glenra

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by glenra 2y ago
Microsoft has been doing various flavors of mobile OS development since LONG before iOS or Android. The first release of Windows CE was back in 1996, roughly contemporary with PalmOS and Apple's NewtonOS.
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by glenra 2y ago
To be fair to anyone so motivated: the word "public" wasn't necessary to the comment. Loud, substantial private funding for such an endeavor would presumably solve the problem just as well. (They also might be thinking that
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by glenra 3y ago
Oxygen masks definitely aren't unimpeachable good. Passenger oxygen mask systems are virtually never needed but have caused multiple fires that destroyed planes and killed people . They are an expensive complication without which pl
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by glenra 5y ago
> I was under the impression that masks don't protect you that much, they protect other people from you? That claim has been made but is questionable. The masks were designed to reduce exposure to the wearer, not so much from
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by glenra 5y ago
I have some on the ground experience with Chinese manufacturing and what I saw was fine - it was relatively low-paying transitional work people do for a few years when they're young - like working at McDonalds used to be here - before
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by glenra 5y ago
Nearly all of your links are broken. I think you copy-pasted the text of links that had been truncated with a "...", where the part prior to "..." is not sufficient to constitute a valid web address. For instance, the li
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by glenra 5y ago
...or perhaps the addition of one more competitor makes this area become known as "the ice cream district", pulling in ice-cream-seeking customers from surrounding areas and attracting complementary businesses, with the new compet
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by glenra 5y ago
> I've never heard of green tea ice cream before. Green tea ice cream is quite popular, you should try it! It used to be something you found mostly in Japanese restaurants but nowadays you can find it in grocery stores as well. Mr.
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by glenra 6y ago
You could register the gun and make it fully legal to use under the NFA in which case yes, you could possess shells and even fire them. There's paperwork, but it's possible and some people do it. Um, here: https://www.d
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by glenra 6y ago
> I'm saying if you punt on tanks, you aren't actually an absolutist about the right to bear arms. Black's Law Dictionary defines the word arms as "anything that a man wears for his defense, or takes in his hands a
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by glenra 6y ago
> if not for the FDA to come down on operations like Theranos, then who? Theranos was committing fraud - selling investors a product that didn't exist. You don't need the FDA for fraud to be illegal, ordinary civil and financia
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by glenra 7y ago
> Throwing a remote driver into a dangerous situation with no context sounds like a terrible solution to me. We might be thinking of different situations. I'm mostly imagining a car or truck that does great on the freeway but poor
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by glenra 7y ago
> Anything less than 100% FULL automation is MORE dangerous than manual driving, because the "driver" will almost certainly lack any situational awareness. With enough reliable bandwidth a decent workaround is to have the sys
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by glenra 7y ago
Did you mean to imply we are consuming crude oil "orders of magnitude faster than [reserves are] produced"? Because that isn't true - the amount of oil "known reserves" is how much we've bothered to find and fi
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by glenra 7y ago
> If you're a "right" leaning person you probably want a smaller government that spends less and we never get that. For every reduction in law hundreds are added. Actually, under Trump government finally did get smalle
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by glenra 7y ago
Nope! In recent decades the violent crime rate has dropped in the US faster than the population has increased so the total number of crimes is actually fewer today than it was in 1990, even as a raw non-population-adjusted number. My own
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by glenra 7y ago
I wonder if this article was inspired by a Blink Health press release? The article positions them as the obvious one to switch to if you still want automatic ordering/delivery and don't want to bother with in-person coupons or a d
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by glenra 7y ago
The framing of this article is weird. Keeps.com charges $25/month for finasteride; if we look that up on GoodRx it is ONE THIRD the regular retail price at CVS or Target or Rite-Aid or Walgreens. True, it's more than the secret wi
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by glenra 8y ago
An American getting struck by lightning might be on the order of a one-in-a-million annual risk, but it's still a really bad thing if it happens TO YOU, so it's sensible we minimize our risk by choosing not to go out on golf cours
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by glenra 8y ago
Somebody with poor eyesight and slow reaction speed is an unsafe driver but doesn't need any particular help loading/unloading from a car. A driver who can help unload is a fine thing, but having somebody drive just so they can
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by glenra 8y ago
My guess is that a lot of the 17 are just adding color or confirming individual parts that don't add up to the whole. For instance, they must have had at least one source who told them about the factory with chinese-speaking workers th
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by glenra 8y ago
The entire article reads like a blog post. It obviously wasn't written by a news writer or edited by a news editor - there are grammar issues and tonal issues and sourcing issues. Does the BBC now have something like the Fortune "
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by glenra 8y ago
> I'm on the lookout for more right-leaning podcasts that balance this out a bit...Other ideas? If you want news, politics and culture from a perspective that is libertarianish and/or right-wing-ish, try: * The Fifth Column -
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by glenra 8y ago
> I think I've seen at least a prototype Waymo car (it was exhibited in the Computer History Museum) that was designed without the steering wheel and pedals for a human to use. That wouldn't work so well given that the car mig
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by glenra 8y ago
> What's wrong with 10 companies working together to try 10 different things, then eliminate the poorer performing ones, increasing resources on the better ones, until there's 1 winner they've all agreed on? Isn't t
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by glenra 8y ago
Competition is a discovery process ; if we knew the right answer ahead of time we might not need it. Having ten companies try ten different strategies is likely to find the right answer - the product that best fits our current set of techn
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by glenra 8y ago
The Scandinavian countries that are doing the best economically today had their best economic growth when they were relatively free market/capitalist. So maybe if you grow enough prior to turning more socialist it can take a long tim
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by glenra 8y ago
That's the "...and then a miracle occurs" theory of economics. Keep in mind that Uber solved a HUGE REAL PROBLEM that cabs didn't - Uber cheaply serves neighborhoods where it was previously near-impossible to get a cab.
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by glenra 8y ago
It actually is the same as killing Uber. Paying a guaranteed above-minimum-wage plus benefits would kill Uber's business model and either drive the company out of business or force it to act just like the cab companies. Either way, man
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by glenra 8y ago
>he very evidently values a dollar bill with his signature as more than $1. Wait, is it not objectively true that the autograph of a famous person tends to add value to the things they sign? Ebay has a category for Musk-autographed stu

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