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by glenra 14y ago
Who calls a (brief, aftermarket) price of $499 "$400-range"? I'd still call that somewhere in the $500 range.
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by glenra 14y ago
The Libertarian Party was into Myers-Briggs for a while. The vast majority of libertarians seem to be from the "NT" quadrant (usually INTP or INTJ) - they had stats that were as a group wildly divergent from those of the population at large
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by glenra 14y ago
Here are a bunch of examples of non-gun attacks on schoolkids in China that did kill people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China_(2010%E...
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by glenra 14y ago
Counterpoints: (1) on "Science Fiction versus Science Fantasy": Star Trek has a whole lot of fantasy elements. - the Vulcan mind meld is a pure fantasy element. - In their travels, Star Trek is constantly running into gods who have full god
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by glenra 14y ago
The taxi industry is not the same thing as taxi drivers . The taxi industry is dominated by the people who own taxi medallions, not the people who drive taxis. The people who actually drive taxis are oppressed by the idiotic inefficienci
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by glenra 14y ago
Taubes gives the example of rats bred or genetically modified to be fat - if you starve them, the body eats the heart and the brain before it gives up on the fat - the animal can starve to death while still fat. Getting fat changes you - a
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by glenra 14y ago
I have a "News" folder on my front page with 10 items in it (including CNN and AP Mobile and Wall Street Journal and Zineo and a few bookreader apps...and then I have a "Newsstand" folder with ONE item in it, the New York Times app. I can't
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by glenra 14y ago
When I see an IE ad my first reaction is: "Wait, MS is still making a browser? How odd. Did not know that." The reaction after that is: "Hmph. I wonder if it runs on any OS I run. (brief google) Nope, I guess not!"
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by glenra 14y ago
I have two problems with that statement. First off, in practice very few people actually do vote based on their own selfish interests unless you're using a really broad and unusual definition of selfish. People largely vote as a form of s
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Did you read the essay all the way through? He covers that. The prime focus is on explaining on what actually happened and how and what the ramifications are, but the author does mention that it's a problem that the government is inflicti
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by glenra 14y ago
Seems like the chief problem here is having to deal with multiple unions. Each union on its own is trying to capture as much producer surplus as they can, but there just isn't enough to go around. In good times, benefits and salaries ratc
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by glenra 14y ago
Yes, Apple has often competed with better design and superior miniaturization. But how is this different from other firms? For instance, Sony has often tried to make things smaller and cooler-looking than competing products, from the WalkMa
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by glenra 14y ago
Clayton Christensen's theory has never applied all that well to Apple, and he admits this. Rather than say "Oh well, I guess this counterexample proves I was wrong!" his latest articles tend to view Apple as a weird outlier, one that pursue
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by glenra 14y ago
My photos are initially and primarily on my Mac, then I upload selected albums (that I expect/intend to share) to flickr. And also synchronize a substantial fraction of them to my iDevices. If flickr gets shut down then yes, I'd expect I ha
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by glenra 14y ago
Having browsed both the linked page and the main page, I'm still fuzzy on what this service does. Even if it's free, why do I want to deal with yet another photo-sharing account? I could use flickr or iCloud to back up my photos for free an
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by glenra 14y ago
It seems obvious the chart starts in September so the reader can compare like to like. If the chart had started in January but ended with the most recent available month (September) that would dishonestly bias an endpoint comparison since J
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by glenra 14y ago
No, I'm sure it'll have rules intended to control costs and reduce unneeded care, but our regulatory history suggests the rules won't work as advertised. And that doesn't seem speculative at all - it's a dead certainty. Because the proble
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by glenra 14y ago
The fact that something might work in "numerous other countries" is of limited utility in determining whether it would work in the US. Consider: If your kid is a bad student, pointing out that the neighbor's kids down the street are excelle
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A big part of the problem in the original article is that of TOO MUCH CARE being provided regardless of cost without much consideration for whether the care is worth providing. One plausible concern about adopting "universal care" in the US
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If you just run the image, on 10.7 the program appears to silently just not work. So far as I can tell. There's an icon and I can set prefs, but nothing happens when I visit the specified sites using Chrome.
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by glenra 14y ago
From this student's point of view, pretty much all high school classes (and grade school classes, for that matter) involved some degree of "rigid stultification -- a kind of mindless genuflection to a prescribed plan of study that squelch
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by glenra 14y ago
It's not really wrong. It makes the correct point that randomized controlled trials are only one kind of useful knowledge. It's possible to know stuff that can't be tested that way, so blind insistence on EBM is likely to throw out some bab
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by glenra 14y ago
> The blackjack games most casinos spread don't allow for a positive expectation, even when counting cards It's true that terrible games have been proliferating lately (eg, 6:5 payoffs replacing 3:2), but can you really back up the clai
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by glenra 14y ago
PARC didn't invent the mouse. Yes, they built a mouse and shipped it as part of an integrated product, but it had been invented by others more than a decade earlier. It had even shipped in a product well before they did it. PARC is actu
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by glenra 14y ago
A more accurate headline: "Apple fails to make enough iPhones to meet first-week demand in UK." The iPhone 5 is extremely supply constrained at the moment so how many were sold in the UK last month would depend on how many units Apple chos
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> According to this either 60% of the locations either incorrect or missing altogether. According to a followup article ( http://vore.cc/post/32503374905/old-maps-vs-new-maps ) the old Maps app fails this exact test at least as badly.
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by glenra 14y ago
Bus stops and subway stations show up, but you need to launch a third-party app to navigate through them. And some of the third-party apps designated to do this don't work very well. In New York, the situation is fairly dire. Before, subway
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by glenra 14y ago
FWIW, the first thing I did when I first bought an iPhone was move Maps onto the taskbar - replacing Mail - since I used Maps more than any other phone feature.
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I've heard from a few sources that "Maps is great" is actually accurate in China - it's supposedly much better than before. This blog has examples http://anthonydrendel.com/ (Though I had less luck with Hong Kong. For instance, a search f
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by glenra 14y ago
If you live in NYC, hold off. The integration between apple maps and third-party transit apps is anything but seamless. The new Apple map doesn't show the names of the train lines so you can't pan around the map and see "oh, there's the nea

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