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by croon 5y ago
You got there by the conclusion. Imagine that half of the US was Disney World, wherein everything is dictated by Disney because they managed to get there under capitalism. Capitalism is a great tool and all, but as all other tools, it doesn
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by croon 5y ago
Which kind of gets to the point. The limited capability is only artificial, and only on things that would give users more freedom (and themselves less money). It's forced Internet Explorer on Windows, except 100 times worse because it
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by croon 5y ago
Yes, they have been doing it on a platform (Windows, originally) that didn't come preinstalled with it, by being better than any other storefront, even when taking 30% and you have other options. Appstore is doing it by being the only
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by croon 5y ago
> Developers are free to go to a huge number of competitor platforms. There are no other platforms on the devices. Saying I can buy another house if I could only choose one electricity provider or ISP isn't a good defense (in those
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by croon 5y ago
If you're referring to Steam et al, I don't have to use Steam on my device.
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by croon 5y ago
Are there any non-designed numbers to see?
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by croon 5y ago
I don't know what other evidence one would need for antitrust. They have to my knowledge never produced a game, or a "real" console, yet they rake in more gaming money than any other? That's a hostage situation by any me
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by croon 5y ago
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/... > According to one U.S. study that has yet to undergo peer review young males under 20 are up to six times more likely to develop myocarditis afte
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by croon 5y ago
Really showing my ignorance here, but it took me a while before realizing that the rarity/news worthy aspect was multiple planets around one star. I never considered our solar system being such an outlier. In retrospect it's of co
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by croon 5y ago
Cargo culting in a nutshell.
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by croon 5y ago
I assume the owners of Company 1 would need to bring the case, and if they're also the owners of Company 2 they would never want to.
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by croon 5y ago
(Still) Raising the most VC funding is not the same as raising the most or more because of Brexit.
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by croon 5y ago
And yet we all knew about it without blockchains and cryptotransactions are banned in China.
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Anonymous releases data on Texas GOP in latest Epik hack dump(dailydot.com)
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by croon 5y ago
In aggregate, humans have a lot of failure modes when driving, but it's also difficult to compare aggregate data with specific AI failure modes. I have been driving for almost two decades with 0 accidents. I'm not saying I can&#x2
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by croon 5y ago
We know they collect the information. Supposedly because they find it useful. How do you think they're using it?
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by croon 5y ago
But there are crappy expensive cables, expensive cables that aren't better than cheap ones, and great cheap ones. What I'd like is a mark for servicable USB-C cables so everyone can just compete on price on that. These logos kind
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by croon 5y ago
An encyclopedia may feature nazi iconography or text. That's different from a book only featuring nazi iconography and text. Regardless of our respective views, yours is not an accurate comparison.
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by croon 5y ago
This is 99% of my Facebook use too. I'd argue that the only meaningful benefit (to me at least) of Facebook is as a contact list and finder. I would delete my Facebook instantly if I felt fairly confident that I wouldn't lose out
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by croon 5y ago
It would be interesting if your information campaign against another nation had a net negative cost.
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by croon 5y ago
Has that politifact article changed? Because reading just the "If your time is short" blurb states exactly that.
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by croon 5y ago
The "close neighborhood of China" would significantly grow and envelope unwilling countries if unscrutinized.
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by croon 5y ago
People did that long before Instagram, and will do it long after, both online and off.
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by croon 5y ago
Life is responsible for all suicides, I still don't see your point. College has a societal value, Instagram doesn't.
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by croon 5y ago
Edit out the expletive and replace the caps with ~ before and after and I'll agree with everything else in the comment.
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by croon 5y ago
Statement without justification, then a non sequitor. If you have a point, make it. I am aware of the existence of Russians, what about them?
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by croon 5y ago
Of course, but Epic's bottom line isn't necessarily mutually exclusive to the interests of users or developers.
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by croon 5y ago
Where reason 2 and 3 are specifically why I understand why any regulatory body would do something about it. Reason 1 I can kind of understand (if valid).
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by croon 5y ago
I find many wrongs with Spotify, but this isn't one of them. My Spotify Discover Weekly is usually great, up to 50% great discoveries, and they're completely different in both genres and time periods to friends' lists. I gues
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by croon 5y ago
I don't really know why they stopped selling chromecast audio (outside of wanting to sell more speakers I guess), but I have (and had) a bunch of those and bookshelf speakers with Lepai T Amps. It worked great. I've though since r

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