@nitinkhanna I remember the passage, certainly, but I don't remember thinking too deeply about it. It seems to me that maybe Tolstoy was trying to get at the idea of laws of history, which has always been present. I'll bet there is a ton of formal scholarship on the subject.
@matigo Tooling, design and manufacture are expensive. I want that dumb phone. I just don't want to part with €300 for it. And it is GSM only. But I'd happily pay 100-150.
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Mind you, having looked at the rest of their offerings, they are attractive.
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@indigo I had to look that up. €300 for a dumb phone that happens to be stylish and smart? Unimpressed.
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@sumudu Right now, I guess an iPad mini. But in a few years (unless the phone is lost or stolen before then) who knows?
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@matigo I wonder. Seeing all the gushing over the X, I'm more than ever convinced that when my current phone dies or is stolen I will upgrade to a dumb phone, if I can find one, and a smallish tablet.
@matigo Too late. Spinach and ricotta remains my favourite, but at the right time of year pumpkin is good and walnut and Gorgonzola even better.