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As much as I want it to happen, and as much as I agree with you that in the near future is going to happen, I think you are missing the context. You seem to be forgetting we already have cars. Not only that, we already have planes, bullet t
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8y ago
Of course is short sighted, but those are not the only two options. You can think the idea will change the world without drinking the cool-aid that it already has.
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8y ago
> crime- Is strongly correlated with poverty, which has been rapidly reduced globally thanks to technological innovation Small scale crime might be. White collar crime is adversely correlated, strongly, with poverty. And it sinks entire
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8y ago
When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective o
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redial
8y ago
> Wait, is that article simply ignoring that self-driving car are now commercially available in Phoenix? That’s probably a bigger revolution than the steam engine, and someone’s take on this is “That’s it? Are you being ironic? The steam
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8y ago
That is not his point. His point is that big flashy introductions never (almost) materialize in something truly world-changing. When was the sharing economy introduced? No one knows, it just happened organically.
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8y ago
Most revolutions have been silent revolutions. The only one that was an instant world event was the iPhone launch. All the technologies named in the article; Wifi, Google Search, Facebook, Twitter, even YouTube and Wikipedia were not introd
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8y ago
I've had a book in my nightstand for at least 2 years and every once in a while I swear to myself "this month I'm gonna read it, this month..." then I fall asleep. I better call my layer and get my story straight for whe
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8y ago
Even if Apple moves to ARM, support for Intel will continue for many years. They are still supporting machines from 2009. I would say anyone running a Hackintosh is safe until 2025.
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8y ago
How many websites are you gonna have to "install" to get basic textual and photo information, whatever that means?
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8y ago
They say they care, their actions have proven otherwise. They need more than a promise of a new Mac Pro and an iMac Pro which starts at $5000 to win back their most loyal Mac fans after years, literally years of neglect. And after this,
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Butterfly MacBook Pro keyboards require more frequent, more expensive repairs
(arstechnica.com)
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8y ago
> Linux desktops could catch on in the mainstream market just fine if they had the marketing budget, brand recognition, and vendor support of Google The problem with Linux on the mainstream is Linux, it has nothing to do with not having
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8y ago
> If you don't provision the image at all, you'll wind up with a copy of Pro with a few more enterprise features. If you want to slim it down, you'll need to do so. Isn't that the complain? A serious enterprise versi
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8y ago
You forgot to keep reading before agreeing with him/her. > Sure you can share code but if you want to develop a great app you have to tweak it considerable for each device.
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8y ago
Not Craigslist tho.
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8y ago
Apple has announced no such thing. I suggest you actually read the article you linked.
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9y ago
> Stop the car in the middle of a freeway? Yes. When the alternative is having a crash they should find a way to stop. [edit: of course I don't mean to suddenly stop. But if the system can't trust the driver is alert it shoul
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9y ago
Jeez, that damned media again misinforming people. Who could have expected a feature called AUTOPILOT to mean self driving, who?!
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> Animal product and clean energy? That’s an oxymoron. Not when you realize that clean energy refers only to the production and consumption of electricity and has nothing whatsoever to do with supplies or with animals of any kind, unless
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9y ago
They would love to claim a whole lot more, and in fact originally and for a long time they did. But I know that with so little to back them up, that is what they've been resorted to claim.
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9y ago
Let's not kid ourselves, 2019 means December 2019, so...2020.
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> That Christianity isn't a unified hive mind? If they claim to have direct communication with the creator of the universe, like all christian communities do, they should have at least a minimum standard of congruence. Or is he just
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9y ago
What does it say that it was actively used with authority (and horrifyingly is still being used ) by both sides of the slavery debate? Shouldn't the literal word of the most moral being in the universe be clear regarding slavery, at
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9y ago
An SD reader connected over USB2 is better than no SD card reader. If they cared they would have made it PCIe, but instead they took it away in a move that benefited only Apple. No pro benefited from the removal of the sd slot. It didn'
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9y ago
Ah, the No-True-Scotsman fallacy. First you lie and claim Hitler was an atheist when in fact he was a catholic until the day he died, and then is somehow my fault? Isn't lying in the ten commandments? I don't know if in his heart
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There has only ever been one source for values: people.
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Moral questions are moral questions, and they are hard. Religion has just convinced you, despite thousands of years of evidence to the contrary, that you should equate religion with morality, when only one look at their 'holy' pla
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9y ago
No. Hitler was a catholic, he killed atheists and despised the evolutionary theory. After all, Arian people were supposed to be god's chosens not those jews. He wrote this himself in Mein Kampf. Stalin was a student at a seminary. Ever
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9y ago
That "we" certainly doesn't include judaism, or you know, the ones that wrote the book.
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