iwasakabukiman

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by iwasakabukiman 5y ago
As many others have pointed out, PayPal goes out of their way to make sure they are not a bank.
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by iwasakabukiman 5y ago
The build quality is excellent. It isn't quite as good as a MacBook, but I'm willing to take the hit from A+ to A- for the repairablity. It's much better than any other laptop I've used aside from a MacBook Pro. The scre
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by iwasakabukiman 5y ago
They recently updated it [1] so that it does tell you why. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/25/22550951/microsoft-pc-hea...
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by iwasakabukiman 5y ago
I can set up and sign in to MacOS without using my Apple ID though.
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by iwasakabukiman 5y ago
This article title is grossly misleading. As far as I can tell from the article, no actual votes have happened. The group behind this is just pushing for counties to support them. These types of groups pop up all the time, make hay and then
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by iwasakabukiman 5y ago
It can do 120 FPS, which is considered “high frame rate” for televisions. 60 FPS is generally considered standard.
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
Agreed. They are trying to conflate two issues that are separate. If Apple was blocking all VPNs from the App Store, they would have a valid argument, but Apple is blocking it for promoting accessing geolocked content in the app descripti
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
Another way to look at this is that Steve realized there was nothing this guy could do to help him at the moment, so he hung up on him.
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
So you disagree with it morally but watch it anyway? And then don't even pay the people who produced it? Isn't that even worse? I think there's nothing wrong with porn in general and the people who create it - just like other
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
I'm pretty sure they're saying that Apple, etc. are trying not to offend China with their programming. It's unrelated to Gawker, but mentioned in the article.
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
For a $1,000 laptop? I disagree. It’s fine for a $500 one but Apple doesn’t sell those.
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
Same here. Recently, if it's anything that's health related, I absolutely avoid Amazon because of the mass of fake products out there. I needed some vitamins recently and my first thought was that I'm better off paying CVS or
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
It uses Bluetooth LE for proximity sensing so that you can pass audio from your phone to the HomePod just by waving them near one another.
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
The sound quality is way beyond anything Google or Amazon offer. If you have other Apple devices, it works just like Siri on your phone. I've got one in my kitchen and it can hear me anywhere in my 3 bedroom house. It's pretty imp
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
Obviously it will be hard for a phone with 1/10th the z index to fit the same optics that a DSLR came. But I work in video production and I can tell you that for 99% of people, there is absolutely no reason to buy a separate camera. Wh
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
I’ve never understood this type of “gotcha!” that always gets trotted out when a company uses another company’s product to develop their own. If all of the debugging, testing and factory management tools are standardized on Windows - why re
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
There's no way that $200 million is break even for that movie. The budget alone was $200 million, which doesn't factor in marketing...which will probably be higher than normal since they had to run a marketing campaign multiple ti
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
It actually has the A12 Z, not even the A13.
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
> It’s just what they do. Then we should work to change that. As a society, we should find this kind of stuff unacceptable. There should be some baseline level of transparency and dignity employees are treated with.
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
Traditionally, you just encode the video with a new frame every X frames, regardless of shots. It might sound trivial, but it is still extra computational work to figure out when the shot changes.
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
That’s only a temporary stopgap before they convince a court or change the law so that being part of that chain with intent to infringe copyright is enough to get you sued.
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
I don't see how that justifies torrenting it but most new movies are available within a few months on DVD/Blu-ray. (Obviously there are exceptions for things made by streaming companies but even those get physical releases eventua
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
I feel like you're purposefully making this hypothetical difficult and throwing up as many roadblocks as possible. The obvious answer is that either you own a DVD player or you can get one for next to nothing. Amazon has region free on
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
I feel like you are purposefully ignoring the fact that you can easily get all of those movies (and tons of others not on streaming services) on DVD or Blu-ray for relatively cheap. As another commenter said, you can also rent them from any
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
For anyone that hasn't seen They Shall Not Grow Old, I highly recommend it. Peter Jackson (of Lord of the Rings fame) spent years working with the British government to digitize and colorize their old footage of World War I. They also
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
I just checked from my (government) building’s connection and, well...someone has been downloading some Lovecraftian horror movies. Not what I expected.
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
It's easy: All of the hype was manufactured. No one was actually excited for it, there were just a ton of articles that made you think you others were.
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
Not just Apple, the entire electronics industry.
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by iwasakabukiman 6y ago
Since the original post seems confused about why a browser would ask for contacts: A legitimate reason could be so that they can easily autofill forms for you.
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by iwasakabukiman 7y ago
I'm tired of arguing over semantics with people. Call it copyright infringement then. Either way, it is generally illegal. Just pay the $3 to rent the movie.

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