joshuapants

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by joshuapants 11y ago
An easy and plausible interpretation of my post is that I was concerned for the psyche of my fellow human being, and for the people he might be around. In the future please respond more civilly and substantively instead of dismissively.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Abortion doctors might not be innocent from the fundamentalist Christian's point of view.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> Well, if I had to choose between having my child die and letting a rich person keep their $5k bag, I might do the same. Where on earth did you pull this dichotomy from?
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> I don't know why the poor just don't kill the rich, to be honest > I'd probably tear up the person with the bag "I would literally murder a random innocent" is a bit different from what you suggest.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Not advocating the murder of innocents is burying my head in the sand? Fascinating.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Absolutely, I didn't mean to compare the relative merits, simply the costs.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
They did that. And then those companies never updated the apps.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> the battery life is definitely comparable to the bigger brands Sure, but the budget phone also isn't pushing a quad HD screen and a beefy processor. The runtime may be similar, but that doesn't mean the capacity is. I did a q
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by joshuapants 11y ago
I'm surprised Google hasn't made a bigger push with Go on Android. It seems like there's some rudimentary support, so maybe it's on the way.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Because the price the store charges you is not the price the manufacturer charges the store.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> This might be a huge opportunity for Microsoft and WP On the contrary, they've been trying to penetrate the developing market for some time. In fact, the low-end Lumias are almost uniformly better than Android devices in the same
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Probably not even new old-stock iPhones, but actually used ones. I wonder if e-cycling old high-end devices by refurbishing them and selling them to low-income markets isn't a better choice than ramping up manufacturing on necessarily
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by joshuapants 11y ago
For $2.10, the battery certainly won't be state of the art. Probably bulky and low capacity.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Margins in consumer electronics are typically razor thin, particularly when the device in question is a commodity (mid-tier Android phones, for example). 1.2c is obviously unsustainable, as you mention. I wonder if they got blindsided by a
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Sure, but the article says "turn the music down," not "turn the music off." I think it's entirely possible for certain types of music at certain volumes to be conducive to concentration, and vice-versa.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
If I were referring to a scammer, a con-artist, or a black-hat hacker would I be calling names or merely describing their professions?
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Evidence-based politics is even less popular than evidence-based medicine.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> Failure to use the metric system everywhere cost NASA a $125 million Mars orbiter No, bureaucratic failure to address the concerns of people who spotted the error well in advance of the launch cost NASA $125M. The investigation report
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Windows XP? Curious to know if there's a hackery reason behind that or just personal preference.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> 1. it does have the benefit that it's cross-cultural, you can actually talk to people outside your cultural bubble We already do that. > 2. it's got the advantage that you're using the same measurements as all your t
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> The Smog Free Tower is not only a final solution, but a sensory experience of a clean future. That's... interesting wording.
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> I read a bunch of articles from John Douillard > John Douillard DC is an Ayurvedic Practitioner Maybe I'm weird, but I like my authoritative positions on human evolution to come from evolutionary biologists, not woo-peddlers. A
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Final Cut Pro costs $299.99. Logic costs $199.99. We've all read that Spolsky article, I get it, but that doesn't mean it is wise or inevitable for Apple to make all their software free. Offering limited versions of FCP and Logic
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Maybe more likely than you think. They are, as you say, making more things free (or, rather, "included"). I could see that moving toward giving you a free home version of Final Cut Pro, for example, and then offering a paid upgrad
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by joshuapants 11y ago
I'm playing with the El Capitan beta right now on a ~4 year old MBP and I will say that it seems very snappy and I haven't needed to reboot except for updates, and I haven't had any wifi issues (had a lot on Mavericks). That
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by joshuapants 11y ago
Windows 10 is not free. The cost is built-in to the hardware you buy. They threw their users a bone to get some goodwill and hopefully entice some of them off old OSes, but the OS is not free, and this canard needs to stop. Linux is free. D
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by joshuapants 11y ago
In comparison to OSX and Windows running on the same hardware, Ubuntu is worse in every meaningful way. Power management is terrible, window management is terrible, the Ubuntu software center is slow as hell and has no selection (amount of
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by joshuapants 11y ago
I say the following as a Linux enthusiast: Ubuntu is absolutely not "ready for the prime time," as you put it. It's not ready for home users, it's not ready for most businesses, it's not ready for anyone except a sm
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by joshuapants 11y ago
I know Superfish was not included on Thinkpads. I am not sure about this latest breach. But that's not terribly important; the company showed that it can't be trusted. If they're so eager to sell out some of their customers,
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by joshuapants 11y ago
> Leonovo is working REALLY REALLY hard to lose loyal technical customers. They already lost me after Superfish, but now with this instead of passively not buying I'm going to actively recommend that others not. It's absolutely

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