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by kick 6y ago
If you remove the ability to sell things, there will be no sales for it to spur. Books were sold long before intellectual property laws existed. Your argument is fallacious.
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by kick 6y ago
Illegal does not equal immoral; copying does not equal stealing. Piracy of songs, movies, and applications actually improves sales, according to a study that the European Union funded and then tried to keep from getting published: https:&#
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by kick 6y ago
He ran for governor of California a bit ago. His career has been built around selling books.
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by kick 6y ago
This is a really misleading piece, by the way. This person has been speaking against environmentalism for over a decade now; he literally wrote a book about it sixteen years ago that attracted an amount of controversy. He doesn't d
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by kick 6y ago
That said, please explain[] just how an author "can still make a living" without some form of copy-protection. See: the entire history of books before computers. See: Doctorow's Little Brother, which was distributed freely
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Personal Computers: Does Everyone Need to Learn Programming? (1984)(nytimes.com)
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by kick 6y ago
The point of the first half of his comment was very obviously pointing out that "form is less important than content" is wrong; Saagar wasn't doing it for no reason, and wasn't doing it in bad faith. That's why it w
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by kick 6y ago
HN commenters being able to say so is everything that's right with HN. This would be correct, if the objection were right. But the commentator was objectively incorrect, in a way that could have been avoided with something as sma
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by kick 6y ago
This one in particular was done terribly, and is imitating ones in the same style. I don't dislike the act of disagreement, nor even disagreements in this vein , I dislike the act of being confident, and further condescending (&quot
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by kick 6y ago
the article ignored the few libraries that get shared a lot The author didn't ignore this, because it's pretty much false. Every package people insisted was relevant, he shot down before he published the article. Example: htt
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by kick 6y ago
This comment hits all of the boxes for everything that is wrong with Hacker News. "First, false statement. Since you know false assumption, I would false conclusion. And of course, this means false conclusion. I'd like to see anal
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by kick 6y ago
If it's any consolation, that was hilarious.
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by kick 6y ago
"curly line that doesn't match the rest of design style, indicating a reply" is cloning exactly how twitter announced they were copying reddit's threads.
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by kick 6y ago
Macs presently also have a TPM, but it doesn't lock the device down to the same extent. That's the bit I'm interested in seeing if carries over.
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by kick 6y ago
iCloud is a service that Apple holds users' encryption keys with, and gives up control of to other organizations (which is what they did in China, for example). Given their focus on privacy is almost purely superficial, it wouldn'
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by kick 6y ago
It's not novel, though. That's already been done, and with fewer computational resources available.
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by kick 6y ago
When I wrote that, they were talking about many non-improvements and slight adjustments to iOS. I'd say the bikeshedding peaked at the AirPods segment. I don't think they should be focusing on anything in particular; they know t
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by kick 6y ago
Absolutely agree.
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by kick 6y ago
Still bikeshedding, but there were some interesting things.
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by kick 6y ago
They're bragging about Rise of the Tomb Raider's performance under Metal, a 2015 game, at medium settings.
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by kick 6y ago
I wonder if this means that they're going to put the final bullet in the Mac for Linux with an iOS-like TPM.
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by kick 6y ago
Kind of mundane. Apple's chips trump many desktop chips, so I imagine the Mac might get an edge on performance again, which would be interesting. They're probably going to blow it though.
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by kick 6y ago
Aaaand there's the ARM release.
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by kick 6y ago
WebExtensions will probably be a huge benefit to Mac users.
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by kick 6y ago
Control Center shows up, confirming that this was just to make it all like iOS.
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by kick 6y ago
Complete murder of contrast.
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by kick 6y ago
It looks like Deepin but slightly less polished, which is funny, because Deepin was Mac but slightly less polished.
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by kick 6y ago
Ah, yeah, Mac is now fully iOS-like design wise. The new icons look really bad.
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by kick 6y ago
A full redesign of Mac? Well, this can't go well.
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by kick 6y ago
Film adaptions of Asimov have been pretty poor but this could be interesting.

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