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by zzalpha 9y ago
If your willing to pay MacBook prices I'd give Lenovo another look. The latest Carbon is just... a perfect laptop as far as I'm concerned.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Counter anecdata: My office is full of T and W series Lenovos. I myself have a first generation Carbon as my work machine. My personal machine was a T410 (and before that another T series) until I recently got a new Carbon. Absolutely zer
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by zzalpha 9y ago
This exactly. They claim certifications and safety ratings they do not have. If they're not actually suitable, the result can be severe eye damage. As for identifying the "real thing", I found the specific brand NASA recommen
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by zzalpha 9y ago
The ONLY purpose of monopoly laws is as a consumer protection. No, it's about protecting the marketplace. Consumer protection is a second order effect. Here's a quote from the U.S. Supreme Court with respect to the Sherman Act:
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by zzalpha 9y ago
What do you mean zero cost? They still have to pay for mail, right? I had a feeling that would be confusing. Zero cost to the consumer. When I order a product from a random small internet shop, it also arrives usually within 1-3 days. W
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Uh, that doesn't put Amazon in the right. It just puts both of them in the wrong.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Where Amazon absolutely kills it is in their logistics. As a store they're... frankly terrible. Search is complete garbage. Filtering is clunky. The product categories are an absolute disaster. And it's often impossible to t
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Understood. My point, which seems to be getting misunderstood, is that exploring additional safety features is not "blaming" guns or somehow diverting attention away from societal issues. Mandating seatbelts, smoke detectors in re
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Thank you! I appreciate that you took my comment seriously and decided to respond in kind. I totally agree with you. It's an extremely difficult ask, and I'd never claim that the current iteration of this technology is anywhere
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by zzalpha 9y ago
The same argument could be made for child safety caps on bottles of Tylenol or bleach. That's not a rational argument. It's an appeal to emotion, and a bit of a dog whistle.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
You're already making a ton of assumptions about the entire possible solution space (specifically that it requires an active effort to unlock the gun that necessitates "fumbling"). How is that rational?
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by zzalpha 9y ago
So, suppose we live in a fantasy world where a smart gun is developed that has extremely high reliability. Would you agree that would represent an overall improvement in firearm technology? I'm trying to understand if the objections a
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I think you're maybe taking my example a bit too literally...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I'm going to play devil's advocate, here: 1) Lock up your gun if it's not directly under your control (i.e., in a holster). "But then it's not available when someone breaks into my home!" 2) Carry your gun i
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by zzalpha 9y ago
We have very very effective toddler thwarting technology; low tech, very cost effective and easy to impliment, its called "keeping it where the toddler can't get it". Its worked fairly well since the inception of the firearm
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Are there any gun- and tech-literate people who actually think smart guns like this are a good idea? Anytime someone (cop or civilian) pulls a trigger in self defense, they do so as a last resort. Have you honestly never heard of an acci
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Bizarre I'll give you. Fun, well, that's a matter of taste so I won't debate you there. But "fairly straightforward"? Let's not get crazy, here. IMO, ICOs are doing to cryptocurrency what derivatives did to tr
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by zzalpha 9y ago
But no, we won't.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
No the most you can say is it's anti-Israel. Imputing racist motives on those holding those views cannot be justified based purely on those actions. The reality is you're projecting your own political views on the motives of other
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by zzalpha 9y ago
We'll, I can think of one obvious problem right off the bat: when you accumulate enough tabs they're no longer discoverable. Many folks here have offered extensions or workarounds for making finding/searching tabs easier, but
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I strongly suspect this depends on a) the person and how they process information, and b) the kind of research being performed. Usually when I'm researching, it's typically because I'm searching for the solution to a problem.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
As far as I can tell it's all about depth-first vs breadth-first. I find the same people that like to open lots of tabs also prefer tabs that open in the background. Why? Because the browse breadth first. They'll be reading somet
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Not to at all dispute your use case/requirements or anything, but as a depth-first browser user, I can't even fathom a world in which 150 tabs qualifies as "moderately" large, and not "how many tabs???" large.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Well, given the doctors in the article flat out stated that: There was a chance that his immune system would go into overdrive, and there was a chance that the edited T-cells wouldn’t be as potent as they expected. The medical team just re
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Well, the flipside is that if you stop chemo, the damage to your body stops. But if the immune system over reacts, it can run out of control and kill you. I have a relative with stage IV melanoma. She was included in a research trial that
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by zzalpha 9y ago
That ceremony looks monstrously tiring to an introverted westerner like me. Well, I guess it's a good thing the article isn't about westerners, let alone introverts...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I've never really grasped the idea of "studying" an editor. I switched to Vim from Emacs many years ago to deal with RSI. I learned the basics and then just started using the damn thing. Periodically I'd go look up a f
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by zzalpha 9y ago
You've literally described anyone who chooses to truly adhere to any diet over the long term. The point is, those people are, in practice, a tiny fraction of dieters.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Well that's a very long, defensive way of saying "no"...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Misleading summary. Should be "Chemicals in fatty foods that come in contact with plastics, particularly cheese, and especially cheese powder." As the article (eventually) notes: Since they bind with fats, they tend to build up

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