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When did snark replace thoughtful commentary?

This is an ill-informed take. My lifetime has seen transformative, inexpensive medications dramatically increase the healthspans of literally billions of people. Atorvastatins have…

Very well said.

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So much new housing has been built in the last year in Canada that Canada is now unrecognizable? That is unmitigated bullshit.

LLMs don’t think, silly goose.

I’m sorry, but a major home improvement investment of $6,500 per room relying on a small VC-backed startup is a recipe for disaster, given its cloud-connected nature. If it shipped…

$800?! This is a sandwich in search of a picnic.

Stock buybacks were always an illegal form of stock manipulation, until Reagan decided it was fine, and then it stopped getting prosecuted.

Stock buybacks are an illegal stock manipulation that were routinely prosecuted as such before the Reagan administration waved a magic wand and decided it was kosher. If Google has…

More or less same with me. I wore mine for years, and upgraded a couple of times. But interacting with it is awkward, and my Apple Watches have easily been the most glitchy Apple p…

When I saw the backlash, I thought it was silly. Until I saw the ad. It really was in poor taste. It shows Apple’s total lack of engagement with the real world, with art and artist…

A much better ad! Showing the iPad as so much more than the some of its parts, instead of Apple’s original ad, which is to take all the charm and joy and talent required to make ar…

I love how people compare products like this or Apple Vision Pro to the original iPhone to make the point that products with limited appeal can flourish into something incredibly u…

Apple is a corporation that exists to make money for its shareholders. It spent $10 billion to develop an Apple Car because it thought it would make a nice ROI by doing so, but fai…

If my comment didn't make sense to you, read it again, slowly. "Open markets" is not an Orwellian phrase - it's well-understood by anyone with any economic literacy that competitio…

I feel like you didn’t understand my comment in the historical content in which I intended it. Government spending is directly responsible for huge technological leaps in the 20th …

Of course it can replicate existing workflows and show existing content. The exciting potential of this class of device lies in the immersive experiences that exist only as demos. …

And yet, in Apple’s preferred world, they suck up 30% of all of the revenue made by developers who develop for their devices. The Mac model may not exist in 10 years if Apple can g…

Guess what? Joe Consumer lives in a society that has an economy. And that economy thrives on open markets and competition. US antitrust law knew this from Teddy Roosevelt all the w…

The iPhone did exactly what it set out to do. Steve Jobs sold it as three devices in one - a phone, iPod, and web browser. It delivered beautifully. I owned it shortly after launch…

There was a lot of breathless coverage about how Steve Jobs was irreplaceable, and Apple hummed along for years after his death and seemed to do not only fine, but achieved heights…

This is what happens when government sets clear goals for technological advancement and subsidizes industry to meet those goals. The US used to do that, and we made huge leaps in t…

You mean the brilliant plan of going to the literally middle of nowhere, in a state run by revanchist anti-government lunatics, that alternates between staggering heat and debilita…

I, for one, would like to know who shows up to rallies where they chant “Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!”