MerManMaid

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by MerManMaid 3y ago
>Then how is Apple to continue development of the platform? Is your point that Apple should spend the money developing something hundreds of millions of people use, literally inventing smart phones as we know it, and they shouldn’t be ab
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
> I strongly disagree with that. Apple and Google have both spent billions developing and maintaining their respective platforms. A government entity shouldn’t be able to overreach and regulate how they are able to maintain and distribut
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
Good question, didn't even think about Orange County, Florida!
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
I've lived in the OC for the majority of my life and honestly just never thought about it. ^.^
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
>So it's essentially some kind of twisted Orange County MLM logic. Are you referring to something specific here? Does Orange County have some stereotyped association with MLM schemes or something? (I'm genuinely asking as that
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
>Have you app store social justice warrior types thought of this and how to protect consumers against that type of scumbaggery? Or is it more likely you don’t care about the consumer at all and just want alternative app stores for your o
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
>Can you justify this? These sorts of phones were unthinkable only 20 years ago, even for a billionaire and now they're extremely affordable. That is a net positive impact all of this seems to be at best a tiny dip in. Perhaps I wor
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
I also appreciate the discourse (: >Fundamentally, I disagree with the assertion that because a minor consumer purchase goes south and charges an unarguably illegal processing fee (for interchange) now deemed legal for hardware providers
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
> No need. Market is functioning reasonably well, as Android, PineOS, FirefoxOS, and similar alternatives exist. I'm not sure I'd like a government (whom at least in theory, exists to protect & provide as much collective go
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
Just because most consumers outside the US use android instead of apple doesn't mean we shouldn't try to help protect hundreds of millions of users. There is a large enough portion of market along with all the businesses built aro
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
This pairs pretty well with my experience. (I'm a little older, late 20s/early 30s) I grew up in a upper-middle class income family, I was first entering high school when my parents were hit hard by the housing crisis in 2008. (Fa
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
I think the point OP was trying to make was when a monopoly (justified or not) routinely fails to meet their end of the bargain, especially when it comes to safety... its time for someone else to have a turn.
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
>Then there's the hypocrisy of the reader, who enjoys the thrills articles like those give, but also enjoys the service too much to stop, and leave the system of exploitation. Like, “It's so awful, so awful, but I need my daily
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
>Why? I mean, if you are just looking at nudity - even if the men are 'prepared for sex' - at the end of the day, it is just nudity. I think a big part of it is adequate training; Think of surgery, a trained surgeon seems to be
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
One thing I feel important to make clear is the only reason why these people seem to thrive is because corporate culture has chosen to believe social darwinism to be true. (despite all evidence and history showing how dangerous this ideol
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
Thank you for explaining this in such a digestible way, I was struggling to put two and two together.
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
>There are plenty of people on earth living less than $1usd a day and would trade their situation gladly for a very comfortable $50kusd/year. This is absolutely besides the point. I also wish as many people as possible could make en
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
Killing 3G for the sake of... what exactly? Nothing else is really using that space and literally 2.5+ million people seem content with the service.
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
>Yet many still deny there is an issue with jobs and keep asking for more lenient immigration policies. There is no shortage of IT workers. There is/was a shortage of workers who were willing to work for peanuts. This isn't an
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
As a jumping off point, lets say any corporation with a valuation less than a trillion dollars (Which literally more than 99.9% of all corporations would fit under this umbrella)
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
>If you follow that logic the rest of the complaining, which is just your complaining, is just irrelevant whining. What? Could you please elaborate what you mean here? I do not see how this addresses my comment at all... >And if Apple
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
>It’s all announced and advertised in advance, if you don’t like the way the products are advertised to work, don’t buy the products and don’t complain the products work the way they are advertised to work. If we followed that logic, the
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
Blahhh, this is difficult. On the one hand, it's absolutely important to have an understanding of your sources but on the other... it doesn't discount the value of the statement itself. (Rather it provides context) I'm honest
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
I'm definitely a niche, but as someone who has never been a super big eater and has lost most of my sense of taste, this kind of product seems great. That said, for me it has nothing to do with productivity. I just want a single meal I
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
> No. Someone violating the social contract doesn't give you permission to violate it yourself. At what point does a party become free from the obligations of their social contract with the corporate media company then? >And I di
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
Since the assumption is that "the media broke the terms of the social contract" wouldn't my obligation to follow their terms be suspended? (Much like our social contract not to physically harm one another can be suspended whi
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
Interesting, I never really considered the relative homogeny component but one I find convincing as a notable advantage. That said, I'm not convinced that it is more notable than Antitrust law enforcement. Scalability is great but it m
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
In a world where we have 9 nuclear powers, I struggle to see how your system would keep them in check; nuclear fallout effects all of humanity and quite literally could make the planet inhabitable. I bring this up because any system that re
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
>But that (or removing the antenna at all) is going to just leave you with exactly the problem you already have—it can’t make a connection, so it will continue retrying (and probably at its highest power setting) forever and drain your b
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by MerManMaid 3y ago
The primary reason why it is an issue is because it causes the cellular antenna to constantly draw power from the battery. So my thought was "Why not simply remove the component physically drawing all that power and just call it a day?

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