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berthe
8y ago
> The "non-tariff barriers" are important - all kinds of environmental and safety standards could be considered as these, and they can be far more difficult to deal with than simply paying an import duty. I'm glad the US h
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berthe
8y ago
> There are people that spend most of their available hours staring at screens of graphs while trading various tokens in order to achieve the highest score... but of course we call them professionals not addicts. Not really, we call them
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berthe
8y ago
> If Facebook is such a problem then people could just stop being part of these social circles. It really isn't that difficult. No, it actually is that difficult, or more precisely that undesirable. Very few people are such anti-
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berthe
8y ago
> The fact is that there are alternatives (for both consumers and developers) to the iOS app store. They don't get products from or on iOS, but they can still buy and sell comparable products. But that's usually always true: 90
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berthe
8y ago
>> If the Apple app store isn't a monopoly I don't know what is. > Microsoft had something like a 97% marketshare. Apple is nowhere near that. Whether a company is a monopoly or not seems to depend a lot how the market in
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berthe
8y ago
> Interesting that product numbers were reused. When you're in business as long as DEC was, I think that inevitable if you want the product numbers to be short and memorable.
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berthe
8y ago
> Probably a combination of all three. The US and China have the benefit of a comparatively gargantuan native population that all speak the same language As odd as it sounds, my understanding is that China's Han population doesn&#x
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berthe
8y ago
The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/soul-of-a-new-machine-tracy... It's mostly about the development of the Data General Nova computer. It's mostly about (80s) hardwa
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berthe
8y ago
> Knowing that discrimination exists while you get into something doesn't make it less discriminatory. "Discrimination" is a neutral term though: there are acceptable kinds and unacceptable kinds. For instance, it is disc
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berthe
8y ago
> This is one of the enormous penalties we as a nation have to pay because neither of our political parties actually wants to solve the illegal immigration issue. This is a legal immigration issue. There are no il legal immigrants on
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berthe
8y ago
> Sad fact is that Mac sales are now 10% of Apples revenue. I think the only reason Macs receive any attention at all within Apple is because you need Macs to build iphone/ipad apps. Another way of framing this is - how much effort