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by filoleg 3y ago
> Cable was a much better setup No, thanks, the ability to pause/rewind/fast-forward, choice of sub/dub, and the ability to actually choose what to watch and when are something I am not willing to give up or negotiate on.
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by filoleg 3y ago
> If you're born in certain countries with long wait time, you get -inf points. Re-read the parent comment again. They say "point-based system [...] regardless of national origin", which implies that the origin country wou
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by filoleg 3y ago
> What an amazing asset, to not even have a country, just an economic zone where you get to compete with talent from all over the world. Is this what europeans think the US is like? No country, just an economic zone? Mind if I ask how &q
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by filoleg 3y ago
Yes and no. PS2 was compatible with PS1, but only the first batch of PS3 consoles was compatible with PS2 (as you said, they quite literally just built-in a PS2 chip inside a PS3). After that first initial batch, Sony stopped including the
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by filoleg 3y ago
Past the edit cutoff, so here is an important edit. In the 2nd paragraph, i missed a word and meant to say “[…] they went with a Cell chip, making gamedev experience for it notoriously and uniquely overcomplicated.”
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by filoleg 3y ago
That seems like a very uniquely Nintendo problem rather than a modern console problem. Yeah, PS3 was from the era of consoles where backwards compatibility wasn’t as heavily demanded (given that Steam was in its infancy too), so they went w
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by filoleg 3y ago
> quick search gave the same results for lawyers I mean, it might not be legally binding, but violating it will get you disbarred afaik. And if you are disbarred, you cannot legally practice law, so it is kinda legally binding, just not
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by filoleg 3y ago
Are you sure? Here is a direct quote: > Islam had been at war with the Jewish people since its defining inception in 627 when Mohammad exterminated the Jews of Mecca and launched the Islamic conquest that swept north and subsumed Syria-P
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Wow, you are openly advocating for speech to be allowed in cases where it is politically good and disallowed in cases where it is politically bad? Not the person you are replying to, but I think the logic is a bit different than “is it
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by filoleg 3y ago
At first i thought this was a pretty well done satire, but after reading over it multiple times, i am not sure. And it imo says more about the general state of discussion of crypto/nft, rather than about your comment specifically.
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by filoleg 3y ago
> It's just their lame way to appease rich people and business travelers. PreCheck costs $75 and is valid for 5 years.
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by filoleg 3y ago
> anyone who thinks replacing the indicator/turn signal stalk with capacitive buttons is sensible has clearly never driven in the UK—my 15 minute drive into the office crosses 11 roundabouts Is there a car that currently actually do
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by filoleg 3y ago
South Korea does it, and from what my friends who lived there (ranging from living there for a year to multiple years) told me, it is about as bad as you would expect. For one, you cannot even access a ton of services and websites unless yo
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Not unless EU blocks them. I would love to see EU try mass-blocking VPNs without managing to unintentionally block a bunch of AWS ranges and other accidental targets. I spin up an AWS EC2 instance, use it as a VPN, and then what is EU
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by filoleg 3y ago
On your point B: is it surprising to you that favorable views for a controversial public figure from the past known specifically for fighting against russian forces and for being extremely pro-Ukraine went significantly up in a year after R
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by filoleg 3y ago
I really appreciate the clarification. That distilled claim is the one I can honestly believe to be true, though I don’t have the actual numbers to back it up.
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by filoleg 3y ago
Anything can (and will) be used as an excuse or justification for things like genocide or sexual repression. Like, I am not trying to defend religion because it holds some special place in my heart, because it doesn’t, i am entirely non-rel
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by filoleg 3y ago
Absolurely agreed. If it wasn’t for religion, it would’ve been for something else. Religion was just a background theme/cause for it, but not the reason. A good analogy that comes to mind is what triggered WW1. Sure, we all know that i
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by filoleg 3y ago
It isn’t some cultural/moral US problem, and it doesn’t really have anything to do with puritanism. It is a universal “i was in the moment and paid for a sub to a porn website, but the day after I regretted that decision and decided to
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by filoleg 3y ago
I thought about it just now, and it made me think of a potential solution. Though it feels so simple and naive (I feel like it shouldn’t work), but I couldn’t find a reason for why it wouldn’t, so I am curious what people think about this.
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by filoleg 3y ago
It started as JustinTV, but it wasn’t for adult content or anything. JustinTV started just as a single channel website showing the 24/7 irl livestream of one of the founders, Justin Kan. Then they slowly opened it up for others to be a
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by filoleg 3y ago
Just to be clear, I wasn’t trying to criticize t-mobile. Been their customer for the past 8 or so years, and I wouldn’t have stayed if I had some serious reservations about them. I stand corrected though, you are right, i don’t think the co
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by filoleg 3y ago
> And all indications are that Apple probably makes more in mobile from Google than Google makes from Android Oh, absolutely. That’s pretty much the reason why devs often prioritize iOS releases over Android versions, due to them being a
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by filoleg 3y ago
Yeah, I suspect there is indeed something special about Kakao compared to LINE as well. Out of my friends who moved to Japan, pretty much not a single one of them uses LINE aside from rare one-offs. But with Kakao? Hell, everyone I know who
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Seems grossly unreasonable to assume "user has an Android phone" indicates "possible spammer". I think you got it in the reverse order. “User has an android phone” doesn’t indicate “possible spammer”. However, “spam
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by filoleg 3y ago
Yeah, I was familiar with LINE and Kakao, and I like how similar the setup is for SK and Japan. Thanks to your point, this way we can easily see that despite SK being android-dominant and Japan being iPhone-dominant, both are not heavily in
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by filoleg 3y ago
It doesn’t anymore, but it used to for pretty much all phone carriers in the US. And even now, on T-Mobile (as that’s the one I use, so the only one I can verify myself), if you have an account with multiple lines (e.g., a family plan), yo
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by filoleg 3y ago
This makes me wonder, what’s the iMessage situation in Japan? Their smartphone market is also majority iOS, sitting at above 60% (while it is only a little bit above 50% for the US)[0]. Despite that, I am yet to hear about their version of
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by filoleg 3y ago
The whole point is moot, even though I agree with your take. There were plenty of confirmation from other users in this thread having their out of the most recent iOS version iPhones (someone mentioned their iPhone 5 currently running iOS12
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by filoleg 3y ago
Wanna count all Android phones sold (including non-Google ones) from which Google makes a cut, instead of just Google Pixel? I feel like that would be a slightly more fair comparison, given that Google would be making money from Android pho

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