la_barba

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by la_barba 7y ago
Okay, but you are conflating moral harm/duties with tangible physical harm. The first one is arguable, the second one (pollution of air, etc) isn't.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Back then, you could re-invent a shitty wheel, people would ignore you and your idea would die out. Now a shitty-wheel idea gets indexed into a search engine and can potentially fool a non-expert into believing that its actually a good idea
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by la_barba 7y ago
Your example is off the mark. What people mean by that sentiment is that as long as you don't harm others, you should have the freedom to do what you want. Climate-change and ant-vax are issues that impact everyone else on the planet.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Capacity is the currency of the industry they're in. Its right in the article itself. >What Saudi is trying to do by not revealing the true picture is to protect its reputation as a reliable oil supplier, especially to its target cl
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by la_barba 7y ago
If that is indeed the real reason, its unfortunate that they cannot get an OS to run acceptably in 1GB of RAM. Especially when they have such a tiny amount of hardware variations to support.
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by la_barba 7y ago
That really isn't a like-like comparison. You are looking at just one product from Apple. In the Android and Windows world for each generation there are hundreds of thousands of hardware combinations from entry level to high end that a
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by la_barba 7y ago
The other huge factor is that developers love re-inventing stuff. Nobody wants to be content just maintaining something that has been working for 30 years, because thats career suicide in today's world. "Hey, tell me about the coo
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by la_barba 7y ago
You haven't described what the problem actually is with schools. Homogenized knowledge systems are a simple way of having a common "API Layer" in our consciousness that other humans can access.
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by la_barba 7y ago
I don't think its a "racket". The thing with stuff like this is that nobody wants to be on the hook for re-certifying every single calculator as "equivalent".
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well the key difference is that on-paper anyway, MS claims they use telemetry to make Windows better and fix bugs, Google spies on you and your personal data so that they can sell your profile to the highest bidder who will attempt to convi
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by la_barba 7y ago
>I am afraid this business will fail (as a business). People, on average, prefer to have freebies at the expense of losing their privacy, than pay even a moderate amount for a service. That is the current state yes, but I think that this
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by la_barba 7y ago
..created by chinese phd students (sorry.. i know its a low-blow :P)
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by la_barba 7y ago
Caring about the market, and not societies, is the kind of capitalism, that the US has been heavily promoting for quite a while. But seems like young people are starting to catch on to this social-democracy thing..
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by la_barba 7y ago
I think you're overplaying the 'cheap crap' argument. China is quite a ways better than they were when that stereotype was passable. They can totally match what the US is doing in a large set of technology based industries. A
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by la_barba 7y ago
Um, because the images have the text "Unedited Iphone XS" on them..? But ok, I don't want to go over and dissect every single image here. That is of no benefit to either of us. The larger point is your "let me throw some
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by la_barba 7y ago
I have those cameras and lenses you're referring to. I've sunk in over 20K over the past many years. I still think its inexpensive compared to what I see others doing. For e.g. Cars :) :)
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by la_barba 7y ago
Yeah this was a while ago.. maybe 2007.
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by la_barba 7y ago
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. It didn't read like an ad to me. It reads like someone who was excited to use a cool new product, and wrote about it on their own website.
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by la_barba 7y ago
>What I'm afraid is that the new iPhone dark mode (or even the P30 Pro and other phones with post processing) will also process the images too much and stack them thus losing a lot of detail. When put on instagram or made smaller fo
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by la_barba 7y ago
Amateurs rarely benefit from pro grade equipment. Atleast photography is somewhat cheap as a hobby. I see friends buying expensive amps or guitars because so and so uses them and they end up still sounding the same. People who were buying a
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by la_barba 7y ago
Olympus also makes great weather sealed bodies. My iphone overheated a few times this summer when I was traveling in utah. My dslr just kept ticking along. People who are new to cameras, don't actually know what hidden features real ca
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by la_barba 7y ago
A newer camera will only help if you were actually limited by the previous camera. If you consider photography to be art, then to an extent the camera is just a tool to express your creativity. Different cameras/tools have different li
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by la_barba 7y ago
I haven't seen any innovation from Apple or Google because all they're doing is catching up to DSLRs which are still hundreds of miles ahead in picture quality. For amateur use, the iphone can certainly satisfy, or so can pretty m
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by la_barba 7y ago
The author has claimed that these are unedited pictures. Do you have any information that contradicts this?
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by la_barba 7y ago
Whats the point of muddying the waters without having verifiable facts? The thing with speculation is .. anyone can speculate, on anything, for any reason. That doesn't make it true. >I'm just saying it's naive to think th
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by la_barba 7y ago
Sounds like you're talking about WiMax. I was briefly on WiMax in Bellevue, WA, but the service sucked, not sure if it was the tech itself or their infrastructure...
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by la_barba 7y ago
>Investors divesting from fossil fuels sounds a lot like sanctions in that they “don’t work until they work.”[1] Sure, but you can say that about any cause. Sounding like something is vague, and thats the larger point from the article. P
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by la_barba 7y ago
That is a fair point. Do you know what the law says if the assets were supplied by a third party, or were purchased from one of those stock image sites?
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by la_barba 7y ago
On a meta-level, maybe part of being educated, is being educated about the various possibilities and opportunities you might have if you pursued certain career paths. Its fuzzy whether you can get to that stage without a well rounded formal
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by la_barba 7y ago
People have been bashing MS, Apple for decades (for the same tired reasons), and now FB, Google too. What is wrong in expressing displeasure? Its a normal human trait to do so. If you wrong someone enough times, they're going to spend

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