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by dwild 6y ago
Edit: Seems like they don't actually surcharge on Apple device. You can ignore this comment, I'll keep it for posterity. I believe it's because they surcharge on Apple platform because of that fee, thus they want to show why
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Your comment kind of make me sad... this is such a big issue of perspective. It's something that I often see coming from the US, but any first world country often has that issue, we forget that there's more than us in the world. &
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> The US is much larger than France of course, but whatever the reason, it's incredible and really upsetting that they can pollute the earth like this, and for the rest of eternity, just to solve a temporary domestic problem. Tempor
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> I would argue that Apple is at least in some ways structured so that its own self-interest regarding privacy results in positive privacy conscious outcomes for everyone. Is it though? I thought they still had an ad network so I searche
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by dwild 6y ago
> the way android apps just demand permisions for everything making the security benefit of permissions largely pointless. That hasn't been the case for a pretty long time. Now the permissions are quite granular and you can accept a
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by dwild 6y ago
> There's far better ways to do it if you can use online - I submit my card number to them, they pass the card number, their account number, and the amount to my provider, I authorise they payment with my provider. Visa does support
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by dwild 6y ago
Make it look like one of theses 100 TB SSD too, it should take 48 hours to backup one alone as it use SATA 3.
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by dwild 6y ago
> After finally decrypting the first one, I believe it was just static noise :) That sound fishy, was there any metadata to confirm it has been decrypted? That's the thing with encryption, it's just math, it won't "fa
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by dwild 6y ago
He didn't, he is saying that the previous comment anecdotal evidence could be easily explained by the amount of interest into the project by many people, which can't all get access to it, but then show how this same explanation sh
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by dwild 6y ago
You had a bad flu, once and that make you think flu is as bad as covid-19? This isn't just one bad case, it's millions of bad cases. There's no flu that killed that many people in that short of time, ever. From a quick resear
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> Yeah or Epic could not be pricks and just put the game on the stores like every other app developer So contesting an absurd fee is being pricks now? Wow... Like every other app developer? Many can't accept payment in the app as th
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by dwild 6y ago
And how does having multiple app store would stop anything that you want? It wouldn't stop the Apple app store from existing with theses restrictions, they would still be there. You would still have access to the apps that Apple consid
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> I don't ever want to be in the position that PC users are stuck in, where they can be forced to install certain stores just to get access to the games they want to play. You realize that the alternative... is no game, right? That&
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by dwild 6y ago
Apple are the one that made sure that people had to do business with them for anything relating to their platform. After getting my Windows license, I can works on stuff compatible with Windows without ever interacting with them, hell I cou
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by dwild 6y ago
> That's definitely not true. You cannot run unsigned code on most video game consoles. And I'm pretty sure many people would be quite against this practice and believe this is an harmful monopolistic practice. The thing is tho
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by dwild 6y ago
Blackblaze is at $0.005/GB/Month (so 10$ for 2TB) and they still make a profit out of it. I have no doubt Dropbox can make a profit out of users barely filling their 2TB limit then.
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by dwild 6y ago
> Do you know how much Google, Microsoft, Steam and Epic themselves take from sales on their stores? Nice job of misinformation right there! Apple should send you a check for that one! Let me quote you the article we are commenting on: &
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by dwild 6y ago
> This is a battle for the courts, not Twitter. The legal channel isn't the only one though. Sure it would be amazing if the court would do something, but let bet honest here, like you said, it's just a billion dollar company v
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by dwild 6y ago
> Nobody forces you to (checks notes) create celebrity net worth databases. So? What does it have to do with having rights over it? You can say that with literally anything. You go on afterward arguing about inaccurate information, which
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by dwild 6y ago
A computer is more than a tool, it's multiple tools. No one argue about using an older typewriter, if it still does the job, but if you were to require 1000 copies, well that typewriter will seems a bit outdated and you may need a tool
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by dwild 6y ago
There's actually resellers that are made for rural areas with unlimited data. They are quite expensive, but not several hundreds of dollars expensive. I'm pretty sure I have seen some less expansive but here's one: https:&#x
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by dwild 6y ago
In the shopping center close to where my parent lived there was a single store between the two. I remember it wasn't rare to see BestBuy labels in Futureshop too. They only closed the Futureshop once they merged them.
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by dwild 6y ago
Recently I was able to finish a working prototype for a tiny side project and I skipped a few things that I would have considered "the right way", like even a good code structure, it went well and you know what, at the end, my cod
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by dwild 6y ago
> A month ago I spent week trying to get Cognito working with a Serverless API Do you actually need Cognito and a Serverless API? It's a drag because you put yourself requirement that make no sense with your project. The goal of the
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by dwild 6y ago
The craziest is how obvious we can be about it. It just happened and yet the whole conversation right now is not about how to verify it, but just to trust that new one as fact too. It's nice that we acknowledge that we were wrong... bu
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> It's not even clear to me that it's one or the other. For me personally it was always a mixture of both -- there's a lot of fun but I wouldn't do it without the money. So you believe "most people" do it fo
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> There's thousands of people that have the ability to drain your bank account right now. Let them do it... the bank will always be responsible and it will always be solved without much issue. Twitter accounts though... good luck ta
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by dwild 6y ago
> If I search for Pixel 3 case on Amazon, it will also return Pixel 3 XL cases. In reverse, someone looking for a Pixel 3 XL cases but only wrote Pixel 3 cases, would have been much more pissed than you were if it was has specific has yo
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by dwild 6y ago
I have an hard time understanding your point, are you saying that the ones that build music out of someone else music, couldn't have done something similar without building out someone else works? They couldn't either if they had
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by dwild 6y ago
I did a quick CTRL+F and found no mentions of Oracle. There's no way they wouldn't be interested in ARM. I sure hope someone else buy it though, Nvidia could be nice.

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