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721.
by bloppe 2y ago
Why would Apple be liable for these things? There are existing phones in every market that allow such things without any liability issues.
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by bloppe 2y ago
The standards issue is only relevant to E2EE. It has no bearing on the usability issues here. The E2EE issues should be fixed soon according to Apple. I'd bet a good amount of money the usability issues will remain. It used to be black
723.
by bloppe 2y ago
RCS on iPhone just sucks though. All I have is anecdotal evidence, but it feels like I only get late or out-of-order delivery from iPhones. Plus iMessage doesn't allow you to send RCS messages from your laptop, whereas it's easy t
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by bloppe 2y ago
The "closed" approach is way better when it involves guardrails rather than handcuffs. Pixels offer guardrails; they're just as secure as iPhones but offer a lot more freedom to power users. Android is a lot more than just Pi
725.
by bloppe 2y ago
That's called the lump of labor fallacy. Losing your job sucks. It could suck a lot less with stuff like UBI that distributes the right amount of the profits from increasingly concentrated automation. Maybe you think that's imposs
726.
by bloppe 2y ago
I'm not sure about having them "pretty soon", but what do you think AI, self driving cars and androids are for if not to alleviate people of work? Better health care is a tough one, I'll give you that.
727.
by bloppe 2y ago
That's fair. I just think saying "credit reporting should be illegal" is throwing the baby out with the bath water.
728.
by bloppe 2y ago
I'd love to learn more about this loan system. Do you mind if I ask which country that is?
729.
by bloppe 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_bureau#History "Following the Panic of 1837, the first commercial credit reporting organizations formed." It only took a financial crisis and 3-year-long depression for pe
730.
by bloppe 2y ago
> I personally don’t care about alternative app stores That's because it's difficult to imagine how alternative app stores would force first party app stores to be better, or risk losing business. For a start, everything would
731.
by bloppe 2y ago
Without credit scores, it would be impossible to get loans or a mortgage. I think a lot of people would be pretty bummed about that.
732.
by bloppe 2y ago
Google pays to be the default. AFAIK they don't pay to make the switching experience maliciously difficult. After all, the switching experience on Android is dead simple. That seems to be another unilateral decision by Apple to keep yo
733.
by bloppe 2y ago
If Google controls the spin-off, then the problem is not resolved. The whole point is that the government doesn't want Google to control it. And if Google does not control it, then who does? The judge? There are a lot of seemingly simp
734.
by bloppe 2y ago
The problem is that it doesn't make business sense for anybody else to buy Chrome. Bare in mind that 99% of Chrome is the free Chromium open source project, so you're not buying any sort of technological asset. You're just bu
735.
by bloppe 2y ago
Big question is: Does the $10k price already reflect Trump's tariffs on China? Or will the price rise further still..
736.
by bloppe 2y ago
Too bad we're going to do the exact opposite of all that for at least the next 4 years
737.
by bloppe 2y ago
Relatively speaking, that's still by far the best case scenario. We now live in a world of "how bad will it get".
738.
by bloppe 2y ago
It's not all about TSMC. The CCP has been very vocal about wanting to conquer Taiwan since long before TSMC even existed. Also, the longer they wait, the more tech gets transferred to the US, so even if it were all about TSMC, they wou
739.
by bloppe 2y ago
That's our best case scenario.
740.
by bloppe 2y ago
I hope you're right, but I see no reason to be that optimistic.
741.
by bloppe 2y ago
China has the biggest Navy in the world and they regularly circumnavigate Taiwan. They're not just sitting there on the mainland with binoculars wishing they could see what's on the other side.
742.
by bloppe 2y ago
Why would China will wait for a decade? They've been very clear about wanting to invade by 2027
743.
by bloppe 2y ago
Far more likely the US will "sell" Taiwan to China for some deal that greatly harms the US.
744.
by bloppe 2y ago
"value" here is referring to the potential to generate new income, not to store already-acquired wealth for later. Wealth can be invested to generate interest. Let's say you can get a risk-free 5% return on capital and the av
745.
by bloppe 2y ago
Do you live in a major liberal city? Then your cost of housing is probably unreasonable by national standards. The CPI for 2025 is 44% determined by housing costs, so if you spend ~44% of your income on housing then it's probably a rea
746.
by bloppe 2y ago
Inequality can increase while the poorest are still getting richer in real terms (inflation-adjusted income). That's been the case for a decades now: https://archive.is/HcRsU "It is the mechanic and teaching assis
747.
by bloppe 2y ago
You heard it here first. There will be no tax reform from here on.
748.
by bloppe 2y ago
I'm not the one with a strong conviction based on little experience
749.
by bloppe 2y ago
If only there were some way to change a tax code... Alas, no country has ever figured out how to do that!
750.
by bloppe 2y ago
Well that's an easily verifiable fact, wheres "poor people are louder" is more of a belief

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