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by loewenskind 16y ago
>Yes, that's my projection. Sorry for the ad hominem argument. It just smelled like a rhetorical trick, so I got carried away. Fair enough. There are so many dishonest people arguing on both sides that one begins to expect the worst.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Given that your "selectively picking and choosing data points to spin your argument" was even worse ("a lot of people find..." what a nonsensical peace of spin!), that's pretty rich.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
I would say that makes him a politician. :)
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by loewenskind 16y ago
I think this is exactly the kind of nonsensical flame war type post everyone wanted to avoid. Since you seem intent to go down that route I'll just leave you to it. EDIT In response to your edit: >"Science can't have an answer for ever
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Guilty as charged. I was trying to throw in a sound byte to illustrate how some things can't be illuminated by science (e.g. "I have good taste", "No, you have bad taste, I have good taste", "Well that's obviously in poor taste", "Taste
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by loewenskind 16y ago
No, what I'm saying is that the question "Is there a God?" is both unprovable and unfalsifiable. Science cannot answer every question for us. Philosophy is a better fit for religious questions.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>When it actually comes to needing support, a lot of people find that Apple's slick sell doesn't flow into support What are you talking about? Apple support consistently scores near the top. Have you ever dealt with Dell?
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>That's a very decent stint in any company. It would be today, but back then?
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Religion is not a scientific subject, but a philosophical one. You can't prove "taste" either but most people know "bad taste" when they see it.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Exactly. I can't wait until some YC companies start being at the receiving end of this behavior so the insane level of Google worship on this site can finally go away.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
So he's more social, while believing in protecting artists. That doesn't make him a "shill" per se. One might find his politics naive but you're accusing him of being disingenuous. Everything I know about him (admittedly not a great deal
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Especially on income made while living and working in another country!
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Thank you for so concisely pointing out one of the biggest problems the US is facing today.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
That's a pretty strong ad hominem attack. I didn't like Al Franken until he got elected and started doing a lot of things that make sense (e.g. his proposed bill to fix how rating agencies work, while not getting rid of rating agencies as
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by loewenskind 16y ago
I thought Network Neutrality was about restricting what businesses could do? In any other nation I would absolutely say the government should just own the internet. In the US I'm a bit more cautious but I agree that companies can't be giv
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by loewenskind 16y ago
So you seriously want to give up your privacy (and ours as well) to save you typing one freaking word (python)? That's lazy to the point of being offensive.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
The greater the market efficiency, the more this will be the case.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>and if you figure in the cost of living in NYC you're probably making less. This is hardly that simple. Lower cost of living means lower wages. That will be a wash with cost-of-living type products and services but not with, for lack
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by loewenskind 16y ago
I'm not so sure this is the case. Even though finance is usually an easier environment (e.g. the markets aren't open 24/7 so the apps usually don't have high availability) the people hiring there think that if you haven't worked in finance
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by loewenskind 16y ago
This is actually a fantastic description. Very well put.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
If you'll pay me 20 a month (and give me the account info), I'll delete it for you.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
People were saying the same things before the iPod came out. And then before the Iphone came out. And then before the iPad came out. I don't see where they might take it next, but I'm not going to bet against them. At some point they'll
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>I would get a lot more books, while contributing just as much to the publishers' fixed costs. Gain for you, no gain for them. >it's unlikely that they'll run out of things to sell me. I find this hard to believe. Currently it soun
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>This is one of the many reasons why downloading something without the copyright holder's OK is not the same thing as theft. This is pure nonsense. It's true that no inventory is lost when a product is downloaded and in some cases no s
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by loewenskind 16y ago
I have a chip on my shoulder? I'm speaking as a customer. You're giving me excuses as to why I should compromise my own convenience and security to make your job easier. Why on earth would I care about making your job easier? Facebook pr
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>If we're all equal then it doesn't. Equal in the sense of: TotalSum(Woman) == TotalSum(Man) not: Woman == Man.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
iPhone apps would apparently have this problem. Simple solution? If the app can't do some function because of a user setting it pops up an alert with a button pointing to the place to change the setting.... pretty simple.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Are you serious? A better API would be if it were just a yes or no to send all my information? I couldn't possibly disagree more. Newflash: I don't give a shit about how hard your job as a programmer is. If you don't like programming tak
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Yes, this is exactly the danger here and something Facebook has done to its users several times already.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
A lot of people in this thread are going off course due to the red herring about how much it costs to make an ebook. There are systems where cost is based on price to make but capitalism isn't one of them. The real issue here is Agency pri

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