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by mbateman 15y ago
First of all, I don't think that any of these are solved problems besides maybe calculator. But even granting that they are, having the vision to find an ambitious and original project is part of what it means to be "capable of so much mo
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by mbateman 15y ago
Just a quick thought from skimming this thread: It seems like there are two issues, radicalism and eccentricity. Saying that the government may have caused 9/11 is eccentric. It's crazy and "radical" in an uninteresting way, and most intell
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by mbateman 15y ago
I'm not sure that agnosticism on this issue is much less crazy, but okay.
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by mbateman 16y ago
Counter-anecdotally: I know a handful of people who decided that they wanted both an iPhone and an iPad in the last few months, but can only afford one, and go with the iPad.
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by mbateman 16y ago
Here's the classic reference to the problem in Locke (which vindicates Locke's speculative answer here): http://books.google.com/books?id=vjYIAAAAQAAJ&dq=essay%2... > To which purpose I shall here insert a problem of that very in
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by mbateman 16y ago
I'd rather be able to pay Google to stop showing me ads and collecting my personal data.
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by mbateman 16y ago
I've always wondered if this was mostly a psychological issue. There are two circumstances in which I get less than 7 hours of sleep a night: if I'm really stressed about getting something done, or if I'm really excited about getting someth
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Software Bugs and Scientific Progress(blog.regehr.org)
2 points by mbateman 16y ago|0 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
Yeah that's what it looks like on their website ( http://tawkon.com/technology ). I also like how in the screenshot on TC, there's a little warning at the bottom telling you hold your phone further away from your body. Give me a break. Of c
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by mbateman 16y ago
To clear up the ambiguity in the title: this is an app that measures that amount of radiation from your phone specifically, not ambient radiation in the environment.
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by mbateman 16y ago
Okay, I kind of get this, but I still don't understand the upshot for Apple. Apple's products are all pretty "generalist" -- you can make apps for them that do pretty much anything. So it seems like the iPad and iPhone should be a hit as is
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by mbateman 16y ago
I didn't downvote you but I couldn't make sense of your comment. Especially the last two sentences. The idea that India is "unique" and that corporations fail because they don't get the "more in less" culture seems very vague.
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by mbateman 16y ago
The Apple store in Philly just opened recently and they've been wonderful so far. Ex.: A few weeks ago I spilled water on my iPhone, rendering it unusable in important respects. I went to the genius bar (unscheduled), told the genius guy I
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by mbateman 16y ago
> He says that once the reactor is flooded with water they won't have to do any more pressure releases. Again, I don't see how that follows. He's just not stating the (true) premise that the seawater will be able to absorb the heat; he'
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by mbateman 16y ago
It's SOX that's "weird", to put it mildly. I don't blame Apple for being paranoid about it.
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by mbateman 16y ago
Appears to be from 1996.
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by mbateman 16y ago
It's a pretty well-documented phenomenon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation
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by mbateman 16y ago
I upvoted you because I agree that this true of many/most conservatives, especially those with an actual political career. But it's sad that this is the case. And it's certainly not by itself a very good argument for net neutrality or gover
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by mbateman 16y ago
My logic was definitely relying on the premise that how much someone is worth to a company isn't or at least shouldn't be unrelated salary. As other other people have already said, it may be the case that this was actually the boss's value
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by mbateman 16y ago
While a lot of what he does is admirable, I find it reprehensible that he pays himself so little (assuming he's not compensated in some other way). Either he is actually worth that little, or he's pretending to be worth less to make people
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by mbateman 16y ago
I thought the most significant bit was when she lost confidence. Once you accept notion that you're incapable of coming up with good, original ideas, why be in academia anymore? Of course you're going to be bored, ignored by "the system," a
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by mbateman 16y ago
I've never understood the idea that downvoting a comment for disagreeing with it is bad. Anyway, I also disagree that it's reasonable and considered. The comparisons are flip and cheap and build in false alternatives. Not all methods of alt
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by mbateman 16y ago
Yes lots of them do (e.g. Chalmers), but most of them don't by a fair margin.
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by mbateman 16y ago
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? Accept or lean toward: physicalism 526 / 931 (56.4%) Accept or lean toward: non-physicalism 252 / 931 (27%) Other 153 / 931 (16.4%) Not sure how you
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A "Short" Plays Washington(online.wsj.com)
1 points by mbateman 16y ago|0 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
I find Steam to be unstable and frustrating on my Mac. I would certainly prefer to use the Mac App store.
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by mbateman 16y ago
iPhone and iPad international keyboards are amazing though, way better than the international keyboard support on Macs.
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January 14, 2008: The day the market lost faith in Apple(asymco.com)
28 points by mbateman 16y ago|7 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
There doesn't exist a single data-driven methodology that can avoid local maxima without brute force the entire design space. Conceptualizing things and being creative is what avoids local maxima.
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Crotchety Old Power Users(releasecandidateone.com)
5 points by mbateman 16y ago|0 comments

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