johnward

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by johnward 11y ago
A small SSD boot drive is like 250-500gb.
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by johnward 11y ago
> but honestly if doping was allowed in pro sports its a much strong assumption that college and high school kids would dope more then if kids would smoke more legal weed. No it's not.
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by johnward 11y ago
I use OSX most of the time. It usually prompts me to install things. That doesn't seem like "automatic updates" though.
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by johnward 11y ago
Just for the record the iPad2 still updates. Though the hardware can barely handle iOS8. It's almost unusable. It seems crazy to think there would not be an end of support for something that old. Maybe Apple doesn't allow updates
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by johnward 11y ago
People in all sorts of different positions take performance enhancing drugs. We as a society tend to focus on athletes for some reason. How many of the programmers you work with are taking some kind of stimulant or nootropic? Everyone is lo
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by johnward 11y ago
Life is a competition. There is definitely competition in music. People battle for spots in orchestras. People battle for commercial dollars, etc.
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by johnward 11y ago
Are you suggesting that most professional leagues don't allow doping? The NFL is full of drugs they just sweep it under the rug until the public notices. Kind of like Professional Bodybuilding. Everyone knows they are on drugs but we j
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by johnward 11y ago
There is no level playing field in genetics either. The idea that banning drugs creates a level playing field is also flawed.
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by johnward 11y ago
"Think of the children" is always the worst argument possible. This is about education as with all drugs and not that stupid "roid rage" video they made me watch with Ben Affleck https://www.youtube.com/w
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by johnward 11y ago
Can't users opt out by disabling automatic updates? Microsoft is basically doing what every other modern software company does but taking heat for it.
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by johnward 11y ago
I don't get the "without consent" part. If you have automatic updates on you consent to them automatically downloading things.
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by johnward 11y ago
Mainframes still bring in a lot of money. I actually think of IBM as being led by finance people.
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by johnward 11y ago
Were you on a CAMSS team? That seems to be the best area inside of IBM right now as it's a strategic growth area. This includes the Watson PS team I'm on.
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by johnward 11y ago
No only that. You will see some mega corp acquire some smaller company for their proprietary tech. Then replace that tech with something else, often open source, or just not use the technology they acquired at all. Are they just going for a
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by johnward 11y ago
> The IP agreement was Draconian (and we aren't in a state with nice moonlighting laws) This caused the most of the problems during our acquisition. I'm still with IBM but we had a few people leave over the "IBM owns every
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by johnward 11y ago
"Although marijuana smoke contains a number of carcinogens and cocarcinogens, findings from a limited number of well-designed epidemiological studies do not suggest an increased risk for the development of either lung or upper airway c
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by johnward 11y ago
TIL a joint can contain tobacco.
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by johnward 11y ago
I know some people who can't get by without dabs several times a day. Either it is addicting to some people or they are self medicating some other issue?
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by johnward 11y ago
There still has to be some damage from smoke inhalation, no? Then I'm curious about smoking vs "vaping" vs oil etc. Anecdotally I see a lot of old hippies still kicking. edit: I didn't realize you were pointing out the e
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by johnward 11y ago
I was curious. According to Quora these are the class ranges in India: Affluent/Rich - Rs. 500,000 p.m and above. Usually businessmen & celebrities. Upper class - Rs. 200,000 per month to Rs. 500,000 p.m. Upper middle class- Rs. 50
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by johnward 11y ago
> This is the post hoc fallacy though isn't it? Probably. Though I'm pretty sure the ability to make money (not necessarily form ads) was a driver.
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by johnward 11y ago
Are those numbers accurate? 67k per month to draw shit? I'd be more interested in the mean monthly earnings. There are hundreds of pages of content creators making $0 per month. In fact only about the first 10 pages make what I would c
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by johnward 11y ago
I guess that makes sense. I let my mom use my computer a few weeks ago and I ended up with 20 different "coupon printers".
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by johnward 11y ago
> Why should customers finance a billion-dollar business? Actually if you don't agree with it there is an easy way to show that. Don't pre-order.
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by johnward 11y ago
No. Everyone is seeing photoshop renderings and thinking it's the Model 3. Tesla is supposed to unveil the vehicle next March (but we need to convert from Elon time to human). I'm anxious. edit: I'm guess that within this com
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by johnward 11y ago
Does B actually exist? I've never used an ad blocker and I don't experience this. It's either an exaggeration or you're visiting some shady sites :) edit: B did exist in the days of windows 95 but I don't see it as
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by johnward 11y ago
I was just using those models (ad vs beg) as examples. I've noted elsewhere that their are sites support content by selling products or services. I also agree with your original that we may not have found the replacement business model
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by johnward 11y ago
Think about the products you see announced on this very site. Most of those people are writing helpful blog posts and using them to promote an ebook or some type of product. Technically those posts are advertisements or marketing materials
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by johnward 11y ago
This just came to mind when you mentioned "ad tax". Google Adsense recommends you stuff as many ads on to your page as possible. They even alert tell you when you are missing out on revenue by not including the maximum number of a
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by johnward 11y ago
I never said it was a good idea it just seems fair to be able to choose not "waste" bandwidth. Although the argument that hosting is becoming so cheap it doesn't matters could be made. The biggest issue with being able to det

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