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by SllX 2y ago
It’s pretty outlandish. One of the core tenants of EU expansionism and the politics around it is that the applying nations are considered European enough and physically located in Europe in addition to being willing to cooperate with the EU
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by SllX 2y ago
This little thread was a nice bit of nostalgia.
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by SllX 2y ago
Running location triggers an icon in the UI which puts it in a list of apps that have run location recently. An app abusing this in the background will eventually cause the operating system to ask you “hey, are you okay with this?” alongsid
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by SllX 2y ago
What kind of phone are you running and how old is it? Apps don’t get any of that other information either unless you specifically approve it. If you want to give Uber just notifications and just location, you can do that.
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by SllX 2y ago
Plenty of places don't take American Express or Discover even now, but most will usually take VISA and Mastercard. Costco's a weird one though because they resisted credit cards for a long time until they had their Amex contract w
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by SllX 2y ago
That’s what I used too, but the limitation is named places.
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by SllX 2y ago
California has more named islands than Washington, but they’re not all obvious since there’s quite a few small islands in the San Francisco Bay, Suisun Bay and the Sacramento River Delta. I tried fact checking which of the two had the most
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by SllX 2y ago
What you’re describing is true, but the iPhone runs general purpose software. They don’t have to give away their own features to their competitors and people who aren’t their customers, and it’s more valuable to them as something they took
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by SllX 2y ago
Yes, the things that matter to a phone as far as the essentials go. I’m not saying give them credit, I’m saying that in every way that matters, the iPhone is already open, and the rest is Apple’s platform. > Particularly when they gently
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by SllX 2y ago
Elaborate if you’re going to disagree on why 80% is the magic number that means a supposedly liberal society should govern the QoL features of a foreign corporation’s product that already adheres to open standards on the communications hard
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by SllX 2y ago
And what exactly did they cripple to reduce interoperability?
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by SllX 2y ago
Oh, you know what? Good point. I forgot that the NeXT sale included a transfer of stock and wasn’t even thinking about it. I stand corrected!
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by SllX 2y ago
Not quite. He sold his shares in 1985. I think technically it was all except one so he could still get investor reports, but that last part might be apocryphal. https://www.cultofmac.com/news/today-in-apple-history-stev
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by SllX 2y ago
You missed MkLinux, but of the three (Copland, A/UX, and MkLinux), only one of those was ever slated to be the future of the Macintosh. A/UX was very interesting, but it was also encumbered with a fairly expensive UNIX license and
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by SllX 2y ago
I know there was more to it than that, but it seems to me that a better managed Apple in some alternate history might have just thrown all the extensions "support" out, shipped, and said there would a better documented API for tha
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by SllX 2y ago
Actually didn't know that about BeOS, and suddenly the name of the Haiku Project makes a lot more sense to me.
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by SllX 2y ago
If that's how the Danish feel, it makes more sense for Denmark to pass its own laws than rather than the EU, but I would posit that even at 80% marketshare, that's not enough to warrant the level of demands even from the Governmen
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by SllX 2y ago
When the incentive is that when you develop features to distinguish yourself from the competition that stand out and make your own product better , but then the government comes along and tells you that you have to give that away, the valu
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by SllX 2y ago
Sure, but given the timeline, it’s unlikely the decision came about simply because he was influenced by “the Pixar guys”. I pointed out that the goal for the first NeXT computers was to be able to do wet lab simulations, and this was due to
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by SllX 2y ago
Steve Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT in late 1985 with the intent of developing a 3M computer: 1 MB of memory, 1 million pixels and 1 million instructions per second; or powerful enough to run wet lab simulations. Jobs bought Pixar in 198
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by SllX 2y ago
Reads like it was just a bad Mac all-around but the left-hand floppy drive was a visible symbol of that on the face of the machine because it was different from what was normal for a Macintosh in a machine that was full of things that were
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by SllX 2y ago
Probably not, but Apple and NVIDIA collaborating on anything is news. They’re two companies that both want to be the ones wearing the Big Boy pants in any relationship so when they did anything together in the past, it hasn’t worked out for
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by SllX 2y ago
> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Go
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by SllX 2y ago
If it were only about the rules, you are correct. If it’s about the politics, you might be correct on a long enough time scale, but it’s irrelevant in the short to medium term. Right now we’re in a holding pattern on the cloture rules becau
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by SllX 2y ago
If it’s just a matter of Senate rules, the Senate is empowered to effectively do anything they want under the Constitution. The real issue is that once you set a new precedent, there’s no going back. The Democrats invoked the nuclear option
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by SllX 2y ago
Nobody has ever argued in the history of Hacker News that the government of the European Union does nothing. The article also indicates this is for secure government comms rather than than public internet use; so it’s not exactly a competit
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by SllX 2y ago
> American news outlets just love to use the click-baity word "collapse" when it comes to parliamentary systems not being able to form a government. Not disagreeing with the American media’s love for click-baity nonsense, but I
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by SllX 2y ago
Yep. And Turkey and Georgia. Are we making a list?
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by SllX 2y ago
Last I checked, Ukraine is wholly in Europe and Russia is only partially in Europe. Your facts do not check out.
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by SllX 2y ago
> It is structurally impossible to reform the government. That’s the conclusion I’ve come to as well, but between you and I, I’d like us to be wrong about that. I agree with you on all of your other points here as well.

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