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by arrrg 6y ago
All of that is true, however it is notable that the models they replaced (are not selling anymore) are all the lower end models. The two port MacBook Pro, the Air, only the lower end mini. Seems pretty obvious to me that there will be anoth
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by arrrg 6y ago
They only launched their lower performance machines today. Air, mini, two port Pro. So that’s the context to interpret the Ram they offer.
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by arrrg 6y ago
Hidden champions are frequently very relevant worldwide, otherwise they wouldn’t be hidden champions since the German market isn’t that big. They frequently are absolute market leaders in their little niche.
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by arrrg 6y ago
The problem is that making it seem as though fraud is an actual problem is a political weapon used to suppress voters. So, sure, making sure that elections can’t be tampered with is important – however, don’t for one second assume that by s
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by arrrg 6y ago
Biden is about a billion miles away from Communism. In Germany he would be a boring conservative. This insinuation that the Democratic Party makes the world in some sense safer for Communists is blatant absurdity. The reverse – the Republic
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by arrrg 6y ago
People are convinced because Trump tries to convince them using lies and deception. Do you really think the right solution as a reward for those lies is to make it harder to vote?
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by arrrg 6y ago
If people do that on a large enough scale there will be collisions (i.e. the previous tenant will want to vote themselves, leading to this scheme unraveling real quick and no easy way for you to hide this fraud since you are living at one o
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by arrrg 6y ago
Why rightfully?
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by arrrg 6y ago
And that was an atypical event, unique in American history.
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by arrrg 6y ago
Deaths are probably more instructive – just to get a ballpark number. If only because deaths are less likely to overlook too many people. If the IFR is around 1% we would expect around 1,000,000 deaths if one third of Americans have to be i
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by arrrg 6y ago
So you need exceptions for those people. Something that has to be considered during implementation, but not a general showstopper. Sometimes in those discussions I’m extremely confused. It’s as though the concept of an exception doesn’t exi
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by arrrg 6y ago
With the expectation being that people should be reachable via phone? I mean, I guess I gave in too, with Slack notifications now showing up on my phone, which feels like a defeat, but this expectation of reachability seems wrong to me, at
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by arrrg 6y ago
Emulators are one large category that’s not allowed by Apple, for example.
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by arrrg 6y ago
The impeachment trial is not a trial.
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by arrrg 6y ago
The US experience is yo-yo-ing in and out of lockdown. Many countries do not have that experience.
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by arrrg 6y ago
Germany is not under “perma-panic”. Your characterisation of what’s going on in the world is so weird. It’s not true that there weren’t any measures in Sweden – there were quite a few – and it’s also not true that countries like Germany are
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by arrrg 6y ago
That’s a weird retort. At least deaths should be reasonably robust and there is really no comparison there between Germany and the US. Germany is doing fantastically better than the US. All the while measures have been relaxed way more here
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by arrrg 6y ago
Still substantially fewer as compared to the US. I think you have to switch your assumptions around. The cross platform solution of a communicator should be considered more likely to win out in a competitive duopoly.
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by arrrg 6y ago
That’s not a mystery. iPhone market share is highest in the US. You can’t use iMessage if most other people you are interacting with are using WhatsApp. There is a real need for better messaging than SMS and MMS. In particular easy sharing
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by arrrg 6y ago
They are going slow, though. That they use their own search for this is not a big headlining marketing feature so they aren’t really evaluated on it. I do think that’s a direct consequence of their experience with Maps, though I guess their
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by arrrg 6y ago
I don’t get this argument. If you have to rely on companies’ good conscience long term you will be lost and abandoned. As such individual acts of ethical behavior are maybe nice but not really very important or meaningful. It’s much better
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by arrrg 6y ago
Worker Councils seem to have broadly similar but slightly different rights and responsibilities in Germany. They are never mandatory, however employees do have the right to form one if there are at least five employees who are eligible to v
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by arrrg 6y ago
I don’t trust the reviews and the selection is such a grab bag of garbage. Besides some obviously branded stuff (I don’t know, any Apple product for example) it feels like playing Russian roulette, especially if you just want something rand
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by arrrg 6y ago
Could you name your specific criticisms? Gates was punchy, sure, but his answers seem reasonable.
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by arrrg 6y ago
Schools still teach DD.MM.YYYY. That’s what’s relevant because that’s what people actually widely use. Shouldn’t Americans be very familiar with the idea that official norms (the metric system) play no role if the people don’t want to use t
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by arrrg 6y ago
Separating dates with dots (DD.MM.YYYY) is what’s taught in school in Germany. So, yeah, there is a convention to write dates exactly that way.
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by arrrg 6y ago
I agree with everything you are saying about sorting and I frequently use YYYY-MM-DD, however I do want to make one point: DD.MM.YYYY does make some human sense as a date format since the year is very rarely important (and if the year is ac
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by arrrg 6y ago
It’s not as though the Nazis started immediately murdering all Jews (or anyone they deemed Jewish) in 1933. For example, the Nuremberg Laws (which, among other things, banned marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans)
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by arrrg 6y ago
Those differences are so wild! Here in Germany it was easy for my partner to get an appointment at her GP. She also asked and that particular GP didn’t see a single COVID case. Not every German city is like that, certainly, but that shows w
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by arrrg 6y ago
That‘s just a philosophical argument, it‘s not like there is some magical property that turns something from a Chinese room into something else. How do you know you are not a Chinese room? Or I am?

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