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by jeffbax 8y ago
It's called a network effect
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To each their own but finally going from a 6s (and hoping for smaller phones) I got an XS and could never see myself wanting TouchID on a phone again. Face is way faster and not impacted by clammy hands and the bezel sure isn't missed.
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See Foxconn
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Who surprisingly has the highest approval rating in the country, even higher than Warren.
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Is it that strange given how long Red Hat seemed to prefer Gnome anyway? Maybe its just that I'm a Mac user, but I feel like I'd want my distro choice to be fairly opinionated and throw its full weight behind things like Desktop E
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"Progressive" generally goes along with the mentality there's no problem that is not solvable by government, which is usually the least efficient and cost effective mechanism for most problems. This undoubtedly causes a rippl
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Mac OS is not Windows :) Apple's never shied away from migrating platforms when they deem it useful, and having things running in a secret lab for years.
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It is a myth that the US has a free market in healthcare. It is a web of regulatory hell and perverse incentives.
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"Although we ended up abandoning Looking Glass, Steve’s threat didn’t figure into our decision (the last thing enterprises wanted was a new desktop – in hindsight, exactly the wrong audience to poll (we should’ve been asking developers
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The last thing US education needs is further tuition inflation because now the government going to pay for everyone's $60k/year liberal arts degree. I think there's a place for government-funded higher-ed, but it has to be fo
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That's going to change rapidly with 5G
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Yeah, to me Webmail is a backup not a default. Naturally Gmail is a bit nonstandard there too, but by and large functional.
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You clearly haven't really kept up with Apple and ARM for the past 4 years have you. They're cleaning everyone's clock (pun unintended) with no signs of that abating. Last years X is still a generation faster than the fastest
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The advantage being that their problem set is smaller and more focused, and the bad decisions are generally contained in the business and don't tend to take down the entirety of society like actual communism and socialism. Capitalism i
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Big biz generally want a global marketplace given winner take all dynamics of digital companies. Still, hopefully countries will learn the same lesson as they tend to begrudgingly do: free markets mean prosperity. Also hope that we don&#x27
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To me insurance companies offering discounts for those who use trackers and exercise regularly is a good market solution to the out of control healthcare costs. We should be glad this is an option for people.
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Safari is my daily driver, but for Dev work I switched to FireFox because almost 100% of Devs I know just use Chrome for both dev and everything, which is a good way to miss things breaking elsewhere and falling into an IE-like monoculture.
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If it weren't for fracking, we would not have hit peak CO2 output http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/project_syn... Also, abundant cheap energy is wildly important to the 99%. I can't belie
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Instead of price controls we should stop giving hospitals veto power over competitors opening up. Our regulations have been encouraging consolidation, but incumbent hospitals generally have the right to say "no, you don't need ano
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Until you realize what labor costs are (or deployment density is) in the West compared to those countries? Also, price is a function of what the return value and need to have capital to invest with, not just the minimum cost to operate once
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I think you are over-estimating how many responsible states there are: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-bri... > The funding gap for the state pension plans studied reached $1.4 trillion
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Except for when the pension and budget planners plan around 10% returns that don't happen, or the planners make really bad bets for a whole lot of people that will never meet expectations but the money is owed and has to come from some
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The amount of people who are wholly oblivious or simply don't care about the pension bombs that are going to rock most states in the USA is utterly insane to me, and its primarily the blue ones. We really need to get rid of these over-
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Changing conditions within an incredibly dense metro area are part of the terms and conditions into one moving there. If you want land, there's plenty of space for it -- outside the city as opposed to where people have a pressing need
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Assuming you live in the US (SF?) The American story is a story of migrants, whether from other countries or within the nation itself. People move for opportunity (though this is decreasing as the costs have gone up dramatically in the last
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AirBNB could not exist and all our cities would still have severe housing shortages. It's a scapegoat, the real problem is lack of supply, which is a zoning regulatory issue. Zoning prevents building the stock needed (or things like ma
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I understand the bad things Jones does, like the doxxing and maybe that is sufficient enough to ban him (and reasonable in that case), but he's just an extreme example for the slippery slope for speech and censorship that IS already he
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I wouldn't be surprised if this is something that will "support Macs" being a library used for official releases, since there's generally more commercial support for Macs and porting houses likely to incorporate and cont
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I think that Mastodon has a lot going for it, and indeed It think an open source federated system is a great idea I hope to see succeed, but I don't think that RT is the main problem with Twitter. Maybe I'm lucky that few pay atte
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KHTML -> WebKit -> Blink Implying that WebKit somehow stalled because Google forked it into Blink is silly. Apple and Google are both investing heavily in their browsers, just with different priorities. Doesn't take more than jus

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