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by hugh3 15y ago
On a two-year contract, the difference between a $199 iPhone and a $99 iPhone is, what, five percent?
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm not sure what Appel Pete Corp has to do with anything, but AAPL was also down 6%.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I use voice control on my iPod touch when I'm driving with it hooked up to my stereo. That's the killer use case for voice control as far as I'm concerned. It works about half the time. "Play Machine Gun Fellatio" *"BING! Playing songs by M
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by hugh3 15y ago
Prepaid doesn't have to mean cheap. From my point of view, I don't care if it's cheap. I just want it contract-free. I'll happily pay the full unsubsidized cost of the iPhone, provided it's unlocked and I can waltz up to any mobile provid
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by hugh3 15y ago
Get a prepaid. I paid $200 for an LG Androidy thing (an Optimus V, if anyone really cares) and now I pay $25 a month for 300 minutes per month and unlimited data. It's a crazy better deal than anything else out there.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'd like to take a yoga course which focused on strength and flexibility, without all the hippie mystical BS that seems to infect most of the yoga I've seen.
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by hugh3 15y ago
"Rational markets", eh? Does that mean that you should be forced to sell things for a price lower than you're willing to accept, or that you should be forced to buy things for a price higher than you're willing to pay?
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by hugh3 15y ago
You're making economics sound like a religion rather than a science, there. If Keynesian economics hasn't worked in the US, then there's two possibilities: 1. It was too small or wrongly applied, or 2. Keynesian economics doesn't really wor
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by hugh3 15y ago
There were fewer illegals in the 1990s, though, right?
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by hugh3 15y ago
An interesting question (disclaimer: for intellectual interest only, of course, if the police ever are actually chasing you the only right and smart thing to do is to pull over before somebody gets hurt). Assuming they really want you f
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by hugh3 15y ago
I know it's not exactly the main point of the post, but I'm curious about the diet. Eggs for breakfast every morning -- just eggs? Tuna for lunch every day -- just tuna? How much of each? How do you cook the eggs? Does your body eventually
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by hugh3 15y ago
Do you think all overgeneralizations are false?
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by hugh3 15y ago
So the game screws you over before you begin. It's like a car racing simulator where you start out three feet from a wall, travelling at 120mph. And every time you crash, the game tells you that this just goes to prove that driving is dange
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by hugh3 15y ago
Now wait a minute, is this a law or a proposed law? If the former, they're complying. If the latter, they're having a hissy fit.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Email in profile. I can't promise to be able to provide anything other than moral support, though.
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by hugh3 15y ago
School is a social experience as well. Children get along best with children of their own age, and sticking precocious six-year-olds and dumb-as-dishwater thirteen-year-olds in the same classroom is just asking for trouble. We should arrang
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by hugh3 15y ago
I went to a selective school, where it was like this for everybody . They put all the smart kids into one school, but didn't actually give us work that was any more challenging than you'd get at another school. Too much brains plus not eno
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by hugh3 15y ago
Perhaps "short shrift" is the wrong way to argue it, then. It's not that we should separate the smart children because that's what's best for them , but that we should separate the smart children because that's what's best for society.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Yeah, but once you relax that rule you'll wind up devaluing, pretty quickly, the Nobel Prize. If every one of those 24 authors can equally claim to be a Nobel Prize winner on their CVs, then you've just significantly increased the number of
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by hugh3 15y ago
Some folks do still take dictation. Medical and legal secretaries in particular -- secretaries for classes of professional who are very busy, make a lot of money, send quite a lot of letters, and don't tend to spend a lot of their time sitt
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by hugh3 15y ago
Hey, I'm just musing on the causes of unemployment. For the record, I do support deporting illegal immigrants back to wherever they're from, and I'm shocked that this is even controversial in this country. I'm not actually even an America
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by hugh3 15y ago
An experiment like that proves nothing if it's being undertaken by somebody who starts out with the agenda of proving how damn hard it is to survive on minimum wage. It's far too easy to make deliberately stupid decisions, like the $40 belt
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by hugh3 15y ago
In fairness, the vast majority of the comments are pointing out how rigged and unrealistic the game is. I think people are just upvoting it to criticise it. And fair enough too, there's some good quality discussion here.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Given how quickly unused knowledge decays, I don't think it's terribly unreasonable to assume that your average student with a bachelor's degree won't remember how to solve a train problem. Well, that just sounds like an indication that w
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by hugh3 15y ago
Or the old Sierra game "Jones In The Fast Lane". Something like that (more sophisticated, with more detail, and more opportunities to make dumb and smart decisions) should be compulsory playing for young kids. Much like astronauts training
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by hugh3 15y ago
And the zebra won't miss it at all, because the zebra wasn't making the lion any money. This metaphor is severely broken at this point, but you get the idea.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Save time. Wait 'til it's over, and then find out everything you actually want to know when someone posts a summary. Do we have a summary so far? There's an iPhone 5, I assume? How does it differ from the iPhone 4?
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by hugh3 15y ago
What's really odd is that the folks who talk the most about the problems for lower-class American workers will get most offended the moment you suggest that competition for cheap labour from millions of illegal immigrants might have somet
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by hugh3 15y ago
Five dollars a month, for any month in which you use your debit card for purchases. As for the "why", the immediate reason is because there have been some legal changes vis a vis how much they can charge to the merchant for the benefit of r
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by hugh3 15y ago
I didn't buy the lottery ticket in the game, but now I'm curious -- I wonder if they bothered to code up a one-in-a-million chance that if the player buys a lottery ticket they'll actually win. That would be pretty cool. "You won the lotter

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