nartsbtaa

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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
Sorry, I removed it because I realized I misinterpreted your comment.
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
> But jobs moving to China and India isn't solving the underlying issue I thought we were talking about automation and technology? What do China and India have to do with this? I never said it's good for a society when their
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
> That doesen't change that for some people their job is all they have. If you take that away they have no realistic future unless it's some post scarcity society. This has always been the case throughout history: new techn
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
You can win an election without spending big money. But you do need to charisma, and no amount of money can buy Hillary/Romney/Kerry/Gore charisma.
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
Techies definitely didn't make it cool across the general population. It became cool through brand association with cool phones and MP3 players and its aesthetics.
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
We should just throw out any regulations that don't spark joy.
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
Why even compare PNG and H.264 to begin with? PNG is a lossless compression format. A better comparison would be something lossy like JPG, which could easily shrink the size to ~100 kB. The point still stands, but at least it's a more
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
Long Beach and Costa Mesa are in Southern California.
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
Working backwards or forwards, the result is the same. If one in four American billionaires are sociopaths, the likelihood of a sociopath being a billionaire jumps from 1.7e-6 for the general public to 4.25e-5 (all other things being equal)
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
> "It's time to face the fact that Apple doesn't care about professionals and never has." I'm a professional, and the MacBook Pro continues to suit my needs extremely well. Perhaps the problem is that "pro
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
There's room for debate about the new Macbook Pro, but this post is bad. #1 - The touch bar is dynamic and contextual. It's likely that you can enable the traditional ESC/Fx row when you're using Terminal, your editor, e
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
Thanks, I'll probably try again with your recommendations. I may have just approached his writing with the wrong expectations.
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
But who would drive a Chevy Bolt if they could drive a Tesla? Even if the Bolt is a better car, Tesla has the better brand name for now.
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
There's a difference between wanting something to be true, and acknowledging whether a business is succeeding or not on its own terms.
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
> Nope, it's not autonomous, it's Autopilot! Yeah, well... it's not really autonomous. It's a slightly better cruise control + assisted lane change. In fact the "Autopilot" marketing term makes it sound mu
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
I've considered that "Big Red Son," to use that example again, is intentionally tedious and humorless. Readers expect something titillating, or at least mildly interesting, and instead DFW reflects the mundaneness of the awar
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
DFW's writing comes up from time to time, and I always react by venting the frustration I feel with his work, which I promptly destroy because it seems wrong to criticize a (relatively recently) dead man. But I'll say it: his writ
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
David Foster Wallace also had an annoying habit of sprinkling non-standard (or at least obscure) acronyms throughout his writing.
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
I don't understand how they think this can be in their long term best interests. We're probably among the more technically savvy Amazon users, but navigating through all the crap is still a nightmare. They can't expect every
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
Bread freezes very well. It also thaws out really quickly. Or you can just stick the frozen slice in the toaster.
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by nartsbtaa 10y ago
> On the other hand, some of the people who now are claiming Bill is a rapist once testified under oath that he did _not_ rape them. Yet other women have consistently claimed over decades that Clinton sexually assaulted them. And tod