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>The settings menu of an iPhone is idiotic >the API is more restrictive > there are things you can do on Android that are impossible on an iPhone >such poor UI design Do you honestly think these are the things an average consume
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10y ago
Have iphones ever been banned by the FAA for explosion risk?
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iphone SE starts at 399$ brand new iphone 5s starts at 130$ used iphone 6 starts at 235$ used iphone 6s 299$ used iphone 6 plus 330$ used Youre right, theres plenty of phones for less than 1k, and theres plenty of iphones under 1k too. htt
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10y ago
uhh, we are commenting on a post about a school who had to pull all of their videos because they were sued that the closed captioning was not accurate enough. try harder? did you forget an /s?
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Why are Americans with disabilities more important than people from other nations? This is entirely separate from your examples, as people in india arent taking american buses or elevators - but they most certainly are taking advantage of a
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ah, "let he who is without sin throw the first stone" an oldie but a goodie. in other words, only the infallible may criticize anyone/thing? that seems counterproductive. If my hair is messed up and i tell a stranger that t
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10y ago
I would argue this is a major selling point of nintendo. I can't count the number of times i've seen people express disappointment that its so hard to have friends over and play a game these days. modern consoles were designed se
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>Who knows where it will be in 40 years. Look where computer technology was 40 years ago. The Commodore PET, Apple II, and TRS-80 all came out exactly 40 years ago (1977)[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_in_s
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10y ago
areyousure? im kidding, but seriously thats a really interesting article/event - what search terms did you use, or did you have prior knowledge of that incident?
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I'll admit that I am surprised youve managed to find an election influenced by fraud, unfortunately the proposed solution of voter id laws dont seem to address this situation. How would voter id laws prevent an american citizen from vo
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Yeah, i noticed this a couple hours ago, but after the edit time had expired.
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iirc, we largely ended prohibition because it was giving massive profits to organized crime a bit ironic now when we have a president railing against mexican cartels and promoting prohibition of marijuana. those who do not learn from histor
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10y ago
likely a result of its questionable legality, since cigarettes are a perfectly valid reason to smell like smoke.
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10y ago
you're unclear about how voter fraud is investigated, and your solution to that is to create more legislation about voting? That is deeply unsettling.
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10y ago
Youve linked an example of a woman who registered some non-citizens to vote which did not sway the election in her favor. I agree that non-citizens should not vote, but i do not agree with increased regulation from the government in order
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10y ago
can you quote me saying non-programmers would be making software? have you read my comments here? Im talking about tools that enable a single developer to do the work of a great many developers, thus lowering the demand for developers in th
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10y ago
There is zero reason to believe it will not. look i too can make baseless assertions.
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10y ago
>economics says that decreasing price, the price for a given unit of work going down increases the demand for such an AI costs nothing in the long term, so you are agreeing here that demand for AI produced software will rise more sharply
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10y ago
you can read it online for free here http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/
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10y ago
Immediately i see you have this line: >And until we develop an AI powerful enough to write clear, step by step instructions for any random task, code will be written. so its "will never be at risk of automation UNTIL" which is
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I'm not making an argument that it is bad by any means, im only countering a common thread in development circles that 'development will never be at risk of automation' for an example, see kapv89's response to my comment
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10y ago
I think things like psychology/psychiatry, social work, child protective services, and other jobs that rely on a lot of interpersonal communication will be around longer than development; at least at any scale worth talking about.
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yes and each new tool or helpful framework reduces the total number of developers needed. Just because we have yet to meet the demand for developers, doesn't mean that that demand is not decreasing over time. software development is q
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making people in an industry more efficient at their jobs == job losses for that industry. if one programmer can now do the work of 5 with the help of an AI, companies will quickly be hiring less developers. yet everytime i mention this, im
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You seem to be arguing that innovation is good. api seems to be arguing that invention is good. these are not mutually exclusive ideas, and i dont see where api is saying the innovation is bad or we should have less of it, only that we shou
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"RT is the only media outlet criticized for bias" riiight
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i cant even downvote you because you responded to me? but you can blame me if you want. anyways, even the fake news phenomena that is being discussed today has been around for quite a while, so you are still incorrect in your assertion that
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ok but you are misrepresenting this completely now. >Conversely, 57 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of the country’s standing in the world. That’s the highest that number has been in a decade, according to Gallup.[1] And Tr
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how does Trump react when hes called out on a lie, and how does Obama react when hes called out? > I understand I said there were 57 states today. It’s a sign that my numeracy is getting a little, uh …” >“I don’t know,” Trump repeated
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>"Fake news" (along with Russia-panic) started ... to justify why Hillary lost that didn't involve blaming her. >fake news started long ago you can only pick one.
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