lawtguy

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by lawtguy 14y ago
As a counterpoint: what if he's on the swim team and has to be up at 5:30 am to make a 6:00 am swim practice every day? A 7:30 pm cut-off on electronics so he's asleep by 8:30 pm wouldn't be unreasonable.
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by lawtguy 14y ago
I'll offer my perspective as a parent of a 10 year-old: For #1, I see it as trying to preempt the "but it's my iPhone, I don't have to follow your rules!" argument. The last sentence I read as self-deprecating humor: read it with ;) at the
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by lawtguy 14y ago
My previous understanding was that chimps imitate, but don't teach: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/ape-genius.html The article you linked said the chimps were teaching, but was rather vague about how. It seemed to be more focused on
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by lawtguy 14y ago
WoW and Farmville are games that made a lot of money and Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo got nothing of that. Besides Final Fantasy XI, the big 3 missed the party on both of these money making genres. It's true that both MMOs and F2P "games"
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by lawtguy 14y ago
I think Gamestop realizes that selling physical media is dying: they bought Impulse, a PC game distribution site, from Stardock a few years ago in order to have a digital distribution presence. I'm sure they're looking for more ways to ext
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by lawtguy 14y ago
It wouldn't surprise me that Bill Gates admired the IBM of the 50's through 70's. They dominated the computer industry and did lots of amazing things. The IBM the earned such derision from Microsoft was the IBM of the mid-80s and 90s. IBM
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by lawtguy 15y ago
In theory, I think the idea of analyzing the cost of a new rule is a good idea, but in practice, I doubt it's possible. Since economist can't agree on this sort of thing any more than politicians can, both sides will simply point to the an
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by lawtguy 15y ago
I don't know about the internal structure of Apple vs. Android handset manifacturers, but from the outside, they seem to treat their respective OSes very differently. Apple treats iOS the same as Mac OS: It will run on any compatible devic
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by lawtguy 15y ago
I think the "Not So Fast" section was my favorite part of the article. You rarely see these reminders that science is a work in progress in popular science reporting. Particularly with regards to medicine, too often I see too much hype ov
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by lawtguy 15y ago
That study that CrazyBear linked to definitely shows that when you removed immigrants and retired people, income growth looks much better: median income grew by 29% instead of 9%. So the fact that we have more immigrants and and retirees l
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by lawtguy 15y ago
If RedHat is right, does that mean you would not be able to install Windows 7 on a Windows 8 certified PC? I imagine that could be very annoying to corporate IT departments that don't want to upgrade to Win8 (at least not right away) but s
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by lawtguy 15y ago
Vista itself may not have been crap, but the whole Vista experience certainly was. In addition to the artificially lowered requirements, drivers were a huge problem. Because they changed the driver model, drivers frequently weren't availa
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by lawtguy 15y ago
I think there's three reasons that there's a shortage of U.S. CS graduates: 1) Dot-com bust: Lots of people jumped into CS when it looked like being a programmer was a easy way to become a millionaire. When it became obvious that wasn't go
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by lawtguy 15y ago
This number doesn't pass the smell test. I might believe that Muslims are committing more rapes that Nordics, but no rapes at all in Oslo by Nordic men? The only non-blog article I could find on this was from NRK in Norwegian: http://www.
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by lawtguy 15y ago
Looking at the US Census data from 1850 onward (they didn't ask where you were born before the 1850 census), the percentage of the US population was a steady 13-14% from 1860 to 1920. In 1950 (they didn't ask in 1930 or 1940), it's down to
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by lawtguy 15y ago
California sales tax does apply to all purchases of goods by California residents. If you live in CA and purchase something which sales tax apply to, you need to pay those taxes. Since remembering to pay sales tax to the state is a pain i
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by lawtguy 15y ago
A fingerprint reader is probably more secure, but actually wouldn't solve the "smudge" problem. You've most likely left latent prints all over your phone. These can be used pretty easily to create a fake finger that would probably fool th