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by jrs95 9y ago
I wish they would have left the Xeon and Pro GPU components to the new Mac Pro instead of putting them in this. It would’ve been nice just to have top of the line consumer grade hardware available in a Mac instead. That and the amount of ti
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by jrs95 9y ago
It seems like most users don’t really understand that they’re really running a lot of code for every page they visit now though. IMO it’s as prevalent as it is because browsers just run code by default. If iOS and Android apps were automati
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by jrs95 9y ago
Aren't browsers basically the largest attack surface on most platforms now? Have they really succeeded in doing this?
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by jrs95 9y ago
It's a bit redundant to say "disingenuous journalism" though, you could just say "journalism".
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by jrs95 9y ago
Maybe if you just cut that part out of it, yeah
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by jrs95 9y ago
You're confusing what people can do with what they actually do. I've known people who make close to the median income and support 4 children, own a home, and still had enough savings to buy them all cars and pay for their college
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by jrs95 9y ago
It isn't true that they cannot take advantage, that was the entire point of what I was saying. They typically don't, but it isn't because of a lack of income. They're just spending almost all of it.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Middle class people can take advantage of those investment returns as well. A more interesting question to me is “Why aren’t they?”. A typical middle class person can still achieve significant upward mobility for their children, and yet the
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by jrs95 9y ago
And if people were asked about immigration policy instead of told, we both wouldn’t have had a candidate as vulgar as Trump getting the GOP nomination, and we wouldn’t have had the demographic shift that probably resulted in more Democratic
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by jrs95 9y ago
And a paperweight will last hundreds if not thousands of years! This isn’t really relevant. An iPhone is a computer. It does a lot of things, and the technology is improving rapidly. A purse is basically just a type of bag. They don’t store
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by jrs95 9y ago
The author probably shops exclusively at Whole Foods.
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by jrs95 9y ago
It doesn't necessarily need to be a fashion accessory to justify that price. You're not just getting aesthetics for the money, you're getting performance, battery life, display quality, etc. I'm using my phone a lot on a
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by jrs95 9y ago
This is bullshit. I just switched back from Android to an iPhone X and I'm loving it. More than half of the software engineers I work with have iPhones. None of us seem to be particularly interested in 'image and exclusivity'
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by jrs95 9y ago
I hadn't really thought about it but I suppose the current width is why I'm so comfortable typing on it coming from an iPhone 7. If I'd had the Plus, it might have felt like kind of a downgrade.
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by jrs95 9y ago
I don't pay much attention to this sort of thing in general, but with how often they're wrong about Apple, it makes me wonder if they're that inaccurate about everything else too
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by jrs95 9y ago
Is it? I can play ranked and do fairly well, and I've never spent any money on cards. It just takes a bit of patience. Of F2P games I've played, it's been the best at this. Hearthstone is an especially great value if you&#x27
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by jrs95 9y ago
Haha, no. It just wasn’t a Note or Galaxy S, but it still cost like $700. Was a bit smaller. No idea what device it was specifically. And she couldn’t replace the battery easily, either. It was non-removable, as are basically all high end A
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by jrs95 9y ago
It’s intended to prevent crashes, not extend battery life. Once the battery degrades, trying to run the CPU at 100% will crash the phone.
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by jrs95 9y ago
If it had a switch, the only thing it would do is crash your phone when the CPU utilization spikes.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Most phones are probably getting recycled now anyways, so it really doesn’t matter. In fact, I would think user serviceability would increase waste because people would throw their old batteries away.
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by jrs95 9y ago
It IS a good idea. My step mom had a high end Samsung phone (not sure exactly which one) and it’s battery degraded enough within a year that it began to shut down randomly a lot.
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by jrs95 9y ago
YouTube seems to be broken on Edge half the time. I don’t think they even test for it.
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by jrs95 9y ago
> It's like OS X or Windows banning Electron Apps because they're horrible compared to native. Can they do this??! Please?! As for Flash on Android, it was pretty terrible iirc. But at least it worked, and with most of the vide
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by jrs95 9y ago
Only thing I ever really remember encountering that was decent was Runescape.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Uber/Lyft, whatever social media apps are popular at the time (facebook, snap, twitter, instagram, whatsapp, and periscope at the moment, probably), banking apps, high quality navigation app (a lot of people would never give up either
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by jrs95 9y ago
I hope something can be done to support a stronger software ecosystem on this platform. Every previous attempt has failed. HTML5 and even Android emulation aren't good enough either. I'll likely switch to this regardless, but ther
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by jrs95 9y ago
Definitely. I can see not prioritizing it over anything that could immediately kill someone, but it (and any other criminal evidence) ought to be the very next thing on the list. And they've got the resources to handle those things. Pe
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by jrs95 9y ago
Were the ones they've identified repeat offenders or something? I was under the impression that a relatively small % of the population had their DNA in a database.
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by jrs95 9y ago
While this is true, it's not good enough to just assume that drugs are the same as alcohol because alcohol is a drug.
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by jrs95 9y ago
This is true, and I think there are a lot of ways in which that would improve things. Has anyone really taken it this far though?

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