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by SllX 3y ago
Company towns had their problems, paying workers in company scrip for example to buy necessities at the company store (a practice which has been outlawed) among other things, but conceptually they were more like planned developments intende
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by SllX 3y ago
So is it like naming rights for discoveries then? The first guy to get pulled out of the freezer gets to decide if he was alive or dead during his tenure as a popsicle?
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by SllX 3y ago
Ah. Let's generously say that did happen and it works out for him at some indeterminate point in the future. Would you then consider the frozen and completely inactive head disconnected from a living body vital for sustaining the livin
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by SllX 3y ago
It's Wikipedia. Go ahead and add it. :)
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by SllX 3y ago
You're going to have to explain that one. My first guess is you mean his legacy but a man's legacy is not the same as his life.
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by SllX 3y ago
Scotia, CA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotia,_California It is a “company town”, but it is not incorporated. You can also find a company town near you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_com
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by SllX 3y ago
First three words of the article: “Honda and Mitsubishi”. > Is this another PR article for Toyota that keeps hanging onto the idea of using hydrogen cells for everything? I dunno man. You tell us.
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by SllX 3y ago
Apple actually did investigate Linux with MkLinux (a project to port Linux to PPC and run it on top of Mach). Neat, but arguably a symptom of their larger issues which were less technical and more leadership which was stifling whatever tech
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by SllX 3y ago
People’s perceptions around the word “natural” has always been a bit unnatural to me. Plenty of things, good, bad, and every gradation in-between are “natural”, but the word itself got greenwashed somewhere along the way. Having a few terms
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by SllX 3y ago
I mean you said it: Google sold Android has one thing but secretly stifled it from actually being that thing. Apple doesn't even offer iOS as a product, it's an integrated product component developed in-house just like their A-ser
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by SllX 3y ago
It’s still a multi-billion dollar company. At that scale, you’re not facing any real disadvantages in the legal process even against Apple unless your company is actively losing money already and you won’t have enough cash on hand to contin
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by SllX 3y ago
There are substantially different facts that are both public knowledge and in the record. The iPhone operating system has always been an integral part of the Apple developed iPhone product-line. Compare and contrast this with Android which
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by SllX 3y ago
This is being overthought. Allow me to quote Justice Jackson from (an unrelated case, but still wise words) her concurrence in Twitter, Inc. vs Taamneh et al.: “Other cases presenting different allegations and different records may lead to
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by SllX 3y ago
They’re associated with Emacs now but at least some of them seem to go back to TENEX: http://unix-kb.cat-v.org/
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by SllX 3y ago
> It’s interesting how you correctly identify that this is a massive play for control by Apple and Google, and yet you still seem to sympathise with their position! Apple and Google got to where they are because people actively want to b
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by SllX 3y ago
I’m not even clear on if under the DMA, Apple has to comply in a way that will enable Epic to make their own store. Depending on how they intend to comply, Epic might still get excluded since they terminated Epic’s developer program account
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by SllX 3y ago
You can stop giving them ideas while YouTube is still a service I genuinely like.
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by SllX 3y ago
URL obscuring gives a URL a shelf life that URL parameters don’t. The URL only ends up functioning as long as the redirect service is functional whereas a URL will work no matter what garbage parameters you throw in after the ? in a URL. If
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by SllX 3y ago
It’s a Ventura and later feature and your MacBook Air probably topped out around Monterey or earlier. 2016 MacBooks Pro also didn’t make the cut for Ventura.
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by SllX 3y ago
Apple isn’t in the business of offering anything to Android users without getting anything in return. A value-add is something you offer only your existing or prospective customers, and that can have a lock-in effect, but only if you valu
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by SllX 3y ago
One of the ways they got to having billions in the bank is by selling things for money at a profit. If Apple ever offers iMessage to Android users directly, Apple is going to get paid somehow.
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by SllX 3y ago
Correction: iMessage is offered as a value-add to people who purchase supported Apple hardware (iPhones, Macs, iPads, Apple Watches).
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by SllX 3y ago
RCS is in theory and intended to be a carrier service. From what Apple announced, all we know of what they are doing is is 1) adding RCS protocol support to Messages and 2) working with the GSM Association to beef up security, somehow. In r
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by SllX 3y ago
I see Monsieur prefers a bloodier revolution.
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by SllX 3y ago
Why not go just one step further and adopt Swatch Internet Time? I mean if we’re just going to go the mass upheaval route, we might as well ride that train as far as it will go.
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by SllX 3y ago
Well kanji and emoji both share 「字」(“ji”, https://www.edrdg.org/jmwsgi/entr.py?svc=jmdict&sid=&q=13151... ). I don’t think it’s much more significant than that, it’s the same “ji” in romaji which is just the Rom
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by SllX 3y ago
It was never a matter of “could” only “should”. It’s still a bad law, and Google shouldn’t have capitulated.
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by SllX 3y ago
This plus another 6.5 years happened: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2017/04/21/evolution
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by SllX 3y ago
Technically speaking the same Board of Directors is represented 4 times within that hierarchy, including the entity Microsoft is invested in which is one of the two entities that have investors in them and which still have a fiduciary duty
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by SllX 3y ago
Damn, must be nice if you can get it. The travails and tribulations of actually getting Ziply Fiber were explored and documented on Penny Arcade a while back (read the accompanying text posts for the full story): 1: https://www.p

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