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by glenra 15y ago
The Newton fit easily in a jacket inside pocket, though it was a bit heavy. One of my friends actually had his jacket specially tailored to hang well with a Newton in the pocket. It also kind of fit in a men's front pants pocket, though i
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by glenra 15y ago
The PC1 was a pocketable computer (mostly used as a word processor) but it wasn't a PDA. Scully popularized the term PDA; Newton did quite a lot that presaged the current generation of devices and made it clear what they were good for. Most
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by glenra 15y ago
Well before PalmOS, Apple spent ~100 million dollars developing the Newton which also ended up having most of the major applications of a modern smartphone, including - with the appropriate PCMCIA cards installed in the slot(s) or external
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by glenra 15y ago
The latest generation of microprojectors would make more sense than really big displays. Imagine buying something roughly the size of an AppleTV or Mac Mini which also is the television - you just point it at a white wall or sheet or scre
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by glenra 15y ago
Yeah, I found that line hideous - ridiculously unintuitive and hard to read compared to the equivalent in say, ruby. Maybe the whole essay would have been better framed something like: "Objective C: not quite as bad as Java!"
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by glenra 15y ago
> And iOS still doesn’t have turn-by-turn navigation iOS has had turn-by-turn navigation available at least as long as Android - it just has it in the form of third-party applications such as TomTom. For, say, $39 you can install ~1GB o
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by glenra 15y ago
Right, most car myths get tested there. It's also the usual place you see Adam zipping around on his Segway.
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by glenra 15y ago
FWIW, if you want a direct flight there weren't any today from SFO to HKG leaving later than 1:35pm on any airline. All the flights that were available as of this afternoon that had stops took at least 4 hours longer than a nonstop - th
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by glenra 15y ago
Suppose you use the same freeway set for exactly two films: (1) the big expensive sequel _Matrix Reloaded_ (2) some cheap indie zombie film (being on an entirely empty freeway in the middle of the day is kind of creepy all by itself) ...a
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by glenra 15y ago
> 6. Tricky Hollywood Accounting To film _Matrix Reloaded_, they built a fake freeway on the Alameda naval base in San Francisco. I drove on it (as an extra in the movie); it was really really cool. The company originally thought of kee
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by glenra 15y ago
Yep. Depending on the airline you might do direct SFO->Hong Kong or there'd be a stop in Tokyo (Narita) or some other inconvenient location. It was one or two flights a day, not every couple of hours. Heck, I'll bet it's not a lot bette
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by glenra 15y ago
Standard exceptions to the rule in recent memory include: - products that depend on 3rd-party developer support. If the iPad 3 has a new form factor and new hardware such that developers will want to rewrite their apps to take best advantag
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by glenra 15y ago
Near as I can tell, the online Apple Store was largely inspired by/based on the work of the most successful mac clone makers. Power Computing sold just a few kinds of mac, clearly differentiated in "good/better/best" configurations - both t
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by glenra 15y ago
Speaking from experience as somebody who has done this sort of trip: Yes, it's hugely useful and there is a real business benefit. First off, we're probably talking about a time when there were only a few direct flights a day from SFO to t
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by glenra 15y ago
That's very sad. As a consumer, if I google "cheap <drug>" and somebody outside the US is willing to sell me <drug> at a lower cost and/or with fewer bureaucratic hoops to jump through than a local provider, that is exactly
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by glenra 15y ago
Medical tourism is a biggie. Offer an assortment of the best treatments that have been approved by any government on earth. Thus, rich US tourists can take a 1-hour boat ride to get treatments they'd otherwise have to travel to Germany fo
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by glenra 15y ago
>Most systems of government can work at small scale. That's part of the idea. Existing governments are too big and stodgy, too slow to change. This is like having a "startup sector" for the governing industry, a place where new ideas ca
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by glenra 15y ago
For a citizen of a miserably poor and corrupt nation, their citizenship is also a problem to be solved. The surest way to help the poorest of the poor is not to send them food or money (that will likely be seized by their oppressors) but to
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by glenra 15y ago
> Your citizenship is the explicit signature on the contract. A "citizenship" is not a tangible thing. I didn't do anything specific to get a "citizenship", so how can my allegedly "having" one constitute an explicit anything? Do yo
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by glenra 15y ago
There's a difference between "refuted" and "dubiously asserted, ignoring all arguments to the contrary". :-) Looking back on this exchange, the core of our disagreement is the word "explicit". A contract is an agreement. If I sign a piece o
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by glenra 15y ago
Look, if I wanted to read Huben's "non-libertarian FAQ", I'd do that. I don't need you quoting random snippets at me (without linking to it) as if they contained actual information. But tell you what, two can play at that game. I wrote a co
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by glenra 15y ago
It's quite possible for a small amount of additional tax to have a big impact on the expected value of investing. When you invest, you don't know you're going to make a specific positive rate of return; you have to make a guess as to whet
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by glenra 15y ago
> First, I suspect most mega-rich find investing in all conditions far more enjoyable than anything that money might be able to buy. Um, why would you suspect that? Do you find investing just to be investing more enjoyable than anythi
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by glenra 15y ago
That argument is fundamentally silly for all the reasons identified long ago by Lysander Spooner ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner ) in _No Treason: the Constitution of No Authority_ ( http://lysanderspooner.org/node/44 ).
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by glenra 15y ago
> If I have $1 billion to invest, then I don't have the option of "not investing" that money. It has to sit in stocks, bonds, or some other financial instrument. No it doesn't. I could buy an extensive auto collection. Or a yacht or s
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by glenra 15y ago
> in this case an explicit social contract It's explicit ? Great! Can you tell me exactly what this explicit contract says, who signed it, and how it is that whoever signed it managed to get my power of attorney?
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by glenra 15y ago
Part of what makes this particular defection so egregious, I think, is that he didn't just take the value in the card for his own use. Doing that might almost be understandable, at least if the person doing it had (a) no better income opt
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by glenra 15y ago
In addition to Radiohead, I was thinking of Jonathan Coulton. Many of his songs are still available for free, but enough people choose to buy them or to pay to see him perform live that he grossed half a million dollars last year. For ins
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by glenra 15y ago
You're missing the larger picture. Things like this do work in small scale. There are restaurants that let you "pay whatever you want"; there are musicians that make a decent living selling music that one can get for free either from them
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by glenra 15y ago
The plan is for (1) a big underground parking lot (2) a separate 4-story parking structure. In Jobs' pitch to the city council, the separate aboveground parking structure was a long rectangle on the south side of the property, near the free

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