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by ktizo 14y ago
The law of supply and demand states that if you raise the cost of something, you will get less of it. Say you can produce a certain amount of widgets out of a given resource, but with research you can produce more widgets, and that you ca
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by ktizo 14y ago
I think it is hard to foresee removing from the foreseeable future one of the few bits of the future that is foreseeable.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Many others will likely get this wish against their will. Really? I suspect that if you offered a million one way tickets to mars and advertised it as almost certain death, they would sell out in less than an hour.
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by ktizo 14y ago
This was the main thing I was referring to about the labour shortages - Additionally, last week Chinese state-run news media reported that several vocational schools in the city of Huai’an, in eastern China, required hundreds of students t
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by ktizo 14y ago
The true answer doesn't have to be the interesting one, this is basic Design in the Commercial World stuff. If the change in dock connector for the new phone wasn't coupled to restrictions on 3rd party suppliers and an increase in basic cos
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by ktizo 14y ago
For the ones that are gushing money? "Think Dominant" Well, that goes fairly well with their 1984 commercial I suppose.
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by ktizo 14y ago
In that case it was extremely well matched with the one which preceded it. But if you are going to make ridiculous demands in lieu of argument, then you shouldn't really expect much of value in return.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Apple is in the unique position of also owning a dominant ecosystem of media devices that have nothing to do with USB, micro-USB, or any variant thereof. Umm... globally it doesn't, and most of it's market is outside the US, where it is f
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by ktizo 14y ago
That really is the only pro you need. The rest is just handwaving and shyster talk.
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by ktizo 14y ago
At the end of June, in 2009, the European Commission started a movement to make micro-USB the standardized charging port for cellphones. It was subsequently backed by roughly 90% of the cellphone market holders, with Apple, Nokia, Sony Eri
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by ktizo 14y ago
I read your first version and didn't think it was particularly off topic, but then again I can meander all over the place when it comes to discussions.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER5NG2i_5V4
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by ktizo 14y ago
The way I think about it is this: If there is a limited supply of a good that is highly desired by the richest in society, and if price is used as an indicator of quality for that good, then it is the connection between the cost and the con
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by ktizo 14y ago
When you separate the cost from the consumer, prices skyrocket. Not always. Cost of education in the UK has skyrocketed more since the scrapping of grants in favour of a loans+tuition fees model. Part of this is that when there is a marke
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by ktizo 14y ago
Heh, I was throwing John Donne about these boards the other day funnily enough. I suspect that if free education plus a free living allowance were paid for by the state to impoverished students, then you would have the UK until the mid '90s
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by ktizo 14y ago
More people learning stuff doesn't devalue the learning that other people do, it adds to it. The economics of ideas are not the same as the economics of physical commodities.
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by ktizo 14y ago
I remember reading a lecture by Feynman where he discusses reversible computing and suggests that you can get processing down to insanely low power usage using those methods. I couldn't find a link to the lecture in question, but here is so
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by ktizo 14y ago
The plastic cover is sacrificial. It is intended to get grubby and trashed, in fact, the psychology works better if it does.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Make something covered in glass that people are going to carry in their pocket. This makes people worry about scratching the phone, they want to take care of the phone, to protect it. This triggers an emotional bond with the product.
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by ktizo 14y ago
I pick option 3. The author probably knows about WebOS and didn't think that it was necessary to go over it for this article. [edit] If someone offers you n options, always pick option n + 1 .
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by ktizo 14y ago
Tell them the screen broke.
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by ktizo 14y ago
I like that paraphrase, mind if I nick it?
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by ktizo 14y ago
The trouble is that normal operations are often indistinguishable from social engineering. I have worked several places where I have been told by management that something needs fixed on a web server, but they can't remember any passwords,
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by ktizo 14y ago
Contrary to OWS retoric, my opinion is that the "one percenters" are not the main part of the problem. Irrespective of whether they are the main part of the problem or not, I think that demonising them is a really stupid idea that just pl
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by ktizo 14y ago
Although tempting, debating the meaning of empathy is probably not a beneficial contribution to this HN thread. Surely, given the subject, it is extremely relevant.
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by ktizo 14y ago
My current view on it is that empathy isn't specifically an emotional or a rational response, but is more a sensory mirroring of the state of another entity real or imagined, and I am not sure that you can pick apart the strands into one re
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by ktizo 14y ago
I think empathy is more of an experience you feel when confronted with a situation or story, rather than something you grant to people after a process of logical judgement.
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I felt bad for him, but not surprised at the outcome. But when grizzly bears ate Timothy Treadwell, they were not deliberately trying to be malicious, at least as far as we know.
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Fair point, I wasn't really thinking that one through at all. Of course it is still infringement both before and after purchase and the previous owner may have been just as likely to litigate as the previous one. And I wasn't suggesting tha
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by ktizo 14y ago
“I don’t care if they bought these patents to sue you or not,” Pender told McKeon. “They are a property right.” Surely he should care if people are purchasing patents purely for litigation. There are not many other items that you can lega

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