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by secstate 11y ago
When I was a teenager I thought charity absent asceticism was pathetic. Why give the homeless guy your pocket change when you can afford to give him $20 for dinner? Why donate to the fire department, when you could make time in your life to
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by secstate 11y ago
That's fine. It's just disappointing to be smacked in the face by the unenlightened hedonism the vast majority of people stumble through their lives in. I enjoy the company of my dog. But he does not share my last name, and is not
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by secstate 11y ago
The killer part is that it's only expensive to repair because Apple has opted not to streamline a repair pipeline. There is absolutely no way a digitizer glued to a piece of glass costs $500 otherwise they'd never make another iPa
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by secstate 11y ago
All valid points, but it hasn't always been this way. There is a model for profitably and sustainably running a business that builds solid products and then services them. We often act as though the world we live in is the only way thi
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by secstate 11y ago
You mean the hardware engineers they brought onboard when the bought NeXT (OS X)? How about Lala.com (iCloud)? Fingerworks (iOS)? Soundjam MP (iTunes)? We can just go on and on here [1]. None of this is to say they don't have brilliant
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by secstate 11y ago
Geez. I would hope so. Too bad it took them the better part of half a decade to listen to users. I've already moved a number of my personal projects to Gitlab, Bitbucket or a self-hosted Gogs installation. I've still got reasons t
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by secstate 11y ago
Yeah, I think that was the bit where, when animated, the logo works. But rarely will a sticker on a car be animated, at least in this decade. That said, designers often over-worry about logos initially. If you put enough marketing power beh
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by secstate 11y ago
Was it just me, or was the uBar advert at the bottom of the title really oddly placed. It was almost as if it were going to be part of the article. How the brand was becoming associated with crap software too. Meanwhile that was totally jus
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by secstate 11y ago
Because F-Droid only indexes open source software and lists the license. On the play store, who knows what state the source is in for a given app.
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by secstate 11y ago
As an Android user with a fairly vanilla Moto X install of L, I'm pretty satisfied with my ability to change the OS. F-Droid is a big victory here too, with regards to being able to find F/OSS mobile apps. I can't say anythin
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by secstate 11y ago
Not to recover 7 astronauts. And that only matters if they were prepared to launch inside of 14 days, which the vast majority of vehicles are not. Regardless, the Soyuz can only hold 110 lbs of extra weight beyond three crew members. So the
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by secstate 11y ago
Ars has a pretty fantastic write up on the whole thing [1]. Seems like beyond getting Atlantis into orbit, it would have required creating whole-cloth procedures for EVAs for extracting astronauts from a Shuttle and doing it with a skeleton
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by secstate 11y ago
Oh, for Columbia's crew it could have been far worse than that. There's reasonable evidence [0] that the director of NASA and ground crews knew the Columbia's wing damage was bad enough to make re-entry impossible. But they h
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by secstate 11y ago
I have more and more trouble as each year goes by of picturing a prosperous United States in 50-75 years time. That isn't to say there's going to be some huge revolution or massive collapse in our economy. But barring a third worl
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On Net Promoter and Data Golems, How Accurate Is NPS Really?(medium.com)
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by secstate 11y ago
This exactly. Sometimes I feel like an old fart still using Django (or Flask if the project is small) instead of some new hotness. But Django has the DSF behind it moving point releases, bugfixes and major releases in a very sane way. The s
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by secstate 11y ago
No, but nor was it a left-wing conspiracy either. People in the US like to throw mud at each other about whose to blame for this shitty situation, but we're all in this together. Also, I fail to see the difference between special inter
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by secstate 11y ago
Now hold the phone. Obama and a Democratic congress avoided that issue because it would have had ZERO traction with some huge campaign donors. That's still a mark against the administration, but it's also the reality of a governme
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by secstate 11y ago
First off, it totally depends on the state. Small rural states, like in most things, get completely screwed on this metric, as Wisconsin and UMaine do not even begin to offer the same education, depending on your desired career path. That a
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by secstate 11y ago
I think that had to do with a board appointment with serious lapses in moral judgement when he worked at Google. That, as best I can tell, has little to do with the no-confidence in how editing is handled.
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by secstate 11y ago
Except for the fact that more than a decade later this great failure has not managed to make Wikipedia any less useful the vast majority of the world's population. The fact of the matter is that regardless of the OP's whinging, a
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by secstate 11y ago
Ha. With the project name, I somehow kept expecting this thing to be off the coast of Boston. Took me a while to realize it was off the West Coast :)
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by secstate 11y ago
Ha! Sitting here with 15.10 running Gnome 3 on a 2013 Macbook Pro Retina. The battery life is noticeably worse than under OS X. I'd say I get about 2.5-3 hours of out it, unless I drop the screen brightness all the way down. But then h
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by secstate 11y ago
Hmm, a non-intuitive puzzle isn't really a puzzle anymore, is it? Q: I have three oranges and one grapefruit. I have to get all of them through a door that's been glued shut. There is no way to open the door. How do I get the frui
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by secstate 11y ago
Sigh. Shoddy reporting, and people who don't take responsibility for themselves. The girl says she blacked out and then remembered someone picking her up. Right. How this became a national story, I'll never know. But I do know I&#
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by secstate 11y ago
I think my favorite part of this article is realizing how deep we all are in spin ... "disinflation"? What the hell is that? Do you mean "deflation"? But for pity's sake, let's not call a spade a spade and use
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by secstate 11y ago
Kind of like with executive power, however, once you start giving out benefits like social security, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. Once you reach 65 and are eligible to start receiving payments, are you going to be oka
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by secstate 11y ago
Not claiming I have a panacea here, but wouldn't either a more aggressive minimum wage or a basic minimum income raise the ability for more people to act on the desire to buy? I assure you the demand for tons of stuff exists, but the
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by secstate 11y ago
And furthermore, what you often find with "Prime" products is that there are alternate sellers shipping "like new" versions of the products that the same price as the Prime offer, but have shipping split out. For example
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by secstate 11y ago
Interestingly, what I see is a divide between North and South, more than East and West. The exceptions being Detroit and Columbus in the North and Atlanta and San Diego in the South. Perhaps this has more to do with urban planning? I just g

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