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by kepler1 3y ago
Apple is not a monopoly, and the court agreed with that. Maybe you should more carefully examine what exact market you're talking about.
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by kepler1 3y ago
I think your understanding of competition is a little warped or flawed. The mark of competition isn't that a company's price changed. It's that other people/companies were free to enter the market. You are absolutely
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by kepler1 3y ago
I guess developing an app on iOS for sale at a healthy profit margin just became a fundamental human right.
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by kepler1 3y ago
What's the principle you're advocating? That the number of 30% is too high, but 20% would be ok? How are we to decide what number is right? Isn't the principle that parties entering into an agreement voluntarily and wit
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by kepler1 3y ago
Well... doesn't that circumvent the point of backups? Backups in my mind are supposed to be like read-only, can never be modified so that the system that was corrupted can't do anything harmful to the safe previous checkpoint. I
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by kepler1 3y ago
Thanks, that spurred me to read about it given the link above. > " This bill would require the agency to establish, by January 1, 2026, an accessible deletion mechanism that, among other things, allows a consumer, through a single v
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by kepler1 3y ago
Are we talking actual data deletion, or just "not serving it up when queried" or attaching a "do not use" flag to the data but keeping it? Because if there's one thing I've almost never seen, it's data bei
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by kepler1 3y ago
What strikes me about this story (and "reporting" in general) is how eager people writing stories are to stir up the worst kind of racial/gender-based implications without any further responsibility for analyzing or self-doub
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by kepler1 3y ago
Really? What's the principle there? Even though no contractual relationship has been established yet between the employer and employee, the offer creates some entitlement that has been broken and therefore is a cause for action? I a
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by kepler1 3y ago
I think out of embarrassment, the student also decided not to showcase his proof that in 1000 years, the mass of human beings will outweigh the Earth. Eh, who am I to criticize? They say that your early grad school years are a time to publ
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by kepler1 3y ago
Last I heard, Hollywood actors and writers weren't being abused, deceived, or coerced into working in this industry. They're not working under hazardous conditions or agreeing to false terms of work. It seems that there are peop
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by kepler1 3y ago
Maybe we should have as a public policy that when a certain topic is of sufficient public interest, and we observe some amount of $ registered for lobbying, the government should be able to allocate a proportional amount of funds to have po
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by kepler1 3y ago
Like so many idealistic things, this kind of setup works only as long as the people joining or taking responsibility for the thing continue to have and practice the same ideals as what started it. Start to lose that just a little bit, where
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by kepler1 3y ago
I love how everything has to be "blandified" to make it sound less significant than it is when it comes to diagnosing and characterizing a problem by Apple. And I don't exempt other companies from this dumbing down or &quot
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by kepler1 3y ago
Is this not the anticipated reason our predecessors built all that infrastructure for channelizing and holding in the water all over LA?
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by kepler1 3y ago
I'm glad you just solved all of our country's problems by declaring that raising workers' wages is the solution to everything. I'm sure that's got no downsides to it, huh? Why didn't we think of that before
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by kepler1 3y ago
Amazing how little distance it's moved. Maybe it should be obesity-weighted to show it better. Oh wait, that would not help. Maybe that's why it hasn't moved much...
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by kepler1 3y ago
So because you live on a street not affected by this, it's hyperbole? And what root causes should they be addressing that they have the means to address?
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by kepler1 3y ago
Agreed. If a policy requires nearly perfect implementation, and follow through, and good behavior of the people, in order to succeed, and you rarely achieve / sustain the follow through by the community or police, etc. then it is not
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by kepler1 3y ago
I maintain now (as I did when Measure 110 passed in Oregon, and in the discussions here in HN) that decriminalizing drugs would lead the state, and especially Portland of course, to a terrible and predictable outcome. Many supporters of the
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by kepler1 3y ago
I maintain now (as I did when Measure 110 passed in Oregon, and in the discussions here in HN) that decriminalizing drugs would lead the state, and especially Portland of course, to a terrible and predictable outcome. Many supporters of th
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by kepler1 3y ago
Of course they were developed largely by industry in putting designs into execution and production, but decades ago, the in-house knowledge to spec and actively participate in the detailed technical/engineering design stages still exis
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by kepler1 3y ago
Two observations, one mundane, one serious. Funny how even in reference textbooks on radio/EM/etc, for some reason people cannot help but use half circles on a plot about a sine function, instead of the proper function shape. Don
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by kepler1 3y ago
Too bad we'll fail to give those kids a proper math education well before they reach college. https://calmatters.org/education/2021/11/california-math/
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by kepler1 3y ago
Another topic for discussion related to this (and I hope we can be detached enough to discuss the intellectual side of this impersonally): Even if the drug/treatment method were approved, how much would this cost, would the author even
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by kepler1 3y ago
I think the consideration that an article like this misses is the unintended consequences of speeding a process up / reducing the criteria for review, approval, etc. I think we can all see incidents of where some oversight process is l
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by kepler1 3y ago
This is an incredibly stupid comment.
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by kepler1 3y ago
As the article says, I agree, let Harvard put its money where its mouth is, if racial and other kinds of diversity are as important as its faculty and admissions officers believe. Let them make the choice about the money or the diversity.
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by kepler1 3y ago
Not wanting to stray into too culturally sensitive topics, but I am glad to see a find like this land in a country like Norway. Maybe it's something about the cold weather/caution as a people, Protestant/Lutheran/Calvini
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by kepler1 3y ago
Is there some reason we cannot put the reason for the removal (misinformation) in the headline of this HN story, and save everyone the guessing/speculation?

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