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by damnyou 6y ago
I'm really bothered by the whole notion of games as less important and "[more] optional". Playing games is a fundamental part of being human, and it is certainly more important than capitalism.
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by damnyou 6y ago
I would fully support Apple charging, say, $50 extra to lock down its devices to the current standard. That would be a much better world and the users who desire the "premium experience" still get to have it.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Apps that the totalitarian government ruling over you without your consent have decided should be banned. The problem is that it creates a single point at which a state can impose restrictions on freedom, with no way to get around it for di
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by damnyou 6y ago
Whether something is a "monopoly" or not is immaterial to US antitrust law. What is relevant is concentration of market power and the facts of how it's being wielded.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Sideloaded Android software is treated as second class. For example, F-Droid cannot update apps in the background.
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by damnyou 6y ago
If the other phone is associated with a Signal account at all (regardless of operating system), it will use the Signal transport, otherwise SMS. The Signal UI makes it clear when you're sending unencrypted text messages.
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by damnyou 6y ago
As the other commenter points out, Apple's hands are just as dirty as Google's in this matter. iMessage is only end-to-end encrypted if you turn off cloud backups, and most people have them on so in practice it's not so. And
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by damnyou 6y ago
This is correct. Congress can severely curtail the power of the Supreme Court if it wishes.
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by damnyou 6y ago
The next version of iOS finally lets you select your favorite browser skin over WebKit. Progress!
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by damnyou 6y ago
I'm guessing they're an iOS user, where the built-in messaging app iMessage is treated as more special than other messaging apps.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Well, a direct consequence of the ownership structure is that Mozilla hires FAANG-caliber engineers while paying them approximately 60% of what FAANG would (since there's no RSUs).
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by damnyou 6y ago
Not a law of physics, no, but obviously empirical evidence suggests that the US has the greatest scientific output in the world. Other countries can build up their institutions too, but the US is desperate for research and engineering talen
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by damnyou 6y ago
Impossible and absurd, politically perhaps? Everything I know about him leads me to believe he truly, sincerely believes in the thesis of the book.
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by damnyou 6y ago
If your priors are oriented toward anti-natalism, this is the logical argument to make. Mine are not. I think anti-natalism is a failure state . I haven't heard any compelling arguments about why we shouldn't try our very best to
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by damnyou 6y ago
A simpler explanation: the guy sincerely believes there should be more Americans and is also decent at self-promotion (which is how he got where he is).
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by damnyou 6y ago
I would care more about how Apple feels about this after it releases an Android app on its own. Being available to more people is more valuable than being secure.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Right, I understand that's Apple's point of view. I just believe all of this nonsense should be totally illegal.
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by damnyou 6y ago
If I am an individual developer and only intend to release free apps, I should be entitled to full customer protections, period. Apple has no excuse here.
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by damnyou 6y ago
It is not a monopoly, sure, but it is an abuse of market power. Apple and Google form an oligopoly and both firms abuse their market power as part of it. A firm being a "monopoly" is not a requirement under US antitrust law. A
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by damnyou 6y ago
Would that also be true if you are an independent developer? Why should individual developers releasing apps not get full customer protections? Treating all developers as businesses is part of the problem here I think. There should be more
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by damnyou 6y ago
Why should that not be more of an expectation? Sony has started putting out formerly PlayStation-exclusive first-party games on PC. Even Bloodborne may show up on Steam soon if rumors are to be believed. It would be a good thing if Half-Lif
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by damnyou 6y ago
Please watch or rewatch The Godfather. It is a very good movie.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Most Valve games in the last decade (Portal, DOTA 2) they bought the IP outright for. In general I think that "they have special rules for their own stuff" weakens the argument.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Epic exclusivity deals are typically for one year. Steam exclusivity for games like Portal 2 is forever. Of course, Portal 2 was a sequel to a game created by a studio that Valve simply bought outright.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Now consider that Valve games like Half Life: Alyx are platform exclusive to Steam -- presumably because Valve gets ~100% of the money spent on Valve games on Steam. Is that "less open for the consumer " as well?
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by damnyou 6y ago
Buying a new console costs hundreds of dollars, while creating an Epic Store account costs nothing. It's really not the same situation.
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by damnyou 6y ago
That's not what a deal that someone "can't refuse" means -- that's just a deal, a mutually beneficial exchange, one of the foundations of society. "Can't refuse" generally means a threat of out-of-ban
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by damnyou 6y ago
I think the "fully automated gay space luxury communism" depicted in the Culture series is the best future we can hope for. I wouldn't mind welcoming new robot overlords if it makes that possible.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Yes, any large no-censorship platform for humans will be swamped by Nazis. You could avoid being large — small, high-trust groups work perfectly fine without censorship. You could add more moderation (aka censorship), both platform-wide and
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by damnyou 6y ago
It is an open secret that Apple cannot build secure software, that its sandboxing is subpar and that the app store compensates for its failings — kind of how a totalitarian state with weak internal structures compensates for it through infl

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