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An easy and plausible interpretation of my post is that I was concerned for the psyche of my fellow human being, and for the people he might be around. In the future please respond…

Abortion doctors might not be innocent from the fundamentalist Christian's point of view.

> Well, if I had to choose between having my child die and letting a rich person keep their $5k bag, I might do the same. Where on earth did you pull this dichotomy from?

> I don't know why the poor just don't kill the rich, to be honest > I'd probably tear up the person with the bag "I would literally murder a random innocent" is a bit different fr…

Not advocating the murder of innocents is burying my head in the sand? Fascinating.

Please seek psychological help.

Absolutely, I didn't mean to compare the relative merits, simply the costs.

They did that. And then those companies never updated the apps.

> the battery life is definitely comparable to the bigger brands Sure, but the budget phone also isn't pushing a quad HD screen and a beefy processor. The runtime may be similar, b…

I'm surprised Google hasn't made a bigger push with Go on Android. It seems like there's some rudimentary support, so maybe it's on the way.

Because the price the store charges you is not the price the manufacturer charges the store.

> This might be a huge opportunity for Microsoft and WP On the contrary, they've been trying to penetrate the developing market for some time. In fact, the low-end Lumias are almos…

Probably not even new old-stock iPhones, but actually used ones. I wonder if e-cycling old high-end devices by refurbishing them and selling them to low-income markets isn't a bett…

For $2.10, the battery certainly won't be state of the art. Probably bulky and low capacity.

Margins in consumer electronics are typically razor thin, particularly when the device in question is a commodity (mid-tier Android phones, for example). 1.2c is obviously unsustai…

Sure, but the article says "turn the music down," not "turn the music off." I think it's entirely possible for certain types of music at certain volumes to be conducive to concentr…

If I were referring to a scammer, a con-artist, or a black-hat hacker would I be calling names or merely describing their professions?

Evidence-based politics is even less popular than evidence-based medicine.

> Failure to use the metric system everywhere cost NASA a $125 million Mars orbiter No, bureaucratic failure to address the concerns of people who spotted the error well in advance…

Windows XP? Curious to know if there's a hackery reason behind that or just personal preference.

> 1. it does have the benefit that it's cross-cultural, you can actually talk to people outside your cultural bubble We already do that. > 2. it's got the advantage that you're usi…

> The Smog Free Tower is not only a final solution, but a sensory experience of a clean future. That's... interesting wording.

> I read a bunch of articles from John Douillard > John Douillard DC is an Ayurvedic Practitioner Maybe I'm weird, but I like my authoritative positions on human evolution to come …

Final Cut Pro costs $299.99. Logic costs $199.99. We've all read that Spolsky article, I get it, but that doesn't mean it is wise or inevitable for Apple to make all their software…