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by arrrg 11y ago
Sure, I don't think there is one variable that explains everything. There are a multitude of reasons that lead people to decide to use or not to use apps.
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by arrrg 11y ago
That is such a nerdy perspective, totally stuck in the filter bubble. I don’t think that explains the difference at all. I think it’s about convenience. People don’t want to use apps for the diverse things they do on the web all the time. A
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by arrrg 11y ago
This just being a better vibration motor is totally fine! Nothing wrong with it. There is also nothing wrong with iterative improvement. I quite like it actually, and I think people who dismiss it out of hand are weird.
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by arrrg 11y ago
The iPhone, also the new one, doesn't create any tactile feedback besides just feeling like a vibrating device. It's a much more subtle and precise and pleasant vibration than on my current device (iPhone 6) on the new 6s but it&#
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by arrrg 11y ago
The culture on 4chan is such that people are actively encouraged to be assholes more frequently. They start to play their role. That’s not honesty, that’s performance. I think you are completely ignoring the impact culture has on behavior.
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by arrrg 11y ago
You mean people are super-abrasive and think that’s just normal? I don’t think that’s honesty, that’s being an asshole.
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by arrrg 11y ago
You have just constructed a giant straw man that does not in any way reflect his actual stated reasoning for pulling the app. He is not opposed to ad blocking. He is not opposed to ad blocking apps. He doesn’t think people blocking ads are
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by arrrg 11y ago
“Korolev, technicians etc” are people in positions with power. Otherwise they couldn’t have an argument with the political leadership and win . Their sexist assumptions ruined this. Don’t perpetuate this victim-blaming bullcrap and don’t s
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by arrrg 11y ago
She ruined it for them? Do you think it’s prudent of those in positions of power to ascribe her (as you claim) mistakes and misjudgments to her gender and not their process of selection and training? I mean, you even talk about her lack o
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by arrrg 11y ago
I don’t think two years is the average life time of a current MacBook. I would guess maybe three, four years, maybe even longer. Most problems will crop up during the first year and be fixed on warranty. Mechanically the devices are very so
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by arrrg 11y ago
Nah, it’s just realistic about the extent to which most users will want to repair their devices …
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by arrrg 11y ago
My ethical view on this is that in general (but not always) you need explicit consent before you publish the photograph of someone. Just having access to the photos (in this case it’s probably still the monk who has the copyright to those p
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by arrrg 11y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right? You act as though you could apply some simple legal test to this essentially ethical question. I think it's very hard to make an ethical case for sharing photos someone made (with an extremely high l
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by arrrg 11y ago
You kick kittens because you didn’t really think about it, then you think about it and you stop. Humans make errors in judgement all the time. That’s just ordinary. Also, he himself clearly says that he doesn’t think blocking ads is somehow
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by arrrg 11y ago
I really don't think that has anything to do with flat design whatever that means. Apple is all about hiding non-essential information and functionality. Always has been. This is a consistent pattern you will be able to find in all the
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by arrrg 11y ago
Maybe. But the cynical reflexivity with which such judgements are made immediately is … weird. Strikes me as laziness and a basic unwillingness to even engage with something, basically a defense mechanism. It would probably be better to jus
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by arrrg 11y ago
Soyuz has more room in the orbit module. What you see in those Soyuz photos is not all the room there is, at least on orbit, if not during the trip through the atmosphere. The ride to and from orbit itself doesn’t take that long (measured i
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by arrrg 11y ago
It’s a podcast. Listen to it. (I agree the payoff isn’t the best in this case, but you are missing at least 99% of its quality by just reading it. You gotta listen. Being well produced is what these podcasts are all about. Also, most of the
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by arrrg 11y ago
On the phones, obviously. There is too little space for such luxuries on the watch.
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by arrrg 11y ago
Apple blankets the planet with their ads. That's how they teach people about features. How discoverable is Siri? It’s super obscure, nowhere to be found in the UI, you can only activate it via an obscure long-press.
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by arrrg 11y ago
I think you are not supposed to hide any features behind that … Apple certainly doesn’t seem to want to. I really hope third party devs won’t … (games are the notable exception here – I generally don’t have a problem with those using any an
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by arrrg 11y ago
That’s the biggest worry, certainly, but I think it’s very possible to get this right. We do not yet know how this feels, but one positive indication that they payed lots of attention, to exactly this, one of the two central riddles to solv
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by arrrg 11y ago
Apple always want to keep all options open – unlike in the past – but that doesn’t necessarily mean Apple will move away from Intel. They probably have plans to do it and teams working on it, but as long as Intel can deliver what they need
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by arrrg 11y ago
The mundanity is what makes it real and also very cool to me. I don’t think manned space exploration will look any different in the future … until maybe it starts looking mundane in other ways (think mundanity of commercial air travel). Eve
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by arrrg 11y ago
If you zoom in on the images you can see why they have so many cameras: loads of dead pixels everywhere. They don’t last forever up there because of the increased radiation. I would assume they don’t really fly stuff like still functioning
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by arrrg 11y ago
There are Soyuz constantly docked to the ISS with enough seats for everyone on board. Those are where you would exit the station in case of emergency. The signs show the way. I assume that’s the case, since that is the only explanation that
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by arrrg 11y ago
I don’t think there is any truth at all to what you are saying.
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by arrrg 11y ago
So refugees are to blame for xenophobia, racism and violent attacks on themselves? Stop hitting yourself, eh? That’s absurd, completely and utterly. Basic human rights and human dignity should be on all our minds. Compared to that the probl
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by arrrg 11y ago
Racism and xenophobia together with paranoid isolationism all the way to straight up facism have been on the rise recently, together with actual violence against refugees, that much is certainly true, but you forget that there are many diff
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by arrrg 11y ago
The simple political reality in Germany is that you will not be able to build nuclear power plants and that's that. Germany is a democracy and the will of the people will not allow it. All other considerations and discussions and argum

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