phmqk76

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by phmqk76 2y ago
When did snark replace thoughtful commentary?
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by phmqk76 2y ago
This is an ill-informed take. My lifetime has seen transformative, inexpensive medications dramatically increase the healthspans of literally billions of people. Atorvastatins have reduced heart disease and extended lives across the globe f
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by phmqk76 2y ago
Very well said.
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by phmqk76 2y ago
So much new housing has been built in the last year in Canada that Canada is now unrecognizable? That is unmitigated bullshit.
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by phmqk76 2y ago
LLMs don’t think, silly goose.
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by phmqk76 2y ago
I’m sorry, but a major home improvement investment of $6,500 per room relying on a small VC-backed startup is a recipe for disaster, given its cloud-connected nature. If it shipped with Matter/HomeKit/etc support out of the box, I
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by phmqk76 2y ago
$800?! This is a sandwich in search of a picnic.
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by phmqk76 2y ago
Stock buybacks were always an illegal form of stock manipulation, until Reagan decided it was fine, and then it stopped getting prosecuted.
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by phmqk76 2y ago
Stock buybacks are an illegal stock manipulation that were routinely prosecuted as such before the Reagan administration waved a magic wand and decided it was kosher. If Google has $70 billion for stock buybacks, then Google has $70 for tax
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by phmqk76 2y ago
More or less same with me. I wore mine for years, and upgraded a couple of times. But interacting with it is awkward, and my Apple Watches have easily been the most glitchy Apple products I’ve ever owned. I stopped wearing mine about 6 mont
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by phmqk76 2y ago
When I saw the backlash, I thought it was silly. Until I saw the ad. It really was in poor taste. It shows Apple’s total lack of engagement with the real world, with art and artists and their instruments and tools. In Apple’s universe, thos
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by phmqk76 2y ago
A much better ad! Showing the iPad as so much more than the some of its parts, instead of Apple’s original ad, which is to take all the charm and joy and talent required to make art in real life and discard it for a lifeless slab of glass.
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by phmqk76 2y ago
I love how people compare products like this or Apple Vision Pro to the original iPhone to make the point that products with limited appeal can flourish into something incredibly useful. The comparison is bad. The iPhone promised to be thre
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by phmqk76 2y ago
Apple is a corporation that exists to make money for its shareholders. It spent $10 billion to develop an Apple Car because it thought it would make a nice ROI by doing so, but failed. Do you think the money was spent altruistically? LOL
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by phmqk76 2y ago
If my comment didn't make sense to you, read it again, slowly. "Open markets" is not an Orwellian phrase - it's well-understood by anyone with any economic literacy that competition in markets requires those markets to b
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by phmqk76 2y ago
I feel like you didn’t understand my comment in the historical content in which I intended it. Government spending is directly responsible for huge technological leaps in the 20th century, and not today. Obama’s stimulus act funded loans to
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by phmqk76 2y ago
Of course it can replicate existing workflows and show existing content. The exciting potential of this class of device lies in the immersive experiences that exist only as demos. This is content that must be tailor-made for VR/AR&#x2F
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by phmqk76 2y ago
And yet, in Apple’s preferred world, they suck up 30% of all of the revenue made by developers who develop for their devices. The Mac model may not exist in 10 years if Apple can get rid of it and replace it with a locked down App Store fro
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by phmqk76 2y ago
Guess what? Joe Consumer lives in a society that has an economy. And that economy thrives on open markets and competition. US antitrust law knew this from Teddy Roosevelt all the way until Ronald Reagan gutted that notion, and began to focu
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by phmqk76 2y ago
The iPhone did exactly what it set out to do. Steve Jobs sold it as three devices in one - a phone, iPod, and web browser. It delivered beautifully. I owned it shortly after launch and immediately fell in love. I don’t know anyone who can s
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by phmqk76 2y ago
There was a lot of breathless coverage about how Steve Jobs was irreplaceable, and Apple hummed along for years after his death and seemed to do not only fine, but achieved heights Jobs maybe never even dreamed of. But the columns were righ
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by phmqk76 2y ago
This is what happens when government sets clear goals for technological advancement and subsidizes industry to meet those goals. The US used to do that, and we made huge leaps in technology and science for decades with that approach. And th
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by phmqk76 2y ago
You mean the brilliant plan of going to the literally middle of nowhere, in a state run by revanchist anti-government lunatics, that alternates between staggering heat and debilitating ice storms, all to escape taxes, didn’t work out as pla
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by phmqk76 2y ago
I, for one, would like to know who shows up to rallies where they chant “Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!”
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by phmqk76 2y ago
Amtrak from NYC to DC fluctuates in pricing but can be $35 each way, if booked booked far enough in advance. That’s about the same distance from Rancho Cucamonga to Las Vegas. So I think it’s a similar ballpark to a plane ticket.
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by phmqk76 2y ago
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by phmqk76 2y ago
Awesome! Now I can drive an hour+ to Rancho Cucamonga, park, wait for the train, pay the equivalent of four plane tickets for my family, then take a 2 hour+ train ride, instead of driving for 4 hours from my house for the cost of half a tan
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by phmqk76 2y ago
Google Plus had 100 million active users. Wouldn't have called that mainstream either. Apple's iMessage has 1 billion MAU - that's the kind of scale that Apple can achieve, instead of being a niche novelty for most people, or
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by phmqk76 2y ago
The most glaring issue facing China today is the concentration of power in Xi. Not that the CCP has ever been known for its transparency or openness, but there was a time not too long ago where the party elevated technocrats and had ruling
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by phmqk76 2y ago
I really don’t think that’s true at all. ChatGPT is absolutely not mainstream. It’s pierced the consciousness of the tech-savvy, which maybe be our world, but is decidedly not mainstream. Most people would have no idea how to even use it, t

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