koeselitz

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by koeselitz 13y ago
A friend of mine that had insurance cut off his thumb a few years ago; all told the bill to him ended up being around $80,000. It is unfortunate, but you can't really just save and hope that a tragic thing like that won't happen - it is p
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by koeselitz 13y ago
I am no huge fan of the BPD, and I don't deny that their tactics here were silly. But there is real history behind this issue, and it's a legitimate safety concern. It was only a few years ago that the Station fire happened less than fifty
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by koeselitz 14y ago
We're talking about micro-transactions - less than five dollars. If failing to charge for and ship small items at very small prices were legally actionable or subject to regulation, I imagine a whole slew of companies would be out of busine
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by koeselitz 14y ago
Unless these studies were controlled for gender - and it appears that they were not - height is just one more factor which both men and women have to contend with. And if that's the case, then attractiveness is still a lopsided standard w
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by koeselitz 14y ago
Kayak, Hipmunk, Google Flights, Orbitz, and almost every other aggregator licenses ITA Software's system, actually. And most major airlines use it internally. It's good enough that it's pretty much the de facto standard and framework.
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by koeselitz 14y ago
Well, I'm happy to respond, I guess. A few years ago, I was given an iPad 1 by the company I work for as a x-mas bonus. It took me a little while, but over time I've found it taking up so very many functions in my life, and doing so with mo
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by koeselitz 14y ago
If you don't mind saying - in what way do you find it a breath of fresh air? I ask because I am very much a Linux guy, not a Microsoft and definitely not an Apple guy - but my iPad has completely revolutionized the way I use computers. I gu
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by koeselitz 14y ago
And he instantly regrets it: "CNN was a huge mistake, which I will not repeat." http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11pka1/violentacrez_on...
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by koeselitz 14y ago
The study I linked to is absolutely not a "narrow experiment" - it's the largest and most thoroughgoing study of its kind ever done. The study you're linking to, by contrast, is a narrow experiment, is more than three years old, and has b
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by koeselitz 14y ago
Kathy was absolutely not trying to rank people by how much privilege they enjoy. And you're misunderstanding the "hard mode" metaphor; factors are not necessarily sole determinants. It has been demonstrated, for example, that in science bei
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by koeselitz 14y ago
>> 2. It's more about the doxxing, which seems to be the one legal thing that isn't allowed on reddit. Either they have the policy that doxxing is horrible or they don't. I guess the question is whether that is a sensible policy. It
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by koeselitz 14y ago
There's an interesting question here, actually. Do people really have the right to screw themselves out of a fair trial? I guess so - if only because it would be very difficult to deprive people of this right. I would point out, however, th
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by koeselitz 14y ago
That isn't really phrased as a salary, is it? It sounds like a signing bonus. Which - well, I've never worked around Cupertino. Is $85k really a typical signing bonus?
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by koeselitz 14y ago
>> "I have 3 people reporting to me. Designing product. I have them cause this is how you grow...." >> "Essentially I could design myself and be 10 times quicker." The first claim here makes no sense in light of the second.
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by koeselitz 14y ago
What you've said is true, but it should be noted that not only did Xerox never file a patent suit - nobody filed a software patent suit for at least a decade afterwards. Software patents were at that time unknown. If Xerox had wanted to f
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by koeselitz 14y ago
Hold on - that doesn't seem to say what people want to think it's saying, does it? That's a license to use Smalltalk-80 in products. It isn't a license to use the Xerox Parc system or look and feel at all. I think the point remains: if ther
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by koeselitz 14y ago
At this point, it seems as though journalism made an extraordinarily dire mistake in relying principally on revenue streams that are entirely distinct from their central business. Shouldn't journalism rather have sought to monetize the thin
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by koeselitz 14y ago
This seems like a fine point, and I wonder if it's actually true. Has there really been any case of a person being sued or threatened by Craigslist for cross-posting their ad - that is, posting their ad on Craigslist and also somewhere else
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by koeselitz 14y ago
This is flatly not true. The Affordable Care Act includes provisions to encourage - not compel - doctors to use electronic medical records; I really don't think this is such a ridiculous thing, and as someone who's work on medical data befo
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by koeselitz 14y ago
The thing is that Apple has not so far allowed really and truly dynamic icons on the home screen. This bothers some of us, since we'd like to have some notifications or displays visible from that screen. This is neat because it allows that,
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by koeselitz 14y ago
Is this really true? How many "large online retailers" can you name that have been able to pinpoint an exact shipping date months in advance of the actual release of a product? Apple sure doesn't; they get around this by not even announcing
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by koeselitz 14y ago
Wait, I don't understand quite what you mean. People standing up frequently turns an office into a "mess"? How so? I guess you must mean that it would disturb the other four people in the office if one of them got up every few minutes. But
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by koeselitz 14y ago
It's funny that they did a whole presentation like this without mentioning the price, aside from saying it'll be priced "like comparable tablets based on ARM," which doesn't mean much on the face of it. Just recently there was a lot of talk
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by koeselitz 14y ago
I hadn't heard about that until this thread - nice! I am looking forward to that. Seems like a great thing.
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by koeselitz 14y ago
You want them to add a pen? They added a pen: http://d35lb3dl296zwu.cloudfront.net/uploads/photo/image/632...
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by koeselitz 14y ago
That's exactly what I do. Every night, I carefully set the settings on my iPhone so that I won't be disturbed by email notifications or other stuff. Every morning, I carefully set the settings on my iPhone so that I'll know when I get email
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by koeselitz 14y ago
I got very excited, because I thought at first from the headline that this meant that Ubuntu's Unity interface now supports Linux. Kind of disappointed to realize that's not the case. I guess we'll have to wait a few more versions..
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by koeselitz 14y ago
>> Do we imagine that such progress is achieved through the kind of Luddite thinking that leads people to value "hackability" over never-before-achieved levels of precision and portability? I don't think that's precisely fair. I'm n
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by koeselitz 14y ago
Well, it might. I guess it depends on your profession. If your profession is hardware hacking, IT, or maybe RAM disk upgrading, it seems like that would be included. So I suppose the "Pro" in "Macbook Pro" implicitly excludes those professi
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by koeselitz 14y ago
That's the trouble, though - will Windows RT really offer file system access? I haven't seen guarantees that it will.

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