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by sjwright 6y ago
In some industries 6 months from initial report to consumer deployment would sound almost irresponsibly fast.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Far from merely lacking evidence, there is plenty of evidence that Trump was planning to play this hand before the election had even taken place. The accusation effectively pre-dates the supposed evidence for it.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Your rather terse language is doing a lot of heavy lifting for those false equivalences. Applying the rationale behind Twitter's recent decision to these other cases is an exercise I shall leave to others.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Most people will insist that their politics is an ostensibly intellectual exercise—thereby refuting the argument for it being a protected class.
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by sjwright 6y ago
That's ridiculous circular logic. The story is valid because it's not being covered? Millions of stories are not covered by the news every day. A functionally infinite number of non-stories are not covered by the news every day. T
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by sjwright 6y ago
AWS isn't like a supermarket. Depending on the context it's better analogised to something like a car rental chain or a large shopping centre. They're providing ongoing, rented, commodity infrastructure that is subject to acc
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by sjwright 6y ago
The traditional personal computer market isn't nearly as important as it used to be. However you slice the pie, there's no way you can define the pieces to be 10% Apple and 90% Microsoft with a straight face.
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by sjwright 6y ago
You'd be amazed what can be done with the latest machine learning algorithms. But setting those aside, you could still get 90% of the way with some relatively basic stuff. I'd start by identifying the presence of speech—when the u
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by sjwright 6y ago
It's also very clear that Apple sees the iPad Pro—not the Mac—as their vision for locked-down general purpose computing. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see a notebook iPad with a fixed keyboard, or a desktop iPad in the shape
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by sjwright 6y ago
The matter of Filevault isn't necessarily a bad thing, for many people it's a highly desirable feature. I like the fact that iOS activation lock significantly lowered the value of stolen iPhones; I look forward to the same happeni
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by sjwright 6y ago
Despite being similarly slow, The West Wing was highly accessible to its intended audience because the setting was easily digestible, because the dialogue was a continual sugar hit of witty banter, and because starry-eyed optimism /
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by sjwright 6y ago
It depends on how seriously you disagree; the answer thus somewhere between run for office and ultimately you have to accept the limitations of cumulative representation.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Corporations reflect the society they are in; expecting them to be an engine of moral progress will always leave you disappointed.
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by sjwright 6y ago
(Ten posts later) That's why we choose to offload most decision-making responsibilities to others.
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by sjwright 6y ago
We have no way of knowing. Both scenarios are entirely plausible.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Confusion due to a lack of awareness of an unambiguous standard is not synonymous with ambiguity.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Hi, I'm the person who introduced the term "virtue signalling" into this thread. I stand by it. When allegiance to certain political forces is considered virtuous, being a member can be a signal of virtue to other members of
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by sjwright 6y ago
Apple does not do third party ad tracking.
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by sjwright 6y ago
YOU obviously don't follow Tesla very closely. When the great grandparent said "Tesla's revolution is a more automated assembly", they were flat wrong which is something Elon himself admitted. Tesla tried to go big on au
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by sjwright 6y ago
Probably because Tesla hasn't had much success in terms of advancement of automated assembly. They went down the same rabbit hole that a few other automakers already explored and discovered what others already did—that high levels of f
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by sjwright 6y ago
That's a cryptic response. Can you elaborate?
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by sjwright 6y ago
1) With the full installer for x.3 2) I agree Apple's decision is stupid.
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by sjwright 6y ago
You can still download full installers for any version. And you can still perform incremental updates live via software update. The only thing no longer available are downloadable delta updates.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I'd imagine that a large number of those 91 million are people who hold membership for the purpose of group identification and virtue signalling, not because they have a specific role in a hierarchy.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Indeed, it wouldn’t be speeding that would get you to a hospital many minutes faster; it would be judicious disregard for red lights and centre markings—much like ambulance drivers normally do by virtue of their sirens and lights. Speeding
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by sjwright 6y ago
In Victoria they’ll ping you for going 62 km/h in a 60 zone.
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by sjwright 6y ago
And we (Australia) blackmail drug makers: sell your drugs to us at a certain price and the Government will heavily subside it and you’ll get big sales. Refuse and it will get zero subsidy and nobody will buy it. https://en.m.wiki
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by sjwright 6y ago
Pseudo is accurate. Mac minis have always been made with bits from the MacBook parts bin.
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by sjwright 6y ago
That’s a perfectly fine retort for a philosophy classroom, but a functionally useless one in the real world.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Indeed, say what you will about Safari on iOS, it certainly forces some amount of diversity in the overall browser market. (I realise this is a controversial opinion but I don’t lament the slower feature release cadence of Safari because IM

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