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by jpttsn 6y ago
Poe’s law means I don’t know if I’m engaging in good or bad faith here but... Your suggestion sounds like letting the ”crowd” decide; basically voting on the truth democratically. Religion is (kind of) an implementation, where people can “v
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I do only this. Copying the codebase into a subdirectory seems like a kluge. It baffles me that they recommend that solution; seems like too much backward compatibility.
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And for fruit. I hate having to throw out apples every week, when my canned tuna keeps for ages.
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It’s hard to read. The space between words is not consistent and often too large.
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HTML
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But today Microsoft e.g. has to put Excel in the App Store. In your proposal, Microsoft might move it to their own store. I don’t want that. I like that Excel is in the App Store.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Honestly? I want to pay up front for a device that won’t show me ads. If left to open competition, I’m certain that dozens of app stores would race to the bottom and I’d have an ad and snoop-funded experience on my phone. Apple currently us
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The ”free market” has no obligation to give you good options you like. Common misconception, though. Politicians and lobbyists (”the law”) are awful at “correcting” problems like this. It’s a total fairytale. We’re better off leaving the ou
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Maybe "justice" will be served: the will of the people goes far sometimes. I'd point out that the public can get away with things that don't match my personal sense of ethics, but your sense of ethics is clearly differen
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by jpttsn 6y ago
General purpose OS to me means a platform whose primary use involves that I bring my own software. This is vague; I'm no really inclined to work from a strict definition in this case. It seems Platonic and unproductive. As evidence for
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by jpttsn 6y ago
But that kind of marketing is like saying you should drink water to replace your beer: it doesn't claim the water is beer; it's claiming you probably will be happier with water. See also the "What's a computer" ad
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iOS is not sold as a general purpose computing OS. It’s been clear from day one. People use products way beyond their original purpose, and then feel entitled to the manufacturer’s support. Like eating candy for every meal, and then complai
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By this reasoning you’d “break even” on income tax if you got promoted?
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This is the opening scene of season 5 of The Wire.
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Collusion, wouldn’t it be?
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Did apple remove some functionality? It always sounds like that, but when I look into it it’s more about adding new features that websites didn’t use to have?
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Broken on ...dots? Not slashes? Mysite. Com/Index. Html
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I bet its about the “opportunity cost aesthetics”—-Apple thinks QR codes are butt ugly. See also the round App Clips codes recently introduced, and the very late (I bet teeth-grittingly reluctant) introduction of QR scanning in the first-pa
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by jpttsn 6y ago
I imagine it working poorly. No dad, not the App Store. The Epic store. It’s an app that you get in the App Store. Download that. Then log on with the Epic account—-no, not that password, the one you use for Epic. Huh. It could be your othe
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By gerrymandering the market definition you can make any company a monopoly. McDonalds is not a restaurant: it’s a burger parlor. No wait, a fast-food burger parlor. With a clown mascot. All who depend on clown-themed burgers are under thei
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Is Mercedes a monopoly for Mercedes leather seating?
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What do you do with your time?
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Computers can now produce text that is indistinguishable from (badly) human-produced text. Arguably they always could; it’s less bad now than ever. The “Turing test”/Chinese Room school of thought would assume that as the text becomes
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Couldn’t you yourself learn how to do that, in a foreign language, without knowing what the words mean?
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by jpttsn 6y ago
It baffles me how many commenters here and on Facebook just assume this is somehow illegal. I‘m not saying I know the US Code by heart or anything, but lacking the basic intuition for what the laws of the land are must be a terrible disadva
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by jpttsn 6y ago
>Will cause to fail Is what seems so entitled about this thing. If your company/innovation relies on free access, but in reality that access costs 30%, your idea is not solid. Suppose there’s no iPhone. No customers bought it. They
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I hope they don’t, but if they did I would either accept it, circumvent it (jailbreak) or stop using Macs. It’s their choice and I’m entirely informed.
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“So how do we raise awareness” “Well, let’s ask Apple for some workaround for the 30%, skirt the rules a bit” “They’ll never go for that” “Of course not, but while it lasts we’ll get 30% more. Then once we get rejected, sooner or later, we’
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by jpttsn 6y ago
It must be even easier to stop working with these unethical companies if you don’t value money that much.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Indeed. And if my local restaurant doesn’t have a nice table for me, it’s much easier if Tony Soprano can have a little talk with the owner.

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