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by glenra 14y ago
There are two problems with it. (1) Functional: if the glass sticks up a bit, it's more likely to shatter when you drop the phone face-down, than it would be if the glass face were flush or even inset. (2) visual: It destroys the symmetry w
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by glenra 14y ago
TomTom is pretty good at directing you to a street address but is just terrible in terms of finding local destinations. I did a ~2000 mile road trip a few months ago and several times that I was looking for something specific I couldn't fin
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by glenra 14y ago
First off, Bangladesh has been on-net gaining land mass in recent years. Quote: "Satellite images of Bangladesh over the past 32 years show that the country is growing annually by about 20 square kilometres (7.72 square miles)" (source:
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by glenra 14y ago
That is NOT a relevant comparison. Foxconn employees live in dormitories on-site while US factory workers don't, so you'd essentially be trying to compare ALL the suicides of Foxconn employees to SOME of the suicides of other workers. (Th
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by glenra 14y ago
I think you're missing some context. In the case of that one feature if Apple HAD "copied from Android" it would probably have been better than what they actually did. What Apple did (in iOS 5) was integrate with ONE specific social network
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by glenra 14y ago
> No, This Is Not the Best iPhone Ever Yes, it is. Apple generally doesn't bother to release a new version of a product until they've managed to make it significantly better than the last version, hence nearly every Apple product is "
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by glenra 14y ago
Assuming you're current on OS updates, swipe down from above the top of the screen to view the Notification Center. You can configure what shows up there via Settings:Notifications. Apple's original UI for presenting notifications was kind
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by glenra 14y ago
What evidence suggests the suicide rate for Foxconn workers is "significantly higher" than would otherwise be expected? Near as I can tell, the only complaint is that there was a large raw number of suicides a while ago...in a company so
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by glenra 14y ago
There's a cute independent game called "Misunderstood Pigs" where you place walls to try to prevent each incoming barrage of flying birds from succeeding in killing everyone. http://bostinno.com/2011/12/20/misunderstood-pigs-angry-bird..
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by glenra 14y ago
What makes you think the ships would have no laws? Maybe "The entire Sea Steading concept makes no sense" because most of what you know about it is what you guessed based on third-hand info. To answer your points: 1. Yes, yes, and so what?
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by glenra 14y ago
That is indeed one of the ideas has been promoted by the Seasteading Institute. The spinoff company now pushing that plan is called Blueseed; they expect to have a ship in 2013-2014, but the ship they use will probably be bigger and more re
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by glenra 14y ago
The main benefit is jurisdictional arbitrage - you get to pick whatever flag imposes the least restrictions on whatever use is most important to you. Unlike on land, on a ship if your assigned "country" becomes too oppressive you are free t
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by glenra 14y ago
I've worn both entirely custom-made suits and off-the-rack ones. All suits I've ever worn have the same problem - the standard sorts of fabric/design that everyone recommends for "a dark suit" is too hot and doesn't breathe enough so you t
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by glenra 14y ago
Trade is generally a positive-sum game. The fact that the producer makes a profit means there is a producer surplus but the fact that consumers buy it means there is a consumer surplus too. The general public thinks iPhones are worth m
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by glenra 14y ago
The Newton had an SDK, a vibrant developer community, and a user interface that was one big touchscreen rather than having physical buttons - in 1993. Palm actually got its start selling software for the Newton, specifically their "Graffiti
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by glenra 14y ago
> You do not stand in a theatre and shout "fire!" unless there is a fire. Do you realize that that particular constructed example comes from an argument that protesting the draft should be illegal? (Incidentally, Penn Jillette quite r
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by glenra 14y ago
I would pay extra to fly at the no-security airport. I miss the days when you could walk right out to the gate with your friends who are leaving until it's time for them to board the plane. When you would be there at the gate when your gran
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by glenra 14y ago
You've gotta admit it takes chutzpah to in the same article: (1) claim the only thing special about Apple products is their form and that people who care about functionality should buy something else and (2) complain how boring it is
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by glenra 14y ago
You wrote: "This is all there is to know on that topic." That seems pretty obviously false - there's more we know now and there's much much more we could know, even if we don't know it yet. Before that, you wrote: > Obviously, for lo
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by glenra 14y ago
> But, no one has ever put on weight on a calorie deficit. NEVER. The vast majority of people who lose a substantial amount of weight through calorie restriction gain it all back and then some within a few years. Though they do lose in
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by glenra 14y ago
Taubes has been presenting evidence to other researchers. But the medical establishment takes a loooooong time to change its collective mind on stuff like this. Here's a relevant video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=43620414876
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by glenra 14y ago
> Does anyone think there is a place for bad fats in their diet today? I mean, do we really need to be explicit there? You probably do really need to be explicit there. From Taubes' article that started it all: " Foods considered more
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by glenra 14y ago
Hackers are in favor of following methods that are testable and that work . When it comes to fighting obesity, the medical establishment is obviously clueless - they don't have any advice to give that has a track record of long-term succes
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by glenra 14y ago
Um, Google often recruits by posting puzzles on billboards or in magazines and by running contests and by paying headhunters. I mean, I'm sure they go to universities too, but they certainly don't recruit exclusively there.
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by glenra 14y ago
If you hadn't gone to college you would have been doing something else during those years and you could have gotten job leads from somebody else somewhere else. You can know that the job lead you got was good, but you have no way of knowing
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by glenra 14y ago
Sure. You know that, I know that, and the manufacture of the product knows that. But "powertower" has alleged above that it does reduce sweating "as a secondary effect". By various vague and unlikely mechanisms.
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by glenra 14y ago
If you drop that piece of salt rock it breaks, as does the container holding it. Even if you don't drop it, it doesn't last forever, nor does sweat become "odorless" after "a week or two" of using it. (I've used Crystal off and on). My susp
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by glenra 14y ago
Ditto. I have used "Crystal" off and on and my experience has been that it doesn't reduce odor or sweating nearly as well as something like Speed Stick.
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by glenra 14y ago
> Oxy is more or less prescription heroin. So what? There's nothing particularly dangerous about prescription heroin in pill form. It's an excellent cough suppressant and pain reliever. And certainly there's nothing particularly dange
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by glenra 14y ago
By what logic is an oxytocin pill in this context considered "recreational narcotics"? It's a pain pill. A drug that is legal to prescribe and probably was legally prescribed to somebody. Even if some nitwit bureaucrat defines possessing th

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