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by SllX 1y ago
> This seems pretty convincing to me, given that Meta owns Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp: [1] >> Facebook leads the pack with 3.04 billion users, maintaining its position as the most extensive social networking site globally. &g
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by SllX 1y ago
> Not Meta specifically, although Meta as a monopoly on being apple to infrige this rule. (A long time ago, in a capitalism far, far way, America was against monopolies and cartels. Those days will come back.) I’ve been asking for years
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by SllX 1y ago
No. They just made it illegal for Meta specifically to do it, and they’re reserving judgment for anyone else on their hit list covered by the DMA. The DMA is not neutral laws on neutral principles despite the PR and the extra layers of indi
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by SllX 2y ago
Probably, but if a Venus-sized mass showed up in the inner solar system because the Sun just picked it up along the way, it might not be instant death but we’re probably in for a rough time. It doesn’t have to be a black hole that does us i
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by SllX 2y ago
No more unsettling than space in general is. It’s pretty hostile to life. We’re not just making turns around the orbital racetrack setup around the Sun, we’re also flying through space following the gravitational trail of the Sun as it race
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by SllX 2y ago
People really read 2016 wrong. At no point was Hillary Clinton 100% guaranteed to win the election. 538's final call right before the election was 65% Clinton, 35% Trump; or in other words, under Nate Silver's model, Trump had a 3
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by SllX 2y ago
Well that’s not quite correct. If you look at their most recent 10-K, Ads made up about 8% of Amazon’s revenue. The bulk of their revenue is still retail (online, physical and third party seller services) with AWS providing about 16%. Micro
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by SllX 2y ago
Google and Facebook sure, you could even make the argument that their non-adtech businesses would be collateral damage, but Amazon and Microsoft have substantial non-advertising related businesses. I'm curious why you lumped them in?
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by SllX 2y ago
You don’t need an agreement. The POTUS has near unilateral authority to adjust tariffs thanks to Congress, so all you need to do is do is zero them out. Bilateral and multilateral trade agreements are nonsense. If you’re optimizing for the
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by SllX 2y ago
We don’t need a trade arrangement to liberalize avocado production, nor should we encode within one our preference for domestic or imported avocados. Free trade agreements are a misnomer. If you want to free up trade and production, just ze
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by SllX 2y ago
Or just let California Avocado farmers determine for themselves if this is a business they would like to continue to be in. The old fashioned way.
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by SllX 2y ago
Notably the 16” MacBook Pro (every model since 2019) goes right up to the 100 Wh limit.
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by SllX 2y ago
I get that, but I also have found that sentiments like that are rarely as universal as they are proclaimed to be which I is why I cited specifically British sources which are easy to find and readily available, and I could have just kept
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by SllX 2y ago
> Maybe it is time to accept that it is perfectly reasonable, unambiguous usage. In my experience most people do, and will do so without further comment regardless of their own preferences exept for nerds of the linguistic, historical or
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by SllX 2y ago
Firefox OS lived a short and obscure life years after Android entered the market and certainly wasn’t a GNU or Debian-like distribution of Linux.
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by SllX 2y ago
You say “go back” but that was never more than a niche thing. For better or worse, Google’s Android has pretty much always been the chief representative of mobile Linux. And far from being a waste of time, Android is the most widely distrib
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by SllX 2y ago
No I get that and I know the history too; but that doesn’t mean it didn’t overstay its welcome as far as users are concerned. Speaking as someone that personally was never got hung up over the shape of the charge cable and certainly not for
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by SllX 2y ago
The open alternative to 30-pin when Lightning was introduced was micro-USB and micro-USB is ass, but not switching away from 30-pin wasn’t an option for the phone they wanted to build at the time, that being the iPhone 5. All in all, Lightn
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by SllX 2y ago
Yeah, so basically a test of courage. "Can we get away with this?"
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by SllX 2y ago
Every time this happens, I have to wonder if this is just a test of courage for automakers. There was no reason practically all of them had to have a go at removing all the buttons and replacing them with poor substitutes before realizing t
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by SllX 2y ago
Sure, can be . On the other hand, most people are running Google’s Android or a PRC-market exclusive offshoot on Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei and OnePlus phones. That’s Android. Everything else is a rounding error.
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by SllX 2y ago
I haven’t opened Safari recently but I’m pretty sure Safari in general just doesn’t have user defined search engine lists at all on any platform and never has. There’s ways to hack it with extensions, but otherwise if you want to switch S
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by SllX 2y ago
The CEO of Kagi has fairly strong views on user privacy as far as I can tell. I don’t know what his opinion of Windows is, but I’m willing to bet there’s a personal dislike of Windows and Android that is at least partially affecting the dec
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by SllX 2y ago
I will nitpick this one: > 1. The switching cost from Google Search is certainly not zero, it implies switching from Google, which is virtually impossible because it's tied to Chrome, YouTube, Android and Gmail Google Search is a pr
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by SllX 2y ago
I don’t think you have to go quite that far. NATO was intended to provide cover against the other superpower bloc in Europe. That superpower isn’t really a superpower anymore, but the remnant that legally succeeded it still has a lot of n
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by SllX 2y ago
It’s just sovereignty 101. Sovereignty really is a sliding scale and your country will slide down that scale if you don’t properly maintain it.
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by SllX 2y ago
I’m blonde and eat a lot of pineapple. You’ve got nothing to lose. If you’re not used to the taste, it’s a pretty popular pizza topping and you could try it that way.
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by SllX 2y ago
Using WebKit doesn’t make something a Safari derivative. There are many WebKit browsers out there, Chrome used to be one them. John Gruber had the Kagi CEO—Vlad Prelovac—on in December. I yoinked this from the auto-generated transcript in A
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by SllX 2y ago
Chrome at launch was an extremely minimal web browser (hence the name, Chrome referred to the barest amount of window chrome around the web content) with decent system integration and essentially no Google service integration other than set
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by SllX 2y ago
I keep having to correct people up and down this thread. Orion is not a Chromium derivative. Further, nobody here said Firefox was incapable as a browser. Use it if you like it, but having used Firefox off and on since 2005, I’ve written

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