Sorry, I removed it because I realized I misinterpreted your comment.
> But jobs moving to China and India isn't solving the underlying issue I thought we were talking about automation and technology? What do China and India have to do with this? I never said it's good for a society when…
> That doesen't change that for some people their job is all they have. If you take that away they have no realistic future unless it's some post scarcity society. This has always been the case throughout history: new…
Techies definitely didn't make it cool across the general population. It became cool through brand association with cool phones and MP3 players and its aesthetics.
Why even compare PNG and H.264 to begin with? PNG is a lossless compression format. A better comparison would be something lossy like JPG, which could easily shrink the size to ~100 kB. The point still stands, but at…
Long Beach and Costa Mesa are in Southern California.
Working backwards or forwards, the result is the same. If one in four American billionaires are sociopaths, the likelihood of a sociopath being a billionaire jumps from 1.7e-6 for the general public to 4.25e-5 (all…
> "It's time to face the fact that Apple doesn't care about professionals and never has." I'm a professional, and the MacBook Pro continues to suit my needs extremely well. Perhaps the problem is that "professional" is…
There's room for debate about the new Macbook Pro, but this post is bad. #1 - The touch bar is dynamic and contextual. It's likely that you can enable the traditional ESC/Fx row when you're using Terminal, your editor,…
Thanks, I'll probably try again with your recommendations. I may have just approached his writing with the wrong expectations.
But who would drive a Chevy Bolt if they could drive a Tesla? Even if the Bolt is a better car, Tesla has the better brand name for now.
There's a difference between wanting something to be true, and acknowledging whether a business is succeeding or not on its own terms.
I've considered that "Big Red Son," to use that example again, is intentionally tedious and humorless. Readers expect something titillating, or at least mildly interesting, and instead DFW reflects the mundaneness of…
DFW's writing comes up from time to time, and I always react by venting the frustration I feel with his work, which I promptly destroy because it seems wrong to criticize a (relatively recently) dead man. But I'll say…
David Foster Wallace also had an annoying habit of sprinkling non-standard (or at least obscure) acronyms throughout his writing.
I don't understand how they think this can be in their long term best interests. We're probably among the more technically savvy Amazon users, but navigating through all the crap is still a nightmare. They can't expect…
Bread freezes very well. It also thaws out really quickly. Or you can just stick the frozen slice in the toaster.
Sorry, I removed it because I realized I misinterpreted your comment.
> But jobs moving to China and India isn't solving the underlying issue I thought we were talking about automation and technology? What do China and India have to do with this? I never said it's good for a society when…
> That doesen't change that for some people their job is all they have. If you take that away they have no realistic future unless it's some post scarcity society. This has always been the case throughout history: new…
Techies definitely didn't make it cool across the general population. It became cool through brand association with cool phones and MP3 players and its aesthetics.
Why even compare PNG and H.264 to begin with? PNG is a lossless compression format. A better comparison would be something lossy like JPG, which could easily shrink the size to ~100 kB. The point still stands, but at…
Long Beach and Costa Mesa are in Southern California.
Working backwards or forwards, the result is the same. If one in four American billionaires are sociopaths, the likelihood of a sociopath being a billionaire jumps from 1.7e-6 for the general public to 4.25e-5 (all…
> "It's time to face the fact that Apple doesn't care about professionals and never has." I'm a professional, and the MacBook Pro continues to suit my needs extremely well. Perhaps the problem is that "professional" is…
There's room for debate about the new Macbook Pro, but this post is bad. #1 - The touch bar is dynamic and contextual. It's likely that you can enable the traditional ESC/Fx row when you're using Terminal, your editor,…
Thanks, I'll probably try again with your recommendations. I may have just approached his writing with the wrong expectations.
But who would drive a Chevy Bolt if they could drive a Tesla? Even if the Bolt is a better car, Tesla has the better brand name for now.
There's a difference between wanting something to be true, and acknowledging whether a business is succeeding or not on its own terms.
I've considered that "Big Red Son," to use that example again, is intentionally tedious and humorless. Readers expect something titillating, or at least mildly interesting, and instead DFW reflects the mundaneness of…
DFW's writing comes up from time to time, and I always react by venting the frustration I feel with his work, which I promptly destroy because it seems wrong to criticize a (relatively recently) dead man. But I'll say…
David Foster Wallace also had an annoying habit of sprinkling non-standard (or at least obscure) acronyms throughout his writing.
I don't understand how they think this can be in their long term best interests. We're probably among the more technically savvy Amazon users, but navigating through all the crap is still a nightmare. They can't expect…
Bread freezes very well. It also thaws out really quickly. Or you can just stick the frozen slice in the toaster.