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kakacik
9mo ago
CIA at its best, f_cking up world one bit at a time (and amount of those bits amount to quite a few kilobytes at least at this point, I can attest that every European country I've ever lived in carries some more or less visible involve
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kakacik
9mo ago
At what cost? See discussion here. And who bears the burden of that cost? Sure you can look away from child labor providing you the latest iphones or lithium mines for the same or electric cars destroying pristine tropical jungles and entir
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kakacik
9mo ago
For such a massive long term impact, people should vote directly. That's ideal, and its pretty realistic ideal especially with 800 votes which are trivial to count. If course its not ideal for the company investing. Then the question b
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kakacik
9mo ago
> Elon is aware that Tesla insane market valuation would crash 10x if it stays a car company. I see nothing wrong here, correction back to reality. I understand why people adored him blindly in the early days, but liking him now after it
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9mo ago
No but they could have easily created the culture that massively increased the probability of such mishaps... we have all seen how not OK work environment negatively affects deliveries right, or read about boeing fiasco(s). Not an insider j
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9mo ago
I wonder how they will pick which homes to heat or generally how to share that with general infrastructure. Also wonder how much will go to Switzerland (which has much denser housing in that part) and how much to France. I live not far, wor
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9mo ago
The thing is, apple decides this for themselves, on a product that you fully bought and privately own. It bundles the most brilliant and most incompetent clueless people into 1 group and goes for lowest denominator. No freedom of choice. Of
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9mo ago
Yes and no. Tons of situations where this is simply not possible, whole traffic goes full allowed speed next to row of parked cars. If somebody unexpectedly pops up distracted, its a tragedy guaranteed regardless of driver's skills and
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9mo ago
They are not taken into account simply because they may be meaningless to job advertised. For example no company I ever worked for (maybe 7 over 20 years) needed publishing academics. Is the fact that you published a book about some DB arch
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9mo ago
To americans, London public transport feels amazing. To rest of Europe, its lets say OKish
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kakacik
9mo ago
People can be properly useful till their last moment. Caring friend, loving reliable family member - those mean endlessly more than some senior position in some corporation that come and go and with enough distance to see things are mostly
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kakacik
9mo ago
Regardless, owner is a nazi and utter POS to be polite, basically same material as trump. Nothing in the world is going to change that, not now not in 40 years. He keeps insulting whole Europe (meaning all of fucking us living here) and our
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kakacik
9mo ago
People are not as much stupid as selfish. Nobody is going to threaten their own revenue stream just because their job is bullshit, in fact most double down and see themselves above others. And another layer I've seen frequently - peopl
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kakacik
9mo ago
Maybe he wanted that regardless (remote hut life), and this was just a final push for change. I can see myself, under different circumstances (no family) to enjoy such life and hardships (and simplicity) it brings, at least for some time. I
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kakacik
9mo ago
Lol thats so untrue, are we already at the phase of rewriting this recent history? US and coalition held Kabul (mostly) and their bases, and that was about it. Rest of the country was lets say contested territory, never really conquered, ne
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kakacik
9mo ago
> Here's one of these camps, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_East_Montana Thats a textbook concentration camp. You are correct in your descriptions and distinction from extermination camps, conc
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kakacik
9mo ago
I came here based to headline expecting some more cia & nsa shit, that word is tarnished for few decades in better part of IT community (that actually cares about this craft beyond paycheck)
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kakacik
9mo ago
Vendor/ecosystem lockin, all on purpose, to give as much friction and annoyment as possible without flatly refusing the service which is generally bad for PR and apple does care about keeping their image up. This is their typical behav
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9mo ago
And morality and their conscientiousness (what a word). If you look at the map of Europe, lay it over with that fiscal discipline and above, there is no mystery how things like income are spread out across the map, it all makes sense. Also
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kakacik
9mo ago
Care to back up your outlandish claims? I live here for 15 years and all you write is completely untrue for everything I ever experienced, saw, heard or read. Or you mean some case from early 70s?
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9mo ago
@mods this is unacceptable behavior (but such threads are full of this), blind fanatics on both sides
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kakacik
9mo ago
International pressure when US is shielding and blocking literally any move against means effectively nothing. Sure, you or me can say we will for example never buy products from Israel but thats about it. And such move will not change anyt
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kakacik
9mo ago
This is in line with decades of behavior of cia et al on all fronts in all parts of the world.
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kakacik
9mo ago
Thats not argument for anything in this topic. The choice was never binary and it seems you don't understand the discussion. That illuminati mumbo jumbo part doesn't deserve a comment.
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kakacik
9mo ago
You clearly have no kids
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kakacik
9mo ago
I know literally nobody panicking from some idea of terrorist attack against airplane, this is not a thing in Europe. Neither my old parents, neither any of my colleagues etc. Its not 2001 anymore and even back then we were mostly chill. Bu
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kakacik
9mo ago
Price of water from water fountain (to be found on basically any western airport and most non-western I've ever been to) - 0. I get your approach, but say where we live (Switzerland) if you have something not tightly around your body l
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9mo ago
This is only the issue if you are a city dweller and want to spend your whole life there. For rural folks this is actually best possible situation. The pollution always goes somewhere, and its not like we have large swaths of useless places
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9mo ago
Truth is, apple didn't want to migrate their phones due to some internal decision not relevant for us, and the fact some other devices were on it doesn't change this. Users comfort was never part of the equation, its politics, sal
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kakacik
9mo ago
Better mobile hardware is highly specific. Crappy batteries worse than literally all competition? Check for first what, 5 or 6 generations? For many people, battery life is single most important attribute of their phone. Also USB-C ain'
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