antibuddy

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by antibuddy 6y ago
Apple does just the distribution. The promotion is still on the developer and you may not even promote your own services in your own app. It is also save to say that a lot of developers would like to do the selling themselves. Apple is not
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by antibuddy 6y ago
"[...] and it's one of the reasons the country still has by and large a shared reality when it comes to political discussion." Shared reality is quite a cynical word and is a reminder just how bad it really is. "I don&#x
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by antibuddy 6y ago
Public broadcasting in Germany is no better than private media. In fact most topics are reported the same and even the opinion is the same. But even ignoring this, it is a big problem that publicly funded media is in direct economic competi
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by antibuddy 6y ago
Yeah it makes sense, however I don't think we should be grateful* that Google played an important role in building the internet, since for Google it is about control and that's where the problems begin. *not that this was your poi
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by antibuddy 6y ago
You could argue in both directions actually, since they are part of society and they likely don't want to be held to the same standard as they treat their users. (still not necessarily a contradictory view, but it gets bendy) However i
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Flu season is about 2-3 months usually and kills, depending on severity, 1-2 million people each year.
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That's not exactly what the article is saying tho. Also it doesn't change the 0.36% mortality rate and I might add the high age median of around 80. So we will likely see a lower average mortality afterwards.
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The flu kills way more than that and Corona will kill more than that. You can see what happens without containment in Sweden. Given that countries with a bad health system probably need more measures. The real difference is that we are info
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Heinsberg study suggests a mortality rate of about 0.36%. This is high, but not "a big threat". Given that with 0.36% and 15% infection spread in the general population (like flu) you look at ca 162k deaths in the US. It is not ev
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by antibuddy 6y ago
Does nobody question the premise that Sars-Cov-19 is actually a big threat? At least the current incarnation seems rather tame. The panic over it however is rather real.