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by carewell 4y ago
That’s not due to censorship though. And yes - both iOS and Android have great adblockers. I use AdGuard Pro on iOS and my experience is as good as using uBlock origin on desktop. Saying that, I agree that alternative rendering engines shou
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by carewell 4y ago
Alternatives are not competition in a highly state-controlled environment. It’s an appearance of competition. Exactly what the Chinese government wants.
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by carewell 4y ago
I mean… yes, censorship exists in many countries, including the US. If China forced _Apple_ to abide by their rules I struggle to imagine how an alternative store would avoid that. Biggest Chinese app stores are tightly managed by the state
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by carewell 4y ago
This distinction is very minor. From my perspective there is almost no difference whether I am viewing a curated app list as a web page or as an alternative App Store. This has almost no consumer advantage and a vastly increased risk surfac
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by carewell 4y ago
Chinese market is tightly controlled by the state. They have very strict rules for how western tech companies must behave. They have forced even the biggest players to abide by their censorship laws. And yes, they are out of touch. But not
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by carewell 4y ago
I have never had a need to install a specific app and then not find it in the default App Store.
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by carewell 4y ago
I have been using Android since Nexus 2 and iPhone since 6s. Never in my life I felt like I have experienced censorship in default app stores. If they are against the monopolized market make a clear argument, preferably consumer-focused. Do
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by carewell 4y ago
I watched it twice and hated it. Being confused by the unintelligible dialog is a big part of why I hated it.
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by carewell 4y ago
I wonder if we are discussing different broadcasting options. If the incoming signal is stereo then adding a 3rd speaker shouldn’t make any difference. If the incoming signal is 5.1 then you either have to downmix or to add more speakers fo
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by carewell 4y ago
I see, thank for explaining. Yes if you have the option to receive more than 2 channels then I can see how that would give some flexibility. I didn’t realize that TV channels offer 5.1 (I don’t own a TV set). Saying that if you are receivin
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by carewell 4y ago
How would adding a 3rd speaker change anything? The broadcasted signal is still a 2-channel audio, right? Is the amp just going to transform it to M/S and use mid channel for the center speaker?
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by carewell 4y ago
Ah! Did they forget to mention that blockchain is a glorified linked list?
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by carewell 4y ago
I think parent commenter's argument is that it's hard to get excited about crypto just based on the fact that it allows some people buy drugs online. While millions of investors lose a ton of money to crypto scams.
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by carewell 4y ago
Splitting hairs could be a reasonable expectation but at this point right after the FTX debacle it's not warranted. Any sufficiently complex system can have minor benefits while overall be considered extremely harmful. Cancer can make
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by carewell 4y ago
What are you talking about? > it all comes from the same place Which is? > a small amout of scams A small number by which metric? Is FTX collapse small? Was Bitconnect small? > the blockchains are decenteralized and free for all to
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by carewell 4y ago
Are they using these small pieces of hardware that look like a calculator? Something similar is offered by several UK banks (slide your card in, enter code, sign a transaction). Again, not sure if you understand the vast gap between this an
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by carewell 4y ago
That's an oversimplification. I would argue that the more technologically complex inventions had to go through multiple rounds of adjustments in order to be able to appeal to the masses. And those inventions that could not do that effe
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by carewell 4y ago
To be fair both Kubrick and Tarkovsky probably felt dwarfed by the likes of Vertov, Eisenstein, or even Chaplin. Specifically in terms of pushing the envelope. These were different times with different envelopes. Villeneuve innovates in a d
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by carewell 4y ago
Personally I have no problems with voter ID laws (especially if they are implemented over time with an appropriate level of support). However, I don't fully understand where you stand on this crypto/KYC topic - it almost seems lik
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by carewell 4y ago
Are you assuming that people of only a specific race don't know where the DMV is? Now that's racist.
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by carewell 4y ago
It takes no effort to keep your savings in a bank account. Literally no effort: no knowledge of the financial system, no specialized device ownership, no additional investment.
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by carewell 4y ago
I have a hardware wallet and to be honest I am more paranoid about it than about my Coinbase account.
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by carewell 4y ago
I appreciate your sense of humor. Setting up a Linux distro on a USB dongle and memorizing 24 words is definitely the most user friendly crypto wallet solution I have heard about.
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by carewell 4y ago
I don't think you understand how foreign this concept is to the vast majority of ordinary people. Buying a trusted hardware wallet, setting it up, moving their crypto, storing keys somewhere, storing the hardware wallet somewhere, etc.
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by carewell 4y ago
OP links to a paraphrasing tool on their website.
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by carewell 4y ago
Art has no absolute value by itself. Curators and buyers give it value. So if curators will decide that some motel art or some AI art has value - we will see it displayed in a museum. Of course there are exceptions but this covers the vast
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by carewell 4y ago
Why stop at financial products? If a celebrity advertises a car as safe and then someone close to you dies in a crash, should you not hold that celebrity accountable? Why didn't they look into all claims about safety of those cars?
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by carewell 4y ago
This argument is nonsensical. The only way to accomplish that would be to ban all product endorsements outright. Do you want to hold celebrities who endorsed VW cars liable for the VW diesel scandal? How about actors who endorsed anything t
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by carewell 4y ago
I don't want to seem like I am defending crypto, but how is selling NFTs a scam? FTX was scam not because it was selling crypto but because it was an actual financial scam, a business breaking US laws.
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by carewell 4y ago
AI upscaling works incredibly well in my experience.

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