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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
It’s pretty clear that it’s both. Claiming otherwise is a bit disingenuous. An app store with no human or automatic validation and not $100 would have a magnitude or two more malware.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> any metal they can sell as scrap We’re talking about tiny pieces of copper, though. Would it really have been that expensive to be worth the trouble (unless you had a bag of them) > but I think it was either very important to some r
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Isn’t long distance “pilgrimage” more of a Christian thing and it didn’t really become that widespread until the 300s or 400s?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The roads were mainly for the army though. And water travel was almost always preferable when traveling long distances (the cost of shipping for goods was a magnitude or more lower).
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> How else would you end up with Latin dialects spoken over a range from Portugal to the Black Sea? Same way we ended with almost everyone in Ireland speaking English as their main language? violent conquest, followed by a brutal subjuga
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> there was very little serfdom Serfdom (or a comparable system) and other strong legal limitations on social mobility were certainly a thing in the 300s. > so plenty of people moved from place to place, likely dozens or hundreds of t
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> you'd expect it evenly distributed throughout the empire Why? Large premodern states were almost never strongly culturally homogeneous. Especially below the upper class/elite level.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
We have very few accounts or records surviving in general (and basically none at all from certain periods). There are a few books about agriculture, architecture, medicine etc. surviving but thats it. Basically all non political/milita
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> culture around it was actually very standardized across the empire at this time. We really have no data at all to back such a claim. We barely even know anything about how metalworkers and other skilled craftsmen organized themselves b
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Have we found any other shows pieces for other household items? Because if not, it’s very unlikely that’s the case
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Each country has different regulation IIRC they are fairly consistent across the EU (simplifying cross border commerce is one of main reasons it exists)
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> If a new VCS can solve the 99% case and never need users to fall back to understanding nitty gritty details Mercurial was a bit like that? Yet it didn’t stand a chance against git regardless
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Apple might be doing some things which are beneficial for the society as a whole and would increase the level of competition in the industry, like trying to invalidate this specific patent, while also engaging in very abusive practices them
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Apple needs serious competition Masimo has zero interest in increasing the degree of competition in the industry. Also the patent in question itself seems dubious, and it’s rather silly that it’s even valid
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Apple brain-fucked Masimo to spill their beans on how their tech works That hardly makes sense since Masimo had to disclose that themselves when filling the patent for their “tech”
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
It would be a fantastic outcome if they managed to get the patent invalidated because it seems rather silly (not that Apple, just like other larger corporations, doesn’t have a tendency to patent perfectly “obvious” “innovations” either)
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I would really love to see Apple providing explicit instructions on how to jailbreak their own devices
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> implementing a very accurate technique developed by Masimo. I’m not sure it’s very technologically complex though. Seems like the patent just covers the positioning of a few sensors. It’s about as silly as allowing “multitouch” to be p
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Patent trolls have also won cases from time to time. Also AFAIK Masimo didn’t just want to be paid they wanted to have some direct on the development of Apple Watch. Also… the patents themselves seem like a joke and shouldn’t be valid.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
If you look up the patents it’s hardly worth calling it “tech”. Patenting the positioning of the sensors without any other meaningful innovation shouldn’t be a thing. That company is not that much better than a patent troll and AFAIK they d
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
That’s global which is hardly relevant because for most people outside of highly developed countries MacBooks are prohibitively expensive so aren’t even an option. Apple seems to be at 28% in the US (a few percent below HP and above Dell).
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> The first iPhone was a marvel to pretty much everyone IIRC its sales figures weren’t that great though. Of course from Apple’s perspective it was more of a prototype than the actual final product. > Just being able to use a lot of t
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> that's blocking you from installing any apps or updates Technically that’s the app developers who do that.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Why do you get to run a business off it for free? So Microsoft did all of this on Windows (or Apple itself for that matter for macOS) due to entirely altruistic reasons? Also platforms need developers a whole lot more than developers n
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
However it’s so inconsistent and arbitrary that it hardly ever mattered.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Well all the same things would apply to any independent ebook store, it would just hurt them massively more than it does Amazon..
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The A770 seems like a solid midrange card, about on par with 4060 Ti and 6700 XT. Even not that far from 4070 in some newer games Intel’s drivers are better optimized for. You also get 16 GB of memory. Of course considering it’s Intel the p
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
You can say the same about individual US states more or less. Rolling out every innovation nation wide is not necessarily the optimal goal.. Of course comparing the entire US with tiny individual European countries is always silly.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> SWIFT/IBAN You might be thinking about SEPA. SWIFT is slow, expensive and also available in the US. One reason is that credit card fees are much higher than in Europe (up to 3% or so) due to lack of regulation (of course a signifi
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Aren’t the midrange GPUs considered to be pretty decent price/performance wise? IIRC they significantly improved their drivers over the last few years

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