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by glenra 14y ago
You're wrong. Drug laws are bad in general. Do a little research and you'll find that even for heroin and cocaine the harm done to society by their being illegal far exceeds any conceivable harm done by the drugs themselves. When and where
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by glenra 14y ago
Setting aside how that works, to then get "3D on any device" do they use the resulting info to make a cheesy old-fashioned color separation, or is there something new involved on that end?
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by glenra 14y ago
Okay, I give up. HOW? What does his 2d-to-3d converter actually DO in order to produce 3D? I read the whole linked article and watched the video on his fundable page and it seems like it's all just handwaving. What is being done, and what a
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by glenra 14y ago
> And that does account for infant mortality Though it doesn't account for general childhood mortality or death during childbirth, both of which were pretty big factors.
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by glenra 14y ago
You don't need a license to own a car or to drive it on your own property or to transport it (without driving it) from point A to point B. A 10-year-old can legally own a car and can legally drive it on private land. It's only driving on pu
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by glenra 14y ago
> Assembly line work might be less intellectually appealing to us, but for a lot of people it is a complex cognitive task. If you were to talk to a every day assembly worker of an iPhone, he would find assembling complex circuitry prett
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by glenra 14y ago
Why do you believe an Apple employee wouldn't be allowed to go anywhere but the factory and the hotel? Not that there's necessarily a lot to do in the area, but are you saying they couldn't go out to lunch at a nearby hotpot restaurant? O
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by glenra 14y ago
We should probably also be "impressed" at how blatantly inaccurate that color chart is at representing the actual share percentages.
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by glenra 14y ago
The color chart on that page is truly misleading - there's essentially no relationship between the size of the rectangles and the actual share numbers. The real news from the actual share numbers is that (iOS + Android) is now utterly troun
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by glenra 14y ago
What do you mean by "suffer in a factory"? FWIW, I worked for a Silicon Valley company that sent me to China on a regular basis to solve problems on the factory floor and/or in the engineering offices nearby - I'd spend a few weeks in China
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by glenra 14y ago
It's possible to spend too much on "insurance" and we almost certainly do that when it comes to climate. The general scientific consensus is that the next half-century of warming generally makes humanity better off . So this risk you presu
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by glenra 14y ago
There's also a risk we'll have another ice age. Global warming might be considered insurance against that eventuality. Whatever the perfectly optimum average planetary temperature for human life is, it is exceedingly unlikely that it was
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by glenra 14y ago
Thiel is convinced that college in its current form has become a waste of time and talent for the smartest students. He agrees with the "signaling" model of education whereby the primary "benefit" of having a degree is just that it proves y
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by glenra 14y ago
The fundamental problem here is demosclerosis - any low-hanging fruit have long since been plucked. Essentially every plank in the Socialist Party Platform of 1928 has already been enacted into law. Nowadays many of the issues government tr
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by glenra 14y ago
> surely bald deregulation is not optimal. "optimal" is not one of our options. The relevant question is whether "bald deregulation" is better than what we've got now, and the answer to that is pretty obviously YES. Sadly, "bald dereg
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by glenra 14y ago
> as a taxi driver, with a time-based meter, traffic congestion may not decrease wages at all. Um, no. The initial value on the meter is set in such a way that cabbies make more money from picking up lots of fares that from picking up o
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by glenra 14y ago
Overcharging and refusing fares is what we get now in the regulated system. In practice, "gypsy cabs" often serve neighborhoods where the regulated cabs don't bother to go. Regarding "rob riders", direct robbery is still illegal - you don
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by glenra 14y ago
The idea that stabilization is "having some effect on keeping rents low(er)" seems questionable. There are effects that push in the other direction too. For instance, the fact that "stabilization" exists at all makes being a landlord less a
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by glenra 14y ago
One alleged evil of "excessive competition" here is that with open competition you might get a "race to the bottom" wherein cabs that aren't well maintained or that overcharge customers make the most money. The initial apparent advantage
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by glenra 14y ago
Whether or not you take into account the entire driving record (which you arguably should not since people's driving ability changes over time), another relevant fact is that some people are unusually bad drivers - causing lots and lots
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by glenra 14y ago
Always worth mentioning: the fact that most people think of themselves as above-average drivers is not a delusion; it happens to be true given quite reasonable assumptions as to what constitutes "being a good driver" that most people ar
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by glenra 14y ago
The reverse claim has just as much explanatory power. That is to say: The active person may be active because she is more thin, and the sedentary person may be sedentary because she is more obese.
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by glenra 14y ago
> The Apple dance takes a couple minutes to do You either got lucky or did the Apple dance a lot more recently than some of us. When I did the Apple dance, I had to wait more than a month before my application to be a developer was "app
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by glenra 14y ago
> Show current date without having to see calendar app. Put it in the notification center If your phone is on, hit the power button twice (power off, then power on) - the current date appears in the slide-to-unlock screen.
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by glenra 15y ago
Hmm, I gave up on Objective C about 2 years ago, so learning RubyMotion now is tempting. :-)
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by glenra 15y ago
> The corporate and personal tax rates in Germany and Belgium are higher than the US I don't think that's currently true, at least not if you're talking about the top rates that profitable companies pay. Wikipedia says the top corporate
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by glenra 15y ago
I don't see how Tim's conclusions follow from his premises. If we are supposed to think of general taxation and the overall amount of government spending as reasonably justified on the grounds that these things were the outcome of a democra
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by glenra 15y ago
> Penn & Teller have made a career out of showing how tricks are done No they haven't. P&T don't really show how tricks are done. They especially don't reveal big secrets used by other magicians. The notion that they're doing so
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by glenra 15y ago
According to Apple, an iPhone includes "Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic": http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html The standard set looks a lot like plain white earbuds, but there's a tiny clicker thing on one of the headphone wires. In
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by glenra 15y ago
My top google result on the phrase was this, FWIW: http://radleymarx.com/blog/steves-folly/

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