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by spoonjim 5y ago
The prices are more comparably reasonable in the US, but still on the expensive side compared to Apple because they don't have the economies of scale. Important thing to realize is that the Framework laptop is a super-premium piece of
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LOL. Just ten years ago you had to have founded a billion dollar company or be a particularly well connected Harvard or Stanford MBA to even have a chance of working in VC. The sector has grown too big.
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My employer stopped promoting QA and the best ones all went to Apple.
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ROFLcopter! Yes, you are correct, you've always been able to call and schedule a cab before the Internet was a thing. What you're leaving out is that it was always a roll of the dice whether that cab would ever show up, with a muc
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Remember that half the population has an IQ under 100 and half of those live in places where the American Soldier is still venerated as a paragon of virtue and sacrifice. They’re not victims like the Yemeni kids they’re killing, but they ar
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The fact that the US government relies on “philanthropic resources” is a huge problem and not really a problem caused by Schmidt.
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Is this guy some masochist/performance artist like the guy who wrote a book without the letter E? Paint is perhaps the worst drawing tool in existence.
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Yes but in a modern industrialized economy if there is a profit to be had the supply will create itself, without barriers to entry. However in beverages there is a big barrier to entry in consumer brand awareness and in retail shelf space e
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Apple stands for a tightly curated user experience overall. Want that weird app? No. Want user-generated content? No. Want to isntall some weird software to make your home screen swipe up-and-down rather than left-to-right? No. For desktop
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Yes, this is one of the ways Apple succeeds -- by being able to make management decisions like spending money on GarageBand and iMovie that would get cut in any other type of typical Corporate America VP structure.
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Not just Final Cut and Logic Pro, but the Apple ecosystem itself. I've long lusted after Google Pixel's camera quality but the three reasons I will never switch are iMessage, GarageBand, and iMovie. My literal 4 year old son can u
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Why does it matter to actual people what the cause is? If you’re poor and gas costs $7 you’re fucked, regardless of whose fault it is.
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Yes, you can make an honest effort to close the achievement gap between Usain Bolt and me by telling him that he can’t run faster than 10 miles an hour.
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What’s your source on that?
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They are trying to “close the achievement gap” by limiting achievement. It’s a crime against humanity of a different kind. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/california-math-curric...
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You don’t criticize people in a public forum for doing harmful things to society?
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Nobody’s job is to make Californian kids stupider. She is personally profiting by her destruction of math education for untold numbers of kids.
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Naw you wouldn't be immune, in fact they would send you to Indonesia to be executed.
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This works well to get the chore done, as a captive supply of low wage labor. If the goal is rather to instill a set of responsible habits that will serve the child in adulthood, the allowance system might fail when a “Deus ex machina” is n
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Like everything, these are all actually made by something like Shenzen Golden Rooster Optical Instruments
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Almost every vehicle or functional structure that humans have engineered has an axis of symmetry. Animals have symmetry for the same reason.
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Nonsense. I have a reasonably high IQ but no programming ability because I’ve never learned it. Meanwhile there are many highly employable programmers with very ordinary IQs doing things like making websites or implementing business logic.
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Hopefully it would correlate with programming ability and not general IQ.
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Intraday height variation and slight changes in posture mean that your height can't really be specified to the half inch.
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Everyone does that, that’s why the fees are high.
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LOL. The single greatest threat to Western society is Western society itself. Declining fertility, mass immigration at the border but brutally hard immigration for high skill workers, civil wars over pointless culture war issues, and the de
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I know people who put every personal meeting on their Google Calendar. You wouldn’t know if you did, because they usually don’t send invitations unless they know the other person is the same way.
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Every university that is admitting for “diversity” is systematically discriminating against Asian students. This is not even an open secret, it’s just stated policy.
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Asian?
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MIT stepping back from the insanity of the Current Thing. Will anyone else follow?

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