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by jamesrom 10y ago
But we're not talking about iPhones, then, specifically. We're talking about every phone... Ever.
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by jamesrom 10y ago
Packing the circles such that you get a straight road would negate the need to pack them hexagonally.
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by jamesrom 10y ago
Your points are totally valid. But you wouldn't need to make sharp 120 turns. You could just have very slight waves with a frequency of 1 mile. http://i.imgur.com/vJq0Q3i.png Of course, driving on roads like these woul
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by jamesrom 10y ago
If that is owned by a different person, that brings an interesting opportunity cost problem. If the owner of the smaller area shared it with the owner of the bigger area. An agreement could be struck to pay for 1 quarter of the operating co
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by jamesrom 10y ago
"I'd sell it to the NSA for some bitcoin"
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by jamesrom 10y ago
Excellent read. Thanks. Something I've always tried to understand is the value of these digital things. How much would it cost, in 1970, to have a library of all the worlds music? Today it's 10 bucks a month. How much value do we
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by jamesrom 10y ago
What's the big deal if an AI doesn't know which footstool you are talking about? Intelligence != Omniscience
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by jamesrom 10y ago
The valves would limit intake to prevent causing a shockwave, and be spaced close enough to neutralize any shockwaves caused by catastrophic failure. You could even open the valves intelligently, limit the valves as a function of the distan
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by jamesrom 10y ago
The biggest problem this guy has is easily solved by having a valve on each section of pipe. As soon as a failure is detected, open all valves and let the pressure equalise evenly across the entire pipe, instead of waiting for a wall of air
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by jamesrom 10y ago
Um. Just buy a different phone if you don't think the tradeoffs Apple have made suit your particular use case. Chill. It's all going to be okay.
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by jamesrom 10y ago
Because you use them to filter. The way you compare if a value is in the filter is different from strict equality.
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by jamesrom 10y ago
What is bloomberg's MO with these near unreadable articles?
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by jamesrom 10y ago
There's so many positive comments here. What's going on?
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by jamesrom 10y ago
Yeah there's a couple of minor grammar mistakes too. I'm guessing this is very early stage stuff and doesn't have any marketing resources yet.
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by jamesrom 10y ago
Same problem on IE 10.
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by jamesrom 10y ago
So his problem is that Kahneman was confident before the replication crisis? We should not fault a person for trusting studies and science published in countless journals.
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by jamesrom 10y ago
I thought that fMRI hasn't been taken seriously since they scanned a dead fish and found it was thinking.
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by jamesrom 10y ago
Bluetooth is very easy to hate. It never ever just works: the pairing rituals, the flakiness. It's annoying. But in recent years it has become more and more invisible. You've probably used Bluetooth in the past 12 months without n
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by jamesrom 10y ago
The gushing flattery of Perry in this review is gross.
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by jamesrom 10y ago
A whole new debate about copyright is around the corner.
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by jamesrom 10y ago
> So changing visual aspects of reading can have an impact on the overall ease of reading for dyslexic readers, even if it's not directly easing the "dyslexic part" of the reader's struggles. So... making fonts easier
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by jamesrom 10y ago
Hashtags as an App
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by jamesrom 10y ago
"Just add AI" is this decades "Just add Social Networking".
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by jamesrom 11y ago
This author only considers the active kind of VR. Where the user participates by looking around or controlling some aspect of the environment or story. Why can't I just sit back and watch events unfold before me? Why does everyone assu
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by jamesrom 11y ago
Let's hope that Oculus see this and decide to open up, instead of lock down. We can hope right?
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by jamesrom 11y ago
But his generalization is apt. It's a generalization. It does not apply to your specific circumstance. Nor mine, actually. And further to the point, his observation does not change if you find and replace 'tinder' with whatev
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by jamesrom 11y ago
> Perhaps Apple should close this vector. Perhaps. However, it's very likely that receiving SMS before decryption is not a bug, but a feature.
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by jamesrom 11y ago
Who said they aren't paying for the exploit?
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by jamesrom 11y ago
It has been moved. No longer stuck in the mine.
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by jamesrom 11y ago
Well yeah... That's the insight.

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