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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 may want to read up on the concept of the "tragedy of the commons" first.

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 operations are being performed in the same way as a computer, rather than the incredibly imprecise rule-of-thumb heuristics they actually use.

> 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 untailored clothes were never cool in the first place.

> 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 the students like losers, the school tried to include some of the spread of college and vocational-school classes. I ended up taking lessons on archery, welding, video editing, and Latin, among other things.

> 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 taken up by the digital -> analog hardware, etc).

Whether that was the driving cause or not is in the air, but "getting people to buy Lightning stuff" isn't the only reason to do it.

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 driving directions on a road trip), it'd be entirely practical to use one earbud at a time and so have effectively 24+ hours battery life.

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 set by the complications of the hardware/R&D to seamlessly connect two separate earbuds through your head and to the phone.

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/5/12798640/bragi-wireless-hea...

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 and over again for any new hardware.

> 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 a computational process. It's the consistent but basically coincidental result of constant subtle mutations and genetic inheritance.

> Now making a big jump from e.g. fish to a bird seems to me impossible in polynomial time (even in billion years)

It obviously isn't impossible, since it happened. If you believe otherwise, your perceptions and/or assumptions are wrong.

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 touches them), but there's some generally questionable stuff in how it handles secure things: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9727297

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 characters" error.

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 many human drivers.

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, and get rid of anything that hasn't been touched.

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

> perhaps require renewal half way through to prove the work is still economical, etc.

This reminds me of one of the copyright reform ideas I've seen that has a tremendously practical approach to the power of the Mouse: an initial 20- or 40-year term, with an indefinite number of renewals of the same length allowed, but each renewal requiring filing with the Library of Congress and a substantial fee.

> Arguably, the player is the performance, against the game as a backdrop. That could be argued as a transformative use.

I'd say that's absolutely the case for a lot of the most popular streamers and Lets Players. Jacksepticeye is an easy example: the distinctive parts of his videos aren't the games, they're his exaggerated reactions to whatever's going on in them. You could replace the actual game video and sound with a black screen, leaving just his voice, and people would still tune in to giggle at his silly behavior.

New England, and indeed much of the East Coast, is a far cry from the rest of the country. The width of the entire state of Massachusetts is smaller than the distance between some neighboring towns in the Midwest.

Nothing about trigger warnings requires immediately jumping down the slippery slope of putting "WARNING: CHEESE INSIDE" on the refrigerator door.

"Mention of rape" and "discussion of rape in enough detail to cause discomfort" are not the same thing.

Yes, that's usually the complaint that people who don't like safe spaces add. It always seems to me like the people who trumpet that loudest easily fit into the "don't like the club" category, though.