jrobn

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by jrobn 7y ago
I think these states should turn their municipal water and sewer over to private companies and then in a few years of having their toilet back up into their living room while costing them thousands of dollars maybe they will think broadband
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by jrobn 7y ago
I expect massive global climate change and food shortages before China can use the IP it stole to dominate “everything”. Dust to dust.
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by jrobn 7y ago
Another echo chamber pivoting to be another echo chamber.
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by jrobn 8y ago
that the physical reality around you that you perceive through your mind might not be the end-all-be-all and death is just a small part of it all. I don’t know. You’ll find out sometime.
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by jrobn 8y ago
Death is the ultimate joke. We spend so much time worrying about it. Avoiding it. Writing poetry and books about it. Maybe, If your a Religious being, even shaping our entire life around it because of the “ultimate judgement” in the end. De
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by jrobn 8y ago
Oh, please god no. Keep your android OS away from my mirrorless camera. Can you imagine having to take the camera away from your eye to use a finger to slide a UI slider to increase/decrease shutter speed? I have a Panasonic and the OS
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by jrobn 8y ago
Show of hands. How many people have clicked on an ad and bought something directly related to the ad? I was researching cameras. I saw very little camera ads in my research. After I bought a camera? Ads for the camera I just bought everywhe
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by jrobn 8y ago
Or just pay Fastmail $30 a year for such an important 21st century utility such that e-mail is. I don't use gmail for anything else except throwaway accounts. Who wants to run an SMTP server.
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by jrobn 8y ago
My first Bungie game was Myth. I absolutely loved the series. First time I was drawn into the story and characters. I loved being able give names to the characters and keep them alive. It was slow paced but surprising suspenseful. Online mu
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by jrobn 8y ago
I think there is a chance a competitor could pop up and hurt YouTube. They would need to have a ContentID like system, monetization, and a non sucky copyright system that isn’t gamable, and of course infastructure. Very tall orders but coul
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by jrobn 8y ago
Sounds like a mushroom bias in their prodecural algorithm.
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by jrobn 8y ago
Dollars and cents my man. I really only see this getting worse with IoT devices and more and more tracking. When they finally figured out a reliable way for direct brain to computer interface the human race may be in a dark place indeed.
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by jrobn 8y ago
Google is like a french word that rolls off the tongue. Duck is like a anglo/norse, sharp and harsh but satisfying like our other favorite 4 letter word.
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by jrobn 8y ago
This, exactly. Don’t expect much movement on climate change until the political elite feel the pain. When the fisheries collapse, fires rage across our corn fields, beef prices skyrocket, and our coastal cities sink into the ocean will you
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by jrobn 8y ago
I wasn't putting through arguments for direct democracy. Just that the current system is badly failing the people and it needs to change. Point number 1 & 2 would actually move us more to a direct democracy than you think. But dire
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by jrobn 8y ago
Except when the voting mechanisms that elect those representatives is badly broken and easily gamed, i.e. gerrymandering districts in the US. There are a lot of things that are a problem with the way the US government is set up. 1) The Sena
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by jrobn 8y ago
I doubt 8K will be as big as a subjective improvement. Things like HDR, 10-bit color depth, and higher display brightness (nits) all contribute to a better image than just a resolution increase.
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by jrobn 8y ago
You don’t need 4 times the bitrate because compression technology scales better than linear the higher the resolution.
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by jrobn 8y ago
In taxes maybe?
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by jrobn 8y ago
Here is the real question everybody should ask themselves: In today’s world, Why do I try to work honestly for a dollar?
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by jrobn 8y ago
This is why Erlang's crash early and restart philosophy was so eye opening when I became more and more familiar with the language and design. The whole language is about managing state and managing it well in a dynamic realtime environ
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by jrobn 8y ago
The US government doesn’t care about deficits, so it would seem.
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by jrobn 8y ago
The documentation pages are all that matter, and quite frankly, they are great.
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by jrobn 8y ago
T-Mobile will sometimes display "Scam Likely" for me in place of the phone number. It's way to conservative though. It would be nice to have a way to report scam phone numbers back. Kinda like Apple's "was this voic
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by jrobn 8y ago
I agree. I receive at least one a day. It's more frequent than spam mail. I'm sure there is a viable business venture to basically make "spam assassin" for telecom. I've gotten to the point where I don't trust
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by jrobn 9y ago
I’m not dooming and glooming but I don’t think good precedents will come out of this presidency. If anything it has become a litmus test of our democratic institutions in the era of “Fake News” and “alternative facts”, and mob boss leadersh
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by jrobn 9y ago
I think the US is still stuck in the Cold War mentality of making military spending an “untouchable” cut. Meanwhile country infrastructure is falling apart and our equality gap is unprecedented. Sounds a lot like the USSR.
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by jrobn 9y ago
I’m not sure the American public at large cares. I don’t think most folks know how much the hand of someone else controls and guides their everyday actions, assumptions, and opinions. That hand being a foreign power or Jiffy peanut butter.
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by jrobn 9y ago
Thank you! I recalled seeing this this as a young kid. Great re-watch.
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by jrobn 9y ago
I wish English kept some of its runic hold overs like the letter thorn “þ” (th sound). “þe fox ran þurh þe field.” I could imagine the confusion for non native English speakers when they encountered: through thought brought bought daughter

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