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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
I thought all SSDs did that for wear-leveling purposes.
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
EVs pay a registration surcharge in lieu of gas taxes. And it works out to something crazy like 20k equivalent miles per year.
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
> it's clear that Apple doesn't have the will to kill their apps over it. Well, Apple did threatened to remove Facebook in the past, and they did get Meta to follow the rules back then But, today, unfortunately I think you are
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
I think the principal-agent / collective bargaining framework is correct, but I would dispute that the principals (the users, not app developers) are upset by how it works. Most of the noise seems to be coming from developers, so, to m
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
I think there are two problems here: First, a skewed distribution of "wheat" and "chaff" apps. I would bet there are at least 10x as many "chaff" submissions as "wheat" submissions. Passing that dis
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
How dare you assert that Disneyland is working for free in such a scenario? $99/yr is clearly a fair and reasonable compensation to license all Disney IP for any purpose because Disney has an eleventy bajillion percent margin on ticket
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
> Wouldn't this best be resolved by productising the Apple LLM? Earphone API becomes open, as required by EU. However, use of the Apple LLM would be controlled by license. Earbud competitors could either license Apple's LLM, pe
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
Ahh, I see the problem. This may come as a shock to you: a phone is not a car.
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
And the people on the other side are beyond naive if they think it makes sense financially to develop a feature like this if the company developing it has to give it away for free. One consequence of the DMA is that you can't build cer
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
You’re cherry picking again… You also get a huge reduction when you turn on SpO2 (off by default on Garmin, on by default on iWatch). Same for music, always on display, etc etc etc.
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
> Garmins easily last a week. Oh, really? https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/GUID-EECCAC99-90D6-4... Looks like they last dramatically less than that if you buy an Garmin with comparable display and actual
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
> Can you elaborate on that? There are not enough houses, and you are encouraging more long-term demand for houses… > We also don't need to avoid the middle of the country. The population has been moving to the coasts Maybe a bet
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
Microsoft does not regularly make the front page of HN because they don’t allow side loading. Apple does. It’s a disingenuous argument.
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
Because the number of people on HN who think they will become a billionaire if Apple let everyone install their app is much greater than the people who think the same about Xbox.
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
> Also, who believes politicians campaign pledges? Only all the people who voted for them and all the people who voted against them?
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
> In the middle of the 1900s, the tax rate on the wealthiest Americans was 91% You forgot to mention that only half of capital gains were subject to tax. So the highest marginal rate was 45.5%.
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
> Competition is how you get to the best product. Lack of competition leads to malaise of product improvements as the market dominators are owning the space and happily exert their power over people. Competition means differentiating you
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
So if Apple limited what you can do with an iPhone even more , then you’d be ok with the walled garden?
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
> but at the same time I don't think anyone opposes to the other companies being forced too. How can you say that with a straight face? The EU opposes other companies being forced to! That’s why they wrote their DMA the way they d
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
Customs officers everywhere have almost unlimited discretion to deny entry. While I think the Vance meme reflects very poorly on my country, it is always advisable to remember that you have very limited rights in every country while cross
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
Yes, well, calling for a revolution is protected speech in the United States. It is only if your words are likely to promptly cause someone to commit violence that you can be prosecuted for it.
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
So why do so many European government websites have cookie banners? See, for instance: https://www.info.gouv.fr
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
Audio apps have greater permissions to run the background, right? Wonder if it’s related to that.
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
My memory is a bit rusty, but I can't recall any time that "we would have lost if we didn't do it" was used as a successful defense at a war crimes trial. Normally you go with "that didn't actually happen"
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
> What makes you believe this? The definition of “poach” is not intrinsically linked to the notion of ownership/property. My dictionary gives this definition for "poaching": 1. to trespass for the purpose of stealing game
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
The other side did have 4 years to fix it, though. I do wonder if the last election would have gone differently if all the people directly and indirectly affected by that hadn't been.
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
The Swiss also have compulsory military service for every man over 18 (women may volunteer), so the people owning these guns actually know how to handle them safely and have been trained to have some self-discipline. I expect that the 18 we
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
Got it, sorry, I misinterpreted what you were saying.
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
My reading of the claims is that the novelty is having the processor integrated in the sensor protrusion. So processing the data elsewhere (particularly on a different device) would avoid infringement.
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by burnerthrow008 1y ago
Sincere question for you: Do you actually believe that your employees belong to you?

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