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by baddox 6y ago
I had been paying for iTunes Match since it was released, but when I started paying for Apple Music I canceled my Match subscription.
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by baddox 6y ago
Isn't Apple Music a superset of iTunes Match? I believe Apple Music also includes the ability to match or upload 100,000 of your own songs.
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by baddox 6y ago
It's funny how people can have such different experiences. I'm currently trialing a switch from Apple Music to Spotify, and the Spotify UI is completely baffling. I cannot understand how they make it impossible to, just, browse t
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by baddox 6y ago
Unless you want an appliance. Some people want to experiment with electronics and magnetrons. Some people just want to microwave their leftovers. There's nothing wrong with either type of person or product, and either type of person wo
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by baddox 6y ago
This doesn't seem odd or unusual to me. New products will have the newest generation of chips. I seem to remember this happening several times with iPhone releases, where new low-end models have newer (and potentially faster) chips tha
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by baddox 6y ago
The brand new base model iPad still uses a Lightning connector.
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by baddox 6y ago
The current generation of iPad Pro doesn't have a headphone jack, and this iPad Air form factor looks nearly identical to the small iPad Pro. The writing has been on the wall for a long time. Headphone jacks are out!
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t really see how it works both ways. It’s hard to imagine a bigger scarier competitor to Samsung than the Apple iPhone, yet we agree Samsung is happy selling screens to Apple.
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by baddox 6y ago
Samsung makes (excellent) screens for iPhones, which are huge competitors to Samsung's own flagship phones, but Samsung still seems happy to take the profits from the screen sales. If there are smaller potential competitors that Samsun
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by baddox 6y ago
The towns in the peninsula are nice, even the smaller ones like Burlingame or even San Carlos. But apartment rents are barely cheaper there in SF for comparable nice units, and you’ll almost certainly need a car, and you of course lose many
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by baddox 6y ago
I doubt you want to live in Half Moon Bay unless your schedule allows you to get outside during the week and hunker down to avoid the weekend traffic when the weather is decent.
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by baddox 6y ago
I believe the 10 minute thing is because YouTube at some point let you include mid-roll ads if your video was longer than 10 minutes.
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by baddox 6y ago
I don't find much filler among the areas of interest that I specifically follow on YouTube (some of that of course being due to my own selection of who to subscribe to), but I do find that filler on YouTube when I'm searching for
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by baddox 6y ago
The exact same thing happens for me on YouTube, although I guess YouTube doesn't start with an auto-playing random sequence of videos to quick-start the search for videos you find interesting. Still though, I end up in very odd niches
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by baddox 6y ago
That doesn't sound any more difficult to resolve than the fact that you are probably working on a team where different individuals prefer different programming languages.
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by baddox 6y ago
> It's like ecological herd immunity. I would think the closer analogy to a pandemic would be that it calms down when it kills nearly everyone. But, I suppose that is herd immunity in some sense.
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by baddox 6y ago
Now at 11am in downtown SF it is much darker than it was early this morning when these pictures were taken. It's disturbing, to say the least.
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by baddox 6y ago
Sending messages between individuals on WhatsApp isn’t a remotely comparable problem to Facebook’s algorithm actively spreading posts to a huge audience.
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by baddox 6y ago
There’s a difference between thinking that any media that doesn’t agree with my political views is disgraceful, and thinking that the entire media industry is profiting from fostering division and controversy.
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by baddox 6y ago
The trouble is that Facebook’s algorithm by definition does shape the speech that people see on Facebook.
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t think it’s that either. I think it’s about Facebook’s algorithm massively amplifying certain voices.
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by baddox 6y ago
What about things that Facebook does take down, like fraud and scams or misinformation about voting requirements? Is that problematic because it positions Facebook as an authority about those things? Should Facebook remove posts which claim
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by baddox 6y ago
No, we do not expect to have pensions.
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by baddox 6y ago
I’m not convinced that the fertility rate in any one country is particularly troublesome, especially when global population is increasing, that country is populous and wealthy, and that country seems to have little trouble growing its popul
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by baddox 6y ago
Luckily the US population can grow other ways too! And the global population is increasing. And “seeing peak world population in our lifetime” doesn’t sound too scary. Shortage of humans due to humans choosing not to reproduce because they
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by baddox 6y ago
Funny how we all seem to have just implicitly accepted that any people having any number of children under any circumstances is “undeniably good for society.”
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by baddox 6y ago
What do parents do during the summer or before public schooling starts? I've always heard controversy about parental leave, but why haven't I heard as much controversy about parents spending less time at work when their children a
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by baddox 6y ago
That makes it sound like raising children isn't already an extremely strong biological urge and something that tends to provide immense satisfaction to parents. If parents didn't receive special benefits at work to help them raise
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by baddox 6y ago
How about the Ozarks? They may not be the most visually impressive mountains, but I would at least consider the St. Francois Mountains in southern Missouri to be part of the Midwest.
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by baddox 6y ago
Isn’t it also roughly as embarrassing and damaging to have extremely believable fake nude photos of yourself on the internet?

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