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Comment Re:How much TV do we really need? (Score 1) 72

I am shocked at the cost of $200 million

an Interesting thought exercise.... I liked Stranger Things, I want to see it wrap up. imagine for a second you were in the position to chose if the money was spent on Stranger Things or some other cause?

Put computers in schools?
cancer research?


makes you weight opportunity cost for sure.
in 10 years Netflix will pull Stanger things from their listings dissolve into a foot note....but computers in schools could create careers.

Comment Re:Minimum specs on Steam are clear, and pretty lo (Score 1) 65

"minimum spec" for a game isn't supposed to mean "technically runs but no one will actually be willing to play it that way".
i agree.

but that reminds me back in the day when Doom needed 4mb of RAM to run but 8mb of RAM to make it playable.
I mean...it would load up on 4mb but it was so slow you could hardly play single player and don't even try over coax network ;)

Comment Re:What about false positives ? (Score 1) 40

The watch already has an ECG which you think would lead to mote ER saturation than hypertension but every time you use it it presents a very wordy and obvious warning message saying do not reply on it for a diagnosis.
I find the message clear enough but I am not the problem audience.

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