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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 n…

> 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 …

You can win an election without spending big money. But you do need to charisma, and no amount of money can buy Hillary/Romney/Kerry/Gore charisma.

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.

We should just throw out any regulations that don't spark joy.

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 ~10…

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 …

> "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…

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 wh…

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.

> Nope, it's not autonomous, it's Autopilot! Yeah, well... it's not really autonomous. It's a slightly better cruise control + assisted lane change. In fact the "Autopilot" marketi…

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 ins…

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 (relati…

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 i…

Bread freezes very well. It also thaws out really quickly. Or you can just stick the frozen slice in the toaster.

> On the other hand, some of the people who now are claiming Bill is a rapist once testified under oath that he did _not_ rape them. Yet other women have consistently claimed over …