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by genericid 8y ago
- You oppose the direction Mac OS is heading but still like the current version, or - You like Mac OS after modifying it to counter its Iosification but don't want to support a company that makes you jump to those hoops, or - You actua
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by genericid 8y ago
There is also a difference between people who find it difficult to explain complex technical questions in a manner that is easy to understand and thos who probs dont care cuz thei r 2 lzay 2 write and its ur problem
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by genericid 8y ago
XY treatments should just go into the comments IMO. They are always relevant to the question (even if you know you want Y -- remember that SO is not just about giving you an answer but also about building a knowledge base), but they never e
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by genericid 8y ago
How would that even make a difference?
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by genericid 8y ago
"Das Keyboard" is grammaticaly correct, but useless when you need the letters i-z.
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by genericid 8y ago
Why would someone say something like "I love the lightning connector" if they aren't aware that they do? Please explain.
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by genericid 8y ago
It means you don't give Apple money.
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by genericid 8y ago
> You know that 90% of Electron apps do not have any native function calls That does not make sense. If they made no native function calls, they could not even display a window.
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by genericid 8y ago
> Maybe not consciously, but they absolutely do subconsciously. This is not how talking works.
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by genericid 8y ago
> love and appreciate Normal people don't talk like that about connector sockets.
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by genericid 8y ago
I'm not going to continue a discussion with someone that seems to guess instead of read what I write.
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by genericid 8y ago
Of course it is a question of legality. It is a question of whether a CEO -- who has no democratic legitimacy -- should be allowed to decide what can be (in a manner that other people will actually read) published. And as I said, that their
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by genericid 8y ago
That the CEOs' censorship does not work perfectly does not mean it does not exist. > Since being a Nazi is not a legally protected category they’re free to not help Nazis. What currently is legal is obviously irrelevant when the que
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by genericid 8y ago
Everyone would do that.
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by genericid 8y ago
No. Facebook, YouTube and the like are more like newspaper vendors.
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by genericid 8y ago
Nazis or not: CEOs, who are not legitimated by any democratic election, have no right to decide what other people publish.
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by genericid 8y ago
It won't fly to tell its customers that they can't have it because Apple considers itself too special to simply follow standards and the law.
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by genericid 8y ago
> Otherwise, democracy devolves into two me's and a Jeff Bezos voting on who pays for my stuff. Democracy does not "devolve" into that, that is what democracy is.
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by genericid 8y ago
6,999,999 to go.
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by genericid 8y ago
> Even Top 500 players suffer 80ms RTT to the server and they're still better than the other 30 million players. ...that also suffer 80ms RTT.
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by genericid 8y ago
But it's perfectly reasonable to expect the people tasked with evaluating voting systems to be experts on voting systems.
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by genericid 8y ago
Everyone already has ten proprietary lightning cables? That's news to me.
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by genericid 8y ago
Making it illegal still reduces it.
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by genericid 8y ago
The EU generally considers 40% a dominant market share so even if there were a 50/50 split, it wouldn't matter.
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by genericid 8y ago
Google allows basically everything on the Play Store. To not specifically restrict their competition would not be "bending over backwards" at all.
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by genericid 8y ago
> if you try Please refrain from baseless accusations. Thank you.
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by genericid 8y ago
Nonsense. Monospaced fonts do not give punctuation weight equal to words. Fonts that give punctuation weight equal to words do. See for example the Input font family: http://input.fontbureau.com/
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by genericid 8y ago
Taxi driver?
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by genericid 8y ago
Then you'd have to special-case maps that include the equator itself.
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by genericid 8y ago
> compared to what the government is able to see. That does not imply satellite maps.

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