Jochim

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by Jochim 5y ago
The disappointing thing from my point of view is the number of companies that have no interest in contributing anything back to the open source community that they benefit from. My employer benefits from a great number of open source tools
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by Jochim 5y ago
>[0] Not sure what those are. Do random third-parties "augment" system dialogs by drawing random stuff on top of them? I find that thought horrendous. The common example would be Dell/Synaptics adding their own tabs to the
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by Jochim 5y ago
The problem is that the majority of people do end up driving within that ~5km limit in cities that don't invest in public transport and cycling infrastructure. In the UK most cities are around this size, but our modal share for cycling
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by Jochim 5y ago
You're correct in that once you start building for cars your city sprawls out and other modes of transport become impractical. I don't think the 27% number is particularly useful because it offers no context into the type of trip.
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by Jochim 5y ago
You're perfectly allowed to be upset but you're expected to avoid break the social contracts and rules that have been set up and kept as part of the community. If you can't do that then it makes sense for the community to aba
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Your environment and mood affects self-control. Stress is a huge factor and poverty typically increases levels of stress.
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I'm not a fan of China's actions but your post is both mis-informative and ironic given that every one of your points apply to the U.S. at various points in time. > China is a dirty old dinosaur of an economy, it has double the
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by Jochim 5y ago
> Is there really a connection there? The parallel is that Pascal's Wager is an argument from fear. The Pascal in the game introduces his children to the concept of fear in the same way that the real Pascal proposes we should fear t
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by Jochim 5y ago
Aren't both of these examples just stylistic though? The swords sort of materialise in a "digital" manner that I feel helps to convey that the androids aren't humans. It also enables a lot of the flashy moves that involv
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Because you're not simply "wrapping it in an app". You're now paying rent to Apple for the privilege of wrapping your otherwise perfectly functional application in an app.
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> Of course Apple wants their cut, but you know offering services and getting paid is not a dirty thing, is it? I'd argue that forcing someone to use your service by preventing others from offering the functionality and handicapping
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It came off as pretty insulting. You've also been presenting subjective opinion as objective truth when there are many Apple users and developers that disagree with what you're saying. A more cynical take is that Apple want their
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by Jochim 5y ago
> You can also wrap a page as an app on the App Store if that's what you want. And store infinite data for infinite time. So everything is already possible. Except now you're paying $100/year and giving up 30% of any reven
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by Jochim 5y ago
Google literally colluded with other tech companies to avoid passing on those profits to employees.
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by Jochim 6y ago
It's worth pointing out that shelved changes don't have any history though, so cross your fingers to make sure you don't accidentally delete/overwrite something. Fwiw the only major issue I've had with branching is
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by Jochim 6y ago
I think having the option to rent or subscribe is fine and it might actually be of benefit to some people. However, there is a problem when the option to own a product disappears because a rental/subscription model is more profitable,
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by Jochim 6y ago
What do you find scary about it? You're comment doesn't help me understand why we should be worried about the government reining them in.
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by Jochim 6y ago
That's precisely the problem though. Apple have been allowed to extend privileges to their own applications that that their competition are explicitly prohibited from using.
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by Jochim 6y ago
The point is that the issue is often framed as "ungrateful developers" taking advantage of the infrastructure Google provides when in reality developers making use of Google's infrastructure provides value to Google in itself
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by Jochim 6y ago
Google isn't doing that out of the goodness of their heart though, having a robust app ecosystem is essential and they're doing it for their own benefit. I think there's a strong case that it's a big part of the reason i
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by Jochim 6y ago
People are angry at both.
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by Jochim 6y ago
> There’s a strong argument that all drugs should be legal, as it will allow natural selection to work, but tell that to the families of drug overdose victims; many of whom OD on their first go. I've never seen legalisation argued f
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by Jochim 6y ago
The data in the economist article is for both forklift drivers and pickers. It seems fairly clear that even lower skilled warehouse workers are being paid less than they were before Amazon entered their market. The fact that automation is b
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by Jochim 6y ago
They aren't being ordered to do anything though. The system that was built isn't the thing setting the targets, the users are. We wouldn't argue that the creators of email are responsible for any exploitation that email has e
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by Jochim 6y ago
This feels a bit flippant. There's nothing inherent to the software managing the process that leads to the exploitation of these workers. It's the unattainable metrics being set by management/business that's causing the
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I've seen this argument around quite often, but it feels more and more like the product of the Amazon PR machine. It appears that in at least some cases wages for warehouse workers fell 30%[0] once Amazon opened it's warehouses. A
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The usage of words affects people's perception of the problem though. The current wording minimises the problem to a degree that most people won't buy in to your solutions.
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It's not had time to stabilise. Many of the multi-platform features are still developing and there's some stuff in there that can trip you up if you're just reading the documentation. A big problem I ran into recently is that
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A government option doesn't mean that it's the only option. No one suggesting the government provide housing is suggesting that it becomes the only provider of housing. One of the primary goals is to ensure a good supply of at cos
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I'm not Greek, but your question seems to be disingenuous considering the fact that the long running dispute between Cyprus and Turkey is fairly common knowledge. See this[1] for why ethnic Greeks might consider Turkey to be disinteres

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