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by damnyou 7y ago
What button do I hold down on an iPhone to activate Google Assistant from the home screen?
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by damnyou 7y ago
Of course you buy apps from Apple. That's why Apple, worth gobloads of money, can impose a 30% tax on independent app developers' labor. You can't even tell users how to subscribe without giving Apple a cut if you're on
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by damnyou 7y ago
What in the world are you talking about!? WhatsApp doesn't invade your life just to talk to your friends.
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by damnyou 7y ago
You are forced to buy apps from Apple if you want to use iMessage. Forced to use Apple's crappy voice software. Forced to use Apple's crappy TV box if you want to mirror your screen.
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by damnyou 7y ago
WhatsApp doesn't make you buy $750 dongles and force itself onto the rest of your life in order to communicate with your friends.
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by damnyou 7y ago
The entire point of the app store is to further concentrate power with Apple. Whether that is good or bad short term or long term can be debated separately, but it is fundamentally a shift of power away from independent developers towards a
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by damnyou 7y ago
> I don't believe it is incumbent upon me to alter the manner in which I speak and write for the convenience of another. It absolutely is incumbent upon you to show people respect in a workplace or school setting. That means not ca
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by damnyou 7y ago
Living in the city was great in my 20s. Now that I'm past 35 and have a family, having a private backyard to ourselves is a lot more appealing than dealing with loud people in commodified, crowded restaurants and movie theaters. My fam
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by damnyou 7y ago
Of course intelligence is heritable. But that is not the same thing as it being genetic. There are plenty of heritable environmental factors.
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by damnyou 7y ago
> That’s impossible to quantify Do you actually dispute that colonialism has caused more harm than emigration? Wow. Holy shit. > LOL dude I'm not a dude. There are large parts of the left that are anti-immigration. They are als
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by damnyou 7y ago
There's an easy solution to that — massively increase foreign aid! Encourage remittances! Fix historical injustices. Pay reparations. I bet H-1Bs are the only time many people get so bothered about the global poor. Imperialism and colo
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by damnyou 7y ago
Businesses do not exist merely to serve their host countries. They serve the needs of many people, including shareholders, customers, employees and the communities (not just countries) they are based in.
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by damnyou 7y ago
There's so much discussion here about how H-1Bs are good or bad for cohort X or community Y. Why does no one talk about the effects on the immigrants themselves? How much do they level up their technical and language skills? Are they
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by damnyou 7y ago
What's all this nationalist nonsense? H1Bs are great for the immigrants and that is the only thing that matters.
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by damnyou 7y ago
In a zero-sum situation, it is important to have an equitable distribution of pain. Of course the cap should be abolished altogether, but while it exists the system is deeply unjust.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Citation? My understanding is that the situation you're describing is covered by the O-1, not the H-1B.
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by damnyou 7y ago
If your point is that only people with a Mossad threat model should use Signal, I wholeheartedly agree.
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by damnyou 7y ago
You could solve the packaging issue by putting a sticker on the package. Large manufacturers will be fine, there's no particular reason for society to care about their wellbeing so much.
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by damnyou 7y ago
No, we should aim for people to live their authentic lives. If people cannot live their truths then society has failed.
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by damnyou 7y ago
It is a feature, not a bug, because it provides value to customers. I separately think sites that only work with JS enabled are not great, but that's a problem with the system and not with individual actors.
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by damnyou 7y ago
I mean, clearly this site has value to the OP so it is obviously not trash. What value a service provides is what matters in the end. Implementation details are secondary.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Work-life balance? People should not be slaves to their work. One advantage of both cars and proper mass transit systems is that you don't have to move if your work does, or if you switch jobs, or if a partner moves in...
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by damnyou 7y ago
It's about when you get a new phone. You can't move your Signal conversations to the new phone.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Basic human rights. Borders are an expression of state violence. They demonize ordinary people that move to another place . No human is illegal.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Yes, there's the important axis of legibility to consider. But laws are often just a legible way to commit violence against marginalized groups — legible harm vs illegible harm needs to be looked at on the merits.
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by damnyou 7y ago
I've heard very different things, sorry. Folks getting harassed and their marriages questioned for not fitting into white, monogamous, cisheteronormative definitions.
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by damnyou 7y ago
If they are legally married then how is it fraud? The entire idea of marriage fraud is bogus — it's just another invention used to justify state violence against a disfavored group. Marriages exist in all shapes and forms, many more th
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by damnyou 7y ago
Another frame: your acquaintances were frustrated at how hard it is to immigrate and figured out a workaround. I strongly believe in freedom of movement so any legal or extra-legal means to do so are all right in my book. Rules are meant to
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by damnyou 7y ago
Sounds like a good reason to soak all the rich, not just the foreign rich.
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by damnyou 7y ago
My "sexual behavior" is pretty "unrestrained" (in the sense that I don't believe in exclusivity) and yet I have deep and fulfilling relationships with people I love. Society can be better.

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