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by jpttsn 5y ago
And the point of TFA is to create this embarrassment by educating developers? I imagine this strategy is what remained after realizing not enough clients want to pay for accessibility.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
What if your assumption, that tax dollars go toward a greater good, is shown to be wrong? Let alone the difficulty of tracing it: assume it’s possible to show where every tax dollar went. Would you still favor this trnsparency if it’s shown
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Well, it hasn’t worked yet for that, while taking care of elders has. Where I live, optometry and dental medicine are carved out of socialized healthcare. Hard to reconcile that with the purely utilitarian theory. I think the “few people” a
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Maybe, maybe not. Consumers would be analogous to consumers of kingdoms, so it all sort of falls apart. Anyway, if the competition is not an ends unto itself it would seem a more direct argument can be made.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
I don’t have one.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
It is a foregone conclusion only because of assumptions that conspire to make the argument circular. I think you’re mischaracterizing some part of the opposition with “should have to work”. To my school of UBI skepticism, it’s not at all ab
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by jpttsn 5y ago
I’d view “buying competitors” as a sign of “competing”. Otherwise, in the Middle Ages, “European kingdoms don’t fight wars, they just conquer one another”
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by jpttsn 5y ago
To worker W it is worth $10 extra to work overtime. But to the solidarity S, this cheapens the labor by $100. Therefore the solidarity S can pay W $11 to not work, and it’s a win win.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Can’t your solidarity just pay him/her (a higher wage) to do nothing instead of working for the bosses? If your own math checks out, that should be a win-win.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
I’d expect team members to handle the truth. Pretending isn’t going to do anyone any favors. Gaslighting your team could backfire in any number of ways.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
As I see it: Observation: most people suck at dancing. Judgement: most people suck at dancing, and that makes them worse than me, for I’m a great dancer.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
I know, but that’s not exactly the point I’m making. The point is that most people, given leisure time, let themselves down. People waste their free time mostly unintentionally. The best of intentions gives way to base impulse and then we
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by jpttsn 5y ago
No, if I took more time off to “pursue hobbies and enjoy life” I bet I’d just end up watching more TV too. I doubt I’m above the ingrained temptations that make the leisure industry go round.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
I think these are things people like to think of themselves as doing with their free time: gardening, long walks on the beach, writing the next great non-American novel. When I look at what people do off work, it’s mostly TV. They paint lik
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by jpttsn 5y ago
That’s funny, we must’ve read that chapter completely differently. It’s what made me think of him as an example. I see it as a rediscovery of how Feynman’ work was his true calling after all and how he chose to do more physics, instead of m
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by jpttsn 5y ago
I honestly don’t judge: zero negative feelings about anyone spending their time watching TV. If you read that between the lines, maybe it betrays your own disdain. My observation is merely that a) people rarely seem “happy” in proportion to
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by jpttsn 5y ago
I don’t judge, but I rarely met anyone who spends their extra 20h on anything good. It’s mostly: - TV/video games/Facebook - drinking/drugs/gluttony whether as thrill-seeking or sedatives - a creative “hobby” (i.e. anoth
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by jpttsn 5y ago
I don’t think that’s how it works. Apple makes about 38% on hardware, right? Suppose I pay $100 “extra” for an iPhone thanks to limited repairability. Without that $100, Apple would have to find $38 somewhere else. As I don’t value repairab
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by jpttsn 5y ago
I guess I don’t get it. What is it you want to do instead of working? Suppose I can produce the required output in less time (say 20h per week) because I’m just so smart . Then why would I spend the other 20h just watching TV? Why not prod
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Would you advice Marie Curie or Richard Feynman to work less and settle for the output of average physicists? I’m sure they could get away with it. Is this “cult” about daring to spend less of your life watching TV? I’m missing some central
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Assuming there's planned obsolescence, it will make the manufacturer money. This money lets them build better products, stay in business longer, et.c. If Apple made a repairable iPhone with the same profit margins and specs, I'm g
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Well put. Apple runs a store, not a market. This is the key distinction to my mind. In a store I expect curation and payola. On a market I expect independent hagglers. I imagine if Plateify, a hot startup from the EU, wanted to get into the
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by jpttsn 5y ago
I don’t feel entitled to controlling any company unless I own stock. If I build my career on a supplier company I don’t control, that’s my problem. EU politicians seem to disagree. Mostly (I bet) to protect their own.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
I can always get my next phone from Samsung, just as I can always get my next meal from McDonalds. But this meal is locked in. If I don’t like the pickles on my whopper, they don’t provide McDonald’s pickles, do they? The don’t allow me t
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by jpttsn 5y ago
I disagree. I think this law is immoral. I think my local warlords are trying to take something someone else made, because they want to feel big, and are happy leave destruction in their wake. I hope it fails this time.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Developers will always choose the cheapest option. Someone will make a “free backup just watch this 30s ad” and people would use that instead of iCloud. You fetishize competition. I want apple to be allowed to be anti competitive on their o
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Once I’m in he restaurant, it has a monopoly. The same way Apple has a monopoly once I’m in the App Store. Apple is the only seller of apps on my Apple phone. Burger King is the only seller/provider of plates and cutlery at my local Bu
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by jpttsn 5y ago
I like the better performance of computers now. If lower repairability is a way to pay for that, that’s great.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Restaurants sell a bundled experience. The use of their silverware is part of what I buy. You could argue that the restaurant shouldn’t be a gatekeeper. Other parties could let me enjoy a cheaper meal, competing to offer the most discounted
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Should they also be able to opt out of the font stack Apple licensed, and bring their own free font garbage? Opt out of the battery controller and encryption libraries, to roll their own for cheap?

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