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by glenra 15y ago
He was also right about Kilimanjaro - changes in snow cover there likely did relate to longer-term trends and to local agricultural deforestation reducing the amount of moisture in the air and likely did not significantly relate to local or
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by glenra 15y ago
Do you realize that your chart doesn't actually show "the last ten years"? It stops in 2007. What's happened since 2007 is not irrelevant to the question at hand. Here's an example of a temperature chart that does show "the last 10 years":
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by glenra 15y ago
It only takes one scientist to be right about something. We don't measure scientific truth by weighing or tallying up the numbers of religious adherents on each side, we do so by evaluating the arguments and the evidence given.
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by glenra 15y ago
If you're going to make allegations of that sort, you should at probably list the "several" who you conclude "work for" Exxon. Better yet, link your sources.
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by glenra 15y ago
Can anyone make sense of the claim that N-hexane dries faster and therefore suppliers using it can clean more screens per unit time and thereby save money? That seems ridiculous on the face of it since it's hard to imagine a task easier t
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by glenra 15y ago
FoxConn has about half a million workers in Shenzhen, which means if you just go by the cases we've heard about, the documented injuries-per-worker rate (and the suicide rate) seems to be unusually low . Less than that for most US cities,
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by glenra 15y ago
These factories can have multiple parts. Final electronics assembly - the most photogenic stage of operations - tends to be done in clean, well-lit, well-organized, air-conditioned spaces by young women (age 16-20) wearing color-coded pap
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by glenra 15y ago
Learning "how things are done" in other very different places does tend to make you smarter. In several ways, including but not limited to: - you are forced to solve new problems imposed by your surroundings, which makes you a better proble
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by glenra 15y ago
The workers paying the bribes mostly were from well outside the area where the factories were, including nearby countries. Quote from Apple's Supplier Responsibility report (page 7) http://images.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/pdf/Apple_
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by glenra 15y ago
There were many rounds of US dumping investigations involving DRAM, some of which caused the manufacturers to raise prices voluntarily and others of which actually caused duties to be implied. This process started as far back as 1985: http
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by glenra 15y ago
They do get a decent salary by local standards, and (so long as they're being paid for it) tend to want all the hours they can get. There was a riot a few years ago in a chinese plant because the plant owners stopped giving so much overti
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by glenra 15y ago
The original macintosh used to be built in Fremont too. http://www.onedigitallife.com/2006/03/21/flickr-find-mac-fac... As I recall, the US stupidly made that uncompetitive by enforcing anti-"dumping" duties on DRAM chips. We required tha
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by glenra 15y ago
A rarely mentioned factor is that one can apparently cheat at roulette. If you've got a gun with a barrel that really spins freely - which is a precondition for the first shot being at all "random" - then since the chamber with a bullet i
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by glenra 15y ago
Not a great article. It omits several relevant known mechanisms. The placebo effect is NOT "all in the mind"; some of it is (and some of the data in the article argues to that), but some of the placebo effect is "in the math" and some is "i
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by glenra 15y ago
If this clown has, as claimed, "about 125 dedicated people to run PR, Blogs, Articles, Videos", why doesn't he have anybody competent to run customer relations?
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by glenra 15y ago
You make it sound like "disrupting the screening process" is a bad thing.
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by glenra 15y ago
> With Apollo everything was unknown, huge rockets, space suits, life support, space rendezvous, cameras, pens, even Tang. Tang wasn't invented for the space program, it was merely a commercial food product they happened to find a use f
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by glenra 15y ago
February 2010 was a very long time ago by mobile standards; this article is full of assertions that are no longer true. Many that were dubious at the time, plus many points that might have been valid once but have since been overtaken by la
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by glenra 15y ago
> It contrasts this with the ease with which Samsung could put its phones in blockbusters like The Matrix. > By Samsung I guess they meant Nokia. No, they probably meant Samsung. Specifically they meant this phone, made for use in t
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by glenra 15y ago
One reason is because keyboards that small are hard to type on and take up valuable screen real estate. Another reason is that there's something about writing on a pad that seems less intrusive, more casual, than typing. If you take a few
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by glenra 15y ago
The Xerox star did not have overlapping windows at the time the mac group got to see it. I believe it had popup menus but no concept of a common menubar with pulldown menus the way mac had (and still has). Some of the features it lacked the
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by glenra 15y ago
Xerox wasn't using any of that stuff to its potential; the million bucks they made off it by way of their Apple investment was the best they were going to get. And unlike the Indians they didn't even have to get "kicked off the land" to get
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by glenra 15y ago
I keep thinking of this quote by George Bernard Shaw: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Steve J
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by glenra 15y ago
> "I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it." The main problem with that analogy is that Jobs bought that TV set fr
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by glenra 15y ago
Sure, part of that is just that you tend to use it a lot when something's new and shiny. But no, based on personal experience I'm pretty sure the issue is in software - some subset of the new features enabled by iOS5 is taking more juice th
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by glenra 15y ago
The new iPhone's battery life is nearly the same as the old one. What may cause issues (for some people) is the new version of iOS - whatever it is, the problem has something to do with the software configuration. It's not hitting all the u
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by glenra 15y ago
The claim made is that between 6 and 100 might develop cancer if the machines are working as designed . However, we have no reason to believe the machines are calibrated correctly or working correctly. The TSA workers aren't wearing radiat
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by glenra 15y ago
Those people who don't go to college just go get a job instead. (If jobs need training, they can apprentice or otherwise learn-on-the-job, but they won't be spending half that time learning french literature or what-have-you) Since people a
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by glenra 15y ago
They sense three things: (1) light, (2) motion (close-range) (3) motion (wide field/longer range). Presumably if nobody turns on the lights at night or walks past in a while, it decides nobody is home and gradually lets the temperature drif
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by glenra 15y ago
Both Palm and Windows Mobile/Windows CE/PocketPC came out well after the Apple Newton, which already had all those features you list. Okay, maybe not "cameras" so much. But everything else. Not to mention a vibrant third-party developer com

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