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Comment Re:Other mobile OS? No, thanks (Score 1) 125

Great performance on lesser hardware... it might do, but I will never admit it nor will I care enough to find out for sure.

I've watched MS destroy performance in every area they've entered. (Anyone remember the MS game Monster Truck Madness?) Meanwhile they've failed to give a shit and have even pushed their multi-tasking operating system back to being a single task interface.

If anyone asks me, "Windows phones are slow and shit, just like Windows is on your PC." Also they crash more and are more expensive.

Am I lying? Only as much as MS has about performance... not even.

Comment Re:Still not quite correct. (Score 2) 94

Overanalyse analogies much?

I see your point, but if anyone trying to understand physics is under the impression that there's a molasses-like 'ether' filling the subatomic interstices then no amount of explaining the creation of scalar fields to maintain symmetry in other equations is going to help them. I think you're being too picky in the interest of talking down to people. Nothing in that comic came as a surprise to me (I already understood the principle of the conjecture, just not the maths behind it), but I can assure you that even if my grasp were much more limited I would not walk away from that comic thinking there is molasses in a vacuum.

Comment Re:"theological" - irrational, stupid, arbitrary (Score 0) 176

Cool. That means art, which is less mathematically/logically tractible than philosophy, must be of a higher order than philosophy.

Throw away your iPhones people, we don't need scientific knowledge. The best thing you could look at is a hand painted icon of the Madonna.

Comment Re:Playing the stock market (Score 1) 270

Yeah it is like gambling, except every time you play you're pushing down prices for commodities, fucking the guy who grows the apples up the arse in the name of liuquidity.

The other difference between gambling and playing the stock market is that in gambling the potential wins are capped so that the house can't go broke. In economics we assume that growth is exponential for all time and then make it so that the more money is in one place the less everyone else's is worth.

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