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by josho 10y ago
I believe that it's fear that drove people to Trump. With quotes like "they want to turn off the lights all over the world.” It isn't surprising that many on the right vote against their interests because they fear far worse
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by josho 10y ago
An NPR politics podcast had mentioned that Trump always responds to the last statement from the other side, even if it's irrelevant to the rest of the statement. Clinton leveraged that during the debates. I can imagine foreign diplomat
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by josho 10y ago
> I think you can get a pretty big tax cut by just managing the military better. I find it interesting that in the US people are comfortable discussing improving military efficiency, yet its taboo to discuss reducing the size of the mil
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by josho 10y ago
The problem with your argument is that it presumes that a border can't be protected. As far as I could discover in my brief searches for information during the election, the border is fairly secure. So, really the wall is more of a sym
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by josho 10y ago
Trump railed against the system that allowed politicians to be bought. It turns out his solution is to term limit congress. Sounds like treating a symptom not the root cause.
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by josho 10y ago
Wow, that's a dirty tactic. Especially when you consider that what's bad about smoking is tobacco and e-cigs don't necessarily have tobacco.
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by josho 10y ago
> Nicotine itself isn't the problem with cigarettes, it's just a stimulant and has the usual stimulant effects Agreed, it's tobacco that is the primary issue. I've been curious to adopt the e-cig for the stimulant a
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by josho 10y ago
> refuse to keep useful services online The project failed to gain widespread adoption. An org that runs marginally valuable side projects indefinitely is an org that is going to face a downfall. Like you, I'd love to see a better a
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by josho 10y ago
Good point. You can express an I don't know by spoiling your ballot. Unfortunately not many people consider this option. Nor is this approach perfect.
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by josho 10y ago
Everything I've read suggests that with NAFTA we are better off than without it. I wish folks like Trump/Thiel would point us to studies that show otherwise instead of repeating their rhetoric about job losses. Further, I'm q
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by josho 10y ago
I'm tired of Apple (and others) tying their products to subscription services. Ie. The server can now act as network storage for your iCloud services (e.g. iCloud drive and photos). But, despite the fact that your server is now your pr
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by josho 10y ago
As I understand their marketing page, yes, sort of. The caching server will make local access to your cloud photos faster. But, first the photos have to go through iCloud, so despite having a server with lots of storage running 24x7 you sti
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by josho 10y ago
Yes, CL is more productive for frequent tasks that you remember the interface for. But, the OP's point was that you set the server and forget it. If you don't manage servers for a living then tweaking postfix config files is far s
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by josho 10y ago
That's fine for Pro's, but a silly strategy for the home/family market. Buying a mini is a no brainer. Buying an iMac is a bit iffy compared to PCs on price. But, a MacBook + display is a no go for most homes. I suppose Apple
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by josho 10y ago
Didn't notice, but I like your hypothesis as it makes for a smart design. That you can't even power on the hardware unless your fingerprint matches--saves me from setting a firmware password that I may forget since I never go into
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by josho 10y ago
My last 3 MacBook Pros were purchased just before Apple did a major redesign. This time around I don't have the usual pang of desire for the new model. Maybe taking one of msfts new models for a spin might be opportune for you.
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by josho 10y ago
Agreed. The venn diagram of people that can afford the pro and those that care about emojis is likely rather slim. However, watching the photoshop demo I could see the value. Honestly though, I think an add on accessory the size of a trackp
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by josho 10y ago
Sadly I have to agree. I wonder if Jobs really was that much of a visionary that the company is lost for ways to innovate without him.
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by josho 10y ago
It's strange that they killed all the port options, but choose to keep the one port that was removed from the iPhone (the headphone jack). I appreciate that Apple kills off older tech to push the market forward. But, Thunderbolt, USB3,
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by josho 10y ago
That's typically a bad reason to give to an investor.
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by josho 10y ago
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that their models are topless? I can't help but feel they are signalling their intent to be an eye into my private life, not unlike the monitoring predicted in 1984.
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by josho 10y ago
I find it interesting that Msft is choosing to battle Apple head on in the consumer space, I recall Sun Tzu "attack where your enemy is weak". Yet, msft is attacking Apple at their most loyal user base—designers. Not only that but
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by josho 10y ago
No the problem is that we centralized trust instead of designing a distributed trust model. I suspect we centralized trust at the encouragement of folks like the NSA and similar ilk. Regardless, look at the vast majority of technical users
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by josho 10y ago
Isn't this a machine learning problem? If so then more data means more learning.
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by josho 10y ago
That's a smart strategy. Lots of consoles are going to be sold this xmas, so Nintendo announcing now may help hold people off from switching to msft/sony. The only better strategy would have been an Xmas launch, a spring launch me
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by josho 10y ago
On the other end of the spectrum you have people with 10 year old LCDs or crappy business displays that look similarly bad. On these displays even decent contrast is difficult to read. > Why can’t we specify colors independent of the mon
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by josho 10y ago
As another commenter pointed out Apply/Google seem to set design trends, as evidence of this take a look at OmniFocus (a professionally built Mac App). It loves to use grey text on white. I used to use this program extensively, but fou
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by josho 10y ago
True, but if you are running something like WebSphere or Weblogic then upgrading your JVM invalidates product support. So, now you have to upgrade product versions, which often requires changes to deployment scripts, breaking changes in tho
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by josho 10y ago
> Regarding the properties I really don't get what is the big deal. I used to feel the same as you, then I dabbled with Rails. I think the deal is that in Java there is a lot of noise in the code. So, developing feels like you need
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by josho 10y ago
Oh and don't forget initiating covert actions in pretty much every South American country, Iran, and others.

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