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You seem to be doing that extreme-libertarian thing where you call taxes "robbery" while ignoring the negative economic effects of the general lack of safety nets in the US. You ma…

macrumors.com says there will probably be an update in October. They seem to usually be pretty on target with short-term predictions.

> our human intelligence performs far more sophisticated operations than are possible given the number of neurons that exist in our brains This only holds if you presume those oper…

> Fedoras used to be cool. Now they're weird and neckbeard-y. Fedoras are still cool... if worn with a nice suit by a well-groomed person. Fedoras worn with undershirts and untailo…

> Yeah, Macbook air really feels abandoned The Macbook-with-no-suffix line is the implicit replacement for the Air anyway.

Anecdotes are not data.

Calling it a "utopia" when there's limited space and nothing to do seems a bit inaccurate.

My high school was an interesting experience. It was a poor area and they expected few of the students to go to further education - but rather than use that as an excuse to treat t…

> What's the SI unit for suffering? You could go with millihitlers. https://www.reddit.com/comments/dlu96/new_si_unit_one_hitler...

Sounds like we need a startup to connect the services of all these other startups together.

> just so you are dependent on yet another Apple product The hardware requirements of a headphone jack put some very real limitations on phone design (waterproofing, interior space…

What I'm wondering is if you can charge just one earbud at a time while using the other. For a lot of uses (for example: podcasts, casual movie watching on a long flight, getting d…

The closest thing out there right now would probably be the Bragi Dash, so owners of that would be the people to straw poll to get an idea.

You don't need to buy a dongle - it comes with one.

The only other company putting up a serious effort in the same niche is aiming at $150 (and releasing a month later than the AirPods) [1], so there's probably some lower bound here…

There are plenty of first-party Nintendo virtual titles, though, and most likely plenty of people (like me!) who now refuse to buy them because they have to be bought over and over…

> isn't evolution as we currently understand it computationally too expensive? What? This question doesn't even really make sense to me in the first place. Natural selection isn't …

See: http://keepass.info/help/v2/sync.html From what I understand, the encryption is done client-side per individual item (e.g. if you use a cloud provider, unencrypted data never …

One of the more persistent annoyances of the modern web for the tech-savvy is the experience of putting a long, randomly generated password into a site and getting an "invalid char…

Time to switch to qBittorrent.

If anything, it seems like they would make sharing the road more common, because a reasonably reliable self-driving car would be safer around impromptu crosswalks and the like than…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

This but slightly more organized is pretty much the standard answer for anti-hoarding: put all your stuff away, keep track of what you actually use over the next week/month/year, a…

"I'll get kicked off the private tracker with all the good stuff if my seed ratio drops too low."