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by lev99 8y ago
It's extortion. MacOS is the only good consumer OS built on *nix, so I'd probably pay 3x if they charged it.
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by lev99 8y ago
The air starts at $1000 and is equipped with an i5. That's your $1000 laptop.
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by lev99 8y ago
You only spend $2000 on your mac books? My last one was $3,750 after shipping and taxes.
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by lev99 8y ago
I've never heard anyone complain about the MBP cpus. What is yours?
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by lev99 8y ago
> The biggest problem in the world today is lack of trust and the failure of institutions. Surely climate change, wealth inequality, or nuclear proliferation are larger issues... If you want to say "institutions failed us and caused
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by lev99 8y ago
This article has no real data backing up their claim, although they are probably correct.
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by lev99 8y ago
That's a big one if alcohol consumption is involved, like the parent comment mentioned.
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by lev99 8y ago
Different restaurants have different noise levels. You can choose to visit quieter locations. Choosing the right restaurant for the occasion and company is actually one of the most important things to get right in dining out.
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by lev99 8y ago
> the 70 foot screen on my local theater absolutely dwarfs the 70 inch screeen of your TV. Sure, and our sun isn't the brightest star. It's just much closer. Same logic applies. When you go to the theater you are getting a bo
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by lev99 8y ago
I want movie theaters to close. I think people that do not attend movie theaters also do not mind. If they liked movie theaters they would attend. I have a small apartment with a 70 inch screen in the living room. The three movies a year H
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by lev99 8y ago
> RAM is fast, disk is slow, network is really slow. (all speeds are read time) RAM speed: 35 GB/s Disk speed: 3.2 GB/s Network speed: 0.87 GB/s While you aren't wrong, I have no problem loading cat pictures at networ
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by lev99 8y ago
Great! How many cooperate chat applications does the world actually need?
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by lev99 8y ago
Any reason why we cannot build a WYSIWYG editor as a high level WebAssembly language?
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by lev99 8y ago
They have an obligation to code websites using modern and open standards. That's part of being a good internet citizen. Other companies have broken that responsibility (silver light) and we were correctly critical of them then.
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by lev99 8y ago
In my experience comments with 50+ upvotes almost always are comments on root or one level deep. Assuming popularity on hackernews was the goal I wonder what signals a member should look for in determining the best threads to comment on. I
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by lev99 8y ago
> I'm talking between 200-500k population Are there many walkable cities with populations in that range? > I'm not sure where you're getting your $250 figure from. Including getting the script.
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by lev99 8y ago
> I can run to my local 24/7 grocer or Walmart and be back in 10 minutes flat. > We were at the hospital in 15 minutes thanks to the modern automobile. If you live within 3 minutes of a Walmart (3 minutes traveling there, 3 minut
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by lev99 8y ago
The US has over 200 zip codes with a population density of 20k/sqmile. While 20k/sqmile isn't an 'emblem of urban density' it does show there are several locations a person that enjoys high density can live in.
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by lev99 8y ago
Recreational Cannabis has lots of regulations, and the only permission needed is a legal id and being an adult in several states. My goal isn't to reduce friction for accessing medicine. A person would be a fool to not jump through th
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by lev99 8y ago
I think it's a step in the wrong direction. The authority of approving drug use is moving from private citizens (doctors) to the government. A step in the right direction would be making more drugs otc.
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by lev99 8y ago
I think the parent comment is saying that a person taking legal lsd would spend significantly less money than a person drinking. Lsd and alcohol would compete for recreational time. Lsd would reduce the tax income from alcohol sales, and
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by lev99 8y ago
I always thought the therapeutic dose was higher than the recreational dose.
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by lev99 8y ago
> Patients could answer questions on a mobile-phone app to help determine whether they should be able to access a medication without a prescription. The primary issue I am concerned with is self ownership of my body, and the freedom to
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by lev99 8y ago
This. Tons of people that shop sales will just spend their money somewhere else if they miss a sale.
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by lev99 8y ago
I suspect national guard forces would make the backbone of several armed factions. Endgame for the 1% is being in a position to gain the spoils of war and to take less damage than your competition.
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by lev99 8y ago
It would be far from the first time that has happened in history.
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by lev99 8y ago
Id would be pretty hard to hide if Amazon.com's images are severed from Azure ip addresses...
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by lev99 8y ago
The top 1% of income is very different than the top 1% in wealth.
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by lev99 8y ago
An attempt to overthrow the government is handled by the military, not the police. The military has more guns, better supply lines, and better discipline than police forces.
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by lev99 8y ago
> Now the question part: would Amazon ever secretly run Amazon.com in a multi-cloud setup, balancing between AWS, GCE, Azure, etc? I'm not sure how secretive it would be. AWS 'bids' on Amazon.com's business and Amazo

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