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by caskance 11y ago
What did I read into your summary that wasn't there? You were talking about the need to "educate" people so that they can agree with you.
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You're still being condescending by assuming that their views are wrong and that they only believe those things because of something else that went wrong in their lives. That's not going to lead to a sincere conversation. That&#x2
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Obscenity is always going to be subjective. When it comes to what Apple is willing to sell in their store, it is their idea of obscenity that applies. At this point, I think they have made their stance clear enough that both you and I under
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I don't accept or agree with their judgment, but that's irrelevant, because I respect that it is their judgment, and Apple has the right to carry what they want in their own store.
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The more likely case is that nobody will know or care about it and it will remain unnoticed forever.
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I've been deliberately avoiding talking about what should be banned. I would expect Apple to remove such an app from their store once they found out about it, yes.
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I'm aware how much relocation costs. It's still less than what the developer costs you in a month.
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Most distinct entities aren't.
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In the sense that they're both considered obscene by Apple.
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No clue. You could report it and find out.
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There's a huge difference between a news app that happens to cover murders and a "murder news" app that only covers that specific subset. The app in question is clearly much closer to the latter.
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Have you really seen an employer not willing to pay relocation costs for software engineers? I haven't.
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No, just as Safari isn't removed because you can visit porn sites with it, but an app that was dedicated only to porn would be. Are you being intentionally obtuse?
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The best defense is a good offense. Why secure the whole world when you could just secure yourself and your allies, and keep everyone else full of holes you already know about?
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But probably the McDonald's employee would have a lot more difficulty committing this crime.
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Locations where people were murdered.
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You can believe what you want. Personally, I believe that either nobody has bothered to report the apps that are still up, or Apple doesn't give a shit about games because those are in their own bucket.
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That's not an acceptable excuse for breaking apps. Has everyone forgotten the story about Windows and Sim City?
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They didn't buy it. They were sent a developer unit before release. In their own words, >We weighed the risks, blithely tossed those risks over our shoulder, and tore down the Apple TV anyway.
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The reason is right there in the article - excessively crude or objectionable content. If a porn website released their own video player as an app, you could call it a "very specialized web browser", but it would still obviously v
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>I would like to see our society stigmatize these kinds of jobs the same way an alcoholic is, FWIW. As in, if you're getting hired somewhere, having intelligence connections on your resumé is grounds for having it thrown in the tras
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We've also been trained by millenia of experience that concentration of power invites efficiency and prosperity. Compare modern geopolitics to anything in the past. With a few rare but spectacular exceptions, groups merge and consolida
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People already did that.
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I'm sure the nightmare scenario is beyond the imagining of decent people like you or I. But considering Germany has been the aggressor of the two largest conflicts of the previous century, do you honestly believe it's prudent to s
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Why provide a TLDR section that you feel doesn't accurately represent what you said?
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How do you get "local community initiatives and collective planning" to happen? Especially when someone else is already doing it for free?
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If you are not willing to admit that they might be right and you might be the one to change your views, it's hardly a real dialogue. It's preaching or brainwashing, depending on how charitable you feel like being.
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It assumes readers are already familiar with Discworld.
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Obviously people can be manipulated into believing anything. Especially by charismatic media figures. It's incredibly condescending of you to believe that people only disagree with you because they don't know any better. Especiall
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And now I think you've come a lot closer to the problem most privacy advocates don't seem willing to accept. That maybe, if nobody cares and nothing happens, that's because most people believe that what the NSA is doing is re

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