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by lapcat 1y ago
The article cites many measurable negative health effects aside from death, so it seems that the emotional impact does matter a lot.
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by lapcat 1y ago
Cameras on police are mostly irrelevant. This has been proved repeatedly, at least as far back as Rodney King in 1992. We saw the video of the police beating Rodney King, but the police were nonetheless protected by the legal system. It&#x2
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by lapcat 1y ago
The "vote with your feet" argument was always specious in a duopoly. If consumer rights depend on the whims of giant corporations like Google and Apple, then consumers never had rights. "Just switch to Android if you don&#x27
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by lapcat 1y ago
It should be noted that the article author is an AI researcher at Anthropic and therefore benefits financially from the bubble: https://www.julian.ac/about/ > The current discourse around AI progress and a supposed
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by lapcat 1y ago
It's true of almost every public service that it wouldn't scale to handle everyone simultanously. Suppose that literally everyone decided to check out books from the library: many libraries, especially smaller ones, would quickly
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by lapcat 1y ago
> How entitled can you be to think that you can occupy a table for the whole day and expect to only buy one coffee? The author does not think that, hence the use of the phrase "pay a lot of money". Nowhere did the author dema
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Astonishingly entitled. The point of a coffee shop isn't to provide you with a nice space to work but to sell coffee. How is this entitled? The author is just stating, accurately, that coffee shops are not conducive to working all
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by lapcat 1y ago
It doesn't support Windows or Android.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I thought HN was super happy with DMA when it was first announced. There is almost never consensus on HN. I would be shocked if that ever occurred. It's often claimed that HN readers believe this or HN readers believe that, but th
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by lapcat 1y ago
Here's Apple's PR, which was oddly dropped at 3 AM UTC when most Europeans were asleep: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/the-digital-markets-a... See also https://news.ycombinator.c
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by lapcat 1y ago
> This is a more detailed, informative critique of the Tahoe change than is in the post Correct. The post was not intended to be an informative critique. Some people seem to be completely misinterpreting the purpose of the post and the
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by lapcat 1y ago
> You're coming across as a bit of an idiot here This is a gross insult. Please review and respect the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > I don't know whether you framed it as
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by lapcat 1y ago
> This is just "I'm not making an argument that they're merging, I'm stating it as an underlying assumption" which, again, distinction-without-a-difference. In retrospect, if there's one thing missing from t
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I'm willing to rephrase it down to... That seems like a really strange way of putting it. What does your willingness have to do with it? I, the article author, am right here. Thus, you can just ask me what I meant. To insist on pu
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I'm admitting that people making this argument have suggested there were things that supported it before. That doesn't mean I agree with them, which you seem to be implying there? No, I'm not implying that. Whichever sid
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by lapcat 1y ago
> have you considered that I might also be unconvinced by prior examples Yes. But then you're admitting that there are prior examples, not just this latest example. > And thus dismissed those off-hand references as largely irrele
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by lapcat 1y ago
> The argument apparently being that any change at all, if it was first made on iOS, must inherently be a sign that the two platforms are merging You know, it's frustrating when people just flippantly assume that someone who has bee
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Am I hearing this right? No.
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by lapcat 1y ago
Please review and respect the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I have flagged your comment and will no longer reply to you.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Google's monopoly is more aligned with the interest of web users', yes they will try to throw anti user and anti-competitive things in there (and they should be shamed for that), but they have also done a ton of work to move
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by lapcat 1y ago
> The one piece from this author that I found most persuasive is the analysis of mobile web vs app usage share. The web is practically dead on mobile. Users spend practically no time there False. You appear to be referring to https:&#x2
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Market share is relevant to your argument because it determines the standards that determine engine complexity. I talked about two different things, (1) what is and (2) what should be. (1) "The web standards bodies are a joke now
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by lapcat 1y ago
> the worst offender (by far) This is disputable. > does not get a free pass just because the world is not perfect. Nobody is giving Apple a "free pass". I started by saying literally, "I have no wish to defend Apple.&q
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by lapcat 1y ago
> "Lil' indie dev can make an engine" is irrelevant in terms of standards or browser/engine marketshare unless he can obtain significant browser/engine marketshare. He can't. How is market share relevant? Wh
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by lapcat 1y ago
> A "little indie developer" hasn't been able to write a web browser in several decades. IMO that's a major problem. > The fact is, all three major browser implementations are open-source and that has allowed any c
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by lapcat 1y ago
I have no wish to defend Apple. However, I have no wish to defend Google or Microsoft either. Collectively, those three have a monopolistic market share for operating systems and web browsers on both desktop and mobile. My fundamental probl
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by lapcat 1y ago
> It's interesting though isn't it, because if she contracts someone good, the ghostwriter does an excellent job of imitating her style, then really you do get exactly what you wanted? I don't like the idea of it either, f
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by lapcat 1y ago
Ghostwriters are by definition hidden. Recording artists release songs composed by other songwriters, but those writers are credited on the album. Music is different in that it includes both writing and performance, but books include no per
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by lapcat 1y ago
What I found more disturbing was this: > It would be considered standard industry practice to hire a ghostwriter for these prequels The use of ghostwriters is the main problem, I think. AI is just another ghostwriter. I recently read a b
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by lapcat 1y ago
> What I was getting at, in any case, is that it sometimes the need to add the date after-the-post-is-up can arise. To that, the objection that "but who would post outdated information knowingly" is moot. I am the person who

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