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by root_axis 10y ago
Great summary. The Macbook Pro is still, arguably, the highest quality laptop on the market, but when it comes to the Desktop, there is absolutely zero reasons to consider Apple. I know that there are those who swear by OSX, but I find that
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by root_axis 10y ago
Ah. I guess I was responding to > the only thing that appears likely to keep us from [colonization explosion] is some sort of catastrophe or resource exhaustion leading to the impossibility of making the step due to consumption of the a
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by root_axis 10y ago
The theory as described in your link seems to hand-wave away the difficulties incumbent in the "colonization explosion" step. As it stands, intergalactic space travel (at scale) is utterly inconceivable in practical terms, and to
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by root_axis 10y ago
> while old jobs get replaced by technology, new jobs get created. But always significantly fewer than before, that's the entire point of the technology, to reduce the number of humans needed for the process.
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by root_axis 10y ago
This graph is deliberately misleading, especially for the point you're trying to make. Starting the Y axis at 52k creates a visual exaggeration of the difference between turnouts, and omitting elections prior to Obama obfuscates the f
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by root_axis 10y ago
I get what you're saying, and I do agree that beginners can easily get bogged down in all the different tools, frameworks and libraries, however at the end of the day I feel like beginners just have to learn how to navigate the ecosy
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by root_axis 10y ago
This is an ironic reply in the context of an article showcasing a technology that literally obviates that exact issue.
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by root_axis 10y ago
> anyone who wants to build websites of even the simplest kind is expected to wheel in an incredibly large client-side and development stack. What? Says who? In my humble opinion this sounds to me like a case of "I don't like
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by root_axis 10y ago
Seems to me like they did show up. A 3 million popular vote spread is pretty significant. Of course, the popular vote isn't what wins an election, but those people certainly showed up.
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by root_axis 10y ago
It's pretty simple. If you have a technical understanding of the topic and have no vested interest then you'll almost certainly be against overturning privacy rules regardless of politics. If you don't have a technical unders