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by roc 14y ago
> "then she calls the bag ban a movement of the nanny state" There are a few (helpful) signals that people send, when they've made an emotional decision and are merely trying to justify it after-the-fact. Using emotionally-charged cl
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by roc 14y ago
It was just meant to be shorthand to raise the issue of the different highs. I don't really subscribe to the hard-line distinction; I was just trying to be succinct.
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by roc 14y ago
Admittedly I'm not swimming in data. So it could certainly be suggestion or selective reporting or whatever else. All I was really trying to point out was that there are clearly different 'states' of high: introspective (to the point of pa
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by roc 14y ago
I don't think you want to lay the blame for the country's weight problem at the feet of decisions made by exasperated non-parents caught flat-footed in an office environment with a five-year-old spun up to "eleven".
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by roc 14y ago
Indica vs Sativa.
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by roc 14y ago
Not to mention that most writers have a pretty good idea who else on their beat is writing tripe. And if someone has a habit of doing this sort of thing, they're not going to care one whit when that person is exposed.
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by roc 14y ago
> "Seems like a really high price to pay." And yet Jayson Blair and Judith Miller rolled those dice. And that's just to name two high profile cases at that same paper. I wouldn't be so sure that's such a rare thing.
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by roc 14y ago
The drawings are irrelevant; It's always and only about the claims. i) I'm not familiar with how Pinterest works, so I'm no help there. ii) they're describing essentially any annotation of content (including a link to content), provided the
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by roc 14y ago
To say nothing of the goals and activities that come with 'grown-up' life and having a family, that don't map well to "everything fits in one suitcase." Does family bonding really happen when everyone is staring at their own tablet? Cookin
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by roc 14y ago
I'm wondering aloud here. I quite specifically don't know how it would go down. I'm just saying that it doesn't seem clear beyond the trivial case -- gate agent and private plane -- and that doesn't seem to happen anyway. As to what VIPR te
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by roc 14y ago
Right. But screeners can also be on VIPR teams. And as the VIPR program falls under the TSA's law enforcement office, it seems an open question whether random TSA gate goons gain federal law enforcement authority in those situations. The ol
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by roc 14y ago
I wonder where the TSA VIPR teams land on that axis. As I understand it, they can be comprised of actual law enforcement personnel, including federal. But don't necessarily. And even if a VIPR team included federal law enforcement personn
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by roc 14y ago
It means you'd have exactly the type of "tablet" that Micrsoft has gone nowhere with, for the last decade-plus. How is the Surface any different than a straight-forward iteration on a Win7 tablet? A neat keyboard for the slate form-factor?
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by roc 14y ago
1. I never said keyboard/mouse was bad. I said no-one's branching out, despite the open platform, because the lack of standards and support makes that painful. 2. You may want to keep survivorship bias in mind. (If you had a game that kb/
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by roc 14y ago
> "The platform is almost completely open!" That's kind of the problem. You can do anything, and plenty of people are. But there's no platform 'boss' to lay down standards. Aside from (fleeting) de-facto standards (particular flight
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by roc 14y ago
Only because "air drying" is a more acceptable option than "not washing". So a combined station would only slow things down inasmuch as people no longer skip drying. In general (at least in the US) drying takes far longer than washing. Be
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by roc 14y ago
Dell has plenty of opportunities, given their enterprise customers. The tricky part is: almost all of those opportunities involve new services for post-Microsoft IT. And how is Microsoft and their two billion dollars going to react to thos
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by roc 14y ago
Workflow is one of those great examples of Microsoft building and ditching platforms/technologies. They've gone through almost as many cycles there as they have with data access technologies.
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by roc 14y ago
> "When Gunnar Mogensen says 'We can't afford it' I think he is really saying 'we can't afford to feed, house and care for 100% of our people'." I think a more generous interpretation would be along the lines of: as demographics shift
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by roc 14y ago
Could be. Are those sufficiently advanced that anyone would be confident-enough to wager amounts, based on their results, of the order at issue here?
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by roc 14y ago
> "Personally, I would expect that this proportion would in fact increase over time" Even so, it's a matter of rate of growth vs lifespan of design, in the context of what your mobile users are actually looking to do. Even if mobile u
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by roc 14y ago
> "mistakes do happen." Absolutely. I'm just saying there isn't much justification to assume it was a mere mistake. Particularly given the trades that show up just after the report was released, but before a person could conceivabl
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by roc 14y ago
> "I am not sure how much all the safety requirements have actually changed things" Well, absent digging into details that neither of us have, that's going to come down to a philosophical position: do you think that trends will contin
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by roc 14y ago
Which begs the question of whether it was accidentally early. It may well be that the 'early' trader knew they weren't the only one with early access to the data and intentionally set their trades to be a tiny bit early, to increase their
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by roc 14y ago
From 25 per 100,000 to 10 per 100,000 is not a massive change? Or, using the more appropriate rate -- fatalities per hundred million vehicle miles traveled -- dropping from ~7 in the 1950s to ~1 today? Again, the stack rank isn't a bad plac
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by roc 14y ago
> "For the life of me I can't understand why someone would want both products" You've never met a gadget-hound?
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by roc 14y ago
MS can only dominate tablets by upsetting their enterprise segments. Microsoft's personal computing empire is built not directly on Windows and Office, but on the million little customizations and plugins that people build on top of them.
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by roc 14y ago
It's important to remember that causes of death are often also activities which carry utility and even outright life- saving capability. Accidental poisoning, for example, is often due to exposure to cleaning chemicals and drugs which have
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by roc 14y ago
Worse than that, the TSA nonsense encourages a non-trivial population to drive when they would have flown. Driving being far less safe, it's probable that Security Theatre has a body count.
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by roc 14y ago
inertia.

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