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To follow up on the notes in my previous post where Apple really dropped the fucking ball – and other people, even fanboys, are arguing that Apple is provably losing it on multiple fronts – John Gruber points [https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/01/03/adamson] to an article called “ Capitulation [http://subfurther.com/blog/2017/01/03/capitulation/].” > Yes, I bought a new Mac Pro. For certain values of “new”. Hear me out, though, after the jump. Why? So, my last post [http://subfurther.com…
John Gruber’s site is one I have a love-hate relationship with. The man “gets” why Apple has worked – whether you like Apple kit or not – and what made apple successful as a businessup to this time. He also created the very useful markdown tagging/formatting system for plain text. If he could lay off the non-computer political posts where he proves that the very principles he applies to explaining Apple’s success he cannot generalize to the rest of the world… But I digress. He has, with some j…
I really, reallycannot find much to add to this epic takedown of modern pop music [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2016/11/why-modern-pop-music-rapes-your-ears.html] by the Didact. So, of course, I’ll endeavor to try anyway. It’s not just music that’s getting (provably, in complexity of lyric, melody, and melodic structures within a song) stupider – and please dotake the time to watch the Paul Joseph Watson video in that posting – it’s our reading entertainment as well. A long time ago, on…
In question 4 of episode 3542 [http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/3542/fetus-slave-driving-welfare-guy-call-in-show-december-21st-2016] of Stefan Molyneux’s podcast at free domain radio, Stefan is debating determinism, and though a typically excellent podcast, I think had problems getting through to the caller what was meant by “The whole is greater than the sum of his parts.” OK. The caller may or may not have been teachable in the moment, but I do want to suggest another metaphor. First, let me di…