Bud

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811.
by Bud 5y ago
Did I say I "accept" it? No. Did I say it was an "excuse"? No. Please don't put words in my mouth. The -4 downvotes made your point well enough. I get it: people want to trash Apple by any means necessary and that&#
812.
by Bud 5y ago
It's interesting to me that in this entire thread, nobody is even mentioning or considering the possibility that COVID has impacted Apple's operations. It obviously has. It has affected every tech company. Certainly it has affecte
813.
by Bud 5y ago
You're also leaving out the part that the year in question included a very large stock grant that Cook doesn't get every year; in most years his total compensation would be dramatically smaller, even if you assume he could magical
814.
by Bud 5y ago
FaceTime is more popular than ever, and adding the ability to use it with Android folks will help even more. Apple Maps has gotten fairly close to Google Maps at this point. I actually strongly prefer Apple Maps' interface, although th
815.
by Bud 5y ago
Actually, if you bothered to look into this for more than two seconds, which you obviously didn't, you'd discover that Tim Cook has been receiving far less TOTAL compensation than all his peers, as well, for a long time now. And t
816.
by Bud 5y ago
Even that editor admits that no real style guide takes that position. And of course not, because it would make no sense. The hyphen accomplishes nothing in such a case. However, although you didn't cite your source, let's call it
817.
by Bud 5y ago
Yes, it actually does, because the value of his compensation, 98% or so of which is in stock, would be worth over 10 times less right now if it were not for Tim Cook's performance as CEO. That makes a rather big difference, in my vie
818.
by Bud 5y ago
Tim Cook's salary is what we were talking about. So no. Please don't misstate your facts especially when the source you are citing was quite clear.
819.
by Bud 5y ago
I didn't say "allowable". I said "correctly"; it doesn't mean what GP appears to think it means. As for whether de facto specifically is hyphenated, go look it up yourself. Latin phrases are not hyphenated; t
820.
by Bud 5y ago
Yes. The fact remains that Tim Cook could not do what was claimed out of his salary. Period, paragraph. Just as obvious: Tim Cook wouldn't do this if he weren't confident in his leadership. Apple stock is up more than 10x since he
821.
by Bud 5y ago
I guess you missed Apple Watch (which basically invented its category and leads it by a wide margin), and AirPods (also leads its category by a wide margin), and the M1 (instantly made a joke out of Intel) and most of the history of the iPh
822.
by Bud 5y ago
The leader of this small group of "unrest" folks, Cher Scarlett, apparently got hired in April and has worked for 8 other tech companies, according to this story. Color me unimpressed. She starts agitating after a few months of wo
823.
by Bud 5y ago
You don't actually know Tim Cook's salary, do you? Please stop pretending that you do. Hint: the vast majority of his compensation is, and has always been, via stock grants.
824.
by Bud 5y ago
I would doubt that a spectral analysis would be revealing, or indeed, of any use whatsoever. After all, such an analysis would vary from performance to performance, or even between recordings of the same performance. It would seem more like
825.
by Bud 5y ago
The "market"? Even for those obsessed with the primacy of market forces to solve all things, counting on them to solve bad police sounds...well, I can't really say how that sounds on HN, because the moderation is too good her
826.
by Bud 5y ago
Yeah, except that's not a real choice. That's pretending the issue does not exist and pretending that you can avoid privacy issues with a piecemeal choice. But you can't, of course. Cobbling together your own solution doesn&#
827.
by Bud 5y ago
Apple actually bought Dark Sky, lock, stock, and barrel. (And developers.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22739839
828.
by Bud 5y ago
In favor of which comparable ecosystem that does a better overall job for you on privacy issues, as a whole?
829.
by Bud 5y ago
As they've hired many other developers in similar circumstances. That would seem to demonstrate "caring about" developers, in my mind at least, but many seem to disagree. :)
830.
by Bud 5y ago
Yes. Because it was. And it was, and remains, a good reason. I get why the developer might be ticked, in this case, but I still think it's a stretch to speak of "cloning" a very very basic QWERTY keyboard, and the breathtakin
831.
by Bud 5y ago
This kind of feverish laziness and total disregard for intellectual rigor is, of course, precisely what allows the wackiest conspiracy theories to spread.
832.
by Bud 5y ago
The collapse of building 7 is the subject of wackjob conspiracy theories as well, even though its collapse has been conclusively explained by studies done by real engineers.
833.
by Bud 5y ago
No, it's because they are fucking wackjobs. That's a fact. It's not an accusation. And it's not because of any bullshit about "who they are accused of being"; it's because of their wackjob argument. They a
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by Bud 5y ago
Just another devastating indictment of our entire philosophy of how we handle health care in the US—to wit, cynically, and as a profit center—versus basically every single other advanced nation. How many horrifying examples do we need to se
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by Bud 5y ago
There is zero evidence that EM signals have anything to do with the insect population issue, and a lot of evidence for more obvious causes: climate change, pesticides, et al.
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by Bud 5y ago
Self-driving cars, of course, and city infrastructure, are both completely irrelevant to this issue, since neither of those applications involves holding the 5G hardware up to your head. Come to think of it, a vanishingly small and steadily
837.
by Bud 5y ago
All of this is really offensive, and doesn't match my previous impression of Network Solutions as a business. They have lost a lot of respect from me, based on this article. I won't be doing business with them ever again.
838.
by Bud 5y ago
Great, so you found 1 case in the last 20 years where some idiot opened the cockpit door. Congratulations. This changes nothing.
839.
by Bud 5y ago
It also depended on unlocked cockpit doors, which are no longer a thing. The shoe bomber FAILED because it's pretty fucking obvious if someone is trying to light a shoe on fire. We don't need the security theater of taking our sho
840.
by Bud 5y ago
You expected an actual useful explanation of a complex tech issue from Bloomberg? The next time Bloomberg manages that will be the first time. Completely, utterly useless for tech reporting of any kind.

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