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by ksk 6y ago
Such as?
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by ksk 6y ago
Google is well on its way in its mission of installing toll booths on the internet, and shredding any notion of privacy we had on the internet. Apple's busy robbing 30% of sales of small businesses via its App Store, and robbing you vi
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by ksk 6y ago
Which company ISN'T performing a greedy money grab? Certainly not Google, or Apple or Microsoft.
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by ksk 6y ago
Apple uses dark patterns and doesn't provide a "stop bothering me" option. I used to get nagged by Apple so I turned on the auto updates just to not have these popups. I guess it worked.. https://imgur.com/7Er
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by ksk 6y ago
I posted direct quotes from Greenpeace. You're linking to ZDNet, and a random study that has no published data as far as I can tell. Note that I am not easily swayed by studies - I work in Vaccine R&D and I read tons of research pa
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by ksk 6y ago
>iPhones have the longest useful lifetimes of any smartphones anyway though, so they’re still clearly the best choice overall. Not exactly, because other phones can be repaired which extends their life. Apple's doesn't do board
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by ksk 6y ago
>And if Facebook tracking is so great for the users, then clearly every user will opt in. IME for most users the default action for any popup falls into two categories - (a) Quickly close it without reading, (b) Accept it blindly withou
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by ksk 6y ago
Oh are we playing a link game now? https://www.fastcompany.com/40561811/greenpeace-to-apple-for...
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by ksk 6y ago
Well, nerds get mad when you take away controls that existed for.. ever. Is your individuality perfectly expressed through the system preferences that Apple thinks you should have or through exercising your UNIX nerd cred by opening the hat
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by ksk 6y ago
Is your argument that we shouldn't care, or is your argument that it is not user hostile? Just curious. I'm not personally affected, and my Apple outrage cup is already filled up with their sustained anti-repair pro-landfill stanc
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by ksk 6y ago
That is completely absurd. I too can "touch" tens of thousands of packages a day. That doesn't mean I can perform compliance on tens of thousands of customer complaints per day. You are simply asserting it is easy without pro
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by ksk 6y ago
>All it has to do is conduct an investigation to confirm the complaint, which is as easy as ordering the item in question and confirming it contains the offer reported by a single customer. The number of humans available to perform daily
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by ksk 6y ago
>[..] But this lawsuit seeks to redesign Search in ways that would deprive Americans of helpful information and hurt businesses’ ability to connect directly with customers. [..] This is a bit funny given that Google's entire MO is t
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by ksk 6y ago
>I always wondered what's stopping a rival to Facebook that offers users a share of the money they are generating. They sort of do. The money is converted into the utility of the product to each user. Technically, they could lower t
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by ksk 6y ago
I think I understand where you're coming from, but your responses are very specific. I don't think this is the common case. I believe, the common case is that most engineering jobs are dull and boring and are not breaking new grou
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by ksk 6y ago
>I think when you hear 2hrs/3hrs/etc per day, often it is the fault of the organization for: > - Not having good business cases > - Thinking Engineers don't care about reasons for doing things > - Not providing di
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by ksk 6y ago
>Different ARM chips aren't "somewhat compatible" anymore than Intel/AMD x86 chips. It's a standard instruction set. Can you create a single build for all ARM chips for the same OS? If not, its all the same. At w
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by ksk 6y ago
I think there is a larger portion of regular folks who dislike the nutty behavior on both sides (I'm one of them) and just want to move on to more important things than the current fake-outrage news cycles over irrelevant drama/go
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by ksk 6y ago
Its fine to keep trying, its just that they keep forcing it down your throat by either tying everything to search, or not standing behind a firm commitment of support. As much as I dislike Google, if Google created a non-advertising, non-su
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by ksk 6y ago
I think Facebook and Amazon are far easier to avoid. With Google their tentacles are spread so far across that its impossible to avoid them completely. It is disheartening to see talented engineers excited about working for advertising comp
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by ksk 6y ago
So you keep posting the same old tired link claiming its "evidence". I don't think you understand what that document actually says. I don't rebut evidence, I accept it, if courts accept it when used as evidence in a case
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by ksk 6y ago
>You are completely ignoring the high level of coordination that has been proven, between the Trump campaign and the Russians. No high level of co-ordination to steal the election was "proven". I don't know what kind of &q
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by ksk 6y ago
>We don't know if Russia made Trump win, we only know that they helped him. That's a bit like saying we know there is election fraud in 2020 because we found 2 voting irregularities. Minor voting irregularities happen in every
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by ksk 6y ago
>Net neutrality has little to do with censorship, and more to do with extortion. "From the consumers’ point of view, net neutrality is a guarantee that all connections are treated equally and ISPs won’t censor the internet." h
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by ksk 6y ago
I hear net-neutrality is a common position around here. If you agree prima facia that Comcast should not be allowed to block simply or censor YouTube (they're a private company, its their own equipment, etc, etc), then why doesn't
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by ksk 6y ago
>The democrats collected evidence, went to court, and lost. Russiagate, however misfounded, was legal. To imply that there were no other avenues for them to go down so they turned to voter fraud is laughable. You forgot a few steps. Firs
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by ksk 6y ago
GOP doesn't want Trumps cult to turn on them, Democrats don't want the cult on the left to turn on them either ;) It's a bit funny both sides proclaim that only the other side is in a bubble.
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by ksk 6y ago
Are you nice because it is required to be nice? "Requirement" is a loaded term, but I would hope Google employees show some decency and hold up their liberal values and bolster free expression that they claim to value so much.
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by ksk 6y ago
Well, we teach kids how to use knives safely, we don't ban them.
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by ksk 6y ago
Is Google also going to ban all the people who pushed the baseless Russia-made-trump-win nonsense? What a giant waste of time and money that was. Do it equally for everyone, or don't do it at all.

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