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by village-idiot 7y ago
For the life of me I really don’t understand why the regulators haven’t clamped down on statins. Sure, it lowers your cholesterol, but unless if you’re in a very specific population it doesn’t move your all cause mortality risk one iota. Al
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Paraphrasing from another comment, you know that the post is unclear when you have to explain it in the comments section.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
They’re also capable of the self delusion that is depressingly common for large companies.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
... Do you not want Internet? It seems like you don't want the internet.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Squirrels are considered a strategic threat to the US infrastructure according to some governmental agencies. They're amazingly effective at knocking out power lines, albeit to the detriment of the squirrel who undertakes these apparen
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Not if you use the regular audio channels. Both my MacBook Pro and Mac mini suffer really bad audio stutter because of the T2 chip.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
In my opinion it’s a bit like hearing the accused proclaim their innocence. My response is always “well yeah, everyone declares that they’re innocent”.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Ethereum as infrastructure is also a dicey proposition. It works, slowly, but it doesn’t seem like there’s a lot of demand for “dapps” outside ICO tokens, gambling, and the odd Ponzi scheme. The smart contract revolution at this point is co
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by village-idiot 7y ago
> There is no obligation to give up power just because others demand it No, but it would be a very good idea. Facebook insiders repeatedly have stressed that Zuck isn't a very good CEO, and that he really is much more fit for a CPO
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by village-idiot 7y ago
It’s not hard to make those fuel efficient, it’s hard to make them fuel efficient cheaply all while maintaining the performance that customers expect.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
There’s a theory that dogs are just wolves with the canine equivalent of Williams Syndrome.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I’d say Apple is doing just fine when it comes to convincing people to pay.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
The bigger the monitor (or the more of them you want), the further you have to sit away from them. The further you sit away from them the less you can resolve all the details, making the extra resolution pointless. If I were going to have m
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I don’t think that the resolution was an attempt to justify the price. If that was the case, why go down in resolution from what’s available? Maybe if they were selling a 9k I would buy it. Based off some back of the envelope math I did a
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I don’t think that GP was implying that they would. Even a structure built by machines can fail catastrophically if poorly designed or operated. The ocean floor is littered with ships that weren’t “built with their bare hands”.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
> Since Clojure is pervasively built on laziness Only some of Clonure’s data structures are built on laziness, everything else in the language is strict. If you want something actually built on laziness, you need Haskell.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Given the outrage about data theft and sales, I believe the consumer has an expectation of privacy on Facebook.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Statins are very notorious in this regard. While they do indeed affect cholesterol, for most members of the population it does nothing to change all cause mortality.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Circular dependencies are never considered a good thing.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
So bitcoin is more valuable than its hard forks because there’s more hashing power. Ok, that makes sense. So why is there more hashing power on bitcoin than the hard forks? Oh, because bitcoin is more valuable and so the mining reward is hi
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I can come up with myriad examples of verifiably limited items that are valueless, I don’t think there’s any point in litigating that issue. And bitcoin is easy to move internationally, but that’s just begging the question. Why would anyo
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Gold’s special place in the western canon is really just a cultural artifact. Not only are there a variety of metals that could take its place as an investment vehicle (silver, platinum, and rhodium among others), but historically a variety
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by village-idiot 7y ago
For the sake of this discussion, let’s just focus on bitcoin as an investment vehicle. Rarity does not confer value. My toenail clippings are limited in quantity, but valueless. There has to be some sort of underlying demand before rarity g
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I’m not sure why anyone in their right minds thought bitcoin was going to be used by random civilians for their everyday transactions. Customers want the protections that banks and credit cards provide, and vendors don’t want to expose them
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Having side loaded apps personally, I'm not really sure why you're so pissed off.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
That's a lot of words that take literally no stance on the issue. You've slowly shifted back to an incredibly vague definition of a market and an incredibly vague definition of what an abusive monopoly is. At this point it's
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Because anything else is silly. Am I allowed to release a Ford car because allowing Ford to have a monopoly on Ford cars is unjust?
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Apple has about 45% of the US smart phone market with their next competitor being Samsung at about 29%, with both of those companies on track to lose share to Huawei. Globally Apple is about 11% of the market, with Samsung selling well over
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by village-idiot 7y ago
So? You can still side load. Developers do it all the time. The approval process is only for distributing your private app to hundreds of people using Apple’s servers and hardware.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
So your point is that there are no high priced smart phones other than Apple, therefore it’s a monopoly? Aside from being extremely silly, under this formulation Rolls Royce might be a monopoly, it lacks factual backing. There are plenty of

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