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by jkestner 6y ago
Yeah, but now acrimony’s at webscale.
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by jkestner 6y ago
I find that at arm's length, my body posture is more open and the iPad feels more social than a phone that you're hunched over or a laptop with two hands at attention.
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by jkestner 6y ago
OSes (MacOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS) and Xcode get released in lockstep. The SDKs for each year’s OS releases will work only on that year’s Xcode, which runs on no earlier than the previous year’s MacOS. I’ve been able to transplant the SDK for
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by jkestner 6y ago
Sorry, I was feeling adversarial last night because of Jacob Blake. Discussion about the right way to protest without the context of the actions precipitating it isn’t getting the job done.
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by jkestner 6y ago
Was the Boston Tea Party immoral in your mind? Is assault immoral when it’s performed by police with the backing of the state?
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by jkestner 6y ago
Making "profit" the benchmark for a government service, plus saddling the service with a pension prefunding requirement that takes it from profit to loss, is a manufactured crisis.
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by jkestner 6y ago
For kids, fairly hard. I grew up in a single story house and a laundry chute was one of the romantic ideals. So I gave my kids the childhood I was denied — our house has a trapdoor in the kids' bedroom that drops straight down to the l
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by jkestner 6y ago
And Warren's actual proposed rate, 3% for everything over $1 billion, is outpaced by the 11% annual rate of return for the S&P 500 over the last 30 years. A wealth tax would just slow down how fast the rich get richer.
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by jkestner 6y ago
Vocal, as in he did the usual billionaire dissembling about how Warren's wealth tax would take 90% of his fortune and kill innovation. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elizabeth-warren-would-love-to-...
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by jkestner 6y ago
Optics dictate that Apple show the superiority of the new silicon, and it wouldn't want it immediately pigeonholed as something like Surface X, a compromised curiosity. Apple's been consistent about ~10 hours of battery life for a
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by jkestner 6y ago
In a world where neural networks can ramble like a human, and will be incentivized to do so by search algorithms, terse writing will be prized.
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by jkestner 6y ago
I’m a beta tester. I think “notes app” is selling this short. One, you can structure your data into fields as you go. Two, I didn’t get the power of the API combined with this structure until I read https://docs.portway.app/
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by jkestner 6y ago
Maybe we should find a more accurate alternative for “attacked by mobs of people” to avoid equating flamewars with, I don’t know, the Tulsa Massacre. We still need to have the capacity to describe the relative horror of that.
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by jkestner 6y ago
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Great, they help small businesses sometimes. But right here in a dire situation, they're hurting them. It’s fair to want to know why Square is holding thousands of your earnings. This is why bus
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by jkestner 6y ago
Google did put a couple hundred million into Magic Leap. If they weren’t feeling burned before...
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by jkestner 6y ago
I’m still running my 2010 MBP (it was worth maxing out the config, and I've replaced the optical drive with an SSD), though recently I bought a 2009 Mac Pro for my main machine. The MBP has fallen several feet into a concrete shop floo
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by jkestner 6y ago
Why tech workers should unionize is to have a say in their company's values and deeds. [1] And when a company has an enormous influence on our country, its employees should (and do) want to be part of decisions. It's okay, society
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by jkestner 6y ago
I subscribe to the Times for that staff. I skip over the clickbait of the Stephenses and Brookses and read Blow and Bouie.
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by jkestner 6y ago
Bitcode[1] would’ve been a good way to handle that, if Apple had ever supported it for Mac apps in addition to their other platforms. 1. https://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/06/17/apples-biggest-devel...
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by jkestner 6y ago
Judging by how black people _thought_ to have guns are treated, I’d say white skin is better at protecting you.
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by jkestner 6y ago
If the US cedes supremacy despite spending 3x what China does, it's because of grift, like R&D for unwanted jets or RFPs written for one contractor. I'm sure Schmidt can introduce them to the free market.
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by jkestner 6y ago
Improve, or get his cut from? Schmidt is invested in several military startups and of course Google. So he’s nothing special; no one wants to make the military more efficient. It’s just a convenient channel for transferring money to contrac
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by jkestner 6y ago
1. We haven’t yet seen what Apple's desktop-class chip can do. 2. Performance per watt is critical. Apple moved to Intel in large part because PowerPC couldn’t get this down, and one of the first two Intel Macs introduced was the MacBo
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by jkestner 7y ago
Thunderbolt is built on PCIe, which iPhones don’t use except for the SSD.
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How An Algorithm Drives Suppliers to Favor Amazon over Other Retailers(propublica.org)
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by jkestner 7y ago
There are representatives who understand modern corporations and are willing to reform the markets as needed — Katie Porter and Ro Khanna come to mind — but market regulation is a bad word in party leadership, whether or not they understand
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by jkestner 7y ago
And yet we let politicians who have knowledge and even control over markets have direct investments. If a firewall can be implemented, fine, but I don’t see any great loss if we were to restrict the growth of a trillion-dollar company.
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by jkestner 7y ago
Elizabeth Warren's plan does just this by designating such companies as “platform utilities”: https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big... I agree a diverse marketplace is a healthy one, and tha
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by jkestner 7y ago
Definitely not Jobs and Bezos. Jobs said what you say from a different angle—if this thing is revolutionary, why does it look so banal? Bezos pointed out the basic flaw that bedevils personal transportation to this day—will you be allowed t
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by jkestner 7y ago
I had that rich friend with the Neo Geo. Yeah, I wonder if Magic Leap had started small and luxury, installing that Beast contraption with the undiluted experience to rich people, it could've grown more like Tesla. Of course, the Roads

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