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Re: Apple Park Opens to Employees in April

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> The Pentagon is essentially a round building I burst out laughing at this comment, because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism Aristotle: the essential qualities of an object are those properties that make the thing what it is, without which it would not be that kind of thing jonwachob91: a pentagon is essentially a circle Aristotle: u wot m8

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

Reducing complex shapes to topology only muddies the discussion. The Pentagon and Apple HQ toruses. Humans are also toruses when you consider the alimentary canal!

Re: Apple Park Opens to Employees in April

#73
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I think you might've meant to say "how appropriate", or "how fitting". A situation is ironic is when the outcome is contrary to the expectation. (Eg: getting run over by an ambulance)

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/irony

Thank you, had not seen that one :-)

Re: Apple Park Opens to Employees in April

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This is so beautiful and inspiring. A real legacy. Imagine a world without Apple computers pushing the envelope. We'd still be using wired mice and ugly black boxes. If only Steve Jobs had taken the traditional medicine route he would have been with us for another 50 years.

> Imagine a world without Apple computers pushing the envelope. We'd still be using wired mice and ugly black boxes. I strongly disagree with these classes of statements. Would we not have calculus without Newton? Great ideas tend to often happen simultaneously for a reason. Building of more complex abstractions (metaphors in the context of language) allows us collectively to consider ideas that previously we could h…

Sorry no, some people are truly exceptional and have a vision that only they can execute.

Re: Apple Park Opens to Employees in April

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Parts of this should be open to the public. The public has had to endure all of the construction and has lost a large amount of land-space that could have been used for the community. Instead, we have a completely private & inaccessible area. Sure, there are cafes, fitness centers, and working areas within the building but none of it is public and all at the expense of the people who live there.

> has lost a large amount of land-space that could have been used for the community Huh? The site they built on wasn't green field, they purchased previously constructed commercial real estate, knocked it down, and then built up their new campus. Look at this image: http://i.imgur.com/lzAbM0R.jpg Please explain to us how the old use of the space was used by the community? All I see are commercial buildings and car pa…

Not to mention have it powered entirely with renewables.

Re: Apple Park Opens to Employees in April

#77

This is so beautiful and inspiring. A real legacy. Imagine a world without Apple computers pushing the envelope. We'd still be using wired mice and ugly black boxes. If only Steve Jobs had taken the traditional medicine route he would have been with us for another 50 years.

>If only Steve Jobs had taken the traditional medicine route he would have been with us for another 50 years. That's a mighty fine assumption you are making there. Please share with me how you know this? Are you a future seeing oncologist that can see how his body would have reacted to specific treatments, or maybe you know more details than the rest of us about the exact mutation?

Just an educated guess. He drank berries and got massages to cure his cancer.

His chances would have dramatically increase had he used traditional medicine.

Re: Apple Park Opens to Employees in April

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According to Trulia one of the closest houses for sale by this thing is $4.1 Million. https://www.trulia.com/for_sale/37.316929278047,37.342590905...

It's multiple parcels that are subdividable, they're selling the property for new development of multiple homes.

Re: Apple Park Opens to Employees in April

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Reducing complex shapes to topology only muddies the discussion. The Pentagon and Apple HQ toruses. Humans are also toruses when you consider the alimentary canal!

I would argue that humans are not topologically equivalent to toruses as most humans have many holes beyond the alimentary canal.
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