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by kemayo 5y ago
If you have no sync enabled, they say they're not scanning it. The scan is part of the upload process.
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by kemayo 5y ago
Amazon does have the Kindle Oasis[1] which has physical buttons for page turning, and a design with a different take on how you hold it from a regular Kindle. It's the expensive model, though, so very much "vote with your wallet&q
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by kemayo 5y ago
An apparent major increase in battery life is good to see, because the battery life on Kindles has been going downhill for a while. It doesn't help that Amazon insists on marketing them "based on a half hour of reading per day wit
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by kemayo 5y ago
It's apparently doable optically, similarly to blood oxygen, albeit much more challenging. There's an actual product out for it from one of Apple's suppliers, even: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21&#x
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by kemayo 5y ago
It's why I said "at least theoretically" -- the vaccine cards have a date and vaccine lot number on them. I'm making the assumption that this has been recorded somewhere, such that you could at least check that a certain
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by kemayo 5y ago
It's a blood test, and I suspect that it's even harder to motivate everyone to get a blood draw than to get a vaccine.
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by kemayo 5y ago
I'd assume that a lot of it is the existing polarization over the issue. It's easier to lie and say you already had COVID, and there's a bunch of people who'd probably do so. (Plus a lot of people who don't even kno
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by kemayo 5y ago
It already has GPS and oxygen / ECG sensors, so no dropping would be needed there. That said, blood glucose seems like the next big win. Rumors have been that they're working on it.
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by kemayo 5y ago
The ruling explains the logic near the last page of the decision -- it's basically "Epic didn't have to break their contract in order to sue". I think it's the judge slapping Epic on the wrist for grandstanding, e
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by kemayo 5y ago
Having not read the full TOS and all its definitions, I'll agree that would likely get around GoDaddy's objection. GoDaddy could maybe argue that the fundamental purpose of the website was still to facilitate gathering that data
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by kemayo 5y ago
For that matter, it's still entirely plausible that when someone actually sues under the law it's going to get appealed up and revoked because of Roe. I say plausible, because I'm sure the conservative majority would like t
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by kemayo 5y ago
There's the other part of their TOS though: "You will not collect or harvest (or permit anyone else to collect or harvest) any User Content (as defined below) or any non-public or personally identifiable information about another
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by kemayo 5y ago
Pragmatically, though, AOSP isn't relevant to the conversation. OP was comparing the popular smartphone ecosystems that most people are using, and that basically means the Apple phones and the phones which are running with Google'
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by kemayo 5y ago
It's worth bearing in mind that singular-they is almost as old as plural-they in usage. I think it's more likely we can settle into an existing valid usage (that spent a while being argued against by style guides in the 19th centu
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by kemayo 5y ago
It seems very plausible that it'd be the Primophonic app, just rebranded into looking first-party Apple. Just like what happened with Workflow becoming Shortcuts a few years ago.
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by kemayo 5y ago
The most interesting thing about this is that Apple's pre-announcing that they're going to be launching a dedicated classical music app. Presumably it'll be very closely based on the current Primephonic app, and worked on by
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by kemayo 5y ago
Could also have been a purchase for their licensing or metadata. It sounds like Primephonic has put a lot of work into all of that, and if Apple wants to get into classical then it'd make sense to throw a tiny-by-their-standards amount
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by kemayo 5y ago
It seems plausible, and I speak here as someone with no medical expertise whatsoever, that a vaccine-immunity that targets the spike protein and slows infection would still be pretty good at reducing symptoms as it would presumably slow the
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by kemayo 5y ago
This says that there was a viral Facebook post making claims about animal tests, which are very much wrong: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-vaccine-animal-testing/ Also, this says that the covid vaccines specifi
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by kemayo 5y ago
The discussion on that post seems to support the grandparent, not you. Also, the article it's talking about says > The new evidence shows that protective antibodies generated in response to an mRNA vaccine will target a broader rang
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by kemayo 5y ago
I will say that I've used a smartphone for about a decade now, and I can count on one hand the number of times it has actually run out of charge. (With hitting <5% being about as infrequent.) Usage patterns clearly vary wildly, here
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by kemayo 5y ago
The main reason for the hubbub, back in the day, was that Apple completely obscured (a) that they were throttling performance, and (b) that replacing the battery was the fix. I completely believe that they made the decision to throttle perf
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by kemayo 5y ago
My logic is mostly that we're on a site which is targeted at people who're in a fairly high-earning profession, with the added bonus of it being a fairly change-friendly profession. If you're making Silicon Valley engineer mo
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by kemayo 5y ago
The interesting thing about this story is that "batterygate"[1] represents a period from January 2017 (when Apple added the throttling behavior in iOS 10.2.1, in response to bad press about old batteries causing shutdowns) to Marc
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by kemayo 5y ago
I think iPhones don't run directly off external power even when plugged in -- they charge the battery, and run from that. For evidence, note that if your battery is completely dead, you need to provide power for a few minutes to get it
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by kemayo 5y ago
Honda doesn't own the roads.
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by kemayo 5y ago
It's not awful for this specific entitlement, as we could say "you own the phone, you share the network". (You might own some networks. But you also might own some roads. We'd stretch the analogy to your home WiFi bein
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by kemayo 5y ago
So long as I'm confident that disabling the iCloud Photos service also disables the scanning, I prefer the local scanning + e2e encryption. (My take is that if I can't trust Apple when they say this is the case, I also can'
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by kemayo 5y ago
The joke was "it will only happen once, because it will kill you". (Which is inaccurate, of course, since it sounds from the article like disabling a pacemaker in this way will only open up an opportunity for your heart to fail.
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by kemayo 5y ago
Technically they didn't lose it -- that's a settlement. This might sound like I'm being pedantic -- and I am -- but it's an important distinction! It means there was never some official legal determination that they did

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