2019ideas

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by 2019ideas 8y ago
The most obvious and not controversial- Home screen on the iphone vs a home screen on Android.
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
I consider all of these likely- >FBI found someone inside they could negotiate with(IE- better patents or the threat of denied patents) >FBI found someone they could bribe >FBI hacked and broke into the iphone 3/3 of those App
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
This is the biggest benefit of Apple users.
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
I like Bitcoin, I don't see a use for any other coin. Decentralized verification seems to be valuable in Currency only. Timestamps and voting do not seem to be valuable, this was the craze over alt coins.
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
>when you value things that are based on things outside your control e.g. social validation, financial success, you will struggle to be happy. These are outside our control? I found both were achieved by choosing to be an engineer and go
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
Warning, When Medical got regulated in the U.S. the prices skyrocketed, and customer care stagnated. The regulators were incentivized to create a monopoly by the entrenched medical professionals. Now people are asking for more regulations.
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
>the government will helpfully tell them what to correct. >the government There is no 'the government'. The government is an entity of elected and unelected people. They have their own bias, their own friends, their own want
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
Higher standards of living. Less starvation, better environment, etc...
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
>My friend "applied," knowing full well it was a scam. Knew it was a scam and did it anyway? These are the people that need to have conversations with economists.
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
>Complete win for who exactly ? The sweat shop workers, the company, the customers. Sweat shop workers are losing their ability to do mindless labor, next up, they will be using their brains to make low skill decisions where automation c
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
My buddy is developing a fireworks Sim in js + embedded systems to coordinate with a fireworks show. The embedded work is basically done, but he was considering using JS and three.js, any suggestions/advice?
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
>This seems like a very logical test for all countries to carry out. Who is 'countries'? The president? The deep state? I am not sure I want anyone but a group of decentralized nerds in control of this. And that control be opti
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
>Does the big tech company bear no responsibility for shifting as much work as it can out to subcontractors in order to cut costs? > spit them out as burned-out husks with no savings at the age of 35, hey, that's the system we li
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
If economics are irrational because humans are irrational. Apple is the primary argument that humans are irrational. Forming logical conclusions on anything Apple does is dangerous. They overcharge and under deliver(at least on Hardware). T
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
This is how I found I was importing the wrong file after 1 week of working on it... I was using Welcome.js instead of Home.js I was happy, kinda. But also, wondering if I solved the issue earlier in the week.
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
>That would be solved by ai/automation Lots of these topics have different outcomes when you start to assume sci-fi tech. I won't argue about what life should be like when we build fusion reactors or figure out nuclear 3D print
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
>given UBI, anything an individual may do would be his or her own prerogative and therefore represent higher quality output. But having fun making art means little to an economy. Having less fun designing a robot to pick potatoes will tr
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
> Its called a life, and work is not the goal of it. This type of thinking needs to stop. You don't get to enjoy our lavish society without contributing. If you want food and a shack, you can already live this lifestyle for less tha
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
I can't disagree with this. Unless I am inspired, I will not work for free. I imagine the opposite would be true for myself, and I consider myself a hard worker.
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
This is bad economics. Jobs are literally necessary for our society to function. If everyone was jobless but 'happy', they wouldn't be happy when the food runs out. Or houses start to get old. Or iphones stop being built and
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
Not tipping sounds great until you order food in Europe. That said, I've heard good things about Japan's food service, and they don't require tipping. EDIT spelling
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
Mind if I ask a poll question- Do you believe 'markets grow at 7-13%/yr, over 10 years' I've been taught this like its a fact.
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
Causes of the replication crisis puts 0 blame on academia. This is an Academia caused crisis.
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
>you are forced to sign clauses that gives your employer full ownership of anything you invent ever while employed You know, you don't have to sign those. I always cross out those and tell them to send it back when its fixed. Only m
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
>This is what a strong economy actually looks like. No mention of wages and jobs. In Electrical Engineering(US), its vicious the amount of competition trying to get me. Vacation policy? Unpaid, but at 60$/hr, I just afford to take 3
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
> I didn't have any interest in history in HS. I blame your teachers.
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
Millions of followers mean you have more influence. (like it or not) Some people want to release products and not pay for advertising, some people want to watch football.
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
Looking back at my education, Precalc and English were me 2 most useful classes. "Science" "engineering" and "history" were actually useless. If you were going to get further education, college science eclipses
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
Yeah the G9s we bought had nothing labeled. Going to give amazon a try.
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by 2019ideas 8y ago
I bought some G9 bulbs, and they are not performing like the halogens... It doesn't give me the full RGB like halogens and my house looks pale white(lacks red) instead of full color. I might go back, I do not like the look of my house,

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