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by r0s 14y ago
> Macs in all their locations and used a custom built POS system. Locking machines down to a POS, this would be no easier in OSX than Linux, and the premium hardware (with associated cost and limited options) makes this the opposite of
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by r0s 14y ago
Oh the memories! Lights... Camera....
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by r0s 14y ago
I sure wherever you live you're shitting on the third world just as much as the US.
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by r0s 14y ago
No, allocation of resources depends entirely on scarcity, because no working system of fair distribution will ever happen in the real world. Unless you rely on charity to take care of everyone, which I guess is your solution. More likely
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by r0s 14y ago
You're deluded if you think car culture in the US can change significantly anytime soon. Call me a cynic, and I'll call you a fool. If you want to throw around platitudes, why not address the real problem: uncontrolled population. Or does
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by r0s 14y ago
As he always has, nothing is new or remarkable here. RMS is no more or less controversial today than ever before.
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by r0s 14y ago
I love this, but it really only applies to small ideas. He clearly articulates the emotional weight of these forever projects though.
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by r0s 14y ago
Some would disagree: http://www.merrycoz.org/yc/BADLIT.HTM It's a familiar horse to beat, this NEW media is special, and different and scary. It happened with jazz, rock&roll, comic books, movies, novels, heavy metal, many scapegoat h
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by r0s 14y ago
Voice input just isn't ready. Commands, yes. Anything longer than a short sentence and it's unusable. That means this will forever be a Second device, either separate or connected to your smartphone. Working speech recognition would be a
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by r0s 14y ago
You got me, but that's just one lone feature to build a platform around... and the technology isn't there yet.
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by r0s 14y ago
That's interesting, they ultimately passed. I'd like to read their reaction.
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by r0s 14y ago
I can't think of a single feature here that wouldn't be better using existing technology on cellphones. Having these things always in your line of vision and no real input options sounds awful.
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by r0s 14y ago
That would be more like selling crapware removal apps, which is already a common scam. Ninite is more like pasteurization.
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by r0s 14y ago
He's not withholding identity indefinably, just filtering for privacy sake. That's reasonable to me. Anybody could out him once they connect, if he was a shady character the ruse wouldn't last long.
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by r0s 14y ago
Thanks for the explanation, I've got a couple questions: Say two founders begin a vested company and one drops out, does total ownership transfer to the other founder? If BOTH drop out, how are assets divided? Lastly, it seems that the disa
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by r0s 14y ago
> most people just don't want beats coming at them that fast. I'm sure people used to say this about Rock & Roll, or Jazz. The revolution in speed is probably just a decade away, judging by past acceptance. I want increasing info
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by r0s 14y ago
That's it, I'm applying to Valve.
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by r0s 14y ago
I think of this realization in my own life as The Moment of Panic. Wherein I suddenly realized time was passing. I don't think you can see that, until you test your abilities, and see your own potential. Maybe that's why it took me thirty
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by r0s 14y ago
> other people ... subsidizing your medical costs. That is the definition of insurance.
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by r0s 14y ago
1) How efficient is Medicare now? Private healthcare will always be an option. The existing private system would still be very good, and very competitive. 2) You can say the same for private industry. 3) The downsides are taxes. Expand t
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by r0s 14y ago
It's already implemented. Medicare is accepted almost nation-wide, there's no system to build. The main opposition isn't logistical, it's ideological. With the enshrinement of private insurance as a legal mandate, this will never change.
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by r0s 14y ago
Clean URLs are just as useful and visible as the favicon, or custom error pages, or many other "unnecessary" features. You need to backup production sites. A repo could do that, but it's just another backup system that needs to be implemen
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by r0s 14y ago
No clean URLs? How about setting up automated backups?
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by r0s 14y ago
There were just as many, if not more people staying at home trading a life of manual/unskilled labor for quick entertainment through all human history. The old vices are still here, before the internet, TV, before that, music, dancing, book
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by r0s 14y ago
Am I taking this too far out of context, or is this abhorrent journalism?: > Google, have based their entire business models on providing free content to consumers by festooning Web pages with paid advertisements That's more than a litt
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by r0s 14y ago
Agreed. Current laptops are simply overpriced. Apple deserves credit for really raising the bar on quality. When I can't get a notebook with a screen in parity resolution to my phone for less than $1000USD, the market is skewed. From t
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by r0s 14y ago
R&D is almost entirely tax deductible from what I remember.
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by r0s 14y ago
Assuming the image has a small thumbnail embedded in the EXIF data, maybe it would be even faster to use that resource (already included with the image), scaled to fill the image space and replaced when the image loads. Essentially the same
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by r0s 14y ago
Interesting to me are the generational service abandonment patterns. The author mentions abandoning MySpace moving into highschool like the subject graduates past Tumblr. It's symbolic of the maturing nature of the individual. In the futur
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by r0s 14y ago
Capacity for understanding isn't a limited pool. If people get excited programming micro-controllers let them. They really don't need to learn to build such a thing. Should all programmers learn assembly? Sure. Should all programmers be

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