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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Out of all the major tech companies that you could “break up” doing that to Apple would probably make the least sense. Integration between devices/software is their entire selling point.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Regardless it will mean that Safari will lose a significant proportion its market share. There will be less incentive for developers to make sure their stuff works on anything but Chrome forcing safari devs to just play catch up all the tim
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> or else they wouldn't have explicitly said it was obvious to them (speaking as an engineer) I’m sorry but you might consider patenting your mind reading device. It seems pretty easy to imagine engineers spending week/months&#
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
I never said that’s the reason why they do that. It’s possibly one of the reasons why they can, though. Also I was almost exclusively talking about a specific group in Israel: 50% or so of ultra-Orthodox men in Israel do not work (instead t
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> most ludicrous wall street craziness I've ever heard I have heard many more ludicrous things. Japan is already heavily indebted and as relative per capita productivity will decrease significantly while while taxes increase there w
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Yeah, it’s interesting that many US companies are still only willing to hire people in the US for remote positions when they could probably get more for less if they extended it for Europe. > account for unexpected healthcare costs whic
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> WSJ is US media Yeah but I don’t see how could I disagree with this article too much. > whose bias in owned outlets is also renowned I’m not sure. High degree of bias seems to be the standard (with a few exceptions) regardless of o
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> Wages aren't really something you can compare directly You can still account for all of those thing. As far as schools are concerned it’s highly variable in the US. There are certainly some very good public schools just living exp
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
It was the Social Democrats and the Greens back in 1998 who decided to stop all nuclear development and close all the existing plants over the next 10-20 years. Nuclear was already long doomed by the time Fukushima happened
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Not sure US media is somehow significantly worse at this (assuming we’re talking about at least somewhat semi legitimate news outlets)
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Also maybe because Europe has deep economic issues and growth has been slow or non-existent pretty everywhere outside of Eastern Europe over the last 10 years or so. Back in the 1990s and early 2000s productivity wise Western Europe and th
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Not so much in the US or in Finland (which effectively didn’t take part in WW1 at all)
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
This seems to be a big issue. e.g. it seems Israel has permanently shifted to the right because of the excessive growth of the (societally/economically) useless ultra-orthodox population. While other people have to spend their lives wo
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Expecting to bring up your children in better (or at least same) conditions as you experienced as a child seems reasonable.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
They didn’t burn that many witches back in those days, it was more of a renaissance* and reformation thing. *Romans really liked executing/punishing people for witchcraft too compared with medieval Christians
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> bore no resemblance to the English system. Except the Bill of Rights being based on it’s English equivalent and multiple other documents and customs in the English constitution.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
People might tolerate some inconvenience if there are rational reasons for it to exist. Sitting on a road is a publicity stunt. If it doesn’t have the imagined effect isn’t wouldn’t it be counterproductive?
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
I think the context should be pretty obvious to most people in the engineering field. > why not just provide the context? Because lawyers might find ways to dismiss/challenge it?
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
The pool of professional officers was very small and completely insufficient for the needs of the expanded military. Being a semi-competent officer with some experience basically guaranteed that you’d be fast tracked to a senior command. e.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> I've never seen any law specifically targeting straws Well.. come to Europe. But to be fair yeah, I think they banned most non biodegradable single use utensils. Straws just turned out harder to replace compared to plates and for
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
You definitely have a point and more or less agree. However this is one of the many reasons why there are housing shortages in many areas.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Why would they buy it in the first place then? The entire point of this is to decrease the oversupply of wine. If anything this would make it worse assuming some proportion of the wine they bought would’ve been exported. > the people hav
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
A lot of other countries are doing something similar with diary or other food products. You don’t want to lose the capacity to produce vital products like wine or cheese in case some unexpected event happens. What if 30% of all wineries cl
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Those people then will buy less wine negating the entire point of this whole thing.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
That would being down the market price which is exactly what they’re trying to avoid. Maybe they could send/smuggle it to others countries (e.g. Scandinavia) and sell it at 50% of what they paid though.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
The proselytizing angle in many of these offtopic comments take doesn’t help. I feel similarly when I see RISC-V mentioned (at least 4 times out of 5) for instance.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Was anyone attacking not drinking in this thread? > Every person not drinking is a benefit to society. I think your personal experience is perfectly valid but that quite a jump. I would say moderate drinking is a net benefit to some soci
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
You have to say/do something extremely egregious for your parents to be affected in the same way.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
I’d say their price gouging for RAM/Storage is even more egregious since lightning was way better than micro-USB back in the day. But yeah (then again you seem to be blaming Apple both for adopting USB-C and not adopting it at the same
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Some linguists argued that English is essentially a creole language which would explain this. > isolated I would say the opposite. Frisian etc. were much more isolated and therefore developed more conservatively. > a dialect continuum

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