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by etchalon 3y ago
That is not "what happens". It is what happened with the Nazis, because the Nazis were never socialists. Its central point was always fascist in nature. This isn't even a thing that can be honestly debated. It's just an
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by etchalon 3y ago
A more enjoyable exercise is to read the full 25 point plan, leaving in the obvious antisemitism and fascistic rhetoric, because while the party gave voice to some socialist ideals early in its life, many if not most of those were abandoned
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by etchalon 3y ago
There's no merit to the suit. MediaMatters reporting was accurate. The claim that "it was accurate, but lacked context", would open a flood gate of anti-journalistic suits. They've filed it in the "conservative case
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by etchalon 3y ago
It's nice to see Musk donating so much attention to Media Matters, which will fundraise off this and probably earn quite a few new supporters.
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by etchalon 3y ago
As best I can tell, advertisers started pausing ads after Musk commented on an anti-semitic tweet, agreeing with it. The MediaMatters article seemed to follow after.
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by etchalon 3y ago
It could be read either way, I suppose. But the user which posted it, Karl Radl, is very much on the "Hitler was right" train of thought.
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by etchalon 3y ago
The entire mechanism by which Twitter/X is able to convince advertisers to advertise on their site is by promising their ads will not appear next to vile content. Because otherwise, you're right, no major brand would risk it.
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by etchalon 3y ago
It is not. It's actually cheaper to send money using Venmo/Cash/Paypal.
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by etchalon 3y ago
I do not understand this lawsuit. > The plaintiffs in the new lawsuit alleged Apple, Venmo and Cash App "have repeatedly raised prices for transactions and services with no competitive check." They are arguing there is no compe
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by etchalon 3y ago
Yep. User's like having a single, trusted source for app discovery, installation, etc. The Mac App Store has failed because Apple didn't make it good enough for developers to make it useful enough to users.
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by etchalon 3y ago
The argument Apple has a monopoly on "iPhone apps" was already considered in Epic v. Apple and the judge rejected it.
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by etchalon 3y ago
They can argue that, but it's not a good argument.
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Apple doesn't believe the App Store is the driving factor for users installing applications. They believe the App Store is one part of the total value of the iOS platform, and one which they chose to monetize. And while the Mac App Sto
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by etchalon 3y ago
Well, the word "mono" generally means, "one". Apple/Google are a duopoly, and at least in the US, being a duopoly is legally fine so long as you don't collude on pricing.
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by etchalon 3y ago
I think the system should delineate between messages sent through different services. Maybe we'll end up with three colors (green == sms/mms, blue = iMessage, purple == rcs)
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by etchalon 3y ago
You can buy a new iPhone SE for $400 bucks.
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by etchalon 3y ago
I fail to see how it's all that different from places where you have to use WhatsApp or WeChat or Telegram to "be cool". At least iMessage is somewhat compatible with Android. You can't message someone in WhatsApp from T
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by etchalon 3y ago
"What if we let the kids customize their phone?" and "Convince people Apple is lame" aren't solutions to the problem, and the fact the article pretends they are makes it difficult to take the author seriously. This
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by etchalon 3y ago
We've tried to stop them from doing drugs through years of state action and penalties. It hasn't worked. Turns out, drugs are both fun AND addictive and it's hard to combat that with threats of jail time.
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by etchalon 3y ago
My Volvo XC90 gets regular OTA updates without issue, and so did my Land Rover Discovery before it.
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by etchalon 3y ago
It's a good thing Google accounts are hard to generate in bulk and Android simulators don't exist.
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It’s hard to take a reply serious from a person who doesn’t understand analogies.
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by etchalon 3y ago
A more accurate headline would be "Advertisers don't care if sites like Jezebel exist". But the statement from WGA sums in fairly well: > “A well-run company would have moved away from an advertising model, but instead the
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by etchalon 3y ago
Transferring goods from those "with lower willingness to pay to those with higher willingness to pay" does not increase economic efficiency, it changes the allocative efficiency. But at scale, in many situations, scalping merely b
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by etchalon 3y ago
Correct.
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by etchalon 3y ago
They ruined it when they moved it to Java. I get why (no one wanted to learn Objective-C before the iPhone), but it decimated so much of what was great.
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by etchalon 3y ago
We're talking about the website in this thread, and the website still uses Akamai. An nslookup on their domain will show you as much.
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They still use a third party CDN.
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by etchalon 3y ago
WebObjects was so vastly ahead of everything else in the space at the time, it's ridiculous and hard to overstate. It did the MVC-ORM-Persistance-Templates so early, and so well.
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by etchalon 3y ago
I wonder what amount of a service like Tumblr's server expenses are strictly related to storing and serving historical content, and what value it really brings to the business. What would a service like Tumblr look like if things just

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