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Those aren't made up numbers. I actually did the math based on my income. How about you stop being a dishonest coward who characterizes your opponent, rather than making an argumen…

Ok, so you don't pay %50 on 1/3rd of your salary for 10 years. I wouldn't exactly call that "an amazing tax break". You're still paying way too much in taxes.

No. And contrary to what others have said, more Germans know english than Dutch know english, on a day to day basis. Though you can get by without knowing dutch in amsterdam with a…

Milton Friedman did a study of healthcare in the USA, and found that the government "help" had driven up the cost 26fold and driven down availability. Or put another way, the reaso…

You should learn to think.

If you run a successful business in holland, and pay yourself a salary out of it, your tax rate is over %70! And on top of that, you have %20 VAT. And this isn't even going into th…

also android fanboys who are instead falling all over themselves to claim that later and worse but open somehow beats better and earlier. It's an ideology, mindless anti-progress, …

A little thought experiment... some clever dudes manage to reverse engineer enough to "jailbreak" this, and then they put a little OS image on it and start hacking away... then a b…

Ideology has trumped engineering, and as hackers, you shouldn't tolerate it. Frankly, all of this has been obvious all along to any competent engineer, since the moment Apple intro…

Because Steve Mann is into wearable computers and google glass is not a wearable computer project. Your wondering this is understandable because google has mislead you. But glass h…

For the record, this guy has been wearing actual computers. Google glass is an accessory- essentially a bluetooth headset, display and camera built into glasses. The intelligence l…

The answer is that lightening is a general purpose next generation serial format. This allows them to support different formats in the future, for instance, say when HDMI isn't pop…

The 30 pin dock had 30 pins so it could put video out directly and things like that. Lightening is a SERIAL FORMAT with 9pins. So it streams audio and video out in an encoded form.…

Steam's support on OS X is the suck. I don't know what the experience is like on Linux, but given there is less competition from better stores on Linux I wouldn't be surprised to s…

Google glass is just a bluetooth headset with a display and camera, combined with a SIRI like service. People seem to think it's a competitor to the iPhone, but it's an ACCESSORY t…

Innovation is not just about being different, its about being different successfully. I give credit to MSFT for ... finally, after 2 decades... trying to innovate. I don't think th…

I'm sure there's a couple hundred thousand other people like you. That's not what taligent is talking about. Apple ships tens of millions of devices in a quarter. Google's never ha…

IT's not even as good as the iPad, which unlike the pixel, can run more than just a web browser. The iPad costs about 1/3 the price, and it does more and is better made. Comparing …

Forget specs, lets talk about software: The MacBook air is a real computer. You can compile your code on it. IT has an operating system. You can play games. The pixel is just a web…

Apple is vastly more efficient at R&D than google is, in part because Apple's products are so profitable, that it's R&D as a proportion of sales is "small". Meanwhile, Apple is inv…

It's also a pretty blatant copy of the Macbook. Given the history you outline (which I agree with) I think the huge leap for the pixel came from Apple. Just like the huge leap from…

Interesting. I'm using ~24,800 of my 25,000 available tracks. About %90 of that is actually CDs that I ripped (I'm not really much of a pirate). I had a problem where it wouldn't a…

Your link to patrik gibson's twitter shows how silly the original hypothesis is. For instance, Apple's stores are still powered by WebObjects because WebObject is still one of the …

How is iTunes match a "scam"? It accepts my music downloaded from the pirate bay as proof of purchase then gives me access to it on all my devices. The hugest advantage is not havi…

This is an area where we can do direct comparison. Mail- Google has gmail, Apple has iCloud mail. Both have "web 2.0" UI's. I think here Apple wins hands down. Apple's support of s…