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by travisp 13y ago
In my experience it feels different in part because you have the person in front of you (it's harder to fake seeming genuine face to face). It also feels different because they are talking while they are doing something else, unlike on
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by travisp 13y ago
He means that you can't just easily remove Glass when you are doing things like entering public restrooms or a movie theater. Sure, you could bring along the special screwdriver and sit their unscrewing it, but I don't think that&
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by travisp 13y ago
>You're arguing that income inequality helps to eradicate poverty? No, I wouldn't argue that income inequality is what helps to eradicate poverty, but I would argue that much (not all) income inequality is created as a result o
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by travisp 13y ago
It's also important to realize that global poverty is at a historically low level at the same time. If you believe the Gates letter in the WSJ, then there will be practically no impoverished countries (with a few exceptions) left in ju
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by travisp 13y ago
>who finds their legal pursuit of farmers who have (frequently accidentally) had their crops cross pollinate with Monsanto patented breeds This is mostly a myth. All of the lawsuits have been about people who have intentionally used Mons
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by travisp 13y ago
I believe being forced to hand over your passwords is still a murky gray area. But, even if it "protects" you, there's probably a chance that you may not get your device back for a long time.
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by travisp 13y ago
I can't find the exact "100% success" quote to put it into context, but for one thing, it's a six-plus year old document. It's possible that they had an exploit at the time. An exploit doesn't require Apple&#x2
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by travisp 13y ago
Because if Apple said that, it would be requiring its resellers to do something they are not legally permitted to do . A contract to break a law is illegal and unenforceable. Refusing to sell phones to people because they aren't white
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by travisp 13y ago
Amazon has been testing Amazon Locker for this, which is similar. The problems with both services are: 1) limited to boxes of the appropriate size (from the pictures of the Packstation, maybe 10-20% of my Amazon orders would not fit) and 2)
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by travisp 13y ago
If you exchange one mutual fund for another, you pay capital gains (this is one reason IRAs are so tax advantageous). Typically during bartering, you also owe capital gains even if you never receive USD. It therefore seems possible that you
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by travisp 13y ago
It sounds like they are delivering it themselves. Here in New York City, it's quite easy to get beer delivered (as in just select it on Seamless when placing your order). I also have had wine and whiskey delivered to my apartment direc
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by travisp 13y ago
The comment I was responding to wasn't about DRM, it was about the possibility of someone else hacking into it. That same issue applies to every person who hasn't disabled OnStar (and I mean physically disabled, since GM can turn
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by travisp 13y ago
It's to replace the vacuum extractor or forceps. Nobody uses any of these tools if you can do it by hand. Both have their own risks (and forceps are going away because the skill required is high and not enough doctors know how to do it
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by travisp 13y ago
Is that substantially different than GM's OnStar? It's already been used to slow down/shut off stolen vehicles.
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by travisp 13y ago
Most people, for good reason, use an escrow agent when buying and selling real estate (at least here in the US). As a buyer, I would be doubly uncertain about directly transferring someone Bitcoin since it's at least as irreversible as
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by travisp 13y ago
There's a huge difference between not feeling particularly emotionally upset by the fact of someone you don't know dying, and saying that you "couldn't possibly give a shit" about someone's death because the or
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by travisp 13y ago
>What the OP was trying to point out was that free market economics can break down in certain situations, and health care is a prime example. And my point was that such situations account for a very small percentage of situations in heal
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by travisp 13y ago
> Who is talking about all medical expenditures? I am talking only about emergency room visits. I said "my point is that [those situations] don't make up the majority of situations in healthcare " and you said "And
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by travisp 13y ago
> And I think that you are wrong, particularly when you consider this based on dollars billed by emergency rooms, not patients seen by emergency rooms. The statistics are that all emergency care expenditures totaled accounts for about 2%
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by travisp 13y ago
I think you're missing my point. My point isn't that those situations don't exist, my point is that they don't make up the majority of situations in healthcare, nor do they make up the majority of healthcare expenditures
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by travisp 13y ago
>someone who chooses a treatment with a $500k/QALY is probably suffering from the same sense of urgency/price insensitivity as the guy bleeding out on the street. Just because that person has some time to shop around, doesn&#x2
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by travisp 13y ago
I hear this argument brought up a lot, but the majority of situations are not this type of situation, and those are also not the things that cost the most (which are more things like extending an unconscious, never-to-recover terminally ill
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by travisp 13y ago
So far, nobody has demonstrated an attack that is able to break the fingerprint reader by reading fingerprints off of the device (or another surface). The attack demonstrated by CCC requires them to take a high resolution photograph of your
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by travisp 13y ago
I suppose it's possible. Personally, very little has made me as happy as moving from a house to an apartment and never having to tend a garden or make housing repairs ever again.
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by travisp 13y ago
You can buy it in written form, audio form, or DVD form and you can license it for placement in a book. Here is even an illustrated form for children with a CD: http://amzn.com/0375858873
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by travisp 13y ago
This is true, and does provide some anonymity, but there are several situations, at least in the US, in which you can basically be considered guilty until proven innocent where the burden is on you to prove that everything is legal (tax eva
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by travisp 13y ago
It's different just like it's different from finding someone to drive you across town on craigslist (or perhaps hiring a random person on the street with a sign) is different from Uber/Hailo/Lyft. On craigslist, I don&#x
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by travisp 13y ago
It is extremely unlikely that any "Craigslist cats" end up in research. Most animals used in research are bred specifically for that purpose, because genetic uniformity, lack of disease, and other things help to reduce confounding
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by travisp 13y ago
>Yes, people have orders of magnitude better comfort in metros and buses. You can exit the city metro or the city bus every minute. You can sit, stand up and walk in them. The buses for longer distances have the toilets and can stop when
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by travisp 13y ago
It's not ridiculous. First, it requires the NSA to actually do what you propose, as opposed to just reading broadly all traffic going through. That is a big difference because it gives the possibility of Wikipedia fighting back. Jimmy

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