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by factotvm 6y ago
Apple is, and has been for a very long time, both a hardware and software company. They sell this as an advantage. Since long before the iPhone was a thing. “More and more, software is getting integrated into the hardware… Yesterday’s softw
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by factotvm 6y ago
As a disclaimer, I’ve written Swift, but this seems to be a simple concept. The first name is the interface and is used at the call site, and the second (optional) name is used within the scope of the function, should the developer want a m
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by factotvm 6y ago
I don't see it on desktop, which means I don't get to see Mowgli and I'm pretty disappointed about that. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.2 S
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by factotvm 6y ago
Yes, I was talking more about the statement, “There's just no competition for price.” But as it was pointed out to me (several times over, lol) that it’s not always so simple when price matching.
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by factotvm 6y ago
Did you read in the article the part about Best Buy matching prices? That seems to undercut your assertion that price is a differentiator.
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by factotvm 6y ago
You’re missing my point. If the argument is: "We're in the middle of a global pandemic quite possibly caused by Chinese people consuming animals that shouldn't be consumed,” then I would like to be clear that swine should als
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by factotvm 6y ago
So long as that threshold is based on science and not, “they eat weird stuff,” I’m okay with that. If the threshold is: has caused pandemic , then swine is off the table, pun intended.
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by factotvm 6y ago
No it’s not. Nobody is saying that the 2009 swine flu pandemic was anything but that. It was a global pandemic. Don’t say seat belts don’t matter for us because the other car was a hatchback instead of a pickup. They were both still car a
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by factotvm 6y ago
How do you quantify the risk, and where is the line drawn?
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by factotvm 6y ago
That's a bit like the fallacy of relative privation: Because what the west does isn't as bad, they aren't culpable. Again, there was a global pandemic caused by pig farming just 11 short years ago, and everybody is still ea
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by factotvm 6y ago
I’m not sure being wild is a good indicator. I would think the opposite might be true wherein industrial farming and close quarters would cause more disease, just like how we talk about population density and covid-19. If you aren’t exposed
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by factotvm 6y ago
I’m curious to know if you think the animals the west consume which cause disease are satisfactory.
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by factotvm 6y ago
Headline: "Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott" Root Comment: "Sounds like Verizon's Facebook advertising spend is losing value because of COVID-19, so they're using this a way to redirec
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by factotvm 6y ago
Not sure why folks are downvoting me... perhaps giving the humorous out is rubbing folks the wrong way. I looked at the links and didn’t see mention of those values, and I don’t know if they are commonly known, so I’m going to ask again. Wh
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by factotvm 6y ago
Are those percentages based on data you got somewhere, or are they a part of the 84% of statistics that are made up on the spot?
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by factotvm 7y ago
How do you like the Purism Librem? I'm a long-time MacBook user but have been looking around (and holding onto my late-2013). I'm curious about the build quality of the Purism machines. I'm willing to spend quite a bit on my
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by factotvm 7y ago
Employee engagement sounds like talking to people, and that would drain me much faster than programming.
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by factotvm 7y ago
You imply people in the countryside own the means of producing food, but the consolidation of agriculture tells a different story.
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Supreme Court to hear if ADA extends to internet, apps(qz.com)
1 points by factotvm 7y ago|1 comments
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by factotvm 7y ago
I’m curious what your metric of success is?
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by factotvm 7y ago
And what is more convenient than an ad blocker?
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by factotvm 7y ago
Im not suggesting that it will work (to pay per article as we’re describing). But the idea that you should get something for free because you don’t like it isn’t how most things work. Caveat emptor. Conversely, people said it didn’t cost an
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by factotvm 7y ago
What you were suggesting in the parent comment was a pay-as-you-go system wherein you pay something like $0.10 per article.
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by factotvm 7y ago
I know of no restaurants that would charge you if you got food poisoning. But saying that when you ordered a colossal burger it went straight to your waistline isn't a good excuse not to pay. Don't go in if you don't want to
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by factotvm 7y ago
I don’t want to pay for all the meals I eat, a large number of them are terrible... So I don’t go back. But you have to pay for what you eat.
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by factotvm 7y ago
I am talking about at the platform level. My mom isn’t going to install DNS666. She wouldn’t trust it.
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by factotvm 7y ago
I believe Apple is trying to get in front of this, and hopefully that means Android isn’t far behind. https://www.consumerreports.org/software/apple-ios-13-will-i...
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by factotvm 7y ago
You’re missing the point. I directly quoted the original response because you misread it and said subpar. The person in question is not subpar. The person is also not so valuable that others need to emulate them as you just put forth. The p
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by factotvm 7y ago
> Slightly above average with a complex... I don't think this person would get fired anywhere I've worked. It's difficult and expensive to fire someone. You open yourself up to possible legal action even if you put them on
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by factotvm 7y ago
You’re in a thread about Apple keyboards. However, I am confident you could find a thread elsewhere that isn’t discussing TouchBars. This one perhaps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20531955

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