jstevens85

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by jstevens85 12y ago
My guess is that those mental models don't provide much comfort to people suffering from depression. Our brains evolved over many years and they require certains things to be present to be able to work at a normal mood elevation. Resea
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by jstevens85 12y ago
South Korea - military dictatorship until the late 80s Taiwan - one party state + martial law from 1949 - 1987. Singapore - one party has held power for over 40 years. These three countries have transformed themselves into advanced high-inc
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by jstevens85 12y ago
They did this before with the nytimes and it didn't end the way Tesla would've liked. The writer had a number of problems, and Elon Musk accused him of being dishonest to create a story. Here's the original article: http:&#x
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by jstevens85 12y ago
There's a lot of academic literature that supports the claim that reports of suicide in the media lead to an increase in the number of suicides. This is often referred to as "copycat suicide" or "the Werther effect"
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by jstevens85 13y ago
Your point still stands, but Singapore is far more western than Japan.
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by jstevens85 13y ago
While university sport certainly exists, the major differences are that i) they don't generate any revenue, and ii) student athletes don't receive any advantage in university admissions.
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by jstevens85 13y ago
> their shit-bag leader spends all of their money developing weapons that even the most hard-up revolutionaries wouldn't be caught dead with. I was under the impression that the attraction of nuclear weapons is that they can help re
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by jstevens85 13y ago
Except that publishers won't agree to such a deal, meaning that any console implementing such a policy would lose third-party support resulting in significantly decreased sales units, and ultimately billion dollar loses for the console
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by jstevens85 13y ago
I'm guessing that the publishers were only willing to allow features such as family sharing etc in exchange for limiting used disc sales.
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by jstevens85 13y ago
Those rules were relaxed three years ago. http://n4g.com/news/607824/apple-approves-manomios-c64-2-0-a...
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by jstevens85 13y ago
From the article: > FISA orders can range from inquiries about specific people to a broad sweep for intelligence, like logs of certain search terms, lawyers who work with the orders said. Looks like personal data could be turned over (we
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by jstevens85 14y ago
I'm looking forward to buying it, and I haven't bought a game in years. While there are definitely a lot of people out there who really wanted the game on day 1, and are very hurt that they might not be able to play it very much for a few d
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by jstevens85 14y ago
Could someone explain why she felt compelled to talk? She was advised to by her lawyers, and she was concerned that she'd be arrested if she didn't. Was it because she had a legal obligation to assist in the investigation of the crime?
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by jstevens85 14y ago
> who had both the chance and the opportunity to use the access to leak stuff that could have been quite damaging to the company - yet didn't According to the article, he'd leaked "troves" of development documents to the writer of the a
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by jstevens85 14y ago
Could you add an email to your profile? I'd like to email you regarding Masters courses at UniMelb.
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by jstevens85 14y ago
Authoring the RSS spec may be an exaggeration. A history of RSS can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Basically, it seems like the original RSS spec (RSS 0.9) was authored by two guys at Netscape, and released in March 1999,
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by jstevens85 14y ago
If he accepted the plea bargain of six months, then the case wouldn't have gone to trial, avoiding the excessive legal fees. I don't understand the timeline, but had he accepted the plea bargain, is it not possible that he would have alread
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by jstevens85 14y ago
I don't have any idea about how easy it would be to detect a laptop connected directly to an Ethernet switch, but the court documents do mention that Aaron placed the laptop in the closet on December 26th, and it wasn't noticed until Januar
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by jstevens85 14y ago
Why are you mentioning the figure of 35 years? According to the WSJ, the prosecution was planning to push for seven years at trial, and were willing to offer six months in exchange for a guilty plea. It's also my impression that many people
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by jstevens85 14y ago
It seems odd that they would state that one of their cofounders "brings a degree in electronics and computing from M.I.T." when he in fact went to Manukau Institute of Technology.
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by jstevens85 14y ago
>They make $575 in profit from an iPhone but pay the Foxconn workers $7 to assemble it. They could double the pay and still make a very huge profit. Assembling the iPhone is a small and very insignificant part of the manufacturing proce
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by jstevens85 15y ago
Traditional publishers trembling? That would seem unlikely to me given that one of the legends of the game development community only managed to raise a budget equivalent to an average XBLA game.
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by jstevens85 15y ago
According to Isaacson's biography, it was Markkula who insisted that Jobs be heavily involved in the non-engineering areas of the company.
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by jstevens85 15y ago
The Social Network was adapted from The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. The screenplay followed the original book closely.
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by jstevens85 15y ago
>If true, this would completely change the balance-of-power in the Apple-Samsung legal battles. Don't think that's true. Worst-case scenario is that Apple releases a firmware update that removes the switching functionality and forces th
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by jstevens85 15y ago
Apple is an international company. They sell stuff outside of the US. Why would someone living in Europe/Asia/Africa give a shit about American jobs?
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by jstevens85 15y ago
|Again, what other country is out there doing more to defend freedom? Examples of the US defending freedom. 1973 Chilean coup d'état http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat The US supports a coup of the democratically
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by jstevens85 15y ago
That should be Queensland police, not Australian.
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by jstevens85 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition_by_the_... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Rapito_affair http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_El-Masri
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by jstevens85 16y ago
>Apple makes a profit on every iDevice sold, every iApp sold, through iAds and on the $99/year developer fee. What evidence do you have to support the allegation that Apple makes a profit on every App sold? Firstly, there's the cost of

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