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by fipple 8y ago
Tiny houses work if you substitute the lack of space with close access to friends and family. That’s how nomadic people live and it works. But if you live the modern isolated American life, 250 sq ft isn’t going to cut it except for a certa
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by fipple 8y ago
Mmm... steak-holders.
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by fipple 8y ago
American law enforcement is populated with many people who want the violent intensity of real-life Call of Duty without the risk and sacrifice of joining the Marines. Storming counterfeiters with Bin Laden-level firepower is their way of do
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by fipple 8y ago
You could not be more wrong. A lot of new employee safety training is moving to VR, backup NFL quarterbacks are practicing in VR (since the starting quarterbacks get all the actual time in practice), this is already happening. Not vaporware
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by fipple 8y ago
This set of ideas is probably most easily commercialized as a USB-C dongle with a fuckload of ports (including display inputs) that you can then connect to any laptop you want. For bonus points, the dongle could include port-testing functio
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by fipple 8y ago
That’s the perfect analogy. I use an iPhone and an Xbox for the same reasons... I don’t want to dick around with them. I want them to be special purpose devices. While my PC I will twiddle with endlessly.
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by fipple 8y ago
Damn, this kind of screwing around with RAID is not what you do with your actual personal data. It’s like building your own car for your daily commute.
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by fipple 8y ago
The same way that tens of billions of people have had kids for millennia with an almost clear guarantee that half of them would die before age 5.
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by fipple 8y ago
In Silicon Valley? I've observed that the H-1Bs in Silicon Valley are extraordinarily high skill while the Infosys bodyshoppers are out in Des Moines and Cleveland.
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by fipple 8y ago
I can easily imagine being poor enough to engage into this contract, despite knowing exactly what power this gives Facebook. Don't confuse desperation for ignorance.
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by fipple 8y ago
LOL. A lot of pop psychology and very little mention of manufacturing variations, assembly variations, or situational variations (warped floors or weird humidity etc)
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by fipple 8y ago
LOL at reclaimed wood being twice the price of new wood. Wouldn’t be surprised if the carbon footprint of reclaiming the wood is higher than growing new bamboo too. It’s like an environmentalist taking a private jet to Davos.
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by fipple 8y ago
So Facebook tries to clone someone and fails. Doesn’t matter one iota. They could fund 20 of these boondoggles with the results of cloning Snapchat with runaway success. Betting $1b on a 10% chance of making $11b is a good bet if you have t
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by fipple 8y ago
This is just the large scale version of the early Facebook employees who thought they were geniuses and went on to fail at places like Path and New Republic.
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by fipple 8y ago
Is that relevant? Even a serial killer wouldn’t want to pick up a hitchhiker who he knows is also a serial killer.
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by fipple 8y ago
I never thought I wanted kids. I had one because my wife wanted one. Then I fell in love so hard that we had two more really quickly and I am in the process of transitioning to stay at home dad. If I had waited until I was ready and certain
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by fipple 8y ago
Lol. Your vaunted local representatives are superseded on everything from their airspace (FAA) to their property tax rate (California Prop 13). This isn’t some unprecedented infringement of local control.
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by fipple 8y ago
What PayPal should do is offer a “PayPal subscriptions” product where the terms require cancellability through PayPal. So NYt and others can’t offer PayPal unless they agree, and when a user cancels through PayPal, PP agrees to send an API
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by fipple 8y ago
Not comparable. The US can’t build infrastructure at a competitive cost, but it can build products. Hence Tesla etc will succeed here while HSR will fail.
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by fipple 8y ago
Why not just nationalize everything? Lol.
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by fipple 8y ago
Another way is to take away power from the people who own housing and give it to people who are struggling to live or move there. With state or federal power.
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by fipple 8y ago
LOL at the NYT taking Steve Jobs' marketing tactics as his actual normative views. News flash: Steve Jobs was the best in the history of capitalism at "it's not a bug, it's a feature." The iPhone was perfect without
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by fipple 8y ago
Dang, $150 for a pack of samples from one instrument? As in, 88 WAV files? Is that the usual price for this kind of thing?
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by fipple 8y ago
You could have probably auctioned off your bag to the crowd there for close to true value.
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by fipple 8y ago
For what applications?
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by fipple 8y ago
The other way of thinking about it is that autonomous cars are so obvious and will eventually be so commodity that Apple not sticking their logo on this market would be about as dumb as them not making the bigger phones the market demanded.
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by fipple 8y ago
Do you mean a Kenmore? Because a Kenwood would be an audio mixer like this article is talking about :D
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by fipple 8y ago
In New York the head of my department was making $10 million a year and took the Metro North railroad to Grand Central and walked to the office every day.
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by fipple 8y ago
Overall, nothing, but when you have an organization that prioritizes thinness and people are promoted based on their contributions to thinness you do what you can to make the laptop thin. A company that prioritizes modularity to the same ex
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by fipple 8y ago
I don’t see this as an artifact of Steve Jobs’ absence as much as I see it as an artifact of any company that gets so successful behind just a handful of products. Eventually to drive revenue growth you start needing to focus on gimmicky bu

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