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by gress 12y ago
Nope. You made a statement you knew to be unsupported. Their lack of documentation doesn't change that at all. If you tried the app you would know that you are actually wrong.
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by gress 12y ago
Why would you feel the need to lie and say 'I need to check with my family', rather than just tell the truth with something like 'I need time to consider whether that suits me."?
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by gress 12y ago
The scam aspect has nothing to do with the valuations or how much the author's startup is actually worth, or whether the deal 'fell through'. It's the blatant dishonesty of the Googlers making the approach that is inexcu
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by gress 12y ago
And people are just unfeeling automata whose only value is to maximize their game theoretic outcomes. /s
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by gress 12y ago
If true, this is totally psychopathic behavior.
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by gress 12y ago
Seems like you lied too, given that you simply don't know if there are any ways in which it is better than the github app.
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by gress 12y ago
Have you tried it?
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by gress 12y ago
> Heck, the phone's OS crashing was a rare, one-in-a-million event. You live on a different planet to me then. I have used every iOS relase, and every one has been crashy for the first couple of versions.
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by gress 12y ago
The only difference in the scenarios is the rate of change. If you are arguing that change itself reduces users agency then I won't argue with you, but I'll say that it is a problem that is broader than Apple.
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by gress 12y ago
Sorry, what has that to do with helplessness? The claim was that the influence of iOS makes OSX less able to help themselves.
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by gress 12y ago
They've been like this for years. Nobody upgrades CPUs in laptops or all in one machines. If a backlash was coming it would have hit by now.
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by gress 12y ago
That sounds like essentially a good thing. The idea 1000 startups are likely to be better at innovating than one monolithic bureaucracy seems like a familiar one here on Hacker News.
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by gress 12y ago
How have users of OSX become more helpless than they were at any point in the past?
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by gress 12y ago
I think there is more surface area for people to notice bugs, and we're suing the systems far more so we feel problems more acutely. More importantly, even if it's true that there is a slight increase in bugs now that they've
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by gress 12y ago
We know that most users can't manage good passwords, and they are ridiculously time consuming to use, so that's a non-starter.
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by gress 12y ago
It may be covered with your fingerprints, but that makes it less likely that any of those are usable.
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by gress 12y ago
Ok - fair point about the increase in velocity. But the increase in velocity will be distributed across the whole economy, and therefore of minimal impact on the tradespeople, whose value will be diluted in proportion to the supply.
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by gress 12y ago
I think people have even more trouble applying other forms of protection. A fingerprint that is actually used is better than a PIN that is disabled, or worse, written on a card.
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by gress 12y ago
if your timeframe is eternity, this is valid, but for now, the cost of cloning a fingerprint is high enough that they are an excellent protection for a huge category of interactions.
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by gress 12y ago
This is absolutely false. There is a high cost for copying a fingerprint and it is time consuming to perform, conspicuous and difficult to deploy the copy. Therefore fingerprints are not a good tool when there is a lot of time for the atta
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by gress 12y ago
Adding more tradesmen will not increase the demand, and so will not result in any increase in the velocity of money. The demand for trades may not be fixed, but it is not proportional to the number of tradesmen. Most likely it's propo
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by gress 12y ago
MV=PQ is a tautology
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by gress 12y ago
By 'people', I presume you mean all of us.
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by gress 12y ago
Imagine what will happen if you double the supply of those trades. I think you'll find they aren't pretty great anymore.
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by gress 12y ago
What 'trades' do you think will prepare people to be economically self-sufficient?
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by gress 12y ago
Sony has US businesses.
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by gress 12y ago
That, plus perhaps they can see that most of the things one can spend money on do nothing to increase happiness.
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by gress 12y ago
So because your attempt to dismiss half of android as being irrelevant because it's 'not sanctioned by Google' failed, you now decide that Android devices outside the U.S. don't count? I guess this is the closest you&#x
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by gress 12y ago
Your claim rests on the idea that Android malware only propagates via 3rd party app stores, and not the Google play store, or any other vulnerability. This is false. You also claim that only Android 'sanctioned by Google' counts a
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by gress 12y ago
97% of mobile malware is on Android: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/03/24/report-97... If you are pretending that the level or risk of malware on iOS is comparable to that on Android,

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