charlesism

It's the same article, published on multiple sites. Is there a reason (eg: only one site has the rights) to prefer Huffpo? My inclination would be the other way.

This would be easier if the internet were optimized around enlightenment values (for lack of a better phrase) instead of the values of a tabloid newspaper.

The Rio had slow transfer speed (USB), hardly any storage (less than one CD), big ugly form factor... and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t rechargeable. My buddy at the time bought one. It did not impress.

The tech for the first iPod (Firewire and a 5GB hdd) made it essentially a different category of device.

I can’t remember any portable MP3 playing device before iPod that wasn’t a joke. Are you thinking of a particular product that was comparable? I’m curious.

I'm going with :

1) He is materially wrong about the most consequential thing he's "had to" have a view on in 15 years. We should probably degrade our estimate of his ability to think through complex problems.

We seem to agree about the level of risk. It's no more my place to tell you how comfortable you should feel with that risk, than it would be for me to tell you what genre of music should be your favorite. That's just personal preference.

Well then. Carry on :)

   >  it won't be a good business decision

You don't think it might be better to assume all this data will leak or be hacked? You most likely have decades of life ahead of you, and once a file is free on the net, it's there forever.

Good one :(

Underrated comment. The Blade Runner esthetic started with Moebius. Hard to imagine what the movie would look like had he never existed.

If you post "go ahead and downvote me", whether justified or not, readers feel manipulated, and do.