y ago
Fantastic points. I still cannot envision a world 100% without advertising, but my guess would be that the future would be more covert advertising, in the form of product placements etc. On the other hand, I think as the world becomes less

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