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by marticode 2y ago
You are assuming the administration will respect legal decisions. This is sadly no longer a given...
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by marticode 2y ago
Seems they are being DDOS by someone in Singapore and blocked the whole country: https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/403-forbidden-in-singa...
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by marticode 2y ago
> it's not a straw man. the security guarantees zelensky requested and used to hold up the deal extend to that. It does not. Europe has been willing to send troops on the ground. The guarantee from the US could be in the form of equ
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by marticode 2y ago
> we do not have enough of an interest to go send young Americans to die. This is a straw man: nobody asked you to. > the minerals deal was actually a pretty fair offer the way it was worked out There was nothing fair in that mineral
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by marticode 2y ago
Off topic but now Ars Technica has blocked my IP and gives a "403 Forbidden". Most likely another one of Cloudflare "protected site" that blanket blocks whole foreign IP ranges from legit reputable ISP. At least some sit
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by marticode 2y ago
I am playing this right now and love it, though the learning curve is steep even for a Civilization veteran. This is what Civ VI or VII could be if they didn't try to dumb down the game to increase the audience.
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by marticode 2y ago
As a kid who wasted countless hours in Ultima V and VI, thank you: you explain very well what made those games so great and how disappointed I am every time I have been since then (though I gotta say Morrowind was fairly good at mimicking t
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by marticode 2y ago
He has been publicly attacking Fauci for his handling of Covid and retweeting antivax people
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by marticode 2y ago
40 bucks feels alright but 200 (five times as much !) feels excessive. How much priority support does one need for a file explorer? Also yes 200 gives you free upgrades but you have to assume there'll be many years of development and m
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by marticode 2y ago
Between your average corporate megacorp and a drugged-out antivax fascist, I'll take my chances with the former yes.
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by marticode 2y ago
But it has the worst build quality, interior and controls. These are not numerically measurable but they certainly do matter to prospective buyers. As does even more subjective things like styling, which is now pretty dated. Either way I su
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by marticode 2y ago
I still remember when they refused to support forms constraints (there was the JS API, but not the UI designed to show users what they got wrong with their form, so you had to polyfill that specifically for Safari). Forms are pretty darn im
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by marticode 2y ago
Why not not both? Escaping output should be a requirement but doesn't hurt to remove obvious garbage in the input (including harmless stuff like pointless spaces)
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by marticode 2y ago
I own stocks of several companies and I definitely hope he stays as far away from them as possible. He is a man-child into alt-right and antivax conspiracy theories, this is toxic to any brand unless you are selling to the MAGA crowd.
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by marticode 2y ago
Every chip coming this year (Intel, AMD, Qualcomm) has an AI processor. I am not sure Apple is doing anything special here.
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by marticode 3y ago
In the case of Uber, the service they provide is highly dependent on where you are.
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by marticode 3y ago
How would they force you to buy anything? If you don't want to use their store, then don't install it?
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by marticode 3y ago
This would never get past regulators approval. Qualcomm has a massive share of the Android CPU market, putting the combined entity in a clear monopoly situation. Companies the size of Apple are very limited in acquiring other large companie
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by marticode 3y ago
Not any weirder than Montana having to abide by SCOTUS decisions.
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by marticode 3y ago
Producing content also cost money, and producers get a cut of the ads or the subscription.
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by marticode 3y ago
In my experience, roaming on another network also often breaks SMS.
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by marticode 3y ago
They don't on Android, why would they on iOS?
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by marticode 3y ago
Plenty of countries do, for ex in Asia see Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc.
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by marticode 4y ago
I actually do. Part of the appeal of the Civilization franchise to me has always been the ability to model the landscape and shape to get geography of my civilization. Civ 6 kind of break that and makes it worse with all the wonders scatter
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by marticode 4y ago
I have played all of them since the first and this is my most disliked. There's something just not quite right with it for me though I can't put my finger on it.
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by marticode 4y ago
Well the benefit of having Java/Kotlin being the default dev language for Android is there's no need to recompile to run those apps on another arch. Only apps with native code will be an issue.
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by marticode 4y ago
Apple's demonetization was painful financially but the platform losing steam is a deeper and different problem that started before that event.
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by marticode 4y ago
In developed countries, banks are rarely left to completely fail nowadays, the small ones are usually taken over by the big ones, and the big ones are bailed by governments/regulators.
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by marticode 4y ago
Gold has industrial uses without even talking about jewelry. Even if everyone stopped valuing gold as a form of currency, it would still has some intrinsic value.
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by marticode 4y ago
> How Microsoft and Google, and Meta allowed Apple to slowly build over independent control of their entire ecosystem, from supply chain to software is baffling. Google didn't. They built Android and Chrome and ChromeOS to counter t

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