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by zzalpha 11y ago
Pfft, the sun just cribbed that idea from the big bang. Typical, unoriginal sun...
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Maybe try being a little less holier-than-thou. I'm gonna go ahead and bet a few things you enjoy likely qualify as inconsequential vanities or bullshit to someone. You just happen to define them differently. And there ain't not
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Some are, some aren't. Some I tend to agree with: "There’s always another level. Just be content knowing that you are still better off than most who have ever lived." "It’s ok to trade the possibility of your 80s and 90
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by zzalpha 11y ago
So patents. That was going to be my guess. So in 20 years it'll be pretty cheap. Meanwhile, China and other parts of the world that happily ignore patents will use the technology without restriction.
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Yeah! Like, antibiotics, man. It was basically mold that invented that! Totally not a medical breakthrough at all... no idea why so many people were impressed by it.
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Any insight into the source of those costs?
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Yes, correct, nothing short of death allows you escape student loan debt. Lovely system, isn't it?
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by zzalpha 11y ago
I'd accept the claim that rates are higher due to risk, given that's normally how loans work, except that student loan debt is virtually impossible to get out of, unlike any other form of debt. As a result, its a bit disingenuous
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by zzalpha 11y ago
You (and the author) are presuming Google views mobile web apps as a competitive advantage, but we have no evidence for that. Moreover, the article clearly conflates the desire to make web sites perform well, with the desire to make mobile
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Alas, that I don't know. I'm sure a bit more online research would bear fruit. My bet would be that you present evidence along with your challenge and they render judgement accordingly, but that's just a guess.
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Precisely. Unfortunately, there's a certain blindness to business realities among the tech community... a naive faith that the best, most open technology will obviously win, this despite copious evidence to the contrary. Flash had no
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Nope, CAS goes back to 2013 (see the EFF link I posted above).
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by zzalpha 11y ago
EFF has a page on this topic, in case you haven't come across it: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/six-strikes-copyright-... See the section on "What can I do if I receive a notice?", as i
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by zzalpha 11y ago
"Well established" is a strong statement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_determinism In short, current consensus is that the
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by zzalpha 11y ago
On the other hand you have the desktop/web thinking of rebooting often (or shutting down when not used, starting up before using) and being on the bleeding edge. I actually find this line of thinking baffling... I don't remember
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by zzalpha 11y ago
I began my official apprenticeship at age 28. My master physically beat me, which is a common practice. It’s corporal discipline. Oo This sounds eerily like a hazing. The author even says things like "When a white sushi chef says,
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by zzalpha 11y ago
I was responding to the commenter, not the article. The reality is, the smartphone is just another in a very very long line of ways to gather information about folks. Before the phone, there was credit rating agencies, who have access to yo
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by zzalpha 11y ago
There's an alternative: use your smartphone for productivity only and drop all the social crap. This begins by uninstalling all the apps you struggle with (Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, etc). Now get used to putting your phone down an
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by zzalpha 11y ago
My personal experience, however, despite discussions and requests not to be disturbed other than at predefined times, I still get interrupted far too often. Other people will place their "need" to get something from you over your
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Sure. Or people could just be considerate of each others time. But I suppose redefining the modern concept of work is another option.
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by zzalpha 11y ago
And not being around between 10 and 3 is just flat out inconsiderate. I'm a huge fan of flex hours. I think folks need to find a work rhythm that works for them. But you also work with other people and working such that your schedul
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by zzalpha 11y ago
There's a reason south park riffed on this in the latest season. Everyone thinks their opinion is important because the internet has made it easy for people to broadcast their complaints to the world (and yes, I realize I'm litera
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by zzalpha 11y ago
So it's like shorting a stock... Limited upside, unlimited downside. Interesting observation, I'd never thought of project planning that way.
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Or it could be literally nothing at all because the signal isn't strong enough to conclude anything is actually there to begin with. Which at this point is pretty likely, especially for any hypothesis that doesn't fit with the st
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by zzalpha 11y ago
tl;dr we don't know what it is, or even if its a real signal. But glad to see more content-free coverage of this news...
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Cue George Carlin quote in 3... 2...
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Ugh, god, will this news story not go away? The statistical significance of this finding is not high enough to warrant the hysteria surrounding its reporting. As quoted in the article: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary ev
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by zzalpha 11y ago
Another interesting element to this is basic human body and behavioural language that can be used to telegraph intent. As a pedestrian, making eye contact with a driver in order to determine intent is a key element of safety (which is why I
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by zzalpha 11y ago
You find Perl "too quirky" compared to... POSIX shell scripts. Remarkable. ;)
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by zzalpha 11y ago
I came here looking for this exact comment... truly, life is imitating art.

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