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by qq66 11y ago
Kara Swisher definitely knows what she's writing about. If information was available, she would have it. Parse the sentence as if John Bardeen wrote, "I am honestly not sure why the magnetic field is excluded -- quantum supercondu
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by qq66 11y ago
Their high risk internal projects are billion-dollar gambles like virtual reality and self-driving cars that need their scale and resources. They don't typically experiment with anonymous chat apps, photo apps that change the image to
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by qq66 11y ago
I used to work with some blind individuals, and one thing that's hard to relate to is how much more attention they give to things that sighted individuals do not, such as sounds, spatial relationships, etc. I wouldn't think they&#
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by qq66 11y ago
Why change a process that works without a compelling reason?
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I am not a visual designer and I can immediately differentiate between the word marks. I can't say that one is "better" than the other, but certainly consistency within a brand is a worthy objective. If they mismatched the le
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by qq66 11y ago
I always chuckle at the "couple of miles from West Point" analogy, because West Point is in the middle of basically nowhere. One could easily live in the nearest town, a sleepy little town called Cornwall, without ever being notic
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by qq66 11y ago
Out of the box, Windows Server assumes that you don't know what you're doing, probably because many Windows Server deployments are configured by brand-new or amateur users. If you do know what you're doing and want all those
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by qq66 12y ago
I would think you could have a cowcatcher-type metal wedge hovering ~1mm above the rails to clear most of the mess, and then have a brush for the last 1mm.
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by qq66 12y ago
Why not just use a brush? Too much wear and tear on the rails?
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by qq66 12y ago
The flip-flop is not as fast as the law makes it seem, because a law against X only gets passed when X seems like a real possibility. Nobody was passing gay marriage bans in 1850 -- only when it seemed imminent did people try to fight it.
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by qq66 12y ago
Your example is interesting, because car color and safety are related :) The effect isn't strong, but white cars seem to be involved in fewer injury incidents per mile driven. Standard disclaimer about correlation/causality...
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by qq66 12y ago
How can there be a "best product possible" without taking the prospective user into account? A phone that was so thin it sliced my finger, or so small that I couldn't see it, wouldn't be a very good phone at all. What Ap
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by qq66 12y ago
Natural sunlight is the most abundant resource humanity has. If we can't get our kids three hours of it per day, there's something that needs to be fixed with how we treat them.
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Yes, that's why most iPhone cases have an annoying circular cutout around the Apple logo on the back, reducing the functionality of the case but generating envy in your hapless Android-using neighbors...
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by qq66 12y ago
The difference between the music app business on Android and iOS is a complex one that really encapsulates the meaning of a "brand." Apple has a long history of market success with creative professionals, so to make sure that they
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by qq66 12y ago
If you're way in the back in a big concert hall, you can definitely notice the lag, but it's not a big deal. The problem would be if different instruments reach your ears at different times, and since the closest seat is still a c
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by qq66 12y ago
You can't really value entertainment the way you value something like a machine tool. People who purchase the entertainment consider it its own end, whereas the people who are buying the machine tool will want to know "What other
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by qq66 12y ago
If you want to see the non-rent-seeking version of a local marketplace, look at Craigslist. Their service is completely free to most participants. Craigslist has a lot of things going for it, but the "rent seekers" are able to cre
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by qq66 12y ago
Would you feel the same way about Facebook installing "Facebook PCs" for free use of Facebook, say in every Starbucks?
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by qq66 12y ago
Keep in mind, the Dropcam only helps if you know the thief. We had a theft in our old office and caught the thief on Dropcam. The police saw the video and noted that they had seen the guy at other thefts as well. My obvious question: "
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by qq66 12y ago
Not everyone has them, they're called the "Blynclight." They just sit outside your door and light up with the same color as your status in Microsoft Lync (red = busy, yellow = away, green = available). If you're in a Lyn
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by qq66 12y ago
I know of people who wear headphones at work not playing any music, just as a signal to other people not to disturb them.
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As a counterpoint, I recently moved from an open-plan office to a private office at Microsoft, and I definitely prefer the open plan. I feel more energized in an open plan, and I now make it a point to walk around the halls and drop in on p
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by qq66 12y ago
Most people who criticize "bullshit jobs" simply lack the perspective to see how these jobs are critically important for society. Take the list from the article itself, one of the "bullshit jobs" listed is actuary. Well,
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by qq66 12y ago
It looks like they've changed the hardware, but the Hertz Neverlosts that I used in 2005 and 2006 were vastly superior to a 2015 smartphone.
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by qq66 12y ago
Free Facebook means the ability to send and receive messages with ~1 billion people at no cost. That's hugely valuable to a lot of people without the money for a general-purpose Internet connection.
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Beef prices have gone up a LOT in recent years, but ethanol-related corn price increases is only a part of the reason. Slightly increased domestic demand due to economic recovery, as well as very large increases in foreign demand due to eco
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by qq66 12y ago
Bill Watterson is a Salingeresque figure to many, the reclusive creator of a work that many people call a defining part of their personal development. Just as there were many newspaper articles about failed attempts to contact Salinger, t
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by qq66 12y ago
Bundling is better for some consumers, unbundled is better for some consumers, depending on their preferences. An incomplete analysis can be found here: https://livingeconomics.org/article.asp?docId=288 , incomplete because
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by qq66 12y ago
The unusual thing here is that a man is being prosecuted for a Facebook post. The fact that he is being prosecuted for something he wrote in the US is not at all unusual. The United States routinely prosecutes Americans who engage in action

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