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by roc 13y ago
A little bit, but the biological clock is still an inherent imbalance for those people looking for biological children. A man in his 30s, dating women in their 20s will find more of them amenable to reproducing right away, and it's not
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by roc 13y ago
> "Not to be a pedant, but not everybody pairs up 1-1." And that population is mis-matched to anyone who is looking for a pair-bond, so they're irrelevant to an analysis of the problems of pair-bonding. You mean as wel
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by roc 13y ago
> "Professional women often still carry with them some of this 1960's mentality and refuse to "date down."" Which is the crux of it. Though I wouldn't say it's fair to consider it self-inflicted. Eve
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by roc 13y ago
> "Origami Owl just appears to be a straightforward direct sales model akin to Tupperware or various cosmetics parties (e.g. Avon in UK). The reps buy stock, arrange the parties and sell it. That seems to be entirely legit."
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by roc 13y ago
As to storage, they've got the fusion drive. It doesn't sacrifice speed. It can (economically) be large enough to avoid feeling cramped. And it's been real-world tested for a couple years now. Personally, I think the hold-
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by roc 13y ago
Further to this point: the iPhone 5S event last month also had nothing but already known and completely predictable updates. There was no "one more thing". It even featured pretty much the entire same cast of presenters. It e
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by roc 13y ago
Oh I was absolutely agreeing with you and just expanding and making explicit how this totally contradicted the article's argument.
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by roc 13y ago
I was specifically talking about the crowd who watches those events and that 'magic' reaction. I probably should have been more clear. I didn't mean to suggest that they wouldn't care at all , just that they wouldn&#x2
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by roc 13y ago
If you ask me, the entire "games" black hole looks for all the world like they're on the cusp of something that isn't quite ready. They introduced official gamepad support coming to iOS7 at WWDC, both standalone gamepa
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by roc 13y ago
Apple customers are a self-selected bunch who, almost by definition, are more interested in "new stuff to do" than "$100 cheaper". So whereas the pricing may have been big news, the audience that watched that presentatio
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by roc 13y ago
The future for the Air is Apple getting serious about keyboard support in iOS. The MBA is a product that exists largely because tablets didn't (at the time). If you had a light workload and wanted an "all day" battery, that
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by roc 13y ago
And those users are overwhelmingly the ones that tablets suit just fine. That's the problem in this type of "PCs are fine, people just don't have to upgrade" argument. (And I've made it myself, before I really work
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by roc 13y ago
> "Why isn't it economically feasible to create new drugs for them? " It's not that you couldn't make a profit off them. It's that the opportunity costs can't be justified (today). There's a f
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by roc 13y ago
It seems like a plausible approach, if you could coordinate antibiotic use. But if we were capable of coordinating antibiotic use, we could correct the practices that got us to this point in the first place.
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by roc 13y ago
That's part of it, but it doesn't speak to why they also made iWork and iLife free.
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by roc 13y ago
The performance side has nothing to do with animation performance and everything to do with the resources used to achieve it. Flash will murder a macbook's battery and generate an absurd amount of heat, doing nothing more than streami
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by roc 13y ago
If the goal of the hypothetically-compromised Bruce Schneier is to reinstate public trust in weak crypto, he's doing an exceptionally bad job. To the extent that he maintains crypto is still a plausible defense, there's a huge a
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by roc 13y ago
Because some people have eyeballs to attract. Just treat such discussion as a "tell" that someone is much more interested in having people listen to them than in having anything worth saying.
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by roc 13y ago
145g is about one-and-a-half iPhone5s. People will notice.
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by roc 13y ago
While many people like to block Flash for content reasons, Apple's motivation is more about security and performance. Or, more specifically, Adobe's lack of interest in addressing such issues in a timely manner; at least on OSX.
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by roc 13y ago
Given how Retina and Lightning went through similar staggered rollouts, I think this is probably just "The Apple Way" to introduce new tech across product lines.
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by roc 13y ago
The marketing goal is differentiation from people's mental conception of the base product. They named the one iPad Mini, because they want people to think "smaller than the iPad". They named the other iPad Air because they wa
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by roc 13y ago
There's no pivot required. Once they're "big enough" they simply won't need to spend as much as they're currently spending on infrastructure and growth, and the profit (re)materializes without any business chan
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by roc 13y ago
> "couldn't it be argued..." About as effectively as arguing a tiger-repellant rock is strong deterrent.
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by roc 13y ago
And a somewhat taller order, year after year, with the ideologues pushing so hard to disenfranchise voters.
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by roc 13y ago
You could find consultants and firms billing $150/hour in the middle of the country during the post-dotcom years. That's not remotely as surprising as $300k/year salary.
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by roc 13y ago
It's not about being entirely anonymous. It's about not having individual pieces of data being trivially linked together and pointing at you . That is, it's about avoiding a situation where a yelp review can be trivially li
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by roc 13y ago
I'd go back a little further, when the ads first started to overpower the search results. In retrospect, Buzz might have been their last classically-Googly project.
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by roc 13y ago
If you assume the OS is coming from a compromised vendor, what's to stop it from making wireless network connections on the sly? Or adding a 'phone home' payload to any outgoing data copied to removable media? You could physi
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by roc 13y ago
I was thinking more about 'acquisitions of a fundamentally different business'. Mergers of very similar businesses are a little different.

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