damnyou

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by damnyou 7y ago
Many people use devices from several ecosystems.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Thankfully the misguided consumer welfare model of antitrust has slowly been changing with Lina Khan's work.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Facebook/Google care about offering services to everyone on the planet, not just the richest that have more disposable income than most people have in lifetime savings. Compared to Apple that cares about you only to make you pay ever-i
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by damnyou 7y ago
Google and Facebook IDs work on Android, Windows and Linux.
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by damnyou 7y ago
I know it's impossible. Since I don't have any Apple phones iMessage is useless for me. The vast majority of people in the world are similar to me. Apple's products are not a play for anything. Their services are built for pe
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by damnyou 7y ago
Will you also tell that to your Android or Windows using friends?
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by damnyou 7y ago
How can I access iMessage from my Linux laptop?
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by damnyou 7y ago
Of course, and your point is? Unless you're implying that all people are good for is reproducing.
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by damnyou 7y ago
*she There are good reasons to "force it on others". Workplaces and schools need to be free of harassment, such as using the wrong pronouns for trans people. Hormone levels count more for "biological sex" than chromosome
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by damnyou 7y ago
This is some of the most uninformed content on this site I've read today, and that's saying something. Have you ever talked to any trans people in your entire life? I'm sure some people alter their biological sex because of s
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by damnyou 7y ago
The article is correct that you still need oracles (of course you do), but wrong in saying that blockchains are therefore useless. A better article would be more intellectually curious! For example, it might talk about the sorts of oracles
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by damnyou 7y ago
> You mean a centralised entity that is able to verify all claims input on the blockchain, cross-reference these inputs, and then enforce the execution of the contract. ... > wat My belief that you're arguing in good faith is slo
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by damnyou 7y ago
Yes, you need a trusted path to go from physical reality to the token on the blockchain. But blockchains let you shrink that path down to a small number of operations that can be closely scrutinized. (This is how blockchains are similar t
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by damnyou 7y ago
Obviously a blockchain cannot magically make people do things they don't otherwise want to do. But what a blockchain can do is model parts as tokens that can only exist once on the chain, associate data like provenance documents with e
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by damnyou 7y ago
Distributed trust.
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by damnyou 7y ago
There are debates to be had at the borders, but FAANG are clearly on the wrong side of it.
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by damnyou 7y ago
> I don't understand why Mac users use Chrome. Because sensible people don't deliberately handcuff themselves to trillion dollar megacorps. How can I get my Safari bookmarks on my Android phone?
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by damnyou 7y ago
I seriously did not expect the terrible "macOS is a CERTIFIED(C) UNIX(R)(TM)" argument to be deployed in this manner.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Not just any arbitrary one, but certainly one that is big enough is a monopolist. This seems obviously true to me. The big insight from Lina Khan's work is that harm to consumer welfare is sufficient but not necessary for an entity to
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by damnyou 7y ago
A rock solid serialization and RPC system.
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by damnyou 7y ago
> There is also the option to just stand criticism like and adult, and do not care about what a strange says about you. No, harassment is not what decent people do.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Educate yourself: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma... Also educate yourself on the multifaceted nature of biological sex and gender identity.
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by damnyou 7y ago
You should never use protobuf types directly in your code. Always convert to native types at the edges — that will let you do validation.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Pissing off the people that place that high a value on brand integrity for trillion dollar corporations is a prosocial move.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Yes, every assignment of a non-Copy type is a move. (Copy types are basically primitive ones like ints, so not vectors etc.) The compiler prevents you from using the old variable at that point. Since Rust always enforces that a move is a me
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by damnyou 7y ago
If you mean intrusive data structures, Rust just doesn't support them. Everyone still manages to write software in Rust just fine. (There's some early support for immovable data with `Pin`, but that's only exposed via async&#
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by damnyou 7y ago
You may still want to worry about platform lock-in, if only for the option value of being able to leave when Apple inevitably makes a decision you disagree with.
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by damnyou 7y ago
That is just not true. Broader definitions are actually very useful when you're trying to describe general principles (like in law) — using a word that's too narrowly defined can limit the scope of what you're saying.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Clearly a trip that is taken has utility to the person taking the trip, so the "not at all" outcome is a bad one. People will use the best option they have out of the ones available to them. Transit is usually faster than Uber for
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by damnyou 7y ago
The incentive structures of society (capitalism, if you're so inclined, but I don't think this is unique to capitalism) are incompatible with your wishes.

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