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Doesn't sound like a very good alternative. You're paying 10% of the cost of the phone to protect it against (some) accidents, but in the process set it back a generation, by making it thicker and hea…

Looks pretty, but is not very usable.

>>I really don't see where you're going with that statement. I thought my statement was pretty simple. If there are two operating systems, and one is sold exclusively with a high-quality devic…

>>Do you have any idea how hard it is to waterproof electronics? It is hard, but Apple has $117 billion in cash. They could make an elegant and waterproof smartphone if they wanted.

Statistics like this are not very meaningful. The only reason there are so many Android devices globally is because Google licenses the OS to crappy Asian handset makers. I mean, it's not like 500 mil…

It's not stupid. When people are vested in an ecosystem, they want devices in that ecosystem to be able to satisfy their specific use cases. This is why I wanted a waterproof iPhone: I play a lot of w…

My thinking is that a company that has $117 billion in cash reserves should be able to make a device that has seemingly impossible features, rather than simple incremental improvements.

I was hoping that the iPhone 5 would be as exciting as the iPhone 4. I was disappointed. Things I was hoping for: - Completely waterproof design: would allow taking photos/videos underwater, and preve…

It could easily have been the other way around. Stephanie could have been in a meeting, and upon receiving a call from the author, could have responded by saying "just text me!"

While it would make me a nice person to congratulate you on your weight loss, as a fitness enthusiast I feel compelled to point out that short term fluctuations in weight - even if they are in the mag…

Excellent design. Within 5 seconds of visiting your site, I understood what it does and how it would be useful to me, and bookmarked it.

It would relatively straight-forward to filter out bogus input like that.

I've always been of the opinion that while cheaper prices are good for consumers, commoditization is not. When products in a field become commoditized, profit margins fall drastically, and so do compa…

>>Either you think he's lying and need to call it out directly and state your reasons why, or you don't. False dichotomy. Lying implies the intent to deceive, which he may not have. He may sim…

>>In addition to scanning mugshots for a match, FBI officials have indicated that they are keen to track a suspect by picking out their face in a crowd. Reminds me of that one scene from Minor…

Influence is not the same thing as imitation.

Well, josteink refused to show any evidence, so why should he be taken seriously?

One (major?) change I'd like to see is requiring the user to post a reason when they downvote something. This would not appear as a reply to the post itself, but rather be available for viewers in a p…

It takes motivation to become disciplined. Once you do get disciplined though, you don't need as much motivation to continue doing what you are doing.

I think the main benefit is that a scientist elected to a political office would make decisions based on real data when possible. Obviously it is often times not possible - for example, you can't use …

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I don't think anyone is claiming that scientists are infallible godly beings. Rather, the article is pointing out that countries that elect scientists to their governments end up with significantly mo…

Those individuals are using science to support their pre-existing narrowmindedness, stubbornness, and extremism. Science is not making them those things. On the contrary, the fundamentals of science l…

I think the iPad Mini is an absolute certainty at this point.

>>As far as I know, long term effect safety studies are only done on animal models. And the benchmark is always illness or disease, not optimal health. We know for a fact that ice cream is bad…

>>All these additives and processes seem to be reasonably safe given what we currently believe to know, but that doesn't mean that there aren't any yet unknown side effects. Should we also avo…

Startup has a very specific definition. It refers to a company that aims to solve a problem and/or create something new in a particular industry. This means that it is a subset of the small business c…

I think number of sales is not anywhere as important as the percentage of total profits, and Apple has an overwhelming dominance in that area. The reason I say profits is more important is because you…

>>If a business can shut down a factory in Michigan and reopen in China for some perceived cost advantage ... In the vast majority of cases, the "perceived" cost advantage is real, and very s…

Nobody really thought the FBI would admit to being hacked, right? While there is no evidence that they did get hacked, they are incompetent enough that I find it very plausible.