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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
True enough. However, you also need to consider that customers are much more likely to hand their card number over to Apple than to some random website they've never heard of before. In fact, Apple probably already has it. 70% of somet
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Discoverability was a good argument at one time, but much less so with the shitshow the iOS app store has become.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
How is requiring the user to open a completely different application a better "user experience" than installing it from the web page they're already on? Yes, I know that installing a PWA is confusing (especially on Apple&#x27
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> when a more typical capacity factor for a coal plant is 60% This is, of course, patent nonsense. "Not producing maximum power because it isn't needed at the moment" is an entirely different thing from "not producing
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Definitely a good rule of thumb, though there are exceptions. I gather that surströmming, a type of canned fermented herring popular in Sweden, is considered to be at its best when the can starts to bulge (for some value of "best"
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> Hey you offered the framework! I did nothing of the sort. You're trying to set up a classic slippery slope fallacy and I'm not going to play that game. Me: I think alcohol prohibitionists are meddling busybodies. You: Oh, wel
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> It’s not that obvious, as the brain grows, certain kind of cells die off and never come back. I'm not sure what difference that would make. Those brain cells (and all the other brain cells that don't die off) were still forme
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Don't give yourself a hernia setting up that straw man, dude.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
>now that solar energy is far cheaper than coal ever was I'm sorry, this is simply not true. Usually such claims are the result of ignoring two basic facts: First, solar is only online 50% of the time, at most (in most regions, co
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> road infrastructure (eg bus lanes) so they not stuck in traffic Bus lanes aren't going to do anything to help with the real bottleneck in city bus transport: having to stop every couple of blocks to let people on and off.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
I realize that this probably wouldn't fit in the title, but this is about a specific kind of adult stem cell, not stem cells in general. It's trivially obvious that some kinds of stem cell can become any type of cell, given
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> There are religious bookbanners today and they have very little overlap with the anti-social media crowd. I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree on that. To me it doesn't matter whether there's any actual overl
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
I don't think the previous commenter is confused at all. For example, the Catholic Church established its Index of Prohibited Books way back in 1560, and it remained in effect until 1966. (this is not a criticism of the Catholic Church
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Same here, or pretty close. My late wife and I each had our own accounts, plus a third account for mortgage, utilities, groceries, etc. We'd each deposit into the third account, and kept the rest of our finances separate. I made more m
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
I recall an instance of Steve Jobs actually being a nice guy in this respect. He was talking to a well-known third-party Mac developer (I think Panic, but maybe it was a different one) and asked what they were going to be working on next. &
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
We really should have different punctuation marks for verbatim quotes: Senator Johnson said "I'm taking my wife to Spago." and so-called "scare" quotes: Senator Johnson was seen at Spago with his "wife".
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> Considered a classic by who? By just about everyone who's ever compiled a list of the greatest CS books of all time? Here you go: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=classic+computer+science+books&t=b... Count how many
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Okay. And you didn't have to read all 600 pages before deciding it wasn't for you. Right? > Yet people promise me that this one is different, while giving me nothing but condescending promises of enlightenment. You do understan
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> you can't tell whether an identifier refers to a function or variable in Scheme by sight alone Nor in C. Nor in JavaScript. Nor in Java. Nor in... I mean, what is "foo"? Could be the name of a function. Could be a char v
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> I think the military perspective at this point is that they want drones at all price points. I think you're 100% right here. It may seem absurd, but something that can take out a main battle tank would be well worth $20,000. An M1
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> It is quite hard to even tell a noun from a verb What? Unless the list is quoted or something, the first item after the opening paren is always the "verb", yes?
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> It's a 600 page technical book You do understand that you don't have to read an entire book before forming an opinion, right? > sort through everything that exists "Book that has been considered a classic for forty y
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
The Fast Fourier Transform.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Just giving the previous poster a taste of his own medicine. > What's your opinion on Cambridge's entry of "less and less"? None of those examples are countable nouns. Books are discrete and countable. Time (e.g.) is
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> prefabricated housing hasn’t had to look like a boring box in decades. Arguably all the way back to Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion house, nearly a hundred years ago.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
No one put you in charge of policing the reading tastes of other people. Just sayin'. > Even professors and supposedly educated people read less and less books "Fewer", not "less". "Book" is a countable
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
How do you know that the "long-term plans to combat climate change" won't prove harmful in their own right? They would produce massive economic effects at a minimum. Then there are the unknown effects of (e.g.) removing a lot
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
So is Valdez itself. I've observed that environmentalists never get their panties in a knot over natural underwater oil seeps, of which there are many.The natural underwater oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico crank out between 1 and 5 mil
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> but also would almost certainly cause environmental impacts at least on the scale of climate change, and possibly worse. Or, possibly better. The deep oceans don't have a lot of marine life because there's not much plankton,
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> The critical thing that limits CO2 capture by plants through photosynthesis is water In the ocean, where most photosynthesis occurs, it's definitely not water. I believe it's iron. I think there have been a few small-scale ex

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