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by jdminhbg 4y ago
“Original Gangsta,” i.e., original.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
“Find My” depends on a custom chip iPhones have.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> What made Western Europe diverge from places like Russia or Saudi Arabia? Joseph Henrich says it’s the medieval church’s prohibition on cousin marriage, which dissolved the strong kinship bonds that dominate the rest of the world. He h
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Yes, it was invented by Lauren Brichter in Tweetie, which was purchased by Twitter to become the official first-party client.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
I am not sure how pointing out that Twitter has not, over the course of a decade, managed to make a client as good as third-party ones made with 1/1000th the headcount, nor figured out a way to monetize them, is “in support” of Twitter
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
If Twitter was making money on third-party apps instead of losing money, they’d be less likely to shut them off.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Of course you can, they’re working on a Mastodon client right now.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
But it does in fact help to be paying them. There was nothing in this arrangement for Twitter at all.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
The difference is that my business that depends on AWS pays for the service, and big businesses that depend on AWS have contracts about support and payment.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
It’s kind of insane that the third-party client situation lasted the way it did for so long. Twitter subsidized someone else’s paid app, that didn’t show any of Twitter’s ads, for free, for years. I exclusively used Tweetbot, and checking o
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
The backend that handles the API has generally been relatively solid, but the official clients are a complete disaster.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Heh, no, the $1B is for SF: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-has-an-unpre...
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> aka not a whole lot Lord grant me a business worth $400B, aka not a whole lot.
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If it's possible for there to be an $800k difference I am definitely applying.
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Heh, I believe you. I haven't seen one yet, but looking forward to it.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Yes, I totally agree. The whisper quiet vans driving safely and unhurriedly up and down the street where my kids play are a much better solution. I hope that your plans to legislate the status quo into permanence are successful.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
A sudden change in “natural weight” isn’t any more absurd than a sudden change in willpower.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Are you saying that it wouldn't be insane to jail smokers to get them to quit?
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
If they both had a filter named Lo-Fi you’d have a point. Having all the same names makes this very obviously just plagiarism.
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When it comes to potentially fatal attacks on my car, I'm a lot more worried about drunk drivers than CANBUS.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> 1. The driver’s labor, 2. The car and gas, and 3. Uber’s (mostly engineering) overhead. 4. Taxes/fees set by the city and the airport > My airline ticket pays for ... All that for $99? Well, if you'd split the Uber with a
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> People feel strongly about football, but hopefully not that strongly. For better or for worse, I’m guessing a lot of people care more about what happens to the local football team than whether creationism is taught in the local schools
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
This is the frequently-cited theory, but most realistic studies show that it doesn’t really work out that way. I think the reasonable justification is more that having a team is an intangible good for the city, like a museum or a library, w
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Sports are zero-sum and the greater economy is not. What’s odd is Europeans treating each exactly the opposite of what that would imply.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> People just rent flats in the city, go to uni Stanford is an edge case because, as a sibling commenter says, it owns a lot of real estate, but also it's in an insanely high cost-of-living area, so students can't necessarily a
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
You know there are lots of ERs that can’t handle lots of emergencies, right? There’s even a whole “Level” system to describe which emergencies they are and are not equipped to handle.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Well they’re being arrested and sent to jail, so that’s a form of regulation.
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> When is the last time you said "I will choose to use safari" The last time I opened a Mac with a battery (i.e., today).
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> I think another post alluded to this but if Tesla gets in trouble the cars will likely be bricked right? I strongly doubt millions of cars will be left bricked to be towed to the junkyard.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
The government spends orders of magnitudes more on health care than green energy every year, both pre- and post-Covid. The key difference between Theranos and Telsa/SolarCity is that the latter has a real product.

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