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by SllX 2y ago
Like a space landmark. A spacemark? The San Francisco Cable Car museum makes a big deal about the Cable Cars being the only moving designated landmark (dunno if that’s still true, but it was when I was a kid), but in terms of speed the ISS
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by SllX 2y ago
If you’re not going to give more than two words then I’m kind of done. It sounds like you view tax policy as an equalizing factor, something to resolve inequality. If that’s incorrect, then please clarify your prior comment.
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by SllX 2y ago
Okay, so it is an equalizing factor for you?
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by SllX 2y ago
If you’ve got a more up to date figure, enlighten me: how much of the tax revenue from any of the past few years came from the top 1%? The way taxes get talked about every year changes, but there’s usually an emphasis on effective tax rates
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by SllX 2y ago
Sure—and as of 2018, I’m a little out of the loop on anything more recent, the top 1% in the US paid about 40% of US taxes—but have you considered also reducing borrowing, spending and services and then adjusting tax rates across the board
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by SllX 2y ago
It is an argument against treating the rich like a piñata you can smack to fix your budgetary issues. A tax increase argument on any part of society should be centered around what you are hoping to do with those taxes: reduce borrowing, pay
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by SllX 2y ago
The EU is undergoing something of a regime change right now so it is possible this won’t just be one bad decade for Apple (and Google, Facebook, ByteDance, etc.), but odds are low.
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by SllX 2y ago
Yeah, unfortunately when there is a dispute in how the law should be read, it goes to the courts. I will say that Apple is at a massive disadvantage even if it's possible for them to win in court because I don't know exactly how t
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by SllX 2y ago
Dude, malicious compliance is not a real legal term and if Apple is charged, it's going to be for non -compliance, because even if you comply "maliciously", if you are compliant, then you are compliant. Either the text of th
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by SllX 2y ago
You emigrate to the EU, pay taxes in your host country and visit the US sometimes.
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by SllX 2y ago
You’re thinking of the GDPR. Apple’s citing the regulatory requirements imposed by the DMA, which are written down but remain unclear because the EC would apparently prefer Apple to figure out the “spirit” of the law and comply with that in
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by SllX 2y ago
Apple has been serving as a fairly effective proxy based solely on the fact that they have developed the software, the developer tools, the hardware and the APIs and the distribution platform that developers use. The same thing that makes t
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by SllX 2y ago
Depends on if you’re talking about civil or criminal law.
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by SllX 2y ago
This might sound strange but most people with iPhones actually like how their phones look and behave. Personally I’m not the biggest fan of this era of UI design, but it’s silly to assume hostility on Apple’s part. Every year they announc
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by SllX 2y ago
That is in fact one of the accessibility settings. Increases contrast front the blue bubbles too, and color contrast between foreground and background colors system wide.
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by SllX 2y ago
Unfortunately I can’t read the original text myself but the machine translation I looked at used the phrase “5G messages” so I interpreted what the Redditor was doing as providing clarification as to what that is in context (“RCS”). Per the
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by SllX 2y ago
iPhones are packed to the gills with accessibility features including for contrast, text size, bolding text, filters for the color blind, text to speech and color inversion.
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by SllX 2y ago
Here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/UniversalProfile/comments/153rrwl/c... The original article is a PRC government document in Chinese so this is the relevant translation.
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by SllX 2y ago
That’s cuz they’re not. Nobody is. RCS is a crap standard, but it is a crap standard that the PRC, one of Apple’s larger markets, is requiring in new handsets going forward (something that The Verge reporter overlooked). I’m still curious w
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by SllX 2y ago
They should probably stop following Apple then. What makes sense for Apple doesn’t necessarily make sense for Microsoft and vice versa because they’re different companies. I don’t even like Windows but definitely a solid advantage for custo
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by SllX 2y ago
Let me clarify: you cannot make useful judgements on the basis of an issue poll alone. The information they obscure is just as important as the information they purport to present. This is why we have legislators who in their offices actual
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by SllX 2y ago
I’m someone that wouldn’t mind seeing single use plastics go the way of the dodo bird but 1) you should never trust issue polling even within a single country and 2) given that, I would trust it even less when the polling is “global”.
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by SllX 2y ago
If you can modify the California constitution by a simple ballot initiative, anything is possible within the bounds of Federal law and the US Constitution. AB5 was a bad law, but the solution was only a half-step to reversing it and yeah, t
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by SllX 2y ago
> What's the obvious loophole for the companies here. As with all things under California’s broken political system: the ballot initiative process. Get people to vote for a law that in effect repeals this one, and put repealing the
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by SllX 2y ago
The EU Parliament is directly elected but legislative initiative is the sole prerogative of the European Commission. They can’t pass a law without Parliament’s assent but they can keep on trying and they’re the driving force behind the legi
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by SllX 2y ago
Article 50 is right there, still. If the EU is untenable in the long run because of objections like this, either it will have to make itself more accountable to citizens, or the governments which are accountable to them can be pressed into
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by SllX 2y ago
Not unless it’s a silent disco or you’re the DJ.
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by SllX 2y ago
Great. It needs to be outlawed in America.
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by SllX 2y ago
So they’re running a keystroke logger and masquerading it as “telemetry”? That should be outlawed. It’s not a drafts feature, it’s not an online word processor, it’s just a straight up keystroke logger.
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by SllX 2y ago
Yeah but no matter where it is, people are going to people and where there’s a lot of them, you’re also going to see two things: their superstitions and the knowledge problem in action.

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