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by greiskul 2y ago
> If you get turned down for a job, or your health insurance rates go up, or you have to pay more for something than you would have otherwise It must suck to live in a capitalist dystopia. Dunno why Americans put up with it.
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by greiskul 2y ago
> The less labour rights a country has, the more competitive a country's businesses are. If you can keep your workers in quasi-indentured servitude, you're going to be more profitable than a business that can't. Counter po
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by greiskul 2y ago
Are we just going to ignore all the people that were camping in front of military barracks? The manifesto that was going around in the Army, in support of a coup to prevent Lula from taking power? How the US government, thanks to Biden, pre
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by greiskul 2y ago
And like the famous hacker news comment goes, Dropbox is trivial by just using FTP, curlftpfs and SVN. Docker might have many faults, but for anybody that dealt with the problems that it aimed to solve do know in that it was revolutionary i
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by greiskul 2y ago
People can literally just go to a car rental service right now and do that as well. Or use a car service app. Or rob someone elses car. Most people in society don't really have a desire to run amok.
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by greiskul 2y ago
That's just being a cynic for cynicism sake. They are already owned by a billionaire company, so there is no ipo. And they still have at least a couple of decades where the game they need to play is get riders and legislators to trust
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by greiskul 2y ago
But I don't think there is anything special on there being oxygen in the cloud of gas that formed the solar system. The distribution of elements following a supernova probably follows some law, and oxygen is low enough on the periodic
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by greiskul 3y ago
I don't have an iPhone, Spotify was just an example, where Apple is in direct competition with another app and abuse their position as the phone manufacturer to charge fees from their competitors that they don't charge from themse
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by greiskul 3y ago
The method of monipolization is to increase lock in, by Apple's own internal emails. There are emails of them literally saying that to themselves. Why do people conjure hypotheticals on why Apple is just "acting for their users in
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by greiskul 3y ago
> Apple has enough market pull that if they do something user-hostile for money and walk away unpunished legally, others in the market tend to copy them. See the headphone jack issue and how Samsung and Google have dropped it. Great poin
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by greiskul 3y ago
So you have not read anything about kids being bullied in schools for having green bubbles? And you don't think your Spotify subscription is more expensive than needed since Spotify has to give Apple 30% of their revenue (and Apple Mus
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by greiskul 3y ago
What's wrong with WhatsApp end to end encryption?
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by greiskul 3y ago
Cause it would be better for Apple's customers. This one doesn't even have the "my parents security" defense like installing non app store apples does. Do you honestly think any costumer WANTS iPhone to be shitty at send
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by greiskul 3y ago
Waze was bought 10 years ago, and I think that one went well. They didn't try to integrate it to the whole Google Account thing, but they definitely share data between it and Maps (so Waze users get better maps, and Google Maps gets be
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by greiskul 3y ago
Doesn't matter. Why does the developer of the operating system get to take anything from a sale between an app developer and the owner of the actual cellphone? It is not Apples phone anymore after they sell it to a customer. Imagine if
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by greiskul 3y ago
One huge mistake that Google did when they were integrating youtube with Google+, was the idea of sharing people's youtube comments with their G+ friends. Youtube comments have always been public, but there was huge customer pushback,
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by greiskul 3y ago
For me the tedious part of trains is that you pretty much have to use blueprints, and preferably a blueprint book of intersections. And creating your own intersections is very easy to make mistakes. I love how flexible the system is, but I
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by greiskul 3y ago
I'm not so sure. If it is not copyrightable, and it is a patent, and not a trademark, which legal protection would it have? It could definitely be considered a trade secret, and the theft of it and misapproation of it would be a crime,
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by greiskul 3y ago
Not only basic calculations, over use of calculators is great at making students that are able to get the correct numbers, but don't develop the deeper intutions about numbers that are required to be able to do more abstract thinking w
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yup. If your father dies, and leaves you a Rolex, but does make a way to give you access to the keys to the nft, would the Rolex stop being authentic? When we are talking about digital proof of ownership of physical goods, any solution that
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by greiskul 3y ago
There is regression toward the mean, so if Florida had an unusually good year, we would expect that next year to be worse then this year.
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by greiskul 3y ago
This is for unit testing. Even if your unit tests run in parallel, each test case will have it's own mocked clock. This is not even an experimental approach, the mocking of timers is literally one of the canonic examples of the advanta
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by greiskul 3y ago
See, the thing is that you are not thinking of each companies incentives. Google makes money out of the web. Apple and Microsoft make money from people using their operating system. They don't want web standards to be more powerful and
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by greiskul 3y ago
Safari has all of the iOS users locked to it in a level that not even a campaign to get users to switch browsers would liberate them, cause you are literally not allowed to make a competing browser in iOS.
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by greiskul 3y ago
How is Chrome the new IE? Safari is the new IE. If you disagree, please make a better browser for iOS. Oh wait you literally are not allowed to.
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by greiskul 3y ago
The rule is not precisely that, it is only if the mandatory actions of the loop offer you the choice, that you must eventually choose one that stops the loop. Classic infinite loop example is 3 oblivion rings exiling each other. If there is
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by greiskul 3y ago
One nitpick, even if you have have an action that stops the loop, you are not necessarily required to take it, and can choose the draw instead. 719.5. No player can be forced to perform an action that would end a loop other than actions cal
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by greiskul 3y ago
So you are complaining about the design of their ad banner. It really is NOT the same thing as allowing people to bypass spam. They don't accumulate in your inbox like unfilted spam does. They are not serviced if you use other systems
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by greiskul 3y ago
We really need to have much stronger anti trust legislation and enforcement. It is absolutely ridiculous to allow companies to behave this way. And before someone says that "free market is always good and government is bad", the o
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by greiskul 3y ago
Well, yeah, a language feature to improve program correctness won't work if you use it wrong. But in both examples, just from the interfaces, this should be caught in code review without even having to read the libraries being called.

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