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by kfprt 5y ago
Landfill as a Service^TM. Apple is truly a very dirty company.
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by kfprt 5y ago
So my options are either a constant network connection or always keeping an external drive plugged in assuming I want to maintain 0 loss. Great! That's totally easier than just being able to remove the SSD.
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by kfprt 5y ago
Still no removable storage? How are you supposed to get your data off if it dies?
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by kfprt 5y ago
>Apple and the Environment Hilarious section for an expensive product that has a non removable battery and is going to end up in a landfill after a year or two of use.
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by kfprt 5y ago
When was the last time the SEC actually went after a big corporation?
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by kfprt 5y ago
If pilots being sick caused cancellations they would be on the hook paying for refunds and hotel rooms. If the reason is weather, they aren't. Their incentives here are somewhat obvious.
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by kfprt 5y ago
Refunds. If flights are cancelled for pretty much any reason aside from weather the company is on the hook for hotel rooms and refunds.
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by kfprt 5y ago
They are denying that they violated the Railway Labor Act because they don't want to go to prison. Pilots's unions aren't allowed to strike or participate in job actions (sick outs). https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by kfprt 5y ago
You're just misinformed and wrong. The union and airline say there's no strike or sick out (job action) because strikes and job actions are illegal under the Federal Railway Labor act. They are unsurprisingly denying doing anythin
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by kfprt 5y ago
It seems you are correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Cove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracemont_(microarchitecture) Does this mean we will get RPi style Gracemont SBC's or did Int
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by kfprt 5y ago
Didn't Intel already try something like this with Lakefield? It didn't go well. Let's say the thread starts on a high performance core and enables the code paths for features the efficiency core doesn't have. How will th
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by kfprt 5y ago
They know what they are told and that is enough for them. There is no incentive to open pandoras box.
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by kfprt 5y ago
Hard to fathom if you are only considering the institutional goals and not the perfectly reasonable goals of the rational actor individuals within the institution.
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by kfprt 5y ago
>Recently the FAA has been making this hard, by not allowing passengers on planes that don't have a full certificate of airworthyness. After several crashes resulting in deaths.
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by kfprt 5y ago
The usual answer is German office furniture design laws but I've not verified this.
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by kfprt 5y ago
Is there a turing test for visual reality? This would seem to indicate that in at least some instances that reality is indistinguishable from CG.
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by kfprt 5y ago
Truly dystopian. I can't wait until someone has to drive to the hospital but has been drinking and can't.
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by kfprt 5y ago
This is a perfect example of the hypocrisy involved with such 'for the children' schemes. Elites are allowed to have massive birthday parties whereas plebs are not allowed to gather, elites are allowed to rape children while plebs
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by kfprt 5y ago
In this case the incentives align. Much easier dealing with one or two parties than many.
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by kfprt 5y ago
So it took about a day for the slippery slope to kick in a slide right off a cliff.
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by kfprt 5y ago
I can promise to keep their information anonymous, just like the government never unreasonably 'unmasks' anyone.
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by kfprt 5y ago
For the remaining few who have nothing to hide I am willing to make myself available to rifle through your possessions to verify that you do in fact have nothing to hide.
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by kfprt 5y ago
The authoritarian impulse is disturbingly common. This is a product of the long decline in societal trust. also, baizuo
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by kfprt 5y ago
There's a lot of dumb fraud. Being international of course makes everything harder. Usually the amount of investigation is related to how many people were scammed. People need to learn how to do due diligence because the definition of
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by kfprt 5y ago
They can't. There is no possible future where Apple would ever intentionally expose itself to CSAM in order to verify it. It's a complete catch 22.
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by kfprt 5y ago
International fraud is a really interesting problem. I've proposed a mandatory international money transfer insurance that would pay out in case of court decided fraud. It would make doing business with corrupt countries that look the
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by kfprt 5y ago
'Child Safety' is extremely disingenuous. Their 'plan' provides no benefit to the safety of children and only strips users of their remaining shred of privacy. Authorities care more about stopping images than actual chil
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by kfprt 5y ago
War is a Racket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
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by kfprt 5y ago
The internet isn't the wild west, laws are very much enforced.
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by kfprt 5y ago
A society that is extreme in one category is likely to be extreme in other categories as well.

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