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by baddox 6y ago
Your old phone is slower because its battery can no longer hold as much charge.
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by baddox 6y ago
Consider that “here’s how to do explorative learning” is also prescriptive. I tend to think of exploration as just exploring everyone else’s prescriptions, testing them, and seeing what appeals to me and whatever my goals may be. In that se
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by baddox 6y ago
Sure, you can do that. Google Analytics is merely a free version of that service.
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by baddox 6y ago
What is the actual effect on the world if that’s true? I’m assuming that people who were infected but never developed symptoms or antibodies were still able to infect other people who might develop symptoms and antibodies.
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by baddox 6y ago
I had to (or it seemed like I had to) go through a web chat queue and beg multiple times to cancel my crosswords subscription (which was the only NYT subscription I’ve ever had, and there’s nothing wrong with the crossroads product, I just
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t see it as much different than the general societal norms that we tend to teach children, like “try to be nice” and “it’s okay to avoid people who aren’t nice.” Is that a violation of freedom of speech, or some top-down regulation? I
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by baddox 6y ago
Right, but an iPad is already an example of what they can do when they control both.
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by baddox 6y ago
But luckily for Apple the control the OS as well.
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by baddox 6y ago
Don’t iPads get significantly better battery life than similar casual workloads on a similar form factor Intel PC (like a MacBook Air)?
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by baddox 6y ago
If it were a great time to buy outdoor apparel ads, and Patagonia were only concerned with their bottom line, then I expect they would not stop buying outdoor apparel ads. You really can’t have this both ways.
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by baddox 6y ago
Two obvious potential problems come to mind. First, not all types of “damage” and “repair” completely annihilate each other with no lasting effects. Protected areas like national parks are a great example of that. Donating to a charity that
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by baddox 6y ago
And why shouldn’t they? It would be weird if an individual’s or organization’s ethics were generated completely randomly.
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by baddox 6y ago
Well, I guess if you consider something to be a zero-sum game, it’s tough to say whether humans are good or bad at that game. Are we as a species better at chess, or tennis, or underwater hockey, or paper-rock-scissors?
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by baddox 6y ago
You’d think the law could just say that you can’t pretend (via any mechanism, a signature or otherwise) to be someone else in order to receive some material gain.
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by baddox 6y ago
Your main point seems to be that these problems aren’t the language’s fault. But I don’t see the Deno team claiming that to be the case. There’s nothing wrong with choosing a language that works with how your team likes to develop software,
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by baddox 6y ago
The problem is that when everyone is guilty of something, the government can pick and choose who it punishes, through prosecutorial discretion, selective policing, and other means.
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by baddox 6y ago
Sure, it “constrains the labor supply” by making people choose their livelihood over visiting their family. I think that very obviously qualifies as cruelty.
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by baddox 6y ago
How does preventing a legal employee from visiting home and returning to the US help anyone who happened to be born in the US? It serves absolutely no purpose except to be cruel and to satisfy people in this country who enjoy cruelty toward
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by baddox 6y ago
I think the point is that console game’s code has to be signed by the console manufacturer or the console simply won’t run the code at all.
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by baddox 6y ago
I don't mean that consoles are the best device to do any computing task. Of course they aren't, and of course smartphones also are not. I'm also not making some technical claim, like that they are Turing complete (of course t
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by baddox 6y ago
I'm not disputing the fact that, barring some controversial edge cases, most people could probably agree on the classification. My point is that Apple clearly appears to be claiming that there are some very clear rules that are followe
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by baddox 6y ago
I think gaming consoles are general purpose computers. You listed a few things that probably aren't done very often on consoles (although you likely can do them, since consoles have web browsers). But it's also easy to list things
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by baddox 6y ago
You can choose a higher price in your Apple app, but you can’t mention the price difference in the Apple app.
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by baddox 6y ago
I just don’t think the distinction is actually as clear as you describe it. Most of these apps are clients for a server-based product that you’re paying for. One could argue that the Netflix app isn’t the product, it’s just a video player
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by baddox 6y ago
It’s worth noting that courts and legal systems generally don’t work like that either. There are some examples of weird loopholes due to some specific wording of a law and things like that, but in general you can’t just get the best of the
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by baddox 6y ago
> The licenses weren't conceived of with the thought of something like AWS. You mean...a hosting company? I find it hard to believe that the open source movement was blindsided by the realization that there are companies that sell h
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by baddox 6y ago
> A lot of projects that are nominally open source are more and more influenced by the decisions of particular companies which erodes its purpose. I might be ignorant here, but isn’t it the “open source companies” that are actively doing
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t agree with that explanation of the gaming console exception. Modern consoles are actually quite similar to smartphones in the breadth of their functionality. To be consistent I think you’d need to include consoles, most smart TVs an
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by baddox 6y ago
Who is loosening any definition of anything? I’m certainly not doing that.
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by baddox 6y ago
And I’m wondering what your response to those examples would be.

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