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by drb91 8y ago
I wasn't arguing against them being innovative, I was pointing out that they are definitely also a landlord. > Also, good luck finding a phone that doesn’t do that. Not a good defense of amoral behavior.
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by drb91 8y ago
No argument here :)
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by drb91 8y ago
Putting conditions on the use of the hardware is distinctly harmful to consumers in a way that otherwise good design cannot ameliorate.
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by drb91 8y ago
> How come no one has built it yet? People are greedy and have no values.
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by drb91 8y ago
I think the conversation was derailed plenty by offering congratulations to people for successfully making money.
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by drb91 8y ago
It’s still worth noting that apple does not meet every need if people are making carte blanche value statements.
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by drb91 8y ago
...for some people, for some ends.
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by drb91 8y ago
This is true. Google has explicitly never put the user first. We should be grateful to give them our information in the first place in the way they deem is best.
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by drb91 8y ago
Depending on humans to do “the right thing” when it goes against our instincts is not a good way to approach these problems. You need to offer ways for humans to satiate their needs AND do the right thing.
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by drb91 8y ago
Only by reducing “master” to nearly meaningless as a distinct term. I’m not sure what the conversation gains from that. Anyway, there was never a claim to a masterless society, only a free individual.
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by drb91 8y ago
I mean the keyboard isn’t amazing: the key travel is still tiny. But, it doesn’t have that top row replaced with a touch screen, which I would never look at (let alone touch) anyway. EDIT: ahh, you were wondering about the size. I have smal
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by drb91 8y ago
Seriously. I just bought one for travel and loaded it with ram and I couldn’t be happier.
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by drb91 8y ago
“internet free speech“ What is this? Personally, I find that lack of moderation sucks for everyone. If you want to join Gab and say whatever you want you are more than welcome.
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by drb91 8y ago
War tends to increase violence. The anxieties that are reflected in elections recently as well as the people taking advantage of them to rise to power will make it easier to start one.
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by drb91 8y ago
> If their own developers jump out in rage then they'll fix it before release. That strikes me as very optimistic: the business needs come first.
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by drb91 8y ago
Adding people to an economy grows the economy.
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by drb91 8y ago
> As was the airport (gate areas were overcrowded throughout the terminal) It's also a popular layover destination, right?
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by drb91 8y ago
The biggest pain for me of lack of access to the underlying OS has turned out not to be any of my thousands of tiny gripes with the way the software works that I can't change (e.g. setting dns on the cell connection), but the lack of t
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by drb91 8y ago
IMHO the idea of a goal is an attractive illusion.
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by drb91 8y ago
> I find this to be an odd aspect of certain political movements at the moment - unwilling to accept that the Universe _is_ actually a big competition, and either some people lose, or we all lose. Life is competitive, yes, but it is not
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by drb91 8y ago
The earth definitely has a carrying capacity. Our ability to push our food production further doesn’t change this fact. I’ve seen around 10 billion people floated as a food production limit in several places. Crossing this with climate chan
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by drb91 8y ago
Dark. I can see the immediate consequences would be atrocious. How would nuclear fallout affect wider gene pools and extinction rates? I’ve always envisioned the “apocalyptic” scenario to be a nuclear winter. Is that accurate?
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by drb91 8y ago
FWIW I agree, but the CEOs that do fit the mold of ruthless and amoral are extraordinarily well suited for large scale business.
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by drb91 8y ago
I think you are right. As the return on passive market investments go down you should expect to see more of this as the “return” for extralegal tactics will proportionally rise. That said, I think it’s fairly impossible to spot a successful
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by drb91 8y ago
I would want to know if my product did not address any demands, especially since they’re charging money. This is not a run-it-yourself Show HN link to a github repo, and honest critique is the whole reason to post here. Personally, I’m stru
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by drb91 8y ago
If they are owed any royalties, they will continue accruing until judgement. It wouldn’t make any sense to get an injunction.
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by drb91 8y ago
Large companies and those who run them can be both ruthless and amoral. I think it’s a mistake to think the average person’s intuition would apply here.
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by drb91 8y ago
Some of the first comments on Reddit were complaints about the site going downhill in almost exactly the same terms people use today: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/17913/reddit_no... Nosta
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by drb91 8y ago
Experiment here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smll.201701...
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by drb91 8y ago
DMCA Safe Harbor is the term you’re looking for.

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