zyxley

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by zyxley 10y ago
You seem to be doing that extreme-libertarian thing where you call taxes "robbery" while ignoring the negative economic effects of the general lack of safety nets in the US. You may want to read up on the concept of the "trag
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by zyxley 10y ago
macrumors.com says there will probably be an update in October. They seem to usually be pretty on target with short-term predictions.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> our human intelligence performs far more sophisticated operations than are possible given the number of neurons that exist in our brains This only holds if you presume those operations are being performed in the same way as a computer,
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Fedoras used to be cool. Now they're weird and neckbeard-y. Fedoras are still cool... if worn with a nice suit by a well-groomed person. Fedoras worn with undershirts and untailored clothes were never cool in the first place.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Yeah, Macbook air really feels abandoned The Macbook-with-no-suffix line is the implicit replacement for the Air anyway.
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by zyxley 10y ago
Anecdotes are not data.
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by zyxley 10y ago
Calling it a "utopia" when there's limited space and nothing to do seems a bit inaccurate.
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by zyxley 10y ago
My high school was an interesting experience. It was a poor area and they expected few of the students to go to further education - but rather than use that as an excuse to treat the students like losers, the school tried to include some of
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by zyxley 10y ago
> What's the SI unit for suffering? You could go with millihitlers. https://www.reddit.com/comments/dlu96/new_si_unit_one_hitler...
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by zyxley 10y ago
Sounds like we need a startup to connect the services of all these other startups together.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> just so you are dependent on yet another Apple product The hardware requirements of a headphone jack put some very real limitations on phone design (waterproofing, interior space taken up by the digital -> analog hardware, etc). Whe
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by zyxley 10y ago
What I'm wondering is if you can charge just one earbud at a time while using the other. For a lot of uses (for example: podcasts, casual movie watching on a long flight, getting driving directions on a road trip), it'd be entirel
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by zyxley 10y ago
The closest thing out there right now would probably be the Bragi Dash, so owners of that would be the people to straw poll to get an idea.
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by zyxley 10y ago
You don't need to buy a dongle - it comes with one.
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by zyxley 10y ago
The only other company putting up a serious effort in the same niche is aiming at $150 (and releasing a month later than the AirPods) [1], so there's probably some lower bound here set by the complications of the hardware/R&D
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by zyxley 10y ago
There are plenty of first-party Nintendo virtual titles, though, and most likely plenty of people (like me!) who now refuse to buy them because they have to be bought over and over and over again for any new hardware.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> isn't evolution as we currently understand it computationally too expensive? What? This question doesn't even really make sense to me in the first place. Natural selection isn't a computational process. It's the con
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by zyxley 10y ago
See: http://keepass.info/help/v2/sync.html From what I understand, the encryption is done client-side per individual item (e.g. if you use a cloud provider, unencrypted data never touches them), but there's s
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by zyxley 10y ago
One of the more persistent annoyances of the modern web for the tech-savvy is the experience of putting a long, randomly generated password into a site and getting an "invalid characters" error.
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by zyxley 10y ago
Time to switch to qBittorrent.
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by zyxley 10y ago
If anything, it seems like they would make sharing the road more common, because a reasonably reliable self-driving car would be safer around impromptu crosswalks and the like than many human drivers.
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by zyxley 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
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by zyxley 10y ago
This but slightly more organized is pretty much the standard answer for anti-hoarding: put all your stuff away, keep track of what you actually use over the next week/month/year, and get rid of anything that hasn't been touch
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by zyxley 10y ago
"I'll get kicked off the private tracker with all the good stuff if my seed ratio drops too low."
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by zyxley 10y ago
> perhaps require renewal half way through to prove the work is still economical, etc. This reminds me of one of the copyright reform ideas I've seen that has a tremendously practical approach to the power of the Mouse: an initial 2
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Arguably, the player is the performance, against the game as a backdrop. That could be argued as a transformative use. I'd say that's absolutely the case for a lot of the most popular streamers and Lets Players. Jacksepticeye
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by zyxley 10y ago
New England, and indeed much of the East Coast, is a far cry from the rest of the country. The width of the entire state of Massachusetts is smaller than the distance between some neighboring towns in the Midwest.
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by zyxley 10y ago
Nothing about trigger warnings requires immediately jumping down the slippery slope of putting "WARNING: CHEESE INSIDE" on the refrigerator door.
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by zyxley 10y ago
"Mention of rape" and "discussion of rape in enough detail to cause discomfort" are not the same thing.
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by zyxley 10y ago
Yes, that's usually the complaint that people who don't like safe spaces add. It always seems to me like the people who trumpet that loudest easily fit into the "don't like the club" category, though.

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