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by wilsonnb 8y ago
I, for one, am happy that a war is being fought on general purpose computing because it seems to be the only way to make everything "just work" to an acceptable degree. The iPad is the least general and most locked down computer I
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I was using Gnome on Fedora for a while but I switched to Windows 10 a few months ago and can't say I've had any problems with the UX. Window snapping works. Minimizing windows works. You can do that thing where it shows a small v
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
That makes sense. I've never owned a Macbook so I see it as a huge iPad or iPhone charger instead of a new version of the old Magsafe bricks.
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The very first program I wrote was a game for the TI-83+ graphing calculator where the calculator picked a random number and the player had to guess the number. After each guess, the calculator would tell you if you were too high or too low
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
I'm not sure we need another thread of Apple-Bashing but I don't see why this in particular is an issue. It makes sense to me for them to sell the power adapter and cable separately in case you want to replace just one. I've
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
I agree that the Atlantic is left leaning, although I'm not sure I would call it an elitist echo chamber. That said, I don't agree with your premise that coastal publications can't write about the heartland. I can see why you
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
What media outlets do you recommend that we look to for a more accurate assessment?
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
How is "unlock the phone, click on the picture of the phone, dial number" a horrendously unfriendly UX?
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
This approach does require a lot of sacrifices. Smartphones have a lot of utility that dumb phones don't have. In particular, I wouldn't want to go without Google maps, Spotify, Uber, and Google Authenticator. Aside from that I do
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by wilsonnb 8y ago
For anyone else looking to save money on their phone plan, check out Project Fi. My wife and I pay $20 for the first unlimited talk/text line and $15 for the second (all of them after the first line cost $15), plus 10 dollars for each
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by wilsonnb 9y ago
I only listed those two events because they were so obvious that I was surprised you hadn't considered them. There are, of course, far more events that people remember. As far what was happening in January/February: Pretty sure th
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by wilsonnb 9y ago
I find it likely that Apple knows what their customers need more than random people commenting on the internet know what Apple's customers need.
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How many game devs actually used Mac Pros instead of Windows machines?
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What exactly was your thought process between "It's unlikely that AI will become aware" and "It could happen at any time now just by random chance"?
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by wilsonnb 9y ago
Pretty sure we've remembered 9/11 and Pearl harbor for more than two news cycles.
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It's not stealing if your friend consents to it. If you don't want your phone number shared with Facebook, don't share it with people who are going to share it with Facebook.
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by wilsonnb 9y ago
You can't tell Facebook not to do that because your phone number and texts are no longer just yours at that point. Your friend has a copy and can do whatever they want with them, including share them with Facebook, the NSA/FBI&#x2
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by wilsonnb 9y ago
That is technically true but I do not think that's what the original poster meant by "extra-judicial".
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Putting aside moral issues with the CIA, what's the legal reason that they should not be operating military hardware? As far as I know, CIA assassinations of foreign citizens aren't illegal as long as they take place outside of th
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by wilsonnb 9y ago
I'm familiar with that specific case but it's an exception to the rule. The OP seems to think that extra-judicial killings by drone strike are a common occurrence and the evidence does not support that. I'm not saying I suppo
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by wilsonnb 9y ago
The US and USSR/Russia did fight a good number of proxy wars throughout the cold war and beyond but those are distinctly different than the kind of all out war I think the original poster was referring to. There's a reason they we
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by wilsonnb 9y ago
There are plenty of jobs that are more immoral than working for Google. You don't even have to look outside of the tech field. I'm sure someone is making a lot of money helping distribute child pornography over the internet. Plent
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I'm not sure there's a definitive answer right now as to whether drone strikes or more conventional options have higher civilian casualty rates.
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Why do you refer to them as extra-judicial killings?
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India and Pakistan aren't really powerful nations in the nuclear sense that the US and Russia are. I assume the person you are replying means powerful nation as "nation with a lot of nukes", which is pretty much only the US a
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India and Pakistan went to war briefly in 1999 and both of them had nuclear weapons at the time (and still do, I think). I wouldn't rule out the possibility of future wars between them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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It's not at all certain that Hitler would have defeated Britain if the US had stayed out of Europe. As far as I know, most historians agree that the US hastened the Allies victory over Germany but the Allies would have (eventually, pro
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by wilsonnb 9y ago
Well for starters, the Surface Book starts at $1500. The 10.5" iPad Pro with keyboard starts at $800, and the 12.9" with keyboard starts at $1000. A better comparison would be the Surface Pro, which starts at about the same price
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Starting their own label is not going to make the labels that they depend on very happy, and as such would be a very bad idea until it's impossible for the labels to survive without Spotify. Spotify definitely doesn't have enough
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Spotify's market share is currently being attacked on both ends. Apple Music is supposedly set to surpass Spotify in number of paid subscribers this summer. Youtube has always had more free listeners than Spotify, as far as I know. It&

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