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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I guess what I was trying to say is that it depends on what you mean by luxury. I always viewed luxury as whatever took some annoyance off my mind, so having a phone/mp3 player/camera/clock/gaming combo that syncs quickly is a luxury to me.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I love the email name I got. Any time the words "knobby" and "moat" are what get randomly generated I snort like a drunk frat boy.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
But our vision is quite a bit more than just that feature. So is Facebook's. ;-)
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
That's because video game consoles are more popular, and they've become more accepted by the media. 30 years ago, my father and his brothers played Atari. I grew up with parents that both understood video games, at least somewhat. There's n
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Wow, Gaius, somebody's downvoting every one of your posts. There's a big movement towards emulators among the gamer scene I'm able to observe, because a lot of gamers are realizing that games haven't become fundamentally better in the last
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
This is an argument that has quite a bit of nuance to it. I'd argue that the iPhone is a luxury item for certain definitions of luxury, that in fact it is more luxurious than something like a diamond necklace if you use a utilitarian defini
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
How is it zero sum? I'd make you a bet that right now, more people are living happily than ever did in the past. The bar constantly rises.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Tech is only different if you play by the game wherein anything that doesn't abuse a computer's stats is not worth toying with. I'm guilty of playing this game along with everybody else, but at some point we'll realize that we don't need al
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
FSJ at his best is satirical, not joking. He's funny but he makes good points anyway. His little rant paragraphs 2-4 is spot-on.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Neither am I. I wouldn't know where to begin; I don't know even if I've got the strength to go without much of what I use daily.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I would have to try Vista/Windows 7 to weigh in. I don't have pleasant Windows experiences at all, but I can't say right now that they haven't become a lot better.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I must admit, I was a bit disappointed. I was expecting an article on why attempting to maximize followers is doing yourself and your ideas a disservice.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Coming home from college this summer I've realized how many of my friends sell drugs as their summer occupation. Just selling weed earns you twice what you'd make doing long hours for minimum wage, it seems. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Good arguments. Upvoted even though I disagree with many of them. I've never once had a problem I couldn't solve by a quick search of Ubuntu's forums/documentation and editing the config files myself. That's a lot harder than what the ave
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Are there any similar time-blocking options for the Mac? Sounds like a great way to force somebody off the computer.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Of course it does. Physics and math are objective, for instance.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I'm sorry for using hyperbole on the Internet. I'll never ever ever do it again.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I'm going to Philly. My school provides wifi for students throughout the entire area of my college, which is pretty sweet.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
This is my dream handheld app. I'm finally moving to the city, so wi-fi will be constantly available, and I can't afford the iPhone's network plan. The perverse Apple fan in me, of course, doesn't even care about this upcoming technology as
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
There're a lot of philosophies that say poor and hungrier is in some ways a happier way to live. Perhaps there's no "wrong" way to live life, and the people who die young and the people who die old are both happy with the choices they made.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
This upcoming design really excites me - this and the experimental stuff they've got Aza Raskin doing. I've spent the last two years really being annoyed at Firefox for being a subpar browser beyond plugins/being open source, and I think it
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Can you implement a method of scrolling that actually works with a multitouch pad? That is, 2d scrolling that's smooth and lets me scroll pixel-by-pixel rather than in chunks? There is NOTHING worse than a web browser that can't scroll corr
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I think that most of the people who truly want fame achieve it. Most people don't. They value other things over just being well-known. Being famous is not particularly difficult to achieve if you crave it. Then again, many people who don't
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
They were also people who were fascinated in the stuff they became famous for. Don't make the mistake of thinking that you can work hard at something you don't like and become a legend. Find what you love, what you don't mind working hard a
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I blogged. I had a pretty big readership (three hundred or so followers on Tumblr, not sure how many followed on RSS), and I wrote a lot about how I felt and what I was going through. The conversations I had with my readers led to a lot of
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Only if I assume the doctor knows what's good for me and Amazon doesn't. I think that in this case, Amazon does and that they've been perfectly genteel about the entire situation.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I don't think the two can be compared. A hallucination is nothing at all like a dream, no matter how vivid the dream is.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I self-published, since I was in high school at the time. I'd rather not say the title here, since I'd like this account to remain semi-anonymous, but if you'd like I'll gladly mail you a link to the book online.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
The legal questions are complicated and IANAL, but morally they had no right to remove something that was rightfully purchased and in use from people who had done no wrong. But why not? Morally it would have been wrong to allow a leak of
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
If you give somebody drugs that they aren't prescribed to take, the drugs are not legal to have, even if they were purchased in a legal sale.

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