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jon_elbrook··on Olympus quits camera business after 84 years
m43 is a strategic mistake. There's not enough differentiation from smartphones.
jon_elbrook··on Olympus quits camera business after 84 years
Sony is the new king for enthusiasts who spend their time watching youtube videos of pixel peepers trying to see which lens has the highest resolution or which sensor works best at ISO 12800.

for pros, the ruggedness, battery life, support, autofocus of dslrs are still important.

jon_elbrook··on San Francisco Tenants Break Leases at Alarming Rates
or any standard at all?
jon_elbrook··on Crows’ ability to discriminate between languages
If that is the case, then why are people in the same culture not equally fat?
jon_elbrook··on Crows’ ability to discriminate between languages
>I don't agree with Most of our behaviour is based on instinct. We allow perfect strangers into our homes to fix the plumbing.

And we stay in the house to keep watch on them.

>A baby can learn to enjoy the company of a Malamute. Even our instinct to avoid being eaten by wolves,

You have to first establish that we have an instinct to avoid being eaten by wolves. And how that would work in humans that don't live where there are wolves for thousands of years.....

jon_elbrook··on Frustration project: Automate data entry into PeopleSoft with Selenium
> Selenium came out as a side-project for another internal system we needed.

What kind of system? I had thought that selenium was created to TDD web development front-end.

jon_elbrook··on What adolescents think of mindfulness in schools
Except in this analogy doesn't account for the fact that a mindful person can simply wait for the tiger to disappear.
jon_elbrook··on $1M treasure in Rocky Mountains has been found, says Forrest Fenn
>In a society truth is less important than relationships

Then he should have create a relationship of honesty. it's good to know that somebody wont lie to you, even to make you happy.

jon_elbrook··on People think they're calling restaurants directly but Grubhub is getting a fee
So why shouldn't grubhub get the fee for making it easier for restaurants to sell food?
jon_elbrook··on Circle Packing
He was 82.
jon_elbrook··on 1989 California Medfly Attack
I don't see how that could work. Clearly some mosquitoes are going to be resistant to the modification and will survive.
jon_elbrook··on 1989 California Medfly Attack
Releasing sterile mosquitoes wouldn't eliminate the ones that carry disease. that's basically the opposite of natural selection.
jon_elbrook··on Most-streamed track of the day by country
I cant click singapore.
jon_elbrook··on Translation from VC-Backed PR Jargon to English of Magic Leap CEO Statement
>You could say that none of it was "wasted", people earned their salary there (I assume) and learned something,

ah, the good ole broken windows fallacy strikes again.

Not like if we had spent that 2.4B on something else, those people who worked on that something else wouldnt learn anything, or earned any salary.

jon_elbrook··on 1989 California Medfly Attack
>we could drive the mosquitoes that cause malaria/yellow fever/dengue/etc to extinction.

How?

jon_elbrook··on 1989 California Medfly Attack
>Furthermore, while accidents are rare, they have enduring impact in the locations where they occur.

And coal emission, gas spill, oil spill, dam burst, dam construction dont?

>but it is a fact that our society has great difficulty dealing with nuclear waste.

France has no problem.

jon_elbrook··on 500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court
there would be if some people had their way
jon_elbrook··on 500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court
>and the victor could have forgiven the debt.

That would be equivalent to burning $500,000.

>I wouldn’t even make my friend pay me back for lunch if they forgot their wallet — let alone put them through financial hardship for such a trivial, low-effort event as a game of RPS.

What is the minimum amount of effort required to make a bet of $500,000 valid?

jon_elbrook··on 500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court
unfortunately, humans cannot play one million hands simulataneously and must experience each hand individually.
jon_elbrook··on Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, but Kept the Party Going
>We shouldn't treat those born in poverty differently than those born into wealth - and it seems like a tiny step to require cruise ships to treat their workers well.

And neither do they. Their offer of employment is valid for rich people too.

jon_elbrook··on Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize
>Basically have some empathy

Why doesn't the person im supposed to empathise with instead empathise with his opponent and not throw a tantrum?

jon_elbrook··on The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (1955)
im in the minus two camp
jon_elbrook··on What happens when a ccTLD is retired? Exploring the potential risks of .io
Germany had a war goal of occupying europe. France wasn't occupied at the end of the war, therefore france won.

Same applied to japan and china.

jon_elbrook··on Airbreak.dev: Jailbreak your CPAP machine to turn them into ventilators
ventilators don't just pump air. they also monitor and control the amount of air, and beep when something is wrong. plus a bunch of other features...