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by jpttsn 5y ago
That summarizes exactly why I hope this type of legislation doesn’t work out. Today I can trust that any apps I download will use APNS or nothing. Alternatively, a horror show of cheap and broken push implementations from developers who wan
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Why would Apple agree to this? Is it not morally important that they consent?
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Can you think of any situation where bundling would be acceptable? Should e.g. a restaurant have to provide an open market for silverware providers?
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by jpttsn 5y ago
You’re looking for words, not actions?
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Lest society devolve into chaos, pacts sunt servanda.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Does your health insurance also only apply for 8h/day?
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by jpttsn 6y ago
To which you agreed without reading the fine print like an adult would, and then you started crying when the agreement was enforced.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
And the charity is producing the candybars?
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Maybe people think it’s “the right thing” even if it’s not in their own interest. Or is that inconceivable?
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Honestly: I think it’s cogent to have an idea of what the world ought be like, and yet act in other ways to further your own goals. If it’s a prisoner’s dilemma, you might believe cooperation is the best way, and yet defect if you’re playin
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Is the link your best available evidence?
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Misinformation: when your lived experience doesn’t match the government reports. Don’t tell anyone if this happens.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Business are often happy to pay a high effective hourly rate. Consulting is easier than rank and file employment, but you seem to also want job security and predictability. “Get away with” however indicates you want a “do nothing job”: Opti
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by jpttsn 6y ago
You’re suggesting the Economist is open about its globalist bias, but meanwhile they also have another secret bias, which is white supremacy?
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Macroeconomists don’t know how to do this either.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
If I see an article about “the best fishing rod”, I’ll assume it’s in the context of catching fish, not being a fish.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Life in the EU is wonderful. It’s like waking up every morning wearing a helmet. You can take the helmet off at any time, but the default is safe.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Do 75% of companies really need AI /big data? All the little restaurants, carpenters, hair salons?
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Interesting——we’ll find out. So far I see evidence in e.g. the much-discussed switch from “master” to “main” on GitHub and the now omnipresent community codes of conduct. To my mind this is a cheap kosher certification that the vast majorit
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Do you believe the protest is working well, achieving meaningful change? Have protestors so far been able to stem the slide toward 1984?
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by jpttsn 6y ago
But if that’s true, then either whoever is behind this criticism doesn’t know it, or they have other goals.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
I don’t think we’ll see an (even) split. It’s more likely that all (most) orgs will have safe spaces. Like how all fruit juice is kosher: it makes no difference to people who don’t keep kosher.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Right on. A “computer I own” seems to presuppose that this computer does all these millions of things, many of which (I fear) can’t be provided practically for less than a compromise in ownership. You can build (and own) the Apple I but you
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Computers have come a long way in a short time and are very complex. Maybe the diffuse ownership (that OP bemoans) is necessary for that complexity, or at least for it to develop so quickly. If I want a typewriter, car or handgun I “truly o
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by jpttsn 6y ago
You saved the reader time by writing clearly?!
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by jpttsn 6y ago
So they would be unable to ban the Pirate Bay Store, the Scamcoin Drug Store, the Cracked Epic Games Store, the Tiananmen 1989 Store?
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by jpttsn 6y ago
No, Apple has been pestered to make the iPhone an open platform from day one. They’ve consistently said no. I bet you’re right about the motivation for this silly outrage: People claim the iPhone is a PC because they wish it to be, because
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Wouldn’t Apple just ban you from installing the Porn Store? Or do you think Epic will make them allow any and all alternative app stores?
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by jpttsn 6y ago
The cost of changing the status quo is, for me, not worth the benefit. There are any number of wrongs that can be corrected. Is “abolishing the monarchy” the best use of the limited budget for societal change? And is it worth, on top of tha
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by jpttsn 6y ago
On the other hand, while the sample size is small, you can’t beat the representativeness of their sample. Self experiment, not in order to generalize conclusions to the rest of the world, but to find useful conclusions for own use.

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