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I think you missed the whole point of the book. If you were a gamma, you would like being a gamma, and wouldn't want to be an alpha. The only reason you feel the way you do now from the outside is because you are pretentious enough to fancy yourself an alpha.

The NSA and Me 12 years ago

Trivially easy. If you want to believe it, it's true. If you don't want to believe it, it's false.

The NSA and Me 12 years ago

If all the facts are on their side, why do you continue to claim it's worse?

That's subjective. An objective fact is that it still exists on non-MS platforms, it's interoperable across platforms, and there hasn't been a "Skype 2" to replace it on MS platforms only. If that same holds true for Minecraft, that allays most of the largest fears people have.

The Apple Watch 12 years ago

10^31 different positions is no closer to infinitely many than 5 different positions.

The Apple Watch 12 years ago

The poorly dressed nerds you hang out with may not wear watches as often as they did in the 20th century, but that has little to do with fashion.

It is pretty funny how you continue to bring up timekeeping as if you believe that matters.

The Apple Watch 12 years ago

Ties suck. High heels suck. Ironing clothes sucks. Cuff links may not suck, but are at best, pointless. Sucking has never stopped people from wearing things that look good.

The Apple Watch 12 years ago

That would be a valid point if people actually wore unfashionable smartwatches for their usefulness. Their lack of mainstream adoption up until now says that's not the case.