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by damnyou 7y ago
How convenient for Apple fans to talk about "profit share" when app stores are discussed and "market share" when antitrust comes up. I'm saying that the "benevolent dictator" model that Apple is following
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by damnyou 7y ago
And the current situation with iOS is an even bigger catastrophe for society. I don't think the problem is copying per se... the problem is that Apple is just too big, too powerful, to be good for society. Apple should be broken up.
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by damnyou 7y ago
It doesn't matter — it is so obviously wrong to discriminate based on country of origin that I can't even believe we're having this discussion. (And yes, I'm aware that consular posts do it all the time, issuing fewer vi
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by damnyou 7y ago
No, we do not "raise one eyebrow" because someone was born on the wrong patch of dirt. That is a shameful and disgusting approach for the "shining city on a hill" to take.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Your priors are wrong. You should assume CBP is lying until definitively proven otherwise.
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Because tech companies are in way over their heads with all the social problems they've created.
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by damnyou 7y ago
That the labor of historians and social scientists is undervalued compared to the benefit they bring to humanity. There is no incentive for a large tech corp to have historians as C-level officers, even though it's a no brainier logica
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by damnyou 7y ago
You can have the best intentions and cause tremendous harm to the world.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Yes, you have successfully identified a structural issue with modern capitalism.
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by damnyou 7y ago
It turns out that those solutions STEM folks have to technical problems have created a whole host of social problems. The pendulum needs to swing the other way.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Yeah, yet there should still be more social studies people in power at tech companies.
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STEAM just correctly recognizes that STEM people systematically underrate the importance of history and social studies.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Linux is only a monoculture on the server. Server-side applications will sometimes use Linux -specific features but generally are written to be ported to other POSIX systems with little work. Of course the git monoculture is bad. Have you
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Because monocultures are bad.
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I like Rust because C++ is simply beyond my cognitive abilities.
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Right, there's definitely all sorts of issues with closures (esp async ones) if you don't have lifetime analysis. But Rust is the only systems programming language that I take seriously.
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Why are closures unsuitable for systems programming? Rust does them really well, not even allocating in the most common cases.
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by damnyou 7y ago
"he said, she said" is only useful when both he and she have relatively equal power. When one entity can hold a metaphorical gun to the other person's head, it no longer works.
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by damnyou 7y ago
One of the worst misconceptions many people have is that the world works on policy. Policy simply does not matter in such situations. This is entirely about identity, signaling, and sending nativists messages from the top.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Vote for the party that doesn't demonize immigrants, and get all your friends and family to vote. The US is still a democracy no matter how broken the Senate is, and the responsibility for state actions ultimately falls on the citizenr
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by damnyou 7y ago
There's no solution to climate change that does not involve science. However, there's no solution to climate science that doesn't involve engaging with humans either. Pathos is a fundamental part of engaging with humans.
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by damnyou 7y ago
The problem with statements like this is that not choosing sides is exactly as political as choosing sides. There is no such thing as ignoring politics — it's an essential part of the human experience, so any organization must grapple
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Why are you presenting a false dichotomy?
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You as the consumer aren't the only entity that matters. The long term health of communities might not be aligned with short term consumer benefit.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Yes, Apple is not a "monopoly" in a strict sense, but it has a very large captive audience and is definitely using that audience to serve its own needs. Getting Apple's tentacles out of your life can have significant side eff
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by damnyou 7y ago
Apple pushes it further than anyone else. You can install other app stores like F-Droid on Android.
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Neither is iMessage, but only one of them forces you to use a particular mobile OS, conveniently made by the same trillion dollar megacorp, to use it.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Every single Apple device has a hidden agenda — to make Apple even more powerful than it is today, even more of a bully. All concentrations of power are bad. As a society we must always seek to reduce power imbalances, not perpetuate them
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Of course Google is also bad, but it at least allows sideloading and other app stores.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Why does approximately no one outside the US use iMessage then? Yes, it's easier if you have $750 to spend and are willing to cede control to a trillion dollar megacorporation. It's impossible if you're already on a different

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