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by jpttsn 6y ago
- In car magazines, we might expect to hear about that, too. - Apple has big impact.
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Yup, and it's interesting to ponder why this narrative gains ground. Especially if we take at face value the claims that undue influence has been exerted for the past few years to ruin free society.
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It may well be harmful, but your reasoning seems spurious. It would imply that "marijuana can be so harmful that is made illegal almost everywhere in the world".
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Hurt has acquired multiple meanings. The phrase you hate refers to "hurt" of the bone-breaking variety. To me, that makes it clear. But maybe it's confusing.
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You bet this happened in the 70's.
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What would you learn from this, if it happened? Is it strong evidence that your name is not AnimalMuppet?
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It often does. You want it to, in many cases.
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It’s so easy to get unlucky with hashtags, am I right? I heard Twitter is working on a program to label hashtags that ignorant people keep taking too literally. It’s baffling that #NotMyPresident would somehow give you the idea that Trump w
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So if I sue the state of Hawaii on your behalf and claim your HN username is AnimalMuppet, they would throw that out (as I don’t have standing)?
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Was that a conspiracy theory, and had it failed in court?
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I doubt that it would help; I don’t think failing in court will be YouTube’s standard. As so many comments remind us, they’re a private company. They don’t have to wait for a court’s opinion. I also think no left-of-center conspiracy theory
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I bet it will extend to fully cover one side of the aisle, but not cross over to the other.
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They could have written “we won’t meet your ultimatum but we don’t think you’ll resign like you threatened, so see you after vacation”. Would that be better?
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Additionally, as food, water, shelter become readily available, people raise the bar even on those goods. The social safety net here in Sweden won't let me starve. But to impress my friends, I have to buy much more than calories. The f
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The very cynical counter argument is rarely spoken: Owning my things provides value even when I’m not using them, because I benefit from excluding other people (my competition) from using them. Example: The sports car locked in my garage he
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Randomizing would be even faster and easier, if you just want incorrect answers in record time. Voting has a short list of maybe four easily stated requirements. Online voting “solutions” tend to solve one or two, forget about the others, a
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Is it religious attire if the person wearing it is not religious?
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Polls should say: “we’re 2/3 confident you will win” and not “there’s a 2/3 probability you will win”. The uncertainty is epistemological; it’s not describing a stochastic process.
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I concur and I'd bet it's like saying "you've probably noticed kids these days are no good". It's something everyone in time always experiences.
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But how would this idea work on a national scale?
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Hits and misses. It worked great for Galileo.
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> But with a great production value, paid influencers, just the right wording and messaging, you can manipulate social networks into spreading very dangerous information and actually making people believe things that can kill them. Clear
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Stonks. Sometimes the market will value the parts higher than the sum of the parts. It sounds a bit concocted but happens often in practice.
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If they had a monopoly, they should do better than 30% though? Chums like Google who don’t have the monopoly charge 30%. Hell, Twitch takes 50%, right? If Apple is the only game in town they should charge like 99%. Developers have no choice
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Or like going to a concert venue and not bringing outside alcohol. Or going on a plane and having to buy airline food. Or going to a movie theaters and not being able to order popcorn from elsewhere. Or having your wedding in a church and n
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They even ship brew now, don’t they?
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On the Nokia 3310? Or a rotary phone? What is a “phone”?
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I wouldn’t be so sure. How many man hours go into developing ARKit, Foundation, Swift etc.? How many developer accounts would be required to fund all of that plus the R&D for the ideas that didn’t work out? I think the $99 is more of a
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So you think Apple is abusing its extraordinary monopoly power by... charging what everyone else is charging? I think legally it makes a pretty big difference: abusing a monopoly is considered a social bad because and to the extent that it
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In the Spotify analogy, maybe the music artists would play the role of developers here—-get squeezed for the benefit of end users and the platform owner.

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