At the same time that their every capacity is compared to, say, that of a remote worker in an arbitrarily low-GDP locale who can be hired for pennies on the dollar, an upcoming raid is inching ever closer AND HEALERS ARE DESPERATELY NEEDED
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flat surface and then shatter on the ground. Which is why it was not a mistake that you would see shattered iPhone screens everywhere ... it is what they designed, and why everyone has to put a case covering up their beautiful slippery iPhone body.
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Apparently they felt it was more important for it to feel like a precious gemstone than be a functional device, and judging by sales maybe they were right ... in a sense they design for the flaws in the human personality.
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I'm a fan of your particular flavor of tech pessimism to a degree that surprises even me
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I think of myself as optimistic about technology in the future, I'm just realistic about what is going on right now. Almost everyone is cargo-culting and running off momentum generated in the past. Once this momentum runs out and it all grinds to a halt, we'll realize what has
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been going on and start fixing things. But it may take a long time, and it may not happen predominantly in the USA, depending on whether or not we fix our social issues. That said, I have been to a lot of places at this point, and I'm not sure I can think of anywhere that would
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This a million times. Every time (too many) I go to Apple to get my iPhone 6 screen fixed I explain them that making it slippery is completely stupid for a 600+$ device. Answer: add a case, to which I reply that if I have to hide it that means it is ill designed.
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Sounds to me like it's well designed for the purpose of selling you a case.
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Eh it's like Sierra hint guides. Maybe they were successful because of bad design, but what executive would complain?
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Ahah, gréât (*) analogy! (*) autocorrect, busy being useless.
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You're probably holding it wrong /s
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