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by valuearb 6y ago
The Saturn series might have been enlarged to a level (Nova) that would have been able to push a few hundred tons to Mars in a single launch. But it would have been a slow and super expensive (probably over $10B in today’s dollars for launc
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by valuearb 6y ago
Not if launched in space.
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by valuearb 6y ago
From the Department of Justices perspective value is tied to price. They wanted to stop Apple from asking for price parity with other outlets because it would drive prices up. And what happened after their victory is that prices didn’t go d
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by valuearb 6y ago
So you ding the language because of a suboptimal choice made by one tool for it? The good and bad of Swift is the regular breaking updates. Sure it’s a pain when things change, but it’s also healthy when they improve, and almost every chang
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by valuearb 6y ago
Boy that is really old. And oppressively detailed. And ends up sounding like a Coke vs Pepsi argument. Do I really care about the minutia of minor features when I can build the same things with both tools? For server side I’m probably going
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by valuearb 6y ago
Should be labeled 2012, but still worth the read. I was struck by the total lack of today’s most active Ars space thread commentators.
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by valuearb 6y ago
It’s far more than two choices since their are hundreds of Android manufacturers, many whom add their own software to the stack. It’s more like dozens of differentiated competitors, of which Apple is rate largest but still only a small mino
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by valuearb 6y ago
Imagine how productive you would be if you could magically shift all your meetings and interruptions to only a few days a week and you were able to focus the rest of the week on coding.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Selling separately destroys the iPhone brand and business model. Far fewer would pay for a separate OS, iPhones would have to be more expensive if they didn’t bundle a services component, customers wouldn’t trust iPhone as much. There is a
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by valuearb 6y ago
That’s the silliest perspective on this case you could have. Apple gave publishers the right to set their own prices, but in return required they don’t undercut those prices on other platforms. Apple had only a a small market share at the t
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by valuearb 6y ago
As a small app developer, I’m sure happy to have these three giant companies advocating for “my interests”. Sheez.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Look I was just joking. Your original post is just crazytown. No one controls the price of previous metals. Other than the US government price support of Gold by not selling its reserves, which would best serve the US economy by dumping int
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by valuearb 6y ago
If your bank runs a trading desk, you have to expect traders to be aggressive.
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by valuearb 6y ago
US manufacturers can’t make small cars profitably with their labor costs, but are required to sell them because of CAFE. They are only going to make enough to reduce their CAFE costs, no more.
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by valuearb 6y ago
The problem is the big three have massive pension costs inflating their assembly costs. For them, it makes perfect sense to focus on larger cars, SUVs and trucks where cost of assembly is way lower proportion of sales costs.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Why should Apple port Swift to Windows if it’s not going to use it? To me that sounds like the worst use of resources possible.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Spanish atrocities in Cuba had been a huge issue in the US for at least a decade. The Maine lit the spark, but there was already plenty of fuel for the fire.
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by valuearb 6y ago
The Japanese position was clearly irrational, crazy even. But nearly 40 years of right wing assassinations and military intriguing since the crushing of Russia in 1904 had created a monster. The entire country believed they were superior to
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by valuearb 6y ago
Hitler had a mutual defense pact with Japan. But he didn’t have to declare war on the US. It was one of his greatest blunders. Had the US not declare war on Germany, or delayed it for a year or two, Germany might have been able to finish of
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by valuearb 6y ago
It’s also silly to say it “ripped the poker world apart”. There isn’t a competent poker player in the world who doesn’t believe Postle cheated.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Thanks!
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by valuearb 6y ago
What I was trying to say is why should Apple port Swift to Windows? They have to prioritize resources and Windows should be way down near the bottom of the list. It’s easy to say Apple has nearly infinite amounts of resources, but that neve
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by valuearb 6y ago
Are you saying Apple should ban open source projects based on the Swift code base?
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by valuearb 6y ago
Just curious, why can’t SwiftUI apps run on any iOS version prior to 13? My clients app requires supporting iOS 11, but I’d love to start mixing in sone SwiftUI.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Gundam are people too!
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by valuearb 6y ago
I’m fine with the CCP monitoring cat videos.
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by valuearb 6y ago
Autism is a broad spectrum of behaviors, but one consistent symptom is not being able to “quiet” excess stimuli (as I write this my daughter exhibits her self stimulation behavior by running back and forth across our family room).
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by valuearb 6y ago
When did Elon fake a video of a Tesla autonomously driving cross country?
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by valuearb 6y ago
Because there is a difference between misleading people that an empty shell is a functioning truck, and perpetually claiming you are on the verge of fully autonomous driving, when you only achieve mostly autonomous driving.
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by valuearb 6y ago
What would limit a brain chip from accomplishing that goal?

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