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by mbateman 16y ago
This headline is really misleading. It's not just a gay kiss, it's gay nude fondling of genitals. Seems pretty reasonable to think that the homosexual element is incidental to the pornographic element in Apple's decision.
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by mbateman 16y ago
You mean their gains are limited to 100% of what they sold the stock at. Their "investment" is the lending fee that they paid for the right to sell the stock. If you pay a thousand dollars in lending fees, sell the stocks for ten thousand d
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by mbateman 16y ago
After a month in any entry-level job in any field, you'll know, and all your co-workers will know, if you're "good."
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Apple's Walking A Thin Line On Antitrust(businessinsider.com)
3 points by mbateman 16y ago|2 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
"With a fortune of that size, additional wealth is about little more than score-keeping." No. I hate this sentiment. Having more wealth is it's about expanding one's ability to act, increasing one's economic influence, and, most generally,
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Anti-Competitive AND Potentially Creepy(davidbarnard.com)
5 points by mbateman 16y ago|1 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
This is a video.
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by mbateman 16y ago
Any particular reason why?
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by mbateman 16y ago
There is currently an attempt to pass a bill limiting the fees banks can take from merchants when someone buys using a debit card. The supporters of this bill tend to myopically ignore points like this (among other things). Edit: Recent sto
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by mbateman 16y ago
I'm not an MRI tech but I work on MRI image analysis academically, so I know a bit more than usual by hearsay and I see them used all the time. Why are there "MRI magnet is always on" signs in the medical imaging areas of the med school her
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by mbateman 16y ago
Yes, you can't even turn them off by unplugging them, as it were. A certain kind of emergency shutdown dumps the helium needed to allow superconductivity (and thus maintain the magnetic field). It costs like $20,000 to do this and is quite
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by mbateman 16y ago
It also automagically displays the text of the article in one page, despite the obnoxious effort of a site to require you to click through to multiple pages to read a single article. As far as I can tell, the point of splitting an article i
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by mbateman 16y ago
This wasn't previously available on the iPhone.
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by mbateman 16y ago
Or do what Gruber suggests and block Tynt in /etc/hosts
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by mbateman 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma
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by mbateman 16y ago
Intensive document creation, like writing papers, is not well handled by an iPad at present. It syncs horribly, is not good for copying/pasting from other documents or websites (due to poor multitasking support), etc. On syncing: http://ww
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by mbateman 16y ago
Yeah, investing your money well is a serious time commitment. But saying one can't do it because other people do it too is like saying that you can't invest your money by buying and renting out houses, because there are professional realtor
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by mbateman 16y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that he was being rude, I just paraphrased him. I liked that he's frank about redirecting any potential criticism from Apple to the German government, where it belongs. I don't know that I've ever seen a CEO do
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Steve Jobs Tells Germans to Blame Their Government for iPad Price Difference(macrumors.com)
29 points by mbateman 16y ago|57 comments
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Full Version of Metropolis Found(nytimes.com)
117 points by mbateman 16y ago|18 comments
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Why Intel Will Be a Mobile Loser(gigaom.com)
7 points by mbateman 16y ago|0 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
I hope they are elitist. Elitism is good and elitism is true. If they keep people from attending or speaking who "aren't quite good enough" (as the linked techcrunch article alleges), then so much the better for them for holding up their st
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IPhone, Gizmodo, and moral clarity about crime(csmonitor.com)
60 points by mbateman 16y ago|40 comments
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Very Personal Computing(mondaynote.com)
9 points by mbateman 16y ago|1 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
The first five sections of Chalmers's paper explain the problem very well: http://consc.net/papers/facing.html (Chalmers is the philosopher who coined the distinction between "hard" and "easy" problems of consciousness.)
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by mbateman 16y ago
Corporations typically don't appeal to reason on complex issues. In fact, most humans don't (though maybe "normal" ones do?). What's sad is that it's a simple but important standard that isn't ordinarily upheld. It isn't sad to praise anyon
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by mbateman 17y ago
Though this is tangential to the story, I would like to second the recommendation of this paper. On the way to arguing for his thesis, the author explains the function of the modern banking system and the "shadow" banking system in clear an