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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:16AM (#20305149)
Evernote (the original offline app) was released in 2004:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041114033908/http://www.evernot...

You obviously have no idea if the creature has cognition of death and are simply speculating.
Reminds me of the bit in Twin Peaks when the cops take in a Parrot that witnessed a crime. Someone murders the Parrot to stop it from talking.
Re:How Good Are FiveThirtyEight Forecasts? on Friday April 26, 2019 @11:40AM (#19758656)
His election night model wasn't good, but he isn't known and respected for his election night model, so who cares?
Re:Why Evernote failed to realize its potential on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @08:26AM (#19553279)
I have doubts about the accuracy of this article. For one thing, products like Evernote Food probably didn't take much resources to build so aren't as big a deal as the article suggests. For another, the article doesn't mention the acquisition of Skitch and Penultimate, while chastising the company for a lack of vision. Those aquisitions might not have turned out well, but were more related to Evernote's core product than Evernote Market.
Re:Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @10:09AM (#19442302)
In many cases the controlling interests are index and pension funds. Members of these funds do not get a say in political donations. Corporations are people spending other people's money with little consequence all the way down.
Re:Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:49PM (#19434954)
The managers of the corporation are not spending their money either, unless they own the corporation.
Humans don't need to eat meat.
Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @09:40AM (#18283262)
The universe will end eventually and our species will die. Dreaming of keeping the species going is kind of pointless.
I think the design of the TESLA is just meant to make you think "OOOOH it's so high tech, like an IPAD!" It's not engineered around practical use.
Re:The tragic end of Telltale Games on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:49PM (#18150709)
Fate Stay Night doesn't really branch. It just makes you play it 3 times for 3 different versions of the story. There's very little interactivity, it's more like an author wrote 3 drafts of the same novel where different things happen in each draft than a work of interactive fiction.
My point was only that if your kids watch HBO they do know what the image in Neuromancer looks like, even if they don't realize what the HBO logo was based on.
A television tuned to a dead channel looks like the HBO logo... A quick google search said it was still in use as of 2015.
Not true that Gibson's prose has a short shelf life. Neuromancer is in my view a timeless masterpiece, and Gibson's most recent book is set in the future.