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by jeffbax 8y ago
In what deranged worldview is US Telecom an example of the “free market” at work? I think the author needs to look up what that term means and how tightly related and crony the industry is. Another sterling example of millennial clickbait “
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by jeffbax 8y ago
I'm down for enhancing what sites I only go to on occasion can do for me as a user, but that PWAs will replace Native is IMO not desirable (particularly every website asking me to allow notifications these days -- turn that right off i
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Another recent, fun take on the history of D&D https://reason.com/archives/2018/04/07/the-radical-freedom-o...
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by jeffbax 8y ago
I can't speak to the amateur-ness of the design itself, but I can speak to the fact that my eyes started to hurt trying to read the site itself. I don't think the color scheme and 'black-space' is helping legibility, at
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by jeffbax 8y ago
I'd rather Disney than Fox. Disney is not an ISP/Cable co for one with all kinds of weird incentives regarding video offerings, and I think there's more value to a Disney service offering if they have Fox content as well (not
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by jeffbax 8y ago
I'm not sure what this non-native application is offering me over plenty of Mac (and presumably Linux & Windows) native versions using way less memory and having platform-native UI controls. RSS's challenge has never been apps
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by jeffbax 8y ago
With the insane pricing plans Twitter just announced for third parties, it's approaching $15/month per user to maintain current feature parity and have things like push notifications and stats info. Feels like they are shooting th
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by jeffbax 8y ago
The amount of dumb things I hear coming out of Seattle lately blows my mind. Every other city that wears it's "progressive"-ness on its sleeve should take a wait and see approach to what Seattle does, so that when these terri
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Funny, I felt very similar when this happened :) https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/993142700374462464
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by jeffbax 8y ago
... which is now Marcus by Goldman Sachs
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Its hard to know without comparison apps, but if it means you aren't just running everything in a browser (and thus, way higher memory usage and likely much crappier native-OS behavior if any at all) -- yes
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by jeffbax 8y ago
Apple Music is $99 if paid for by the year
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by jeffbax 8y ago
> 1. "A clean planet and Globalism have been proven in the last 25 years to be mutually exclusive." Actually, the environment is what gets cleaned up as people are lifted out of poverty (which globalism accomplishes better than
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by jeffbax 9y ago
> rent hikes caused by zoning codes and regulations that push the price of building up higher and higher -bostonjeff
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by jeffbax 9y ago
Sad that this never went anywhere: https://github.com/volca02/openDarkEngine/ Amusingly, a lot of source was found in an old Dreamcast dev kit: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/12/14
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by jeffbax 9y ago
This. If SB-827 doesn't pass, we'll know that California's priorities are not with the young/it's future - it's with those who were lucky enough to get in the right place at the right time. I'm not very ho
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by jeffbax 9y ago
Unfortunately its the law of the land there, so yes -- it is enough to comply. There's an argument of not participating to make a statement like Google tried, but in the end China is more than happy to replace any western company with
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by jeffbax 9y ago
You need to count the helpers. - Slack: 103.8 MB - Slack Helper: 61 MB - Slack Helper: 459.1 MB - Slack Helper: 549.6 MB - Slack Helper: 264.9 MB Total = 1.4384 GB for only 3 Slack channels on macOS High Sierra Pretty absurd.
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by jeffbax 9y ago
The Expanse is SyFy, so new episodes go there (but really appreciate it on Amazon) The HBO shows are gone sometime in 2018 I believe, at least the contract is up soon and HBO said they're keeping the shows to HBO Now instead AFAIK.
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by jeffbax 9y ago
I am both wary of some of the projects being done in regards to surveillance, but also not delusional about the focus other nations militaries have in regards to these technologies. It's highly relevant for operations abroad, and wheth
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by jeffbax 9y ago
Hopefully lower-priced isn't just cheaper parts alone, but also the option for a smaller phone. Edge-to-edge, I want a phone the size of a 6/7 screen. Smaller form factor without losing usable area is my dream iPhone, not somethin
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by jeffbax 9y ago
You can also scroll up and down just by pressing Space (down) and Shift Space (up) in many Mac applications, particularly browsers and RSS readers
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by jeffbax 9y ago
IMO, they both feel very out of place. One just eats 10x the memory of the other. Not sure that is a better trade off. If an electron app is pretending to be native, it's pretty much a giant sign telling me to look elsewhere. I get the
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by jeffbax 9y ago
https://daringfireball.net/2017/09/iphone_x_event_thoughts_a... > THE NOTCH: It offends me. It’s ungainly and unnatural. Clearly, the ideal of an “all-screen” design — to use Apple’s own words — has no notch at
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by jeffbax 9y ago
I'm not sure why everyone thinks that? I have a sound bar for my TV -- I still need speakers elsewhere, and I wouldn't want my room speakers to be bound to my TV or necessarily the overhead of having to manage pairings of speakers
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by jeffbax 9y ago
Rules being in place don't mean they're effective, having the desired outcome, or not causing other adverse effects. > The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine t
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by jeffbax 9y ago
There's certainly a libertarian argument that pollution is the exact type of externality government should be solving given its tragedy of the commons in a way most things are not, as well as framing under core defense. I also imagine
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by jeffbax 9y ago
Sounds like Bezos might disagree. The problem with US healthcare isn't profit seeking, it's that years of regulatory technical debt starting with the employer tax deduction totally broke the market and the incentives to control co
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by jeffbax 9y ago
No, politicians sold out their taxbase by not reforming unsustainable and over-promising public pensions for years. The sooner they go away the better, no reason unions should be able to negotiate budget busting benefits, then run them poor
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by jeffbax 9y ago
If you don't consider the 20T of growing debt, sure. At what point do we ever care about the budget at all then? Asking as an opponent of the wars.

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