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by clusterfish 5y ago
Yeah right that's why devices with cameras always looked like this, that certainly didn't start when one company made this particular design moronically hip, and the rest of the sheep followed. Lenses were apparently square before
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by clusterfish 5y ago
The market for large groups of people is called politics. If you like unregulated markets so much, you should like monopolies, including that of political power.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Yeah banning stuff is silly. I should be able to drive and practice medicine without a license, sell toxic baby formula, build houses with asbestos. The magic market will provide a solution for anyone who wants different. #Murica PS we shou
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by clusterfish 5y ago
With this kind of design (black holes for cameras and sensors), I wonder if they considered that it might trigger trypophobia ("fear of holes"), and if they did, what does it say about your design if you need to analyze it such co
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by clusterfish 5y ago
I'm not sure if this is the original, but here: https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...
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by clusterfish 5y ago
They can certainly, say, ban Apple and Google from hosting such P2P apps in their app stores, then any such apps are useless to most people. They could also go after developers, forcing them to either install backdoors or shut down - see wh
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by clusterfish 5y ago
As a general rule it's unwise to hope for some unintended side effect of bad legislation to solve unrelated problems. The goal of this legislation is surveillance and control. If passed, it will achieve that goal. If it has a side effe
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by clusterfish 5y ago
FFS read about it. It burns clean at use site but causes tons of largely unmeasured methane emissions at extraction site, to the point where it's 50%-70% as bad as coal. Except it's worse because clueless people think it's gr
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by clusterfish 5y ago
If you live in a jurisdiction where you need to pay sales tax, you will pay that sales tax, it will be on top of anything that the seller would normally charge you. You can't escape this tax by going to a different seller in your same
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by clusterfish 5y ago
If you don't want do do one thing do another unrelated thing, great logic, very insightful.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Lol sure let's invalidate all patents for starters, if you want a free market. Copyright next. See how much will be left of Apple's hegemony. Or just admit that regulations are a thing we use to get socially optimal outcomes and n
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Nobody's saying that this has anything to do with legality under current laws. Neither does whataboutism that this is usually in response to, for the record.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
"A general purpose computer is a computer that is designed to be able to carry out many different tasks." "There's an app for that" Seems pretty straightforward that they did. Them doing their best to lock down the
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Right because you have data to show that piracy takes away more than 30% of small devs' desktop games' revenue? Given that most pirates wouldn't actually buy it if they had to pay? Smaller developers publish PC games just fin
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by clusterfish 5y ago
That's just ideological propaganda that ignores the last 200 years of economic theory and observations.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Nice whataboutism, except Mobile Safari is intentionally crippled to not support PWAs well.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
In EU credit card fees are capped by law, and the duopoly is surviving just fine, just with less obscene profits. Should do the same with mobile app stores.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Users have no choice, the market is a duopoly, and Android app store has all the same problems (because it's a duopoly). You can't feasibly escape platform tax on mobile.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Um, no, cost of doing business affects the equilibrium market price. There's no Apple tax outside of Apple's walled garden, so everyone competing outside of it has lower costs and can thus offer lower prices (outside of the walled
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Natural gas as a source of energy is a lot less clean than advertised, almost as bad as coal, even without gas stoves, (due to fugitive methane emissions, yes, but not in your home)
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Why? Because how much you have to pay is determined by how much the platform owner can get away with. There is no fundamental logic to it other than market power. Why don't you compare to better, open platforms instead - desktop apps,
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by clusterfish 5y ago
There was "immense value" in every monopolist that was rightfully broken up or restricted. There's "immense value" in every monopoly / duopoly market. So what. The richest company in the world is swimming in mo
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by clusterfish 5y ago
> Facebook is right now taking a huge loss due to the fact the walled garden is working. Facebook is hitting a huge loss right now because they saturated the world, ran out of markets to expand to. Not because of Apple's minor restr
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Bunch of FUD. OS features and permissions aren't going anywhere. Even if coercing users into providing permissions became a real problem, Apple could have the OS provide fake data to apps not whitelisted by the user. If you don't
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by clusterfish 5y ago
They can also keep current exobirant fees and see how that works out for them, when their app store monopoly is inevitably legislated away. They wouldn't be subject to legislators' interest in the first place if they charged reaso
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Pretty much all Apple has to do to keep apps in App Store in the face of competition is drop their fees to less than 10% for all apps and drop bullshit like "you can't even link to your website if it lets users pay from there&quot
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by clusterfish 5y ago
I mean that money is the benefit, not the work itself. Our wealth distribution system is not suitable for significant levels of automation at all - that is the root of the problem, not automation itself.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Theoretically yes, but in practice the given industry as a whole often does not need much more output even if the per unit cost of the output declines. Like, you don't need significantly more accounting just because you can use spreads
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by clusterfish 5y ago
> who benefits most in that equation? That depends on how the extra profit is distributed, aka taxation and social welfare. Slaving away 40 hours a week on a bullshit job that can be trivially automated is not a benefit per se.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
You are correct, but I dislike the offended whataboutism tone. That other countries did the same 100 years ago, or even some other countries still do today, is not the point. The point is it's typical of China to steal IP. It's a

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