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by ksk 6y ago
Give us 15%/30% because the user doesn't have the right to run an executable of their choice on a device they paid for?
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by ksk 6y ago
Sure there is a place for nuance, but there is also a place for bold writing without all the pussyfooting. Exclusively using either style makes it boring for the reader. We need the sweet with the sour ;) >You can celebrate something you
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by ksk 6y ago
>Both Apple and Google are fully within their rights Who defines what those rights are? I don't agree with this dictatorial definition of rights. This mindset needs to change. I don't want Microsoft "owning" Windows a
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by ksk 6y ago
I think the "what right do you have" or "can you force someone" phrasing is adversarial and can't drive a conversation. Lets instead look at distilling the universal access idea to its essence, we need 1) A capi
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by ksk 6y ago
Well, they can't deny emergency care to a human being who is about to die/in critical condition, can they? So lets start on that common ground - They do already have unequivocal obligations in the current system. Now from that end
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by ksk 6y ago
A lot of Apple fans say this, but I find many components in Apple products in general to be of average to poor build quality. Keyboards, display hinges, CPU/GPU cooling, weak display bezel/frames, weak outer-frames on their phones
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by ksk 6y ago
I no longer code so I'm probably close to the 'average consumer' now. I personally consider 32GB to be the minimum amout of RAM that anyone should consider in 2020,2021 (with obvious caveats on money). My multi-GB workloads a
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by ksk 6y ago
It's true that if the OS could predict exactly which memory pages to keep and which to swap out, we could save memory wastage, but so far I haven't seen any memory management scheme that can reduce memory consumption by half. For
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by ksk 6y ago
Aside - I re-read my earlier comment and I don't mean to come off as a crazy anti-vax person! I work in vaccines, but I can't think of a vaccine that was completely recalled due to long-term safety issues of the top of my head. Mo
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by ksk 6y ago
While you may call it a 'solved' problem, in reality, its a problem that every single pharma company in the world wants to avoid, due to the high costs and other challenges. Source: I work in vaccines, and our company works on the
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by ksk 6y ago
There is always some effect whenever any foreign molecule is injected in your blood. Simply knowing ONE 'mechanism of action' doesn't tell you the 'mechanism of reaction' or all the other cross reactions that happen
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by ksk 6y ago
>Secondly: people are working on vaccines. If you can hold it until one is available, you might not have to get sick at all. I work in vaccines and I don't believe any vaccine is even close to coming out. The products our company is
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by ksk 6y ago
Nobody is asking the government to make sneakers. Universal access to healthcare is a human right, and insurance as a product by its very nature - is non-universal - as it relies on denying access to make profit. The pre-existing conditions
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by ksk 6y ago
We're slipping into a whose worse argument. OK, Obama/Biden admin was largely style over substance, and I can't think of anything major they got accomplished. His whole "I'm going to change the way the game is playe
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by ksk 6y ago
For the past several decades, presidents who presided over booming economies have shared credit. You must have missed that.
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by ksk 6y ago
Agreed, documentation was in some cases improperly maintained and/or became stale once they started contacting the people. As a parent, I can empathize and it is truly heartbreaking. I hope Biden can do something positive here. But at
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by ksk 6y ago
I'm nowhere close to rich or a Trump voter, but I'm glad my 401k) went up when the stocks went up. The Dem's economic policies in recent years are stinkers. I don't like the idea of raising taxes and creating new money-p
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by ksk 6y ago
No politician is as outwardly vulgar or crude as Trump, but... for e.g. Bill Clinton is now seemingly allowed, nay, welcomed in polite company after sexually assaulting multiple women. How come the media or our esteemed blue checkmarks neve
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by ksk 6y ago
May I ask how you know that the children came in with their parents in every single case? After all, if we knew that they came with their parents, it would imply we have some documentation that points to who their parents are, and could pot
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by ksk 6y ago
You're turning on the TV and after missing out on half the game, and asking why a team is losing. You gotta watch the full match, my friend.
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by ksk 6y ago
One candidate supported bombings in the middle east that resulted in deaths of hundreds, thousands of civilians including children. I'm pretty sure killing children is worse than keeping them alive. Why would you support that candidate
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by ksk 6y ago
What makes a chat message via an application that you chose to install any different than sending you an email?
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by ksk 6y ago
> What people disagree on, and what elections really come down to, is figuring out the best way to achieve the above objectives. I think the disagreements are even narrower than that. The structure of the government is pretty much fixed,
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by ksk 6y ago
Heh, Yes on re-reading the comment it does sound ironic. :) Our IT is not purposely keeping a security hole open to boast about uptime. If there was a security impact to our particular configuration/use-case, we'd patch it for sur
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by ksk 6y ago
I'm sure you already know it, but Lightroom works on OSX too. And also I believe Adobe Camera Raw can bulk-convert your camera-specific RAWs to DNGs, which you can use in any software - unless you need lens profiles. I'm trying to
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by ksk 6y ago
They already did all that with their enterprise edition, but they don't market it much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions#Comparison... Even with the somewhat limited pro edition, our IT is able to
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by ksk 6y ago
They're like any other industry, struggling in an increasingly digital, on-demand world and competing with 'free' YouTube entertainment. There is no quick fix here. Its a supertanker that takes ages to correct course. People
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by ksk 6y ago
Because some countries don't allow certain types of media to be accesses/broadcasted/consumed. If a streaming/broadcasting business wants to operate in that country they will have to follow the local laws.
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by ksk 6y ago
Hmm I see it at $6.99/mo .. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/microsoft-36...
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by ksk 6y ago
>They can't afford to let 20% of that go to spam without a backlash. They will launch a 'secured sender' program where you pay Google a monthly fee so your company's email doesn't fall into spam.

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