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by tgma 2y ago
> Earth's gravity accelerates at 1m/s^2, they're just flat out wrong full stop You do realize it depends on the distance of the object to Earth? So perhaps you are wrong not them depending on the context. Now someone comes
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by tgma 2y ago
> You missed a basic element of what they said: "can't measure it or repeatably demonstrate it"; seeing a non-reproducible event with your eyes is a form of measurement, and that measurement could in principle be done by a
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by tgma 2y ago
Of course it matters. Have you seen the emotional reaction people get to Trump/Kamala posts?
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by tgma 2y ago
> Is the distribution of people in Austin so very different from the Bay Area? If we just go by presidential election, Travis County's result is more balanced than SF and San Mateo, almost on par with Alameda county, so the answer i
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by tgma 2y ago
The irony is that the example you cite, i.e. F = G * m1 * m2 / r^2 is demonstrably not the correct formula for gravity. Science, the process of science, does not prove something as fact. It can only eliminate non-facts, and even then
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by tgma 2y ago
> like people being in Texas makes them more objective?! This is the least charitable interpretation. Obviously, it is not talking about a single person moving to Texas suddenly changing colors like a chameleon (although I suspect there
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by tgma 2y ago
SAD! Craigslist was a much better product and community even without the luxury of identity verification. It had some obvious spam but by and large worked fine once you got the hang of it. Marketplace is a cesspool of lowballers and sex wor
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by tgma 2y ago
Speed is not just useful for syncing files to a computer, which is not the primary use case of iPhone USB-C. The computer is no longer the center of your digital world. The iPhone is (and the cloud). Most iPhone users don't even have a
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by tgma 2y ago
I'd say about ~40% of the things listed would not be mainstream for most tech nerds in South Bay.
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by tgma 2y ago
> Care to elaborate? Europe is increasingly a basket case. > what LOW←TECH MAGAZINE is about Yea, I did sense some hints of political ideals, but did not know that it is explicitly part of some movement. Thanks for elaborating.
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by tgma 2y ago
Reading this reminded me of how much South Bay is different from SF.
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by tgma 2y ago
You lost me at "narrative on the right" ad hominem. I am so sorry to let you now not everyone is coming from a US centric view. Please continue your idol worship. I'm done here sorry for the interruption.
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by tgma 2y ago
That is just your narrative. The incident was a disasterous foreign policy and very direct and it backfired on him very quickly too (I frankly rather not further debate this on a gratitude thread out of respect for his supporters but we cou
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by tgma 2y ago
Yup, none of this is particularly unknown or secretive for people who look and not interested in deliberate deception (Khomeini was delivered by Air France after all!) Yes, more specifically, Shah was an ally to Nixon and had put his eggs
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by tgma 2y ago
All of humanity? Propaganda much? No, thank you. At very least he destroyed Iran's government and was the American architect of the Islamic Republic in Iran[1], which has a direct causal relationship to many disasters within and outsid
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by tgma 2y ago
So you're suggesting because everything is overpriced with Apple and they are a cult leader (your opinion) the government should step in and dictate the price and behavior? Last time I checked some European countries have not only tax-
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by tgma 2y ago
MicroUSB was not mandated on the device. The adapter shipped in the box satisfied the requirements. If it weren't for competition from Lightning (2 sided connector) I'm not sure the switch to USB-C would have happened either so no
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by tgma 2y ago
Cool. And the bad decisions were made by who exactly? Intel executives & employees.
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by tgma 2y ago
Sure. Standardization led to USB-C which is great. Mandate led to nothing and is bad and unnecessary. Arguably achieved nothing as Android was already on USB-C and Apple too on everything but iPhone and would have switched anyway soon for s
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by tgma 2y ago
Huh, it's not clear what you are suggesting. Who's "we" and who's not taking responsibility? The best people were clearly not staying at Intel and they have been winning hard at AMD, Tesla, NVIDIA, Apple, Qualcomm,
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by tgma 2y ago
Except your analogy does not hold because you can simply choose not to buy the product with the connector you don't like or can no longer afford as a result of socialism. It appears much harder to opt out of said socialism without leav
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by tgma 2y ago
That literally means you have to change the law first, then innovate. If you read it any other way, you'd be naive. Good luck getting to "consensus" with the low end Android manufacturers who do not give a flying fuck about t
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by tgma 2y ago
They sold XScale to Marvell which ironically has a higher market cap than Intel.
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by tgma 2y ago
Mechanically broken? I have never seen a Lightning break or get too loose in years. I’ve used both connectors extensively. USB-C I’ve faced loose female connectors, broken female connector to the degree that it heated up the MacBook because
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by tgma 2y ago
In 2010s, Intel pretty much sold the same Haswell design for more than half a decade and lipsticked the pig. It is not just low power that they missed. They had time to improve the performance/watt for server use, add core counts, do b
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by tgma 2y ago
> This is not a "you must use usb-c" law, but rather "you must figure out how to get along" law. No, this is exactly "you must use USB-C law." Please don't reframe it as a strawman. > Apple would in
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by tgma 2y ago
Good enough? Maybe better today, but they have been god awful compared to AMD and absolute garbage compared to something like M1 iGPU. They are responsible for more than half of the pain inflicted on users in Vista days. Ironically, they ha
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by tgma 2y ago
Most phones sold have very low and sometimes negative margins, actually. The high-end phones arena which Apple dominates is actually a minority of total phones sold.
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by tgma 2y ago
Precisely. The irony is that almost all non-MacBook computer still come with at least one USB-A port to this day. If it weren't for Apple pushing USB-C only on the MacBook, that connector's universal adoption as the primary data&#
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by tgma 2y ago
I guess the real next step is to keep selling thick old devices as the EU SKU and modern innovative stuff to the rest of the world. Apple already has to do that on the software side for their AI features. Given the current GDP/capita t

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