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by fipple 8y ago
No, I’m saying that different peoples needs are different. I’d rather have the phone 1mm thinner than repairable. You may be different. Companies should compete for our custom.
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by fipple 8y ago
I don’t really think the government needs to legislate this. I buy iPhones because I don’t give a shit about repairability. I use the phone for 3-4 years and then set it up as basically a remote control in my house until it’s useless. If I
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by fipple 8y ago
Bill Gates is a great guy if you are not standing between him and one of his goals.
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by fipple 8y ago
Having used both types of headsets I can say that there is probably no entertainment market for tethered headsets.
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by fipple 8y ago
Wow, dramatic much? They probably sleep at night by realizing that the car they are selling you is far less likely to be its driver’s place of death than the 2003 car you’re driving.
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by fipple 8y ago
The concealment of features is why my severely disabled mother was able to use an iPad in the last years of her life to watch TV shows, send emails, and FaceTime with her family.
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by fipple 8y ago
Part of why you have less work than you “should” right now is so you can familiarize yourself with the added complexities, both technical and interpersonal, of working in a giant engineering org. So do that. Read documentation. Learn the au
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by fipple 8y ago
I feel bad for people who were too ignorant to realize that cryptocurrency is a massive fraud perpetrated by a few very shrewd insiders the same way that Wall Street bankers manipulate financial markets.
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by fipple 8y ago
A multi billion dollar business closing down and a longtime employee losing his “head” for the company are two very different things.
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by fipple 8y ago
LOL. Bloomberg is not going to "close shop in shame" over this. I seriously have no idea what set of assumptions you must be using to think that this is even in the realm of possibility. It's like saying "worst case, an
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by fipple 8y ago
Here’s what I suspect. There’s something “off” about you compared to the average person. People lock in on that and basically recoil from you so you see people as having targeted you because they don’t do this to anyone else. The right kind
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by fipple 8y ago
Come on, this is not Joycean or Faulknerian stuff.
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by fipple 8y ago
Unless you were assaulted there or something, the fact that you haven’t been able to work in 8 years is probably indicative that there’s something you personally need help with rather than something structurally wrong with Google.
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by fipple 8y ago
No, I believe the military should exist but shouldn’t be too good at its job. If the US president knows that 3,000 American soldiers will die doing something, it will make the calculus of doing it very different than if only 3 soldiers woul
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by fipple 8y ago
That’s pretty far from their business model. They’d have to charge a lot for it to make the economics work (they don’t have the service economics of say Google), which would limit the market size, which would limit how interesting the conce
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by fipple 8y ago
I’m not a good person, or even close to it, and don’t mind being shamed for the harm I have caused people (some of it serious), but I wasn’t saying that. I was saying that Harvard should admit Beyoncé over me because she became more powerfu
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by fipple 8y ago
I’m a pretty good musician and have never had the slightest ability to discern absolute pitch. I’d like it but not enough to work at it :)
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by fipple 8y ago
The entire anti-shaming movement seeks to legitimize all choices. It’s wrong.
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by fipple 8y ago
This idea that people shouldn’t be shamed needs to die. People who harm people should be shamed. Parenting choices can be a way of harming people.
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by fipple 8y ago
Teach him colors with blocks the way every toddler before 2010 learned them. The most valuable skill of the future will be to not compulsively need screens.
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by fipple 8y ago
The problem with the turban is that it will detach from your head the instant you touch the ground, and in doing so might wrap around your neck.
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by fipple 8y ago
This is true for say Google employees but not true for Harvard. 90% of the value of a Harvard degree is the knowledge that it is exclusive.
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by fipple 8y ago
Yes, it was a very good point but I wasn’t allowed to reply to his/her post.
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by fipple 8y ago
What does it matter how marginal I was? Either I earned it, or I didn’t. Does a team only get a Super Bowl parade if they win by 14 points?
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by fipple 8y ago
Ugh, was this ever exploited? I shudder to think about someone walking around a stadium or shopping mall with a Raspberry Pi, killing people.
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by fipple 8y ago
If Harvard is trying to admit the top students academically, they must be race blind. If they are trying to admit the future powerful citizens of America, they can use a metric that accounts for that. For example, Beyoncé is more powerful t
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by fipple 8y ago
Yes, they’re entirely equivalent. I can win the race by 9 seconds and still lose.
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by fipple 8y ago
Because surveillance isn’t an issue of left vs right, it’s an issue of predator vs prey, and all of the elected officials are the predators as much as the voters are prey.
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by fipple 8y ago
Yeah, I know that. I’m Asian, remember :)
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by fipple 8y ago
But admissions to Harvard is a zero sum game. It’s not like they say before admissions starts “everyone with 210 points gets in” and then gives 80 points for SAT score, 80 points for GPA, and 25 points for race. It’s like an Olympic race wh

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