âThat premise isn't useful. â
âA useful metric would be something like "tax dollar per what you get", e.g. Healthcare. I bet the USA is High (bad) on that metric.â Other countries may have higher taxes but they also get more for their buck.
I've been debating switching from my Mac to A Razer. You know what the biggest thing that's deterred me
So far is? iCloud. I'm locked into the entire apple ecosystem because I love how all my contacts etc sync seemlessly across my devices. Once the Mac line is so underwhelming for its price that I do switch, I no longer need my iPhone or my iPad. I can buy an android or whatever else I can sync with. So to me this comment is SPOT ON. Macs may only be 10% of revenue but my Mac was my FIRST apple product, and it was a gateway drug to all the stuff I bought after. If you kill the loss leader, it will be a mistake.
The article says "The only way to fully protect your privacy is to delete all your notes and close your Evernote account."
Evernote comes with built in encryption, you just have to use it: https://help.evernote.com/hc/e...
Moreover, evernote warns you "WARNING: We do not store a copy of your encryption key. If it is forgotten by you, your note is lost forever".
So it is NOT true what this article says!
Twitter is not a private corporation. Specifically they are publically held and as such report to their shareholders. They don't make their own rules. They will start making rules that generate returns for their shareholders, and if that strategy includes banning some users so be it, but to say they are private is misleading. If they choose to act privately, eventually major holders are going to come with pikes looking for the C level heads.
My point is Twitter *cannot* do whatever they want because they are no longer a private company. They may not be the government, but publically traded (fine, if you don't like the term "public") companies must act in a way that benefits their shareholders.
Now if you are claiming this is in the best interest of the shareholders, that's a different discussion.
I never made the claim that Twitter is the government. Not sure where your "in other words" came from. The OP's comment was that Twitter is a private company. This is false. It was. Now it is a publically traded company. Who is talking about the government??
Definitely an overstatement.
Here is a lesser statement the poster might have meant: "More people are eating less meat. Maybe a few, 2-3, times a week, instead of 5-7. We've learned that eating meat 7 nights a week is neither good for you, due to all the cholesterol, nor sustainable to the planet, e.g., the methane from all those cows grows if meat demand is out of control."
I have my own ~60GB library that I listen to. In addition I pay for Pandora, because it is excellent for finding new bands. I'll put on an obscure metal band I like, like Insomnium, Pandora creates a station with similar artists, and throughout the next 8 hours (work day) it's almost guaranteed that it plays me a song by an artist that I've never heard of but love. Then I go look them up, buy their stuff, and repeat. Pandora is a great library expander. I guess in the long run I would exhaust all possible bands I like but I still learn about bands on at least a weekly basis from Pandora.
My workflow is to Use @1Password (but there are other similar tools) to create and store a random 30 character string (website permitting, some have max lengths) with numbers, symbols, and letters for every passwd. All of my passwords are unique garbage. The downside is that if you are ever without your tool (in my case 1password), you aren't getting into anything. Luckily most of these tools have mobile apps.
Dude, do you know how much cash Apple is sitting on? 200 billion dollars. Saying that revenue is "much needed" is a bit of a stretch. They have a *looooooong* runway to innovate with.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/28...
I don't know what the stat is today, but two years ago Apple only had ~10% of the cell phone market in the world (by device) but made something like 80% of the profits in the phone market. It's NOT about REVENUE it's about PROFITS. And Apple still makes them all. Anyone that says they are outdated should point to businesses doing it better. Oh wait. No one does it better.
Isn't this the same clown producing the "Tesla Killer"? Got I hate fucking terms like that. Healthy competition isn't a "killer". I got so sick of hearing the term "iPhone killer" too. (Newsflash: none of them were). AFAIK Apple *was* the blackberry killer, though.
Clearly the optimal future is cashless, based on a competent
Digital system. I emphasize competent because I don't think we are there yet. It's still a vision. But in theory, it's the future.
Cash costs an abhorrent amount of cash to keep in circulation. In most countries the taxpayers have to fund this. When I lived in Ontario, removing the penny from circulation alone reported to have saved the taxpayers millions of dollars over the long run.
Cash is also difficult to store/transport. Bank vaults, Armored trucks, soilders, and what not. With a competent digital system, just make sure everything is secured properly (the proper encryption, etc) and these problems disappear.
This ties to the article as follows. I think the biggest barrier to a cashless system Is that too many people in the world do not use banks or the Internet. You can't just leave all the poor people stranded while the middle and upper class switches over. If India can somehow solve this problem, I'm confident much of the world can.
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âThat premise isn't useful. â âA useful metric would be something like "tax dollar per what you get", e.g. Healthcare. I bet the USA is High (bad) on that metric.â Other countries may have higher taxes but they also get more for their buck.
I've been debating switching from my Mac to A Razer. You know what the biggest thing that's deterred me So far is? iCloud. I'm locked into the entire apple ecosystem because I love how all my contacts etc sync seemlessly across my devices. Once the Mac line is so underwhelming for its price that I do switch, I no longer need my iPhone or my iPad. I can buy an android or whatever else I can sync with. So to me this comment is SPOT ON. Macs may only be 10% of revenue but my Mac was my FIRST apple product, and it was a gateway drug to all the stuff I bought after. If you kill the loss leader, it will be a mistake.
Yep. I deleted half my notes and painfully encrypted, note by note, the rest.
The article says "The only way to fully protect your privacy is to delete all your notes and close your Evernote account." Evernote comes with built in encryption, you just have to use it: https://help.evernote.com/hc/e... Moreover, evernote warns you "WARNING: We do not store a copy of your encryption key. If it is forgotten by you, your note is lost forever". So it is NOT true what this article says!
Check out Razor. They are the sexiest non-macs I know of, light, and powerful. I'm running Arch.
Twitter is not a private corporation. Specifically they are publically held and as such report to their shareholders. They don't make their own rules. They will start making rules that generate returns for their shareholders, and if that strategy includes banning some users so be it, but to say they are private is misleading. If they choose to act privately, eventually major holders are going to come with pikes looking for the C level heads.
And they *do* have to explain themselves to shareholders, thank you.
My point is Twitter *cannot* do whatever they want because they are no longer a private company. They may not be the government, but publically traded (fine, if you don't like the term "public") companies must act in a way that benefits their shareholders. Now if you are claiming this is in the best interest of the shareholders, that's a different discussion.
I never made the claim that Twitter is the government. Not sure where your "in other words" came from. The OP's comment was that Twitter is a private company. This is false. It was. Now it is a publically traded company. Who is talking about the government??
Who is a private company? Twitter, sir/madam, is not private. And as a decently-sized shareholder, their actions affect me.
Creates bad software.
Definitely an overstatement. Here is a lesser statement the poster might have meant: "More people are eating less meat. Maybe a few, 2-3, times a week, instead of 5-7. We've learned that eating meat 7 nights a week is neither good for you, due to all the cholesterol, nor sustainable to the planet, e.g., the methane from all those cows grows if meat demand is out of control."
yep. Nailed it. If employers want the right to fire you for any reason without notice, then it works both ways. This is really simple.
I have my own ~60GB library that I listen to. In addition I pay for Pandora, because it is excellent for finding new bands. I'll put on an obscure metal band I like, like Insomnium, Pandora creates a station with similar artists, and throughout the next 8 hours (work day) it's almost guaranteed that it plays me a song by an artist that I've never heard of but love. Then I go look them up, buy their stuff, and repeat. Pandora is a great library expander. I guess in the long run I would exhaust all possible bands I like but I still learn about bands on at least a weekly basis from Pandora.
Check out 1password or lastpass. There are tools for this.
My workflow is to Use @1Password (but there are other similar tools) to create and store a random 30 character string (website permitting, some have max lengths) with numbers, symbols, and letters for every passwd. All of my passwords are unique garbage. The downside is that if you are ever without your tool (in my case 1password), you aren't getting into anything. Luckily most of these tools have mobile apps.
lol, exactly. Why is this surprising?
Dude, do you know how much cash Apple is sitting on? 200 billion dollars. Saying that revenue is "much needed" is a bit of a stretch. They have a *looooooong* runway to innovate with. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/28...
I don't know what the stat is today, but two years ago Apple only had ~10% of the cell phone market in the world (by device) but made something like 80% of the profits in the phone market. It's NOT about REVENUE it's about PROFITS. And Apple still makes them all. Anyone that says they are outdated should point to businesses doing it better. Oh wait. No one does it better. Isn't this the same clown producing the "Tesla Killer"? Got I hate fucking terms like that. Healthy competition isn't a "killer". I got so sick of hearing the term "iPhone killer" too. (Newsflash: none of them were). AFAIK Apple *was* the blackberry killer, though.
Clearly the optimal future is cashless, based on a competent Digital system. I emphasize competent because I don't think we are there yet. It's still a vision. But in theory, it's the future. Cash costs an abhorrent amount of cash to keep in circulation. In most countries the taxpayers have to fund this. When I lived in Ontario, removing the penny from circulation alone reported to have saved the taxpayers millions of dollars over the long run. Cash is also difficult to store/transport. Bank vaults, Armored trucks, soilders, and what not. With a competent digital system, just make sure everything is secured properly (the proper encryption, etc) and these problems disappear. This ties to the article as follows. I think the biggest barrier to a cashless system Is that too many people in the world do not use banks or the Internet. You can't just leave all the poor people stranded while the middle and upper class switches over. If India can somehow solve this problem, I'm confident much of the world can.
Aren't Gaussian distributions commonly referred to as "bell curves"..?
At least this is one of the few hacks we've seen where the passwords were encrypted... So, not as negligent as say, Sony.
This is not all that helpful or useful unless you can connect to the DMV databases that links the plate to the person.
Emoji already exists: ðYOE®
dammit I came here to say the same thing!